how big is your boat beacuse if it is only a 12ft dinghy u can basically only go out to the pine tree reef which is just past wonerup and about 1 km off shore. but if u have a bigger boat then the 4 mile is the way to go. i think it is straight off the jetty and as the name tells us it is 4 miles out. when u get to the 4 mile just use your sounder until u can find a desent amount of ground. u can also go down to dunsborough but i don't know much about reefs down there.

hope this helped u

The boat is a 15 foot ali with a 50hp Mariner, plenty enough on a good day. A good mate lives in Dunsborough so it will be just me and him out on the water.

Thanks for the reply Barca, good to know the reefs aren't that far out.

What do you catch down there? Snapper, Dhu, Tooona, Macks?

If your mates at Dunsborough head out in a N.E. direction into the bay trolling lures - water will be about as warm as you'll get at this time of the year so if the pelagics are about you find them . Try some pushers or Mackie Maulers when trolling. If you spot birds wheeling try to determine which way the predators are pushing the baitfish - don't troll unless they re going ballistic - usually the smaller tuna will be working over the sardine schools so take some 6-8kg casting rods which will also double for light bottom bashing and pick up some cheap metal lures with decent hooks or if needed beef them up. If you can get up on the lee side of the bait fish and cast your light metals (Juro) through the baitfish and vary your retrieve you shouldn'ttake long to get into some line blistering fun.

Bottom fishing if you don't have any ground get out around 15- 20 metres and have a look around. There's always solid King George you can fall back on with squid as well - and thats nothing to sneeze at when fresh in bread crumbs either of them.

Hope thats a start - good luck let us know how you go.

 over the time there has been a fair bit about fishing that area. go into the search functon and do a bit of reading. plenty of info to look through. 

The 4 mile is in 60ft, or 18m, however your set up. Dont expect it to suddenly appaear though. You'll know if you've gone across it when suddenly your 19 - 20 meters. The reef runs along almost the length of the bay, so once your on it, you can cruise along looking for spots easily.

Cheers

Dale

Just an update of how it went. Ended up going out of Canal Rocks (Freakin dangerous ramp!!!).

Anyway got out ok and travelled around the 40 - 50m mark but the bottom was extremely lifeless so i headed in closer. Got a nice rise from 45 to 40m and thought it was looking pretty promising and new with the current i would drift over this spot so kept going to about 30 metres and pulled up. First drop pulled up a nice 47cm pink snapper, completely swallowed the hooks so he went into the esky, plenty of action but no hook ups for the rest of that drift so headed back to the mark and was onto a good fighting pinky that went 49cm, he went back in the drink to fight another day. About an hour later I was onto a 50+cm Breaksea Cod which put on a good fight, he was a cracker of fish and i love eating black bums so he was dinner. I had all the fish i wanted to keep, i only wanted to keep what the family could eat that night as i had no way of freezing anything so it would have gone waste so from here on in i was game fishing. The next fish i landed was a real game fish, i think it was a little bronzey or some sort of similar shark. Started of as a dead weight, im still chasing my first dhui so would have been dissappointed if it was dhui, however next thing i know line was peeling and the shark was in no mood to give up easily. After a good game of tug of war and few very nice runs the human (ME) won the battle and with a tail grab the metre long shark was thrashing around on board. Got a crap photo which ill upload soon. He went back in the drink and after a quick swim he flicked off to the depth. After that i didnt get another touch on any baits for a good 20 minutes so headed back in. Lost some paint and some blood on that bloody boat ramp. Great fishing but i doubt ill ever fish out of Canal Rocks ever again. A good 3 or 4 hours of fishing but. 

Cheers

but you should be glad fisheries wern't on hand. 47cm Pink Snapper?

Might pay to give this a read - http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/WestLimits/westcoast_rules_2011.pdf