Hmm... a great fishing spot complete with toilet? this girl is THERE....:)

Stax,except for the two guys who got killed, that's a funny story. :rotf2::rotf3: :rotf2:

!800 cans of beer for 15 people. :btu:

Great that you can live the kind of fishing you do while most of us can just dream about it. :hihi: :)

Thanks for sharing all this. :D


BTW- good to have you guys as our Allies over the years. :btu:

One thing i'm going to do before i'm in the ground is going to fish down under at steep point.Thanks and i'll bring some beer too.

Hi Jen, yep there is a toilet there now. It was put there only about a few years back.

Years ago everyone used to take a walk up onto the hill pictured below and it would be a funny site while fishing the cliff and looking back to the hill and seeing people "snapping one %$%$%$%$ up on the hill haha.

That toilet on the hill has the best scenery than any other toilet in the world lol

Its still a rough spot o go for a week for most girls. Iv only ever seen a couple of girls over the years there because of the heat and no showers etc. You can take a wash down the beach and use salt water soap etc to refreash :)

I took my Ex up there and she loved it until the last couple days and couldnt wait to get home to have a shower and get back to the normal life

Australia will allways be there to lend a hand to you blokes when you need it :)

Here are some pics of my uncle Perry


Longtom
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Mulloway
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This was a big bait i was saving to the steep point trip.
I balooned ot out and it got wolluped by somethin that was 15ft+ from what we seen. Must of been a tiger shark. I didnt stand a chance. It bit through a double of 120pound wire trace with ease.

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9205/bigbait0lo.jpg

This is a pic of False entrance....

Here is a pic of pretty much all the area you have to fish at False entrance.
Not much room and you can see how the rocks are.See how the swell is coming across? Its very hard to gaff here!

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/228...ntrance2px.jpg

This next pic you can see from a gaff mans view.
Hard to gaff and you wouldnt want to fall.
This is where the bloke fell and landed on the ledge below with lots of broken bones and waited for helicoptert from denam.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4749/dontfall9oz.jpg

Absolutely the best thread of the year. After reading the posts and seeing the pictures, I would love to schedule a trip there someday.:walk:

Yeah this is the greatest subject ive ever witnessed. I could look at new pictures all winter. & read stories.:btu: It looks like your going to see a terradactyl fly by at any time. That place is how I would have imagined things looked millions of years ago. And you've gone back in time with modern fishing gear.

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Great stuff! Keep it coming.

What's a bloke?

Now thats what i call rock hopping! Only not in the dark and 800 beers latter. I'll bet you would like the RI coast! when a storm is coming in 20 foot waves are crashing and were out there on the back side of the light houses were its some what safe, hooking Stripers and blues cast after cast after cast! in the day time only. after dark would be a death sentence! keep the pics coming!
RHM

:eek:.. wow again on everything :kewl:.. that Longtom (?).. looks like a BIG Atlantic Needlefish!

Yer a "Bloke" :hihi:


20 foot waves? On the RI Coast? Other than in the teeth of a hurricane - When? Dood - they got us beat on the full contact fishing. Anyone who needs to pinch one over a cliff donning a homemade-rope harness further tied to the 4x4 has my respect as an intense angler. Even the skishers gotta have some respect on that :hee:

Marc - great pics and stories! It is even better as this is our winter about to come on and we've already had some 20 degree mornings (-5 to you).

Roadtrip!

Why Thank You John...I think..:whackin:

Very interesting stuff. Nice to see the rest of the world has fishermen as crazed as around here. I'm curious, though, what other kinds of beach/shore fishing do you have along the WA coast? Can a guy get home from work, eat his dinner, and head out for 2-3 hours of closeby easy access fishing? Do you fish at night? What do you catch? Is a boat neccessary? Long casts? Bait or plugs? How long a season? Thanks for the pictures and chance to dream.

I think the best thread ever deserves to be a "sticky" :humpty:

I just took the time to read this entire thread. has to be the best we have had on the site yet.
I get to Australia about once a year on business. Usually Sydney. Next year I will plan my trip for a stop by in Perth.

