Swanfish 2016 Swanfish has been running for almost 30 years, but continues to evolve and there will be an increased emphasis on catch and release fishing at this years’ event, with an expanded ‘catch, click and release’ section to help ensure the sustainability of fish populations in the metro rivers. The catch, [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Blue swimmer crab (photo courtesy of Blue Manner Crabbing WA) An estimated 15kg Spanish mackerel was caught from a shore-based location in Cockburn Sound last week. More mackerel have been coming from along Five Fathom Bank, near West End and along Three Mile Reef. Plenty of pink snapper, mostly [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Striped tuna Several pink snapper to 6kg and the odd bigger fish around the 8kg mark have been caught in Cockburn Sound since the season opened again on February 1. Some of the pinkies that were picked up were found within a hundred metres of the coast. A local kayak [...]
Snapper Release This Saturday! The release of the juvenile snapper grown out under the Snapper Guardians program from eggs recovered from Cockburn Sound late last year will take place this Saturday. It will take place on the beach at Jervoise Bay, Woodman Point (adjacent to Cockburn Power Boat Club and to the [...]
Juvenile Snapper Release The release of the juvenile snapper grown out under the Snapper Guardians program from eggs recovered from Cockburn Sound late last year will take place next Saturday. It will take place on the beach at Jervoise Bay, Woodman Point (adjacent to Cockburn Power Boat Club and to the west [...]
Metro Catches Perhaps the most impressive news was the huge marlin that was landed by a Fremantle crew off Two Rocks recently. The big billfish was caught in 600m of water and the crew reported encountering several schools of yellowfin tuna of varying sizes during their voyage from Freo. The Rottnest Trench Fish [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Dhufish Mulloway between 15 and 18kg have been regularly caught behind the E-Shed in evenings. More mulloway, in the 10 to 14kg range, have also been picked up by boat fishers soaking baits in the deeper parts of Mosman Bay and Blackwall Reach. Tailor have been turning up some [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Wahoo Those who have been out to managed to find some big samson fish and often in reasonably shallow water. There has also been reports of shark mackerel and spanish mackerel as well as small bluefin tuna being caught offshore between Hillarys and Two Rocks. There are reports of dolphinfish [...]
Metro Catches The boats heading out from Fremantle and Cockburn Sound have been encountering schools of salmon, especially those who have ventured to the islands and exposed bombies to target species such as pink snapper and gummy sharks. Salmon are being caught from North Mole most days and there are still [...]
Metro Catches Dawn and dusk are proving to be the best times to target pink snapper offshore with most of the 4 to 9kg fish caught this past week hooked during these brief periods. The 20 to 30m depths south of Rottnest, the 8 to 15m depths inside and outside of Five Fathom Bank, [...]