Busselton Jetty Fishing

Here are a few pics from the last couple of nights. Will add more pics as we get them. Just showing you guys a bit of the life on the jetty.

 

The Jetty trolley is a must.

Kaotik Jetty Rat in his rat hole. Wind break tarp set up.

A few fish.

We leave the jetty as we found it. Remember to always take your rubbish.

Scottnot with a freshly caught tailor.

Nice one Scottnot. 50 cm Bonito.

Small haul caught between 7 and 9 pm.

TheJettyRats haul after ariving late after work.

A squid caught off the end by some kids from perth. Good catch lads.

Come prepared or don't come at all LoLz. Me and my trolley.

3am at the cleaning table. Always leave it clean for the next fisho.

 

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Nice

Fri, 2013-01-25 21:10

Nice work and pics. Good to see you guys putting in some long hours.

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 Nice work mate, some nice

Fri, 2013-01-25 21:10

 Nice work mate, some nice fish in that mix :) Love the fishing trolley, ready for anything!!

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Great stuff mate, I'm lucky

Fri, 2013-01-25 21:14

Great stuff mate, I'm lucky enough to have folks live down that way so whenever I visit them I usually head down for a session at the Jetty. Have caught plenty of tailor and herring there, a few rays and some mammoth sized squid over the years.Still hoping for that sambo! The trolley is a must for the jetty, My Dad made a contraption out of an old golf cart!  It makes life so much easier! Good on you for promoting cleaning up after your self too we need to preserve such places for future generations. It pisses me off that people leave so much rubbish around after they fish. I often find myself cleaning up after people. I went to canning bridge the other day and the place was filthy!

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yea

Fri, 2013-01-25 22:06

all good time 's out on the old jetty having  some fun

 

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 this is living,lol,always

Fri, 2013-01-25 22:18

 this is living,lol,always goodtimes fishing with you lads,couple days rest then back into it!

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Onya Mate!

Fri, 2013-01-25 23:11

Great to see a promotion of keeping the joint clean- keeps the authorities off everyone's backs and dosen't spoil it for the majority! Love the look of the trolleys too

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 Maybe oneday you could do a

Sat, 2013-01-26 07:23

 Maybe oneday you could do a jetty road trip. Off to carnarvon then up to broome. You guys would love that shit! 

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impressive

Sat, 2013-01-26 08:58

Impressive setup fellas and some good dedication too, thats what its all about.

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+1 for the road trip.

Sat, 2013-01-26 09:15

 A road trip jetty fishing might even get a fishing show interested. Good fun following your pics.

 

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love fishing on the

Sat, 2013-01-26 09:36

love fishing on the jetty

catch some awesome stuff

great to see people respecting it unlike some

see you out there soon

 

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hey guys me and few mates are

Sat, 2013-01-26 11:32

hey guys me and few mates are heading down from perth qill be there most off tonigh and tomoz night plese feel free to come say hello we will be out the end with some ballons my names sam you cant miss me heavily tattood :) would be great to have a chat and some beers :)

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No worries poser, I won't be

Sat, 2013-01-26 18:02

No worries poser, I won't be able to get out for a fish tonight but I will be fishing tomorow night more than likley so I will come over for a chat. Good luck with the ballons and have fun.

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cheerz guys

Sat, 2013-01-26 13:55

 thanks for the good words lads,pricey thats an awesome idea m8 cheerz,where would you recommend going mate we love jetty fishing and i know there are some awesome spots up north.just never had the chance to go,ive already contacted fishing W.A and i am just waiting on their reply,cheerz poser i'll tx the lads and let em know,snottnot n TJR are working all day but we were just coming for a trek out there around sunset,me and TJR will definately be out there fishing sunday nite mate!we will keep the pics coming lads!Have a Very Pissy Australia Day,lol

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Cheers for the support guys.

Sat, 2013-01-26 19:40

Cheers for the support guys. I will add more pics as we take them.

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 had a great night at the

Sun, 2013-01-27 07:49

 had a great night at the jetty last night was a few talior sent a balloon out we had nothing for a while then about 11 got a run was about an hour fight ended up being a massive tiger shark but unfortunately pulling it up it straighted the gaff but was a great night and get to do it all again tonigjt

 

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LoL thats sounds familiar.See

Sun, 2013-01-27 09:17

LoL thats sounds familiar.See you out there tonight.

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Question?

Mon, 2013-01-28 07:30

What would you have done with the massive tiger shark had you been able to get it up on the jetty without the gaff hooks straightening?

Any big tiger is full of mercury, bloody tough to chew  and believe me hard to dress out, so would it have been out with the jaws as a trophy and back over the side,

Going back a couple of entries it states that a 2 metre bronzie was lost much the same way , it would have been over legal size so again what was the point of trying to gaff it when you are going to damage it just for the cost of a wire trace and a couple of hooks.