2 minutes from the best fishing on the coast. drive up to the water get out, grab rod from the truck, whip a popper out there 150 yards or so.
2 pops later a 35 lber grabs it and he,s on. this can go on all night some times. You can wade in deep and the fish are behind ya. RI has the best fishing on the east coast! But we don,t drink in 6 foot waves and strong surge in the dark. Next year will be better.
Keep the pics coming!
RHM

"Bloke" is a slang term for "man," much like "guy" or "dude." :)

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SORRY BOUT THE FLURO HAT!
Haha its the best way not to get burnt out in 40 degrie c all day

Hi Numbskull,

Yep i live only 20 min from the beach and often get home frrom work and head down the beach and catch a feed of fish at the entrance to our harbour.

There is a location called penguin island only 30-40 min south of Perth.
Its an Island that at low tide you can acually walk to the island in water knee deep! and yes there are penguins on there.
If you dont want to walk across you can take the ferry across for $10 Aust return

The last 4-5 times iv been iv caught 5-6 King George Whiting each time :) These fish are one of the best eating fish in Australia!

Here is some pics of this island and what i caught.

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K.G whiting
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Mate Kristian fishin
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A migrating bird of some sort
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The jetty we are fishing off
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You can see the sandbar in the background and how you can walk across in in knee deep water to the shore on the mainland.

I must remind all that Steep point is along way from Perth but you could allways organise your trip from Perth and hire 4wd etc but i would seek all advise on how to get to Steep point /safty and what you need to survive off www.steeppoint.com.au before you get over here

For starters sun block, water and a portable A/C unit since 40-50C is 104 to 122 degrees F,,, Still would be worth it,,,,

Yeah make it a sticky, i will keep updating steep point pics and i go fishin every weekend and i will post up pics of my results ;)

There is another location only 20-30min drive north called Yanchep lagoon.

Its called Lagoon because the Reef is about 20 out and it forms a lagoon of shellow water thats really nice and safe for kids or novise snorklers to wade.

If you walk through the lagoon then up onto the reef you can get some nice fish. To be honest i havnt fished here much because the first time i went there a BIG wave washed me off the reef and into the lagoon haha Here are a couple of pics..

BTW those fish are what we call here in Aust "Herring" Different from the Herring you have over there

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2217/1lagoon7ne.jpg

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So if you take one of those herring, still alive, put a hook in it, walk out to the edge of that reef, throw it out there, in the dark.........what besides a shark might you get?

Marc - that's bait!

What bigger fish can you get close to home?

And is there a time to fish Steep Point when it isn't 140 degrees? Maybe more like 80 degrees? Some of our best fishing is in our Fall and sometimes the snot wants to freeze on your face :bl:

Exacty what iv been thinkin! I might try that soon.
I would think that a big mulloway or during or after a big storm you might get a nice snapper or even a huge sampson fish but to be honest off the shore around Perth there arnt alot of big fish to be caught.
Its best to travel 50klm+ north or 50klm south+ to do well.
Perth is inbetween the hot tropical water and the cold southern water so its not as good as up north or down south but its good for alot of other smaller fish though

[QUOTE=JohnR;441699]Marc - that's bait!

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haha yep but they are legal and really yummy ;)

Haha the best time i like to go is april which is around autum/ spring it still gets pretty hot about 28-35 degries but its nice at that temp .

You still get good fish like mackeral and snapper etc at that time of year and its not to busy :)

But its also cyclone season so you have to keep an eye on the weather lol

Tailor Marc, anywhere there are little fish like those herring, there are big fish as well. Try at night, swim it into deep water near structure (a gentle current helps as well) and I suspect you may find that things are not as barren as they seem. Search this site for tips on "livelining herring" for some ideas. It wouldn't suprise me if you are sitting on an untapped fishery.

I agree - just too good of a meal for gamefish to pass up

(though one could bet their bait situation is better than ours)

I see the world record Cobia came from Shark bay(135 pounds) do you guys catch those from the cliff? they are tough fish and very tasty.
Excellant thread :btu:

Hi Slipknot,

Yep we often hook up nice cobia at steep point .
Best way iv found to hook then is as soon as you see a manta ray /whale shark etc swim past , throw a lure close to it and there are allways cobia cruising underneath and will dart out to attack the lure.
Its allways exciting to watch gaffing a big cobia with the cliff gaff, they cut sick rolling splashing even known to beng the gaff hooks.

