Hi all. Woke up this morning to find a message on my phone from my bank asking me to call them urgently. Turns out my credit card had been used in the USA sometime during the night even though it was in my wallet at home. Luckily the bank flagged it and let me know to ring up and cancel it before funds were taken off. Why Im posting this on here is that I have only used it in two different places over the last few weeks and one of those places was the oceans reef boat ramps. I was wondering if my card details had been scammed from the ticket machine at Ocean Reef and if anyone else who has used the machines had had their card details stolen too? 

 Thought I'd throw this out therev again as I'll be seriously looking for a new set of wheels in the new year. I know the question has been asked before but it's been a while and a few of you guys who have bought these models will have had time to give some good feed back. I'm leaning toward a Dmax at the moment. But I love to look of the Colorado and the Ranger. I'm going for the top of the line model in whatever I get and in manual. Just looking for performance feedback, price comparisons and general opinions. Cheers.

 Free dishwasher

long story short, we got repairs done on it and they took forever so we bought a new one

call Glenn on 0439 039 936

i am in tappping

bit of an odd subject ,but

something that really prickles me in the last few years is when someone dies you hear all these people saying they passed ...makes me ask what did they pass ?? a car ? a bus ? what ?

Australians haven't suddenly got super religious have they ?

people don't say passed away or died , just passed ? why are so many using this word ?

to me its an American term that just doesn't fit in here .

any thoughts on why people here seem to have adopted this term in the last few years as you hear it more and more or is that my wrong impression ?

hezzy

Festive greetings FW'ers

Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a half height 44 gallon drum? I dont want to cut one in half because it needs to have a lid. It also needs to be the same circumference.

It doesnt need to be exactly half height, just not full height.

Cheers

Brad

Re posting 'You are looking at a knob' Submitted by Marineboy on Sat, 2014-12-27 16.45 (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/you-are-looking-knob)

Geoff Kirk is my name and I am the owner and skipper of the Buffer Zone. There are 2 sides to every story. On Saturday I was fishing with my octogenarian father, visiting from Tweed Heads. Dad wanted to catch a Dhuie. We tried in close (38m) with no luck so we pushed out another 9 miles to some ground I was familiar with.

On arrival there was a boat in the vicinity, always seems to be the case. I have several marks in the area so we stopped and hovered over a spot about 500m from MARINEBOY as dad dropped a bait to the bottom. With no success we placed the boat and put the sea anchor over. After drifting for about 10 minutes I noticed that we were getting a little too close to the boat that was there before us, around 300m. We pulled the sea anchor and started to move to another mark when we noticed MARINEBOY bearing down on us. He stopped about 20m from us hurling abuse and yes he got plenty back.

At that point he started taking photos and told my father and me that we would be all over the net that day. A couple of points, I have been fishing from boats for over 50 years. I have never before been accused of dropping in on anybody. I agree with most of your forum users that ethics should be a big part of the test to get a skippers ticket and boat ramp ethics should be included as well. As for being some rich prick that has no idea how to act on the water, I started back in the 70’s with an 11”6” De Havilland car topper with a 6hp Johnno and through a lot of hard work in a family business I have progressed to what I have today.

MARINEBOY, at your age I think I had progressed to a Savage Snipe, 12’6” with a 15hp Suzuki, nothing as flash as what you are fishing out of, but I guess that you’ve chucked enough tantrums over the years that you get what you want when you want it. Mate I’m not hard to find, Geoff Kirk. Give me a call if you like, I’ll buy you a beer and we can both move on. By the way, no more correspondence will be entered from this end.

hi gents im thinking about making afew aliuminium boat trailers for a small profit they would be licenced and ready to use anything from 2000kg to 4500kg all made with capral marine grade aluminium a rough price for a trailer like mine rated to 3250kg (3500kg with higher load rated tyres) around the 7k -8k mark is anyone interested?

 Hi Guys

I just received this through my skpe account, it seems realy genuine do you think if I send him my details I'll get the money??

 Howdy! Just looking for a bit of advice/ direction? I found a marine lift bag about 8nm off mindarie the other day just floating around with nothing attached to it, scared the s#&t out of me as it looked like someone slumped in a life jacket from a distance. Anyways I'm just wondering if it is worth anything to anyone or if i should just turf it down the tip? I looked them up online and they appear pretty pricey so seems too good to throw out,It's rated at 1000kg has shackles ect still attached.

Cheers Matt

 hopefully this is no one on this site. 

