Hi, 

Anyone know if they make aftermarket handles for the 5000fg sustain? 

Mine snapped at the pivot part of the handle

regards Justin 

Here is a list of repeater stations on the WA coastline

Wyndham The Bastion channel 80
Lacrosse Island 81
Derby Koolan island 81
Pt Walcott Yacht club [adjacent] 81
Exmouth Harold Holt base 22
Charles Knife Canyon 21
Coral Bay Ningaloo station 80
Warroora station 82
Denham Steep Point 22
Kalbarri Red Bluff water corp site 80
Geraldton Rat Island 81
Jurien Bay Mt Leseur 21
Mandurah Turner Hill 82
Augusta Hillview golf course 82
Windy Harbour Cathedral rock 81
Walpole Mt Clare Telstra site 21
Peaceful Bay Mt Shadforth 22
Albany Mt Clarence 82
Green range/ 2 Peoples bay 81
Bremer Bay 80
Hopetoun 21
Esperance 6 Mile Hill 22
Howick Hill 21

Carnarvon Cape Cuvier 81

Hope its some help to those who need to know

Hi guys i am heading up to Denham in 2 weeks to fish Turtle bay and Steep point, would like to try Dampier reef i dont suppose anyone could send me the GPS co-ordinates it would be very much appreciated Thanks.

Hey guys, 

ive just had a mate pull out and there is 1 spot available to the abrolhos islands on board saltwater charters. Meet at geraldton on the 13/6/13 and we will back on the 17th around mid day. 

Anyone which has been out with Craig knows that he runs a great charter! 

PM for more details 

justin 

G'day peeps

Been a while since I've posted here, thought it was about time I put up an update on my trip around Oz.  This is a brief picture summary of the first month away, we covered from Perth to Thredbo skipping a lot of SA as we used to live there.

We've seen a fair bit of cool stuff and so far, touch wood, things have gone pretty well with the car and van.  We hit a roo crossing the Nulla but damage was minimal, that's been about it thankfully.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the pics.

Cheers

GRAMPIANS

WARNAMBOOL THROUGH TO CAPE OTWAY NATIONAL PARK

MARLO THROUGH TO MALLACOOTA (left the Melbourne pics out)

THREDBO

 Hi all,

i know that there are a few threads already on sounders but I have a few other points to consider and am looking for info on people's experience.

i currently have two combo Lowrance units which I think are the LCX27c models- one which I use for sonar and one for the GPS. Good screen size and they are linked together as well so makes marking points, tracking etc pretty easy and provides some contingency if one craps itself.

but.... I am considering another separate sounder for some better performance. Currently I just have the standard 50/200 transducer and the first step is to upgrade this to a more powerful 1Kw- and is is where the questions start.

Current transducer is mounted externally, will I be able to keep this as well as another 1Kw transducer for a separate unit?

i am considering a thru hull transducer/s. Any precise positions that these need to be installed? Any idea of the size of the holes that need to be cut?

would you go for a thru hull or transom mount? It's just the size that puts me off hanging it off the back!

Lowrance or Furuno sounder- would consider the HDS8 or 10 or the Furuno 587 or 295 depending on cost? Anything to look out for if I mix current Lowrance transducer with one for a Furuno?

any other information or suggestions is also appreciated.

thanks

brett

I was just thinking how awkward Mothers' Day must be for Collingwood supporters.

Seriously - just imagine having to kiss your sister and say "Happy Mother's Day Aunty Bruce!" .......

I'm chasing another fish tank,just putting it out there ,will swap fishing trip or abrolhos trip for right tank. Has anyone got one there looking to offload.

 Hopefully thru Fishwreck I can find someone who may know about this wooden cross,and contact me,so I can return it.

It was washed up onto Palm Beach yesterday afternoon during the Northwest storms,so I'm maybe thinking it's come from around Garden Island?

The following is carved/engraved onto the cross:

     GEOFF SPARKS

           RIP

        9/7/61

       26/1/08

Thanks for reading.

Allan.

Cracking round of AFL coming up, 3 big games in particular:

Cats vs Bombers - Cats by 7 points for mind

Hawks vs Swans - Hawks by 3 points

Dockers vs Pies - Pies by 12 points

What you's reckon?

Looking at heading over the southern group mid next week for 3-4 days if the weather looks as good as the forecast, been waiting for sometime for everything to line up with my mates and their boats/weather/time off but at this stage their unable to go, putting it out there if anyone else is thinking the same let me know, not looking for a deckie just thinking it would be good to head over with a couple of boats rather than just mine.
Matt

Hi all, just a little teaser for a few crew.

I have been back a few weeks since the Exxy adventure. Full report and pics to come. Just thought i would let you all know that the Marlin and Sailfish are on the go at the moment. As one would expect.

In 4 solid days of trolling out on the West side, we landed 13 billies and only dropped 3 others. (GoPro and pics of each for the doubters). The first few days it was mostly sails and then the opposite on the last two days. The weather for these days was really good and we were stocked at our hook up ratio. Most landed were a good size with one marlin in the 250kg range that bent the hook at the boat. There was plenty of Wahoo, Mahi Mahi and tuna to keep us interested in between the bills.

