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[Riggers]

Hey fellow fisho's

I'm extremely fortunate to have a beach house down south right on Cockburn sound, in the last few months myself my brother and my best mate have been going on regular fishing trips in the sound for a little fishing action. As you may be aware the pinkies are coming in this time of year as well of plenty of other species. We only take what we will eat that night, nothing more, the rest are released for the next years fishing!!

Anyhow here's a few pics for you all just to get you in the mood for wetting a line



Yes this is the view... I know right!



Juvenile sambo



Gummie 124cm



Salmon 81cm! Caught on 20lb braid



Flathead good table size 50cm



79cm gummie







My bro is possibly one of the best snapper catchers of all time! I'm just fortunate he shares some fillets with me
Anyone else been reeling some in?

Edited by Riggermortis, 10 September 2014 - 11:26 PM.

[Mattymak]

Sweeeeet bro! Very nice catches , I have to join you sometime!

[MrLeifBeaver]

Thanks for showing you can get big fishes off a small dingy in perth. Looks awesome!

[Peckoltia]

My last outing in the sound. Been fishing out if Hillary's more so lately.

Some decent catches there rigger.

[Westie]

father in law caught some salmon last week

did the family get together. cook and clean the fish etc. and the fish didnt taste too good. I'm allergic to fish so didn't eat anything

What's the verdict on the taste of the fish you guys have caught alex and nick?

[Riggers]

Nice catches pekoltia! I'm pretty sure the end of this month pinkies are done for the season? I want one before then!

Jason the pinkies are one of the best eating fish in my opinion!!! Especially when it's in the pan an hour after it's been swimming!

[jeffblack]

Nope, you should still be hooking them right up to demersal ban, down Busselton way that is.

[Riggers]

Just got this off the fisheries website.. Only a couple weeks left!


Pink Snapper
Cockburn and Warnbro Sounds: Closed season 1 October – 31 January (inclusive).
Cockburn Sound is the site of the largest know aggregations of pink snapper in the West Coast Bioregion and is critical for sustaining adequate breeding stocks of these long-lived and slow-growing fish.
It is illegal to be in possession of pink snapper while fishing in the waters of Cockburn and Warnbro sounds during the closed season. However, pink snapper taken outside the sounds may be transported through, and immediately landed within, the area during the closed season.

[bigjohnnofish]

yes we know the gravel spot where they get together and spawn... an old italian bloke showed me 30 years ago.....  when you dropped a line in and pulled out tennis racket size fish all day long... im not a fan of pink snapper to eat - rather dhuies or king george whiting

 

but a clever fisherman sits just outside the exclusion zone and at night catch them coming through

[Peckoltia]

Ah the old fabled "gravel patch"... Me and a mate call it the "car park", more boats on it than a dealership this time of year. Same as the D9 wreck.

We keep well away from both.

I think they should extend the closure an extra month to protect the breeders. We won't be fishing there this weekend, I'm not keen to target fish that are schooling up to spawn.

Ps- that's not a pink snapper, this is a pink snapper!



100cm, caught down in busselton a couple years ago. Only metery I've ever caught.

Edited by Peckoltia, 12 September 2014 - 07:11 AM.

[Westie]

that's a beast

makes the other one look like a "young whipper snapper"

ah thank you

[Peckoltia]

That last one I posted was an absolute beast. Was just shy of 11kg from memory.

Most of the ones I've caught since have been in the 50-80cm range since.