Must be a few around because we saw a large Turtle last August west of Bunbury. Weirdest thing would have to be a few years back when people were catching Mud Crabs in the Bunbury Estuary and also Busselton area.

Kev

FISHING IS MY ADDICTION

reports last summer of mackies off the cape from spearfishermen. documented captures of redthroats out off redgate beach

Whiting at garret rd bridge ascot!

Caught a sawfish in a shark net about 3nm east of Cape Naturaliste while skipper of a pro boat.Was about 8 foot long minus the saw. The saw is about a metre in length.

Shark research sent a chap down to measure it and take photos and samples.Long way from home for something that shouldn't be south of Port Hedland and lives in fresh/brackish water.

Was fishing north of Port Hedland when we got a stingray that was unknown untill then.Luckily we had a renowned shark scientist from fisheries on board to identify it.Not sure what its name came out to be but Rory Mc Cauley's name is in it somewhere as he identified it.[he was doing a tagging survey on sand bar whalers,involving removal of hook,measuring tagging and injecting them with a dye that shows up on its spine like a growth ring of a tree]
Note--if you catch a tagged sand bar whaler keep a 4-5inch section of the spine,measure it and take a note of the location it was caught.Notify shark research and they will let you know where to drop the piece of spine off.

Mindarie Marina.
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Yeah! heard Mud Crabs were caught in all the estuaries from Mandurah round to even as far south as Wilsons Inlet a few years back. Probably something to do with the Leeuwin Current.

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fishing out of Leeman last year about 10 mile out and I looked up and said to Bob sh....t I think there is a body floating in the water (face down), both dreading what we'd discover, got up to the floating thing and thank god it was a big turtle, dived down as soon as we came close.  But from a distance it looked like a person floating face down, creepy in that split second of seeing it.

SPEWIE LEWIE

 Saw a croc at scabrough beach this morning!

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Was told a story bout a bloke who caught a tuna at the boat ramp at Point Peron!

Fishing isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more serious than that!!!

theres always big turtles hangin out behind garden island at certain times of year, caught emporor behind carnac coupla yrs ago thought that was a bit strange

saw a school of tuna come through the soung a couple of months ago.  wasn't far from D9. wasnt quick enough to get anything out the back, but was definately tuna as they were jumping right out of the water just behing the boat.

 mat

Caught 50lb plus tuna in mussel farms back in march

once up in the pilbara we went fishing and only caught two trout, wierd

I was 20k's out from Rocko and had a budgie land in my boat. 

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No Orange Hats Allowed

V8 twin turbo diesel....Ohh what a feeling!

anything lateely but when i was a youngster i saw a sun fish in the canning river

strangest fish i caught was a frog fish a couple of years back out from rocko

RUSS & SANDY

"A family that fishes together stays together"

Witnessed a 40cm dhu caught on a cd18 while trolling at 8 knots on the chicken run. Not a lot of fight on 15kg.:)

John

I readthe previous comments regarding a body face down in the water which turned out to be a turtle.

Years ago, whilst on a mighty Warship, not those little ANZAC toys (Soupy, you there?), we found approximately 20 bodies in the water out of Singapore, which we recovered. I believe they may have been victims of piracy. Quite yucky as well

Willy

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caught at the 4 Mile off Busso and i have heard of Mud Crabs being caught in the Collie River at Eaton.

Yep, the mudcrabs as far as Denmark was a wierd one! Were quite a few caught too, chokkas and good size.

for catching Muddies Adam.

Painted cray caught in a pot off Two Rocks

i wouldnt wan to be in the water when it's around lol....wonder how it goes if hook?? lol lotsa shakes and twirling!!
saw a 16 kilo tuna caught at the mole mid this year!!!
NO PAIN NO GAIN!!!

My dad saw a dugong caught in a shark net south of Cervanties about 20 years ago

Had one of about 800mm grab my X-Rap down at the Dawesville Cut earlier this year, just a few weeks after I saw a turtle on the Five Fathom Bank off Mandurah.

