for you metro guys, book yourself in for this.

It will fill up quickly and better to be filled with fishers than the "I believe the science..." crowd 

 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spotlight-on-the-demersal-fishing-ban-tickets-1981656770746 

Any installers here who can advise about moving the outside unit in the picture (daughter just bought 1st home) about 300mm to the right, so we can install a roller door to the carport.

Difficult?

Cost?

Any help greatly appreciated.

 Probably been asked, who does custom cut boat rego numbers.

For those unaware, SailGP season opener is this weekend off bathers beach.  

There will be some exclusion zones south of South Mole and west of the RPYC Annexe/Fishing Boat Harbour and FSC.

Races will be from 11:00 to 1500 from friday (practice racing) with the main event on Saturday and Sunday.

These sailing boats have gotten to 103kmh and have been completely airbone. 

www.transport.wa.gov.au/getmedia/fa223f3a-0906-4dc5-a64a-e217c58a06a5/MAR_P_PerthSailGP.pdf

www.youtube.com/watch

 Fished Alkimos beach Friday night. 20kn Sea breeze at 5pm did not make it easy with a bit of weed around. Wind droped to 10-15kn around 6.30pm and tailor started hitting baits. Most around 40cm and sent a few back mid 30's. PB at 60cm and lost another big one that bit through 50lb leader. All over by 7.30pm

Just wishing all a happy new year. Hope you all get a chance to enjoy time with family and friends along with wetting a line . Stay safe and enjoy 

After 25 years our sea anchor has given up the ghost. I could try and repair it but looking at options for a new one. Needs to be suitable for a 19 foot crusher . Too many to choose from and if I'm buying a new one I want a good one . Any advice appreciated 

Hope you all have a great Christmas spending time with loved ones and friends. Stay safe if your doing any travelling. 

 I have bought a Furuno combo 1971, looking now at the wiring.

The installation manual says, red wire to power, black wire to earth and shield to hull of the boat.

I presume this shield is the inner silver paper like material surrounding all the other wires, excluding the black and red wire, inside the cable.

Does this sound reasonable? There was no such connection on the removed sounder. What ramifications are there if this shield is not connected?

Thanks if you can help.

 Hi All,

Going to give it a try this year as the grandson needs more boat time.

If you have done it before, any tips on ramps, times or which areas to try will all be apprciated.

I haven't done it for about 8 years, but the canals around Mary st were usually the best.

Not much info online so I figured I'd ask the experts here. 

First chance to wet a line in a couple of weeks. Despite the strong winds I still did well with a few nice feeds of flake on the way

 I was expecting someone to have posted about the gig at RAC last night.

If you were there, how bloody good were they!!

If you weren't and you havent been lucky enough to see them live...

Don't leave it too long, they will be the best band you ever see.......

TB

 Hi All,

My mate is looking at buying a tub and needs a mech inspection done so wondering if anyone could recommend someone trustworthy to get this done for him?

Motor is a 2015 Mercury Verado 200hp and is located in Wangara.

Boat has been sea trialed and seems start/run fine and looks like it has been looked after with no corrosion or damage visible.

Thanks very much in advance for the help as there is always someone on here that is happy to do so!

cheers

 Simrad NSX 15UW is a 15 inch multi function unit,  brand new with box. For sale an unwanted gift with purchase invoice, full Australian Simrad warranty. I could not mount the unit on my boat and hence do not have a use for it. The unit includes a CMAP reveal x Map chip for W.A which is an accesory. Selling dealer would not take it back. Selling at a reduced price to move it on asking for $4000, the unit retails at Simrad dealers for  $5900  with out acessories. The unit can be inspected in Kallaroo and is fully functional.  I have also  included a brand new Simrad mounting bracket which does not come also a triducer transducer with side scan. Selling at  half replacement cost to move it on.  

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/pm-says-no-apologies-over-border-force-boat-returnee-scheme/106023066

Illegal fishers and asylum seekers given cray boats as a safe way to return home ???????

 Others may have already noticed, but there have been changes to the regs for towing of overwidth recreational boats.

I received my renewal, and hilighted at the end was a box with a long text saying there was changes and details could be found on the Main Roads website.

After a fruitless 30 minutes searching for this info both manually and using their description "Oversize Boat Order", I gave up.

