Anchoring and berleying up around the Three Mile Reef system has been producing good pink snapper and skippy recently. Tailor haven’t been big in numbers but have been big in size, try City Beach or Hillarys. Baldies continue to be caught from the 40-50m mark, widespread Rotto to Two Rocks.

 Neil from Bluewater Scarborough went down to Contacio Beach on Monday night catching a reasonable tailor and a nice skippy.  There’s still more salmon coming from the North metro, some quite big.

Cameron Moir, Bluewater Scarborough regular caught his biggest squid to date off Carnac Island on the weekend. Using a 3.5 green jig which enticed this tasty specimen to strike.

Squid seem to be everywhere at the moment and have been caught in good numbers off Hillarys, down inside Cockburn Sound, Off both North and South Mole and in the lower reaches of the Swan River.

Johari Rochfort from Bluewater Scarborough broke the mould this week fishing out from Ocean Reef bringing to the side of the boat an above average crayfish – it had been hooked through the leg and he managed to get it all the way to the surface before the un-prepared crew tried in vain to lift it into the boat – next time they might have a net handy.

 Jewfish and baldchin have also been active in offshore waters, some better jewfish coming from water depths greater than 50 metres. A couple around the 20kg mark reported through the week from 50 and 60m.

Pink snapper remain a popular target with most anglers also tangling with some whopper samson fish in the same areas. Skippy have been the most reliable target inshore while large snook are also on the cards.

Jurien and Cervantes beaches are reported to be badly weeded up, and the mouth of the Moore River has broken so there could be some better reports of mulloway from that area soon.

Plenty of people are fishing northern beaches at late for good mulloway, snapper and sharks.  Be warned that beaches can be washed away this time of the year as one fellow from Bluewater found out at Jurien last weekend, nearly losing his pristine new Prado.

When venturing onto remote beaches be sure to carry a good shovel, compressor, a bottle jack rated at least 2 times the weight of your vehicle, a sole plate, a snatch strap and tyre tracks never go astray. Don’t be scared to let your tires down to 5lb if you’re in dire trouble and even take a decent mobile phone in case you need to phone a friend or son. Many companies charge an insurance company $1200 for a rescue.

Cheers from the Bluewater crew.

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