Was out fishing today 20nm west of hillarys, was drifting through a patch of ground, and had done 4 or 5 drifts when this knob pulled up in front of us no more than 50mtrs away and sets himself up on the same drift covering ground we were yet to get to. We moved slightly and he moved and did exactly the same again. We approached him and suggested he learn a bit of etiquette only to cop a mouthful of abuse as if he had done nothing wrong. 

Like I said what a knob !

 Hey lads

this is a long shot but out galah went walkabout tonight. If anyone in Baldivis near friend terrace towards Tranby college finds a galah who's quite tame and answered to griffin please pm me asap or call me on 0401 864 683. He can talk a bit and when spoken to he usually says hello or calls. He can't fly too well but obviously we'll enough to get out of the yard.

cheers lads 

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone on here uses a form of digital fishing logbook?
either something excel based or a programme that you can download?

More than anything I want to be able to record my catches according to date, weather conditions, time, tide, depth's, fish caught, bait or artificials ect.

I then want to be able to bring up a template showing a summary by species and what time of year we started catching them. also if it could be sorted by location it would be great.

if anyone uses something of this nature and could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

cheers

Scano

 I know this is a long shot but will there be any outboard dealers open today. I am after a hydraulic sreering ram for a 275 verado

Any help would be appreciated 

 I got these as an early xmas present.  I think they are so cool!

would be pissin me pants sitting passenger in that chopper

http://speedsociety.com/insane-helicopter-pilot-skills-landing-rough-waters/

 Does anyone know how they are goingin the swan  we are getting some good numbers from the estuary but shes a hike and a half

 Tight lines and screaming drags to all

 Gday All,

I have got 8 days off with the missus, she has to work Xmas day so starting driving boxing day. The plan is to go to Shark Bay camping and hopefully wet a line off the beach. Planned to do it last year but fell through. Is anyone else going up there and any recommendations on camping grounds as never been. Hopefully we haven't left it too late to secure a spot, other half rang and ask and apparently you just rock up and buy a permit, is this true?

Merry Xmas

BarraSlayer

 was spectacular night on the water checking out the lights and boats.merry christmas

After we had checked our four pots this morning and we were heading back into Kalbarri I noticed a rope in the water with no floats attached, what we locals used to always do is pull the pot and drop the pot and rope off to the VMR office at the boat ramp, but on arriving back at the ramp Fisheries were around checking everyones catch, when queried why I had the one pot in the boat I explained what we were doing and the Fisheries officer become quite agitated and starting getting all uptight. I again explained that thats what we do in Kalbarri, rather than leave an unmarked rope in the water to get tangled in someones prop, he advised me I should leave the pot where it is and advise the Geraldton Fisheries office of the position of the pot and they will come up and pick up the pot, because in their opinion it is not a hazard.

Yes technically we could have been prosecuted for pulling 5 pots, but we were doing the sensible thing, or so we thought, and delivering the pot to VMR who let people know that a pot has been handed in and if the person can identify the pot etc they can claim the pot, with possibly a donation to VMR. Two pots were handed in this morning to Kalbarri VMR, both with no floats attached.

So be aware if you find rope etc out there while you are pulling your pots etc, just note the co-ordiates and either advise Fisheries or VMR and they will collect the offending pot.

Lecture received and lesson learned.

Wiser Old Banga!

 finally got out for a quick 2 hour session on Friday.  Got a few under size snapper and dhu's but my mate managed to land this 72 cm dhu'e and it was his first time using soft plastics.

At last someone has some balls

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/south-west/a/25823529/catch-and-kill-order-for-warnbro-shark/

 who else is heading out tomorrow, looks like ive fallen sick at the ideal time, rods rigged and dog is keen bring on a filthy big dhu

Any fw'ers interested in a post xmas get together? Can be at a park with BBQ's etc so the kids can run around. If there's enough interest I'll look to arrange a day between Xmas and New Years, it will be reasonably late notice as I'll try and pick a day when the wind is blowing its ring out.

 Hi guys

Has anybody had any luck with crabs around the perth area of the swan? I tried last weekend in the lower reaches but it was a bit windy in the arvo, 

Howdy FW people, firstly all the very best for the festive season to all and your clans. But back to my request, where's a good place to buy a few new season crays for Xmas? Want to get some for the wife and kids, I'm working Xmas unfortunately, but 3 or 4 crays will make them happy.  

Cheers

Dale

 Any one fished Exmouth in Mid august?  Heading up next year, looks like it should be a good time.

Hi all , Im keen on scooping for crabs at night in the estuary
Does any one know what winds are most favourable and those that are not.
As I have tried in the past and when the wind picks up not sure of direction you cant see the crabs due to the wind on the water.

thanks