Hey Dennis,

Unfortunately I haven't fished out of Busselton before and don't know much about it.  Wished I could be of more assistance.  Hopefully someone has fished out of there and give a few pointers.

Cheers Adam

didnt know they ever trawled down there, same thing in exmouth gulf.
the tide wouldnt be that big to make much difference i would have thought.yer out from forrest beach is were i got some kgs last time down but havnt found any good bottom around there yet for any thing else,will try the burley as i have the lancelin habit of liking to drift fish.

cheers dennis

Yup great place grew up there, funny enough - thats where I learned my berley tricks!

Things must have changed a LOT in recent years - heck, when I was a kid (like 40 years ago) - we used to catch 2 - 3 Kilo Skippy by the BASKETFULL behind Lancelin Island (in what was then known as "the skippy hole".

Now I'm led to believe - it is some sort of dive park, protected from Fishing!

Typical - that as they say, is progress.

Scallop trawlers, yep - they occasionally still do trawl as best I know unless somethings radically changed in recent times!.

You know - the sacllop trawlers people now actually breed scallops in onshore facilitiues in Geraldton at the fishing boat harbor and re seed scallop beds a year or so ahead of the trawling season - they are actually "farming the sea bed" - just like a market gardener might grow your tomatoes.

They do have SOME problems with this - coz the scallops can actually get up n move of they ain't happy! Not great distances, but enough to make it hard to find em again next year!

One wonders, what there is to STOP a recreational angler catching scallops if he is of such a mind? What if he were to catch them from an area "seeded" by the pro's???

Is he breaking any laws? and if so - which ones?

Cheers!

yer i left about 3 years ago lived in wedge for 12 years and worked for the brother inlaw (dawe)and had my charter boat in lancelin for 7 years and went back craying after that.probably know you are you still working boats or do you have a toy one now too.
been trying to find out if the fads are still out in busso and what the coordanates are been trying to ring the fishing club but havnt had an answer.

cheers dennis

Crikey, we left Lancelin in 1975 roughly, (started building the beach shak in gin gin road (opposite Bill Catchpoles bakery), in about 1958 or 59 from memory!. Twas about the 2nd "beach house" built in Lancelin....there were fishermens huts already there (up where Fisheries new office is now).

You could tell our place it was the one where the roof sloped In to the middle - not pitched the way normal roofs are - tis still there...

I stayed up there a few years back for a couple weeks doing a consultancy job for the Rock Lobster industry - went and worked on Nils Stokke's boat Viking Rose.. (Nils used to be the kid next door when we were growing up - cheeky lil fat bugga he is now!). he he he.

Went back last christmas - to scatter my ol mans ashes in the bay (south passage near Lancelin Island!).

Ol' man built a lot of the original beach houses up there, including the very first school house!.

Very fond memories of growing up there.. Nils older brother Carl is still there cray fishing I think - (with his eldest son Chel as deckie).

Anyway - back to your enquiry - re the fads out of Busselton..

If you give Rusty a ring (from Ocean to Outback) in Busso, he's in the club you mention and usually involved in the fad deploment excercise so is BOUND to know the co ords!

Me - I'm in a toy boat - only 25 ft long and soon as it gets wet it shrinks!

Cheers!

yer i know all the stokke boys i had seaquest charters up there inbetween craying,do you remember laurie dawe young bill catchpole married his daughter ronda.
anyway i rang rusty it seems like they dont put them out anymore as one was stollen and one was lost.

cheers dennis

recall Laurie Dawe, musta been after my time, maybe...certainly remeber old Bill Catchpole tho - he used to live in a house near the beach, sorta diagonaly behind ours & would walk thru our yard on his way to the bakery each morning at 4 am, whislting happily away...

He was my alarm clock to get up n go fish as a kid.

And the smell of fresh bread rolls outta his oven across the road (used to be one of the old mallet wood fired ovens!). Eating bread rolls so hot you couldn't hold em with frsh butter on em... Thing I remember most is Bill used to make us a HUGE big pizza every year at Christmas in his big wood fired oven with bread dough (we'd supply the toppings)...

They were good days - roll into Lancelin at 4 am in the morning, the pub up the north end would still be open (there was no endeavor tavern back then - thats where the first bakery used to be!) - Ritchie playing on the tea chest base, and Dooreen playing the piano.
There were no police in lancelin then so the pub never closed..

In my day you could slide down the dunes on a piece a cardboard (without getting run over by a beach buggy - they were a much later addition).

Don't get me started on the good ol days in Lancelin as a kid. I remember Carl & Nils younger sister when I was growinmg up (Karen?) man was she a good looker - blonde / blue eyes... I lost a LOT of good nights sleep as a teenager dreaming bout her I can tel you - course even tho we lived next door - I don't think she knew I existed sadly..

I seem to recall seeing / reading / hearing of seaquest Charters...

You given it away now?

Ohh yeah - the Scaddan family were big in town back in the old days..probably still there!.

The Drays(sp?) family as well - Laurie, sons Vivian..and can't remeber the older one?

Memories getting fuzzy as I get older.

Used to swim over to Lancelin island from the north point to play all day, then swim back!

Used to row me little yellow dingy al over the bay - to Edward Island etc etc..setting occy pots in the bay!

Was a great place for a kid to grow up! Used to scuba dive a bit, when a teenager - out on the white cray bank and the Horse shoe reef up north. Actually found a wreck up there (Horseshoe reef) in 1977 from memory, handed bits in to the maritime museum - turned out to be the 'Grace Darling' a tasmanian built timber coastal cutter carrying guano (1000 bags a bat shyte) that sank in 1914 with 6 crew who all made it to shore.

Still have fond memories of the place and of course my ol mans ashes are scattered in the bay there somewhere (near south passage)...even the gold fillings from his teeth! ;o)

Cheers!

yeh im from busselton and it is hit real hard with fishos but still awsome fishing.at moment the 4mile is cranking with big sambos we headed out the other day and landed eight big sambos in bout forty minutes round 22kg mark the biggest was estamated bout 25kg.We forgot the scales but where pretty good with estamations.talk bout pull hard in 16mtrs of water.

Have a good fish lately? Hope so guys! Have a g'day!

The wave rider bouye west of the cape makes a good fad.I have seen the dollies on it big boys too.

 yeah this is my home .. like dan, i used to fish the 4mile yrs ago good fish ,nowadays onlly skippy ans sambos and gurnards,, go wider when u get out around the 30,s the ground becomes shelly,, good out there ,u can drift all day and get a good feed, i tend to go out wider nowadays past the c lumps or sw banks,swell huge atm but ok in the bay

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