Mine is without a doubt hooking into a 120kg+ Marlin heading out of Gnaraloo bay one morning trolling for macks. Had the big boy on for a good 45 mins before the line gave way. Thankfully we got awesome footage of him jumping near the boat. Never forget that one.

 Few good ones from the nt days. Best was probably the time we were build up fishing for Barra around the mouth of the west alligator in a borrowed tinny. Wind came up and we couldn't get back to camp and boat was filling with water. Had to walk to shore and then the 4 odd Km back to camp. 

 Hooking something massive on the Jurien jetty just after midnight, fighting it into the early hours of the morning only to have a knot give way as it was about to break the surface... Devastating.

Another one is the sambo I caught in the Augusta marina earlier this year, won't forget that for a while.

 Popping down to Warra Station from Coral Bay a few years back to see some mates staying there and only getting a chance to get into a hour of fishing. Caught and released a Sailfish and picked up a nice YF tuna. thought we'd stick it to the rest of the crew about our great session only to get back inside the bay to watch  everyone else catching Mackies and YFT on fly over a massive bait school.

Pretty sure I posted it on FW at the time.

A relatively recent one was fishing in 30m out from S.passage in Exxy and fishing with floaters and some bottom bogging gear.  Id jumped in and taken some footage of a mate catching a shark and also got video of my mate hooking a wahoo on fly (vids still in video section), whilst that was memorable, it was nothing compared to what happened after that.

One of the boys brought up a charlie i think it was and up followed a shape that was just monsterous, like holy bejezus what is that. Ive caught many monsters in Exxy over the years and seen plenty of big fish, but as this fish rolled onto its side to try and take the charlie it was the biggest GT my mate and i had seen. No swear of a lie it would have blown 50kg out of the water without trying, some thing i wont forget anytime soon.

Ahh found it;

 Took the boat upto shark bay and made the trip across to Steep point, caught a few snapper but not much else, me an my mate decided to come back into South passage at which time I decided I would have a snorkel in the shallow bay near Shelter Bay, swam around for a while and got stung by some jelly fish so called my mate to come and pick me up with the boat, if you have been to shelter bay you would know of the big drop off that's about 15 metres from the shore, we stopped there and before I could switch the engine of my mate shouts out take a fucken look at this, up came a massive bronzie with a good size cobia hanging off him and swam around the boat, without even thinking I grabbed my mates rod with a halco red head and cast it within 1.5 metres of the cobia, bang on, 15 minutes later  a 9.5 kg cobia landed, high fives all around then my mate started whinging about me catching it on his rod, still tell him he was to slow and dopey to think about getting the lure out. Also the shark was probably no more then 80 metres from where I was swimming and would have easily have taken my arm off. The story always comes up when I catch up with my mates.

Back in 07, me and the Mrs celebrating 2 years being together went to Club Capricorn for the weekend. We got stinking drunk and decided to go down for a night fish just off the beach for a laugh. We got our pants wet so we both stripped down to our jocks and as the Mrs handed me a beer the rod bent over and I pulled in a cracking Mulloway with much hooting and hollering.

A few other fishers either side of us came to checkout the catch and unhappily informed me they'd been fishing 4 hours without a bite. We packed up headed back with our catch and passed out not long after a couple more bourbons.

how i got into game fishing - we went out on a charter in Phuket, long range charter to the Andaman islands - fell in love with the boat and the dream of owning a charter boat.....ended up buying the boat and was living the dream there for a while - we had the boat driven back to Perth eventually and sold her a few years ago to update - she now sits proudly in the marina at Carnavon and if she could speak - boy she would have some stories to tell!

 It was Roscos first boat trip when the boys were about 17, trolled up 3 macks off west end, off to the fads (no gps) had another boat with us and we each took a fad each, must have caught 3 dozen big dollies on each boat, everyone had a ball.great trip

 Probably catching and releasing 3 Barra that all went around 1.1m in an afternoon on the Daly River back in the early 80s. Or chasing VW beetle sized GTs around the channel markers out from Port Headland. No high end gear back then, Penn 850s, Beefed up Shimano TSS4s and Daiwa GS9s.

 Choosing  between  option "A" smacking large crocodile  in the head with rod and reel and high tailing it up the oyster coverd rocks.

option  "B" smacking  large crocodile  in the head with rod and reel and high tailing it towards nice sandy beach.....

bit of a stare down with this beast as I was waist deep in water.........

I chose option  "A" and the croc thought I would choose "B".....

Ending,    croc was dinged in head with Trinidad 30 and Bluewater  series T curve..... And me,,,,, I lived and had a busted reel .

Back when I was 18 I had been fanatical about fishing for years. It took me 5 long years pestering my Dad to take me out and hitching rides on various fishing club boats before I finally caught my first marlin. It was a striped of about 90kg and in an efort to try to get a good photo I stood on the 12/0 hook with all my weight. The hook went straight into the middle of my heel and we couldn't get it out (although we tried pretty hard).

I had the photos taken at the fishing club with me, next to the marlin on the gantry, standing on one leg before heading to hospital to have the hook removed. 

Learning the hard way about how quick storms are earlier this year. Happened to coincide with my best ever Pinkie sess in perth, we'd caught about 11 pinkies and some skippy to compliment them.

Only a few miles from the ramp so we thought she'd be right, hit the storm about halfway back and it went from calm, summer afternoon to seas crashing over the front of the boat and lightning all around us. Was a hairy 5 minutes but we made it back to the Mariner in one piece with good lesson learnt.

 That time I went kayak fishing in the canning with zman grubs, caught 3 black bream, 3 grunted and 12 flathead including some big bartail specimens with a 47cm, 49cm and my biggest flathead ever landed and I'm pretty proud of this number, 50cm. This was with 2 of my mates, I caught 6 flTties and 3 bream and they caught the rest 

 I was still in uni and went back home to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for holidays. Brand new to fishing. So new that I didn't even know how to tie knots. Dad hooked me up with one of his mates for a fishing trip. 

We set out early in the morning. Stopped by the local market and bought some bait, table quality fish and we got onto the boat not too long after. Day was calm. Nothing happened for the whole morning then my rod started shaking. Hooked up a baby shark. Tossed it back into the water and not too long after I was on my first decent fish, a golden snapper. Wrestled for 20 minutes and brought it up. Dropped another line in and hooked another. Back was sore after 40 minutes of intense reeling as I was told it was very deep water with very strong currents. 

Very pleased with myself but my dad's mate and more installed. Brought me to a floating palm tree in the middle of the ?ocean where he said that I'd have even more fun. We put the big rods aside and he handed me a smaller lighter rod with prolly 4-6lb line and a tiny hook at the end. Dropped in the hook and within 3 seconds I was on. Fish were jumping in the air and he pointed out that these were game fish, Mahi Mahi. There was a whole school there. Was getting a hook up within 5 seconds after every drop. Prolly caught like 20 Mahi Mahi. Not human size but they went 66 - 70cm.

Caught a lot of other fish as well but nothing worth remembering. The trip Put me onto fishing straight away

Bagging out on flathead, at cape francious peron sharkbay on soft plastics. The eastern states rellies always love to here about catching flathead, especially on the plastics.