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ah, ah, ah, bullshit. Something is making me sneeze at that comment. 🤣 I fished somewhere on 80 mile, no threadfins, but pulled out 3 yellow finned bream, a new species for me. No fishing at Broome, but the surf was up, and great waves for body surfing. Did not go to Home Valley, but visited surrounding places. While we enjoyed northern W.A., we really did like N.T. Big crocs, tours, great seafood, the only problem being not able to swim in the hot weather - unless you can out swim and out run the crocs. 😂

Donna, I was up that way the year before, similar problems, HOWEVER, I enjoyed the place, and want to head back there again. I'm very sure both of you would like to return again. Just a minor problem with the size of our country. Swordie will keep you sane, or will he? 🤣😂😴 Dave.

Yes, the internet has it's advantages, but the crooks have taken advantage of it to fleece people. I have certain views, but will not be putting them into print. 🙂

The lazy society of today wants to do everything via a phone or laptop or computer. Unfortunately it has allowed the crooks access to easy money, frauds, scams, impersonations. Harder for the old people to navigate through the world.

At least you have something to show for your troubles.

Very nice catch, especially the big blue spot. Very hard to see on the photo angle, but are a couple of those flatties Marbled Flathead?

Good bag of fish, with a couple of nice ones in the mix.

That was a sickly colour. I liked the orange colour .

And that is why you bought it. 😂🤣

A funny looking lure at the time, but they caught flatties.

Another good story. Reminds me of a mate's father who kept pestering me to take him fishing (he could talk underwater with a mouthful of marbles) I finally said "yes," so he would stop annoying me. Headed out to the deep water near Lilli Pilli, anchored up, I gave him one of my handlines to use, hooked up bait to the hook, threw the line out and said "hang on." I did the same for my handline and we waited. Well, not too long and I pulled up a school jewie, then another and another. The old bloke did not get a bite, although we were fishing 5 feet apart and the baits were nearly side by side on the bottom. Still whinging about not catching any fish, he wanted to sit in my spot, F.F.S., he did not shut up, so we switched spots in the boat. I used the handline at the front of the boat, and the old bugger used my handline at the back of the boat. Had no sooner switched, and I pulled up a jewie, then another and another, and the old bloke did not get a bite. "Take me home you f***ing fraudster, you have a SCUBA diver down there hooking the fish onto your line." I was happy to go home and he never pestered me again to go fishing. One thing that I was happy about was that his wife made the best chocolate cake ever, and I would call her to offer her a jewie, and she would whip up a cake for me. I spread the story that he could not catch shite in a toilet bowl. 🤣

Good work over there. Nice fish, and great looking fillets to be cooked.

Give it a try for a while. If undersized ones keep coming up, none of legal size, then time to move to another area. Some days I have moved and found them all to be legals in another spot. A few of them yesterday had fat roes, even for such small fish, so it might have been a mating spot. Sometimes I find a patch of fish, close together, with females with fat roe, and the males are squirting out milt, so obviously the flatties are down in the deep and having a rooting/tooting time together.

One nice fish is better than none. That is why I always wait for that last bite to happen on a poor day.😴

Good work Donna. Looks like Bear Grylls hidden under the clothing. 😂

Thank you. Had a feed of fillets last night. Marinated in sweet chilli sauce, garlic, lime rind, lime juice and sweet soy sauce. Accompanied by chips, and a salsa of chopped tomato and red onion flavoured with lime juice and sweet chilli sauce.

Nice bag of fish there Bruce. 4 piggies is a lot for one day, and you have done well to reduce the jacket population by 0.0001%. 🤣

No, not many boats about this morning. I was closer to the bommie than normal today. Maybe the social websites yesterday talking about the 4 metre Great White off Wanda scared them away. 😆

Thank you.

Headed out this morning to Bate Bay, starting the drift at sunrise. Took a while to find even a few spikies, then found more of them so kept a couple for bait. After quite some time, I was thinking of moving, then pulled up a couple of under sized blue spots, so kept at it then hit a patch of slightly bigger fish. From just over legal to about 40cm, not big fish, but happy to pull up a feed considering last weeks big swell and winds. Re-drifted the same spot for a little while to catch my 10, then headed home. Also a couple of Barry Couta about. Around the 30 to 35 m depth.

Very nice there Bruce. Only the one tiger? A bit early for them just yet, usually better for them from September. How big was it? Have had the odd mako turn up beside the boat over the years, 4 to 6 footers not far off the coast, but nothing eaten from the hook.

Nice fish. Are Zander good eating?

Very nice, worth the effort.

Hopefully you can overcome those problems.

Another good story, however, I think it's time you headed out fishing again. You will get brain overload with all these stories. 🤣🤣🤣