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 my bronzy was under 2m,i

Mon, 2013-01-28 13:34

 my bronzy was under 2m, i said 6ft+ not 2m+ n the reason we tried to gaff him was the fact he wrapped my line all around his body, fins n his tail, so if i'd just cut the line he probably would of drowned nehow,but when the gaff bent straight he threw the hooks and rolled out of it n i think he'll be able to heal from the gaff (it wasnt a head shot we went for his ass end).

he was guna be released if too big n i dont use wire trace, lol, why not ask why, before saying why you think, lastnite i fished with the lads who hooked the tiger and they didnt want to stick a gaff in it they just wanted pics of it, just like ne fisho who catches something big. but another group from perth decided to try and gaff it! they the ones who lost their gaffs.

thanks for the concern though carnarvonite ,i saw a local young guy out there cut the whole sting n tail off a bull ray and throw him back out the end, i was the only local that said anything to him n rang fisheries to report it n i still havnt heard back from them. theres nothing we can do (locals) to stop ne fishing illegally or otherwise, i told fisheries numerous times, when and where to go out the jetty to catch illegal fishing, yet i still have not seen em once out there.

and the amount of rubbish left on the jetty after Australia day weekend was appalling, if you cant take ur rubbish home dont come out on our jetty! i had to pick up a smashed vb bottle, so no one would slice their feet open, absolutely pathetic! i know who you are and if see you on our beautiful jetty again i dont care how big you are your going for a swim!!!!

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 yea was bit heart broken

Sun, 2013-01-27 09:53

 yea was bit heart broken when gaff straightened. we got a video of it too. off to bcf for some more trace and hooks

 

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 i know how you feel sam had

Sun, 2013-01-27 14:55

 i know how you feel sam had same thing happen to me about a week ago,lost a 6ft+ bronzy off there cause the 2 prongs on gaff straightened as we hauled him up n the hooks come loose,was spewing,lol,but thats fishing the jetty!hopefully we can get our usual spot 2nite we be heading out round 530!

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Love that trolly setup

Mon, 2013-01-28 13:49

Love that trolly setup fellas...nothing worse than having to lug gear to your destination, particularly ou tthe end of a several K's long jetty.

Just out of interest, how does the jetty go in April fish wise? Will be down there at the end of April for five days and am keen to give the jetty a bash

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 must say had an awesome time

Mon, 2013-01-28 15:45

 must say had an awesome time down in busso landed a nice gummy sharks a bonito and some huge tailor big thanks to mark and the boys you guys are tru aussies should be more guys like you around you boys make that jetty what it is and must say the fish u smoked for tea was awsome im gunna be down there every 3rd weekend :)

 

All so with the tiger shark I wasnt gunna keep him just wanted a better photo and to remove the hooks :)

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That was my question

Mon, 2013-01-28 18:17

Why put a gaff in to a MASSIVE tiger shark to pull it up some 3-4 metres and do major damage to it in the process, possibly enough that it wouldn't survive just you you can get a couple of pics.

Who was going to get in the water to swim it when you put it back?

The mind boggles!!!  I was taught at an early age that any life is precious be it animal or fish, if you are not going to eat it or have a bloody good reason for killing it, let it live and a couple of pics is not a good enough reason in my book.

Sure Chris down south has it wired with a 100% successful release tally but he is doing it from a beach where he can walk them not 300 metres out on a jetty.

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cheers lads

Tue, 2013-01-29 12:43

 its was good to get a fish in with you lads,next time we do the all nite thing!lol,i b more prepared!haha,seeya in 3 wks we b here or not far away,lol!

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carnarvonite

Tue, 2013-01-29 12:46

 look mate thanks for ur input, but i just saw wat u wrote on the danny green tiger n u think tigers arent in the 700mm size limit, well they are, so check ur facts before ranting on other peoples topics, that is all, if you havent got nothing constructive to say DONT COMMENT!

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READ

Tue, 2013-01-29 15:41

If you had taken the time or bothered to read my comments you would have noticed the bottom bit starting with EDIT, stating that I was wrong about the tigers not being classed with whalers.

So before you start mouthing off, take the time to read something properly then if you don't like it in my opinion TOO BAD!!!

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Oh look

Tue, 2013-01-29 18:20

a new forum member mouthing off at a long time and valued member of the forum.

Never seen this before

 

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Valued? No pies supporters

Tue, 2013-01-29 19:00

Valued? No pies supporters are valued haha

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Pie supporter

Tue, 2013-01-29 21:51

We Pie supporters learn from an early age to put our teflon coats on so that nothing sticks.

 

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Show some respect

Tue, 2013-01-29 18:43

Show some respect mate..Carnavonite would be one bloke on here that knows more about fishing than most would attain in 10 lifetimes ..RESPECT !!!

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Now now lads.

Tue, 2013-01-29 17:42

Now now lads.

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stay off our threads if u dont like em SIMPLE!

Wed, 2013-01-30 10:41

 this a thread for people wanting to fish off the busso jetty,not a thread for wankers,your comments mean nothing to me,ITS NOT AS IF YOU 3(carnarvonite,chris raff,matt miller)FISH OFF THE JETTY,UR PROFILE PICS ARE OFF BOATS STICK TO WAT YOU KNOW GUYS N LEAVE THE LB FISHING TO US!!!!!!AS I SAID BEFORE STAY OFF OUR THREADS IF YOUR GUNA TALK THROUGH YOUR HAT!!thanks

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No idea mate

Wed, 2013-01-30 16:25

you don't own the forum or the thread, this is a public forum for all members to comment as they wish.

