Mine would have to be earlier on this year with the epic blue film crew. We had one person in the water with an underwater vid camera, one in the boat with a vid camera, one person taking stil photos from the boat and then jumping in and taking more underwater pics and one person fighting the fish with it doing areobatics like it was on steroids. When we got home and watched the footage we were rolling around on the ground in hysterics as to how siiiiiick it was!! We were able to replicate this 4 days out of 7 with everyone catching a billfish of one type or another.  Along with one sailfish having a free swimming billfish attack it to get the lure out of its mouth, captured with underwater video and stil photo's from the boat.  Its coming to you guys one day in the near future!!!

This may come as a surprise, but my best fishing experience didn't involve a boat!

Many, many years ago (far too many years!) my two brother's and I headed up to Quobba for a week of roughing it and fishing.

We knew we'd be roughing it in the donga like accomodation and took the bare essentials, including an ample supply of beer. As you do!

We arrived just before nightfall on the Saturday evening, unpacked, got ourselves settled, downed a couple of beers and hit the sack early. The anticipation of our first morning's fishing from quobba made for a restless sleep start. But tiredness gradually overcome us and we slumbered into obliviation until rudely ended by the shrill clank of the alarm clock.

A quick bite to eat and it was rods/gear/bait and bodies into the might datto for the short run down the track.

We arrived to find we had the stones all to ourselves, quickly baitd up our lines and hurled our mullies out into the pristine waters, aided by a slight offshore and our alvey side casters.

The day was spent exchanging sibling barbs and pulling up the occasional reef fish.

Then, just after noon, my twin brother spotted the tell tail sign of birds diving after a smashed school of fish. We all looked at each other and yelled with gleeful unision - Mackies!!

Now, let me explain the title of this little tale.

Because we tended to fish well above the water, we relied on one of the others to deploy the rope gaff. So a hook up was accompanied by the obligatory yell of 'Jobs On', so someone could get the gaff and line ready. This was usually my twin brother Clive, as he was the most adept.

We each took turns of hurling our mullies out as the smashed school approached casting range.

Clive, being at the end, took the first hit - 'Jobs On' he yelled, and proceeded to alternate between a muttering view of the spool screaming, and winching back valuable yards of line, whilst the fish at the other end made it's blistering run!

Seconds later my younger brother Bryan yelled 'Jobs On' and emulated Clive's action.

Almost simultaneously, 'Jobs On' utterred from my mouth as my long rod arched in protest.

We all looked at each other incredulously and, in almost perfect harmony, utterred 'who's gonna operate the bloody gaff'.

(Un)fortunately, our inexperience (and perhaps some bad luck) resulted in a 100% bust off across all three of us. By the time we had retreived, rerigged and readies to cast out again, the school had gone.

In youthful heads and first time quabba venturers, it was an awesome and unforgettable experience.

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

even though ive had some outragous fishing in shallows w light gear in barri and the islands, definately have to be fishing a spot on the south cliffs fm kalbarri w me m8 daniel for pinkies. 50 pound alvey setups and getting done up by freight trains! When you get hit you have one chance to get them off the bottom and if you get their heads up you still have to land them on the rocks which is crazy due to not being able to use a cliff gaff with the amount of surge and where you are. When they are on at this spot if you land 2 out of 10 fish youve had a krakka session! Some of these fish are easy 8kg plus fish and they will leave you shaking your head and crying on the rocks, then you turn round and do it again! love the stones.

FISH FOR THE FUTURE NOT THE FREEZER!

i have many also, but one of the more memorable one would have to be my billie from busso, stands out big time even over my other billie captures becasue of the location and circumstances, getting it on a shark trace, hooking it in 12m of water, landing it in 3m of water 800m from the beach at quindalup, all the things that just about make it unbelivable

Catching a sailfish for a television commercial off Dampier and standing on "suicide rock" at North Curl Curl on a super flat, clear day and spotting a school of yellowtail kingfish swim buy. Only rod at hand was a kids rod and reel and a small silver lure. Somehow I managed to get one of the kingies to grab on and managed to hold on for 20 minutes before the rod snapped in half. I was stoked but my little nephew wasn't too happy about his rod.

(Colin 1 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

I could just imagine the look on two faces

YOURS - Stunned Excitement - Seeing and hooking up the YTK!

NEPHEW - Abject Missery and Horrow - When his rod snapped!

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

Best day of my life ......
Just wish i could of released it!

16yrs ago!

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Can't imagine why. Silly little billy off the rocks. Anyone would think that was special.

LOL

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

love the game chair marc

Dreamweaver : Haha!! It only took me a hour to get it in! I now have the video of the fight put onto dvd yay!

mako magic : yep that chair was magic! I was in alot of pain during that fight. I was harnessed to the rod. I thought i was going to get pulled off the cliff forsure! Lucky i had my big uncle Nino there to hold me!

Best for me would of been a Barra sesh that went for 3 hrs until we couldnt stay any longer.

