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A bucket of pannies is better than a bucket full of SFA Rick.

Leaving Kununurra on Tuesday, heading east probably to Timber Creek, a few different stops then Darwin from 25th for several nights. Pulled out a Tarpon (oxeye) at the Ivanhoe River crossing on a lure. Dave.

Kahawai? You must be Kiwi. Caught them in N.Z. when visiting as a teenager, and they were better eating than the ones over here.

Good work there, some nice pigs. Always fun to land in their rocky habitat.

New species there Bruce. Currently at Kununurra right now. Dave.

You have been looking at too many mowies. ?

Bruce, We probably will head to Darwin, but not until late July. Dave.

Sounds good Blackfish.

Good work there Bruce. I will be heading to Broome tomorrow, but you have already left. I caught a couple of fish along the way up W.A. coast, not many and not much fishing, but the photos will not upload. Will submit a report when I return around September.

Every 6 or 7 years, the chinaman jackets turn up in plague proportions outside. I noticed earlier this year that some very small ones were in Gunnamatta Bay in Port Hacking, the first for some time. When the small ones turn up in side the bays, then some bigger ones appear outside, too small to eat, then larger ones will be around later, being big enough to eat. When they are in plague proportions outside, they will eat anything that swims past them - hooked flatties, each other if hooked, or anything not fast enough to swim away from the pack, and they do swim in a pack, in bigger numbers than piranha and they have the mentality of piranha. I have killed one or 2 and thrown them into the water, and other jackets will appear in their hundreds to eat their own kind - do not fall overboard. ? A couple of larger jackets I caught some years back had just attacked and eaten a blue spotted ray - one jacket had the whole tail in it's fat guts, with just a few chew marks along the tail, and the other jacket had sections of the body in it's fat guts, including an eye that was still intact.

Looks pretty close there Blackfish.

Good work there Scratchie.

Bruce, Looks like we won't be in Broome until 3 July, still a bit down the track from you. Plenty of nice fish to see while snorkelling, but, they are all in no fishing zones.

Nice Bream there Bruce. I have just turned up at Exmouth today, so a bit far from you.

Good work there Scratchie, nice feed of reds. Pretty quiet here in W.A. Wind and/or rain at the places I want to fish. Doing much more traveling than fishing. Do have a couple of photos that won't upload from the wife's laptop, so will have to wait till I return.

Good work Bruce.

Good work there Basil. Currently over in W.A. where I was going to have a fish at Geraldton, but the weather turned sh##house - big swell and rain, and wind strong enough to blow a dog off a chain. Hopefully better weather in the future.

Looks like a species of rattail, also called grenadier. About 300 species in the family Macouridae. Usually a deep water species.

Definitely not a mowie Finin. I can see the lateral line that runs from the top of the gill covering to the middle of the tail. Looks like a pearlie.

Mullet with smaller tail - sand mullet Mullet with larger tail - flat tail mullet?

Sounds better.

That is a dusky flattie in the photo. I have caught the occasional blue spot flattie in the deeper water of Port Hacking, west of Lilli Pilli over the years. Usually one at a time, the best is 3 in the one day, not big ones but most are over legal.

Nice big pearlie, and good sized spotties.

Great work there Scratchie, nice chunky fillets.

Great photos, and a nice kingie to top it off.