Note

Change to the Class 1 RAV Oversize Boat Transport Period PermitThe Class 1 RAV Oversize Boat Transport Period Permit has been replaced by the Oversize boat Order for recreational boats (refer to our website for further information).  If your boat trailer is connected to a business, you will now need to apply for a Class 1 RAV Oversize Period Permit, noting the period permit will now be issued to the towing vehicle and not to the boat trailer (refer to our website for the application form).

So I rang them, and the kind lady directed me to Page 1530 of the Gazette, which then went back to another section of the website that appeared unrelated, and the outcome was;

You no longer require a $50 3 yr permit to tow an oversize recreational boat (not a business).

You still need to abide by all the conditions but just don't require a permit as long as its not a business or reward`.
I did point out to Main Roads, that they could have stated that on the renewal with about 1/3 of the words, or directly by email to all permit holders, but apparently thats too difficult.

Got in a couple of hours fishing leading up to high tide and the damn wind. Didn't go too bad  . Ended up with a few feeds fo us and friends

Purchased this old girl at the start of the year from a one owner. 2004 565XL Cuddy Cabin, 115hp Optimax. 

Decided to strip it down and do a refurb. 

If you see me out gimme a yell and say g’day. 

Shout out to Matt Armenti for sorting the new stickers for me, took it down and got the expert to put them on. 

Shout to my bro Steve (Fishwrecked member) heaps of hours doing full rewire, most jobs drilling, cutting holes, refitting, fixing etc. He absolutely crushed the U-dek install as well. 

Trailer refurb down the track. 

Repower is the dream (saving the pennys). 

Some low life caught a sawfish off the spoil bank up here in hedland . They cut off the rostrum and just left the body there. How could someone be so callous.  to start with they are 100 % protected and there is a hefty fine for anyone found harming them in any way let alone possessing a rostrum from one. I have caught a few , taken a quick pick and set them free. Awesome fish and deserve to be looked after 

 Hey guys, I'm heading up to shark bay in 2 weeks and was wondering if anyone has been to steep recently and knows the state of the track. Cheers 

Had a few hours off leading up to high tide and bugger all wind for a change. Went down to my usual beach spot on the spoil bank. Got a good feed of yellowfin whiting and filled an order in for a couple of queenies big enough for 2 to eat. 1 big run and bust off guessing it was a big shovel nose and released another couple of fish added a pic of end result of lemon pepper whiting

 Can anyone help with an Etec mechanic ,mobile  in the mandurah dawesville area?

Regardless of your opinion of RFW, fishers need to jump on the below link and provide feedback of the present situation with fishing.

Doesn't matter which zone you are in because they are all under attack presently.

This feedback is needed to draw attention of the Minister no matter your opinion of any of the players.
Western Australia’s demersal scalefish resources | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development  

Below is what I have put in

I have worked over many decades in both commercial, charter and recreational fishing.

 Hi all

We moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago and those dumb f@$ks at NBN Co have stuffed things up royally. After a series of failed attempts they have now determined that fibre needs to be brought to the property through a conduit which has to be installed through the neighbouring verge. The issue with that is there is a house under construction and the trench has a site shed, materials hoist, large skip bin and a heap of materials in the way! Basically it is the only part of the site where they can lay anything down. I'm not confident they will get it through for at least a few weeks.

We don't want to wait that long for internet for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is my wife works from home a lot of the time. It's also inconvenient for thinsg like streaming, general internet use and our solar system needs wifi to be operational. Are there any temporary solutions that anyone has used to get them out of trouble?

We can't use personal hotspot either as we can get one bar of 4G on our phones most of the time, so we can barely load a webpage!

cheers

 Geelong for me by 17 

 In preparation for this renewed release of the "science", I'm genuinelycurious to know;

• who has participated in DPIRDs research by phone/email or whatever since the last restrictions
• What area/zone/region you were reporting on
• If you reported any negative catch/fish issues other than the obvious shark depredation

For myself in the Midwest and Abrolhos regions, I have not had any issue with catching pinkies (nor had I previous to the last restrictions).

The pinkies are more prolific, dhuies much the same but I don't fish that often.

Got down the spoil bank for a few hours leading up to high tide. The wind was blowing its ass off as per usual when you want to go fishing. Had a good session in the end with a good feed and several hit and misses 

I am sure it was only a few years ago that there were no concerns...and now with reduced fishing time, it has gotten worse.  

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/stricter-fishing-rules-flagged-in-wa/105789778

Just heard on the radio about marine parks in the Gascoyne including the entire exmouth gulf.