Bluewater Scarborough's Paul Micheli and his mate Scott Jessamine aka “Mud” were up from Perth last week and whilst they were a bit unlucky with the weather, they still managed to get amongst some great fish during there stay. The boys did a bit of everything during the week from chasing queenfish, trevally and cobia on lures down around the Bay of Rest to a day out throwing poppers at Big GTs and bottom fishing for red emperor around the Muiron Islands.

Paul was lucky enough to get the biggest red emperor for the day with a fish that would have nudged seven kilos, whilst Mud had a ball catching plenty of big spangled emperor and a couple of smaller reds. Paul is pictured this week with one of the red emperor he caught.

The marina rockwall has been a good place for the school holidaymakers to try to escape the wind, and it has been producing its share of quality fish too. Big bluebone have been seen cruising the rock wall but hooking and then landing these brutes can be another thing altogether. Rock crabs or fresh prawns are your best bait to use and with the use of a strong hook attached to a relatively heavy line and length of quality leader you may stand a chance of landing these tasty tuskfish.

Doggie mackerel are certainly a lot easier to hook and land, with these little speedsters making lightning raids on the baitfish around on the outgoing tide period.

Learmonth jetty has been home to big numbers of small trevally with the odd big queenfish making an appearance around high tide. Live hardyheads are the best way of targeting the queenfish, although a small popper or soft plastic cast in front of the feeding queenfish will rarely get ignored. Squid can also be caught off Learmonth jetty at the moment with once again the rising tide period being the best.

Reports of sailfish feeding in the gulf have started to filter through. The sailfish generally come into the gulf at this time of year to feed on the vast schools of baitfish present. Trolling teasers is a good way to raise the sailfish, although many can be caught trolling skirted lures and baits around the area the sails are spotted feeding.

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