Just take a chill pill and enjoy this site for what it is

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Mouthing off

Wed, 2013-01-30 18:42

Before you disappear, I used to fish the Busso jetty as a kid while growing up in Bunbury and my Mum would come down there to visit her rellies while we fished. Yo wouldn't have been thought of then so I think I know a bit of history from it.

Just because I have a pic of a red caught from a boat doesn't mean I don't go from the rocks, beach or jetty up here. To please you I will have a dig around and see if I can put a land based one up, though it may be hard because I only take pics of exceptional fish nowadays because having seen thousands come aboard or up a beach over many years one gets a bit blase about them, though the threll doesn''t diminish.

 

If you don't want people to read your comments, don't put them up, clear and simple.

 

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Wankers ...mate your the one

Wed, 2013-01-30 19:00

Wankers ...mate your the one , pumping your rod too much ...SIMPLE !!!

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 you tell em mate.....

Wed, 2013-01-30 12:33

 you tell em mate..... deffinatly a select few arrogant ones on here that think they know everything and evryone else is shit at fishing..... mind you carnarvanite does know quite a bit and he seems to have been around a bit

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arrogance

Wed, 2013-01-30 15:31

woohoo you catch fish off the jetty on mulies not real hard to do,does not make you the LB guru. Carnarvanite was fishing the jetty and surrounding areas before you were born. All he was asking is for people to look after the fish if not going to keep it if thats your attitude to fishing for the future and can only handle constructive comments P#ss off to another forum or post nothing, you only joined the forum to back up your mate the jetty rat. it is the same as your attitude to rubbish on the jetty is the same for other people that care about released fish

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k sure he was

Thu, 2013-01-31 12:08

 ive fished off the busso jetty 26 years,1st place i learnt to fish,so stop talking through ur hat and get ur facts straight,u all fish off boats ocean,ne1 thats owns or works on commercial fishing vessels are ocean rapists,lol,ive worked mullie,shark,wetline n cray boats all being rapists of the ocean,the nets destroy the seabed n u all think u know fishing,hahaahahaha,bunch opf fucking twats

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calm down

Wed, 2013-01-30 16:16

calm down guys ok some people dont think its right to do this or someone to do something they dont like im sure your all old enough to know that this has gone on for long enough.

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jetty

Wed, 2013-01-30 16:30

people go out on the busso jetty to go and have some fun and to try and catch a fish or two even to go out with the family to have some fun

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yeah

Wed, 2013-01-30 16:36

 yeah scottnot's got the right idea

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 still all talk and no

Thu, 2013-01-31 12:09

 still all talk and no show,lol

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calm

Thu, 2013-01-31 14:16

 calm down kaotik jetty rat

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Great report

Thu, 2013-01-31 23:13

Great report  , i realy enjoy your post's Jetty Rat, I don't always get time to reply but look forward to reading your reports about the Busso jetty. Some realy good pictures there and the the tackle carts are awsome.

Cheers Grant .

PS: I hope your freind's don't f@ck it for you here on FW, it would be a shame to see you gone.

 

 

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+1

Fri, 2013-02-01 13:12

Always a good report and full of info. Not required the other shit.

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a good report and good

Fri, 2013-02-01 13:18

a good report and good pictures good to see the next generation also looking after the old jetty

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good reports

Fri, 2013-02-01 15:40

the jetty rat does do good reports so should leave it as that doing reports and should keep doing what he does best 

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Tailor went ballistic tonight

Fri, 2013-02-01 22:20

Tailor went ballistic tonight right on sunset. A few bonito around too. Was a good session.

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tailor

Sat, 2013-02-02 08:51

yes "the jetty rat" it has been going off for the last 3 or 4 night out there on sunset for about 45 min then they slow down abit

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might have to join you fellas

Sat, 2013-02-02 11:28

might have to join you fellas when i get back to busso from work

just getting back into fishing again bit of a 15yr hiatus

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yea

Sun, 2013-02-03 09:39

yea Karhlos always welcome out the end of the jetty

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 ahh sweet bro!!! that'd be

Tue, 2013-02-05 00:59

 ahh sweet bro!!! that'd be good, i'll just look for the fellas with the trolleys ay haha

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will be down next weekend

Tue, 2013-02-05 17:39

will be down next weekend boys better get ready haha also if use have any spare bonnys ill give u cash for some make great balloing bait up in perth :)

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will be down next weekend

Tue, 2013-02-05 17:39

will be down next weekend boys better get ready haha also if use have any spare bonnys ill give u cash for some make great balloing bait up in perth :)

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I got some in the frerezer

Tue, 2013-02-05 18:54

I got some in the frerezer but I intend to use them as bait during kingy season. If I catch any while you are down i'll throw them your way while we are out there, i'll see if any of the other boys will do the same.

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 yea man to easy being

Tue, 2013-02-05 19:33

 yea man to easy being hanging to get down there haha  :)