Thought I'd bump this one along again.

 seen a few turtles in geograph bay and not small ones either!!

Also me and mate on here conners were out in his 3m tinnie at the end of the jetty and saw a huge yellow fin jump up out of a school of them.. wouldve benn 15-20kg easy

Was down at the jetty when the boat one of my boys works on was unloading and spotted a cod that at first glace was either a six barred or a mutant 5 barred cod. Pulled the good book out and found it to be a blunt headed cod, first one the skipper or I'd seen before.

 I caught a red emp from ocean reef about 3-4 months ago, on a Lamble bait to

Twice I have foul hooked turtles while trolling for barra.  Damn they run hard.... takes half an hour to get your lure back

Last summer when fishing for squid in the sound, we looked over and saw birds dive bombing in the middle of the sound. Quickly rigged up a few rods for trolling, and headed over there. Was amazing, had birds dive bombing, bonito hitting the bait school from the bottom, a big group of penguins hirding them up from the outskirts and a big dirty turtle just lazing around amongst it all. One of the coolest sights i've seen while fishing, and all in the middle of the day in cockburn sound. Landed about 15 odd big oriental bonito too. Biggest bonito I've ever seen, first one we pulled up I thought was a shark mackie at first glance as it got close to the boat.

Saw some whales frollicking on a bit of reef where we would normally troll up a cod or two. Couldn't have been in more than 3 metres of water.

 I caught a big turtle on a handline off bunbury about 10 years ago.got a photo to prove it.

One of my kids got a good muddie on a lure at cleaverville.

Also saw a small saw shark while diving out from Bears down Yalingup way a long time ago.

I used to fish in a big river in NZ. All day long there used to be a continuous line of NZ whitebait or more specificly "inanga" traveling up and down close to the bank.
Redfin used to try and catch these, and would swim flat out at the fish ending up beached on the shore.
I was never close enough to pick them up before they flapped back into the water again.

 Caught small spangled emperor and threadfin salmon in Febuary. Also got a 15kg longtail tuna around the same time. 

managed to get two estuary cod in Mindarie Marina.

I know I promised not to post again but I cant help but make this comment about 25 years ago I pulled into the bay that Dampier salt (Dampier not Carnarvon) use to launch their work boat to clean some fish and was blown away when I saw a pod of dolphins in the bay , probably 7 or 8 of them holding a massive school of trevally against the beach , they were forcing the trevors onto the beach and the dolphins were beaching them self's and snapping them of the beach and then rolling back into the water, I couldn't believe it nature at its purest and an example of team work

mate    cheers Pete.

 In the canals at mandurah

- Seeing Spangled Emporer at Rotto a few weeks ago

- Saw a small Rankin cod at Lancelin last summer

- Seeing and shooting a Wahoo off Rockingham, Winter, June 2012

 I heard a story about that once, didnt know what to make of it.  Maybe some aquaculture people can comment?

Apparently there was an aquaculture place in Moore River which was having a go at mud crabs in outdoor ponds which was hit by a rather large storm with cyclone/willywilly action and alot of their young stock disappeared/ponds destroyed, storm supposedly headed down the coast then 12-18 months later the stories of people getting muddies down south start coming out.  How long were they around for a couple of seasons? Was it the early 2000's?

Anyway, sounded a bit unbelievable to me... I certainly wouldnt even know if its even possible to breed them in aquaculture or if nature could do it or keep them alive in a cloud for transport out to sea or down the coast....

Thoughts?

 It rains cats n dogs does it not

we went out fishing to three mile reef, dad caught a thumper skippy

threw it back,it was splashing on top of the water when a massive port jackson shark nailed it

then a seal smashed the port jackson. (i was thinking whats chasing the seal )

Stingrays far up the Swan river surprised the crap out of me.

 long tom at eshed last summer 

Spangled emperor at cervantes. Not caught by me tho

But had me perplexed at the time.

Caught a huge cobbler about 10NMiles due west off Rotto whilst BBing for dhu's. Also was very silver rather than the standard cobbler colours?

