After finishing school with lots of spare time on my hands i decided to head to my Uncles house for a few days fishing the Dawesville Cut.

I got down there one afternoon and immediately went down to try for some herring. I only caught about ten herring as they were hard to come by which is unusual for the cut. I then went for a squid down at the Jolly frog. I ended up with 3 squid - 2 good size ones and one decent. These were all taken on a hand-me-down old yozuri jig. With the incoming tide it made squid quite simple as the tide would hold it off the bottom and i continually pulsed the rod.

I then made my way down to the Jolly frog the next morning at around 11am. I saw a teenager with qualtiy gear hook up and loose a salmon trout under the pylons of the bridge and having 20 gram twisties on me i raced over there and 1st cast had a hook-up and landed a nice little salmon on my sienna with 6lb fins. That session in an hour i landed 10 fish releasing 6 and taking four home for dinner. These fish were feed exactly on the change of tide from outgoing swinging to the incoming. Accurate precise casting was needed and the a ultrafast retrive would entice the strike.
I fished for these salmon for 3 days in total releaing over 24 fish and keeping 12. The halco 20 gram was key as they 10 gram wouldnt get down to the fish. Using this method i also caught 2 undersize tailor at midday! I also had a berkley attack rod snap on one of these salmon must have been faulty cos i wasnt high sticking. Also when cleaning these salmon the stomach contents revealed fresh whole river prawns showing that the prawns are moving about and also whitebait.

I had a set routine and would squid almost every night and caught 10 squid over 3 nights ( i only have photos of the first 3 - due to teh mess they made i cleaned the rest at the jetty)

I also fished the afternoon for king george i ended up with 4 undersize ones over 2 sessions and my uncle got one size.

Night fishing off the Jolly Frog was producing many tailor all around 30cm with one specimen close to 40-43cm caught.
Other by catch species where small skippy and tarwhine.

Tons of Blue manna crabs would come through at night all mostly undersize but a good sign to see for stocks. Crab were that plentiful that they were regularly being caught on fishing line.

After i returned from mandurah me and some mates wet a line at night at ascot with big mulla baits soaking and small rods out for bream. I landed one Bream around 25-6 cms and there were 3 bite offs on our bream gear presumably tailor. My whole yellowtail had a decent what looked to be tailor bite out of it too. Which has now tempted me to fish for tailor down there :P

Thats a little run down of my recent escapades and theres surely more to com

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