Feast your eyes on some of 2022’s best videos from some of WA’s most popular online fishers

We’ve reached out to some of WA’s most well-known fishers across YouTube and Instagram asking them to show us their favourite videos from 2022!

The content they chose below showcases some of the year’s best fishing spots, catches and action from right across WA. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did – and make sure you subscribe and follow their pages for more great content like this.

Gideon Mettam @gidos_fishing_adventures accumulated more than 7.3 million views from this wild cave fishing expedition on our south coast. See why by clicking on the video below to check it out.

Chris Dixon @dixonsfishing managed to film for the first time in history pink snapper being caught on the top water with some remarkable drone footage. Click on the video below to see this spectacular fishing spectacle.

The crew from @fishinwishinlife_official recently had one of the best pink snapper sessions you’ll ever see in Shark Bay. Check out the action on the video below.

Jade Suzanne, @jade_suzanne has not only visited every far stretch of WA over the past year, she has also caught some very impressive catches. Check out Jade’s highlight reel of all the stunning fish she’s landed in 2022 below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luke Ryan @lukeryanfishing from TackleWest hand-picked this beauty of a video highlighting some great catches of Spanish mackerel and prized bottom-dwelling species. Check out his video on the link below.

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