Here is a small one i got at faulse entrance when i was 15..
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h4...aver/cobia.jpg

Hey Stax , i think its time to tell our new friends about the Steep point monster ( V W ) What do ya think?
Should copy and paste your story from steep point.com.au into this thread. I will post the pic following

On our last trip to Steep Point, 3 weeks ago we saw a few new sights of nature that most people would not believe.

I have heard these tall stories of the large Grouper that sit under the cliff edges and wait their turn in the feeding chain. Waiting and hoping that that Mackerel will fall off, or that Tuna will make a last gasp dash and swim my way….
Huge, I’ve heard, 200Kgs plus, yeh yeh… It might make great story, but what a load of baloney. Well that’s what I thought, until this trip.

Fishing Steep Point is hard enough without large, No…. very large…. No…. Monster Bronze Whale Sharks (should say Whaler, but their bigger than that) chasing your poor Spanish / Tuna all over the place. There was no shortage of that happening. Also with the Tuna going stupid, the Sharks had plenty to choose from.
So setting the scene…Barry and Eddie both lure fishing, Tuna fish everywhere, Spanish lurking under the marauding Tuna, Sharks circling everything, the water looking like a Spa Bath, foam and bubbles everywhere, water blue as blue and clear, yes so clear you could 15 feet into it.
Barry strikes….Eddie strikes….both fishermen hooked up, Barry with a Spanish and Eddie with yet another bullet train Tuna. As the large Bronze Whaler cruises pass for the third or forth time patiently waiting for the very distressed Spanish to make its way to the cliff’s edge and poor old Eddie with his Tuna now closing in on the Madagascar Coast-line, it came time to get Barry’s Spanish to the Gaff. As the large Bronzie swam past for at least the fifth time I told Barry to get that Spanish to the base of the cliff quickly. He did as he was told and dragged the now well beaten 10Kg Spanish to the base of the cliff for hopefully a very quick Gaff. As I placed his line through the Gaff eye and started to lower the Gaff I called to Barry that we had better hurry as the shadow of the Bronze Whaler had reappeared behind his fine fish. Barry, eager to make sure his prized catch was safe ventured to the cliffs edge and yelled “that’s not a shark, its too fat, its way too fat”
He was correct, as behind what now appeared to be a very small Spanish, was a 1960 VW Beetle Car trying to catch up on the now even more stressed out Spanish. Surely this could not be a fish. No way, no fish grow that big. And what are the blue things and red things dangling from its overly large frame. They were lures, lots of lures, at least 5 or 6 of them. By now the Gaff was firmly placed over our minnows head and out of the water it jumped. I really believe that this Spanish jumped clear out of the water all by itself as only inches behind it was the monster from the deep. At least 6 feet long, over 3 feet wide and 4 feet deep, with its mouth wide open, (I could have got my Landcrusier’s Spare tyre in there) it missed its prey by inches. So one fish down, or up, and one Tuna to go. Eddies Tuna darted past the cliffs edge at about 45 knots. The Grouper, now only 2 feet under the surface, defying any current and without movement was not going to miss out again. As Eddies Tuna approached the cliff edge the beast from the deep inhaled. Gone, missing in Action, one 7Kg Tuna! Eddie stood there in total disbelief and asked,
“Now what?”
“Hang on” was the reply.
Well needless to say, 200Kg+ Grouper with 7Kg Tuna in mouth, 14lb Line, No Contest.
As this marvel of nature cruised off, it didn’t swim, way too big to swim, three guys just stood there unable to believe what had just happened. Big, NO, Huge, NO, MASSIVE BEYOND BELIEF.
So now if someone wants to tell me of the huge Grouper under the cliffs at Steep Point, I will also have a tall story for them.
I am sure that to this day I would still have doubts about these stories…But now……I’ve seen a swimming VW Beetle.

More to come...

Sharks are faster than you think.
Believe it.
Stax

This is a picture of one of these monsters from the deep. The fish struggling on the surface is over 3 feet long and about 25Lb.
I'm sure another picture is coming soon.

Stax

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This just keeps getting better and better.

Gotta luv this stuff Stax and Marc, gotta luv it. :btu: :hihi:

Just great stuff. :)