This has reminded me of something. A few years back I was taking a photo of my friend and his parents and we lined up the shot to get the ocean in the background. As I looked through the viewfinder, I kid you not, a hugh sailfish lept out spining in to the air, directly in line of sight and crashed back in to the sea, you know how they go. I must have said something becuase everyone turned round, but they completely missed it, nobody saw a bloody thing. Oh well add it to another fishermans tale. (We all know they are based on truths anyway)

And fishing off a cliff in Spain one day a huge Ocean Sunfish surfaced on its side and drifted straight past me.

a landbased dhufish, it was undersized and they released it

 Caught a cobbler at Singleton beach about 10 years ago. Was walking out in knee deep water ready to cast my line when I noticed a fish sitting in the one spot not moving. I dropped my line right in front of it and smashed the bait almost instantly. Couldn't believe my luck!!

 Wes F - You're dead right mate. I was bare foot too. I was more surprised to see a cobbler at Sing'os beach as I thought they only lived in weedy ground like an esturay...My uncle told me about keeping the skull as it looks like a crucifix and has loose marble like bones rattling inside the skull. I put it on an ants nest for a few days but it still smelled horrible so I threw it out.

 was about 2004 I was driving south towards Newdegate and a flash flood

Had cut the road. I got out to assess and noticed a fish - this is pretty

Arid country normally - about 4 or 5 inches long, trapped in a little eddy.

It was very ugly a bit like a cross between a dinosaur and a minature

Catfish, but with striking gills. I freed it and despite searching have never

Seen anything like it described in the literature.

My wife caught a cobia at the 3 mile reef at Moore River. It was only a baby at 40cm so it went back. I guess with so many rays around it's not that uncommon but it was certainly a first for us!!

Lastcast- sounds like what you saw was Lepidogalaxias salamandroides.

 what i saw had a large head, really ugly, body shaped a bit like a cobbler

Or catfish. looked really prehistoric. also a long way east of the known

Range of Lepidogalaxias salamandroides.

Saw a large tiger shark off the bottom of Yorke Peninsula (out from Pondelowie Bay) in SA - they are occassionally sighted in SA but by no means common.  Also saw a sunfish in the same area on another occassion.  Just missed seeing some killer whales off Streaky Bay (were sighted the day before we arrived) - would have loved that.

beach a couple of years ago north of Leeman.  Next minute dark shadows in the hundreds in the water, water would have ben about knee deep, as I was standing in the ocean, darting north up the beach, watched this for about 30 minutes (I quickly reeled in & sat down)  and Bob said they are the biggest sea mullet he had seen in ages, they must have been swimming up to meet and mate.  We didn't tell anybody as it was such a brilliant sight to see the amont of sea mullet, would have been hundres and hundreds of them swimming past us.

Another time while we had the on-site van in Leeman about 8yrs ago, we were walking along the beach at night after a 40c day.  My Shetland Collie started yelping and looked down, there were hundreds and hundreds of little crabs on the beach, nipping at his feet, looked like they were getting ready for a love session hahahah.  Bob had to pick Maccie up till we got off the beach.  We only had the light of a lovely full moon to look and hopefully didn't squash any, brilliant to see the beach covered in little crabs, this beach was the one you walk to from the Caravan Park, we used to call it log beach with that big log we used to sit on which is no longer there.  A couple of night later, (another 40c day) walked along that beach again at sunset and there were hundreds of little sting rays mating in the water, brilliant to watch, nature is beautiful.

I was surfing out of nannyrup in albany when the salmon where running and we where surfing and the school of salmon where surfing the wwave with us then the ocean had a huge lull and the salmon just suddenly spread everywhere spreading side to side then all of a sudden this 2m shark went straight under us and chased the salmon  luckily a set was formng and all  of us caught it in as fast as we could

Also seeing a seal when squid fishing at Bicton Baths freaked me out when this huge shaped came up and comlpletly splashed us.

 my dad caught a spangled emperor in geograph bay

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