We were driving out of Oombulgarri a community about 40ks NW of Wyndham as the crow flies.

The drive out is about 6 hours (4hours to do 100ks) of some truely amaizing countryside and gorges. The drive itself was memorable, sitting on the back of a ute, sitting on two spares an da swag had my waist about the roof height and a rope for a bridel to hang one with. ( yeah, not excactly safe )

Driving up and down the side gorges was mind blowing enough ( yes, its not really a road more a mountian goat track) as the sun was setting thunder storms coming in from 3 different sides, yeah mind blowing. A lightnight show like none I have seen before or since.

We pulled up at one of the river crossing cant remember the river ( its a site of one of El Questro Barra helicopter trips, middle of nowhere inside el Questro Station)

Climbed down the rocks to stand on a rock ledge where we caught mullet in a throw net that were 20-30cm long and then procedded to land 80-100cm Barra for 3 hours until we just had to hit the road agan. the driver had been threatend with divorce if he came home this swing late and drunk again.

The whole time we were there you could hear Barra chomping the water. Nice place to swim, not a nice place to swim with to many sets of croc eyes in the torch light to count.

Here is the co ords of you want to go there, I dont mind sharing, nice crive.. :P
google earth with show it to you
15°30'36.70"S
127°43'59.16"E

It's that lucky beanie mate LOL. Top day mate! 

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

same reason I wore mine - and swapped to cap later

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

off the Tubes in Jervis Bay was pretty special but my latest special mem is from Dampier a couple of years ago , me and my good mate Webby , both working in Tom Vegas at the time over in Dampier for a 4 day break , we lucked onto probably the hottest longtail session I've ever known , we found massive bait schools in around the channel markers heading into the Tug Pens to the East of Parker point(Dampier Maritime Wharf)we caught and released 20-30 longtails a day over 3 days on every line class imaginable up to an impressive 15-18kg fish,15kg fish were not uncommon and were hungry for eveything, me mate Webbo hadn't really experienced throwing lures at busting schools like this and it was a pure adrenalin buzz for 3 days . Also caught some monster Queenies out of the same baitschools . I'm getting a little chubby

nice story goatch but a little too much info at the end

My best fishing experiance was in shark bay last year because the smiles on the kids and Russes Mums Face when they caught the big ones . Russes mum had never fished other than the odd whitting from the beach but is now addicted to fishing.

Nathan with his hugh Snapper i think went 5.5 kg 76 cm

 Brenden with his Bouldy 7 kg

 Could not wipe the smile from Russes mum for weeks after this catch (russ standing behind his mum to hold up her fish see the hat)

The Best thing about fishing is seeing others catch fish and have a great time smiles on the dial this in turn make me have a great fishing day plus converting others to the sport we as a family love

Sandy , Russ and Kids

"A family that fishes together stays together"

There is nothing better than happy fisherpeople.
(Colin 1 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

For land based fishing it would have to be the first trip to Quobba-[read scariest fishing moments] in early 70s.First x 4 casts with abu10.000 ,crank 5-6 times and bang,white water about 3 metres round where lure hit water and hang on,smoke up drag,burn both thumbs on spool then walk back to tackle box get another spool of 30lb line and another can and reload again.
Finally between the 2 of us we managed to land one to find out just what they were--looked like a big "blue"mackeral only long and skinny with lots of teeth--must be like blue macks to eat so we chucked it back.By the end of the day we must have thrown 20 or so of these buggers back,kept about 7-8 bigggg trevally [we knew what these were]lots of norwest snapper and handfull of pinkies as well.
We had planned to take fish into Carnarvon every 2 days for freezing but had so many it was that afternoon.When there we spoke to chap at freezer works about these "blue macks"and he told us they were good fish not rubbish.[We both hadn't even heard of them--never had got a fish north of Preston Beach and no fishing mags then]
Rang a mate who was on his way up to bring more lures--lots more lures because even though we went up to 40lb line some of them we couldn't slow down let alone stop them.The best one went 68lb cleaned.Never even got to put a balloon out because all you needed to do was cast out as far as you could,give a couple of cranks and hold on.And eat your heart out,to stop in the shearers quarters at Quobba station was a princely $2 a night.We were there for 5 days and the action never slowed down--wish it was still like it now.

Being from north qld and lure catching barra after work often, I'll put up my best fishing day in WA..
It's not that special after living in Exmouth either but,

I did the iconic WA fishing day out in a neighbours vagabond catching my first Dhuie, Fisrt Bluebone and Fisrt KG in one day a couple of years back, never had all three in one trip since so I liked getting the three icons in one...

I have more shots on camera then I have landed bluebone

really it would be hard pressed between the sea coming straight over the windscreen and hitting the transom on the northern leg or not being able to see any land at all let alone the bridge being 30m away in the sound for the southern leg. was like being in a snow storm...
Currently semi retired from fishing (deckie duties only now)

do tell do tell, I'm not in the link??

Currently semi retired from fishing (deckie duties only now)