A big first for me so it was great experience.

As expected, the sharks were everywhere so our bottom fishing was limited to a few hours.

Just waiting on some pics and i will post the report.

If you where up that way two weeks ago, we were the boys in the 7mtr Leisure Cat. Pure heaven, my first time in a cat and i was so impressed.

Regards

Xtreme Dave

 As titled, looking for someone to prune a large oil palm we have. Seems a bit dangerous so happy to pay a specialist to prune it. 

Also looking for an electrician to prep house for rental (hard wire smoke alarm and safety switch)

located NOR and be happy to pass business onto local FW member. 

Daz

 Hi all, just thought I'd post a few pics from our recent trip to the US that I thought might interest you guys. We travelled to Dubai, New York,Washington (by train), Orlando and then back to New York. New York is insane and worth a visit just to see it in action. Any hour of the day or night is flat out. This first shot is from a quick cruise on The East river of the NYPD water section. Looks like they use Naiads too or something ver similar.

Saw this reel in the museum of American history, looks like the overhead goes way back 

So down to Orlando where it's all go 

Camping and fishing store that went on forever. It took over an hour just to walk the fishing aisles

Then to the gun section and hand gun after hand gun so I picked the biggest a Sith and Wesson 460 made my day ;)

There were macine guns, pump actions you name the yanks don't hold back. 

Here's a boat for sale at the same place

This was one of my highlights of the trip at the top of the Rockerfeller  buliding. Empire state front and the building to the rear left is one of the new towers to replace the world trade centre (tower 1) there will be 7 in all at differing heights.

All in a top trip and will do New York again one day but Vegas will be next.

Hi guys,
Anyone towing heavy loads or boats with there 2009/10 ford rangers?
Have recently purchased a XLT 4x4 Auto and was surprised to learn via the owners manual and internet that they only tow 1800kgs unless load levelling devises are fitted , then the full towing capacity (2500kg)can be used, didn't know this before purchase. As we know Insurances can be voided if found to be over legal towing weights.
Im lucky that my current boat is under that mark but was looking down the track to upsizing and that would mean having to purchase these devices ($600 plus)
Was surprised how the people at ford, ie parts and service guys don't really know there stuff when l was quizzing them on this the other day.
Also the sales guys not disclosing this when asked of the cars towing capacity when purchasing, but thats another story.
Does anyone use these devices towing boats?
cheers Paul

Dont know if this has already been posted up but saw this ad for Bozos Fishing up for sale.

Hopefully whoever takes over(hopefully someone does) contiunes making all their lines of SP's and other lures. Quite like thier big grubs for demersal fishing.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/gold-coast-region/business-for-sale/fishing-tackle-wholesale/1019099727

Having dug out most of my back lawn ive had some good success growning vegie over the last 10 years,  i am no where near an expert!

  Does ayone have any Perth sites that are helpful for monthly planting/seeding advise, or is anyone able to give a quick breakdown of what to plant each month of the year.?

love to grow  beans-dwarf and climbing (had a great crop of snake beans last year), broccoli, chilli, capsicum, herbs, beetroot,spinich, letuce.used to grow awesome tomatoes but now have problems with nematoads..  get a few growing ok but mostly when they get big they die of and go crispy brown.  Basically just want help what to plant each month..

i have 2 compost bins a worm farm and regulary fertalize with various manure goodness.

From the Albany Advertiser at 3:10 today:

Albany police have confirmed the death of a person at popular fishing spot Salmon Holes earlier today.

Officer-in-charge Sen. Sgt Peter McLean did not reveal the gender of the deceased person and said police would continue making enquiries into the incident.

Albany Sea Rescue Squad and police retrieved the body and reached Emu Point boat harbour just before 3pm.

It is understood the victim was rock fishing and was swept off the rocks by a rogue wave at the notoriously dangerous fishing spot.

ABC Reported it was a 46 year old Perth Man.

Hopefully no one we know!!

Currently a 1.5m Swell and 10 knot breeze... forecast for the next few days goes up to a 4m swell and 35 knot winds

This years Carnarvon Sea Rescue's fundraising raffle to be drawn at the presentation dinner of the Carnarfin fishing comp, has nearly doubled in value with 3 prizes this year instead of the one last year.

Many thanks go out to Ray down at Carnarvon Sports and Tackle for his invaluable help in organising the sponsors and for his contributions as well
Sponsors are Shimano Australia, Halco lures, Pure Fishing Australia, Bricap and last but not least, Jarvis Walker

1st prize donated by Carnarvon Sports and Shimano Australia
Stella 10.000 reel, Ocea rod, tackle box and Halco lure to the value of $2300.00

2nd prize donated by Carnarvon Sports, Pure Fishing Australia and Bricap
Penn Torque reel, Shakespeare rod and reel combo, rod stand and Pfluger Tackle bag
valued at $1250.00

3rd prize donated by Carnarvon Sports and Jarvis Walker Australia
Fin nor rod and reel combo to the value of $500.00

The permit number for the raffle is LSO41648

Tickets are $5.00, same as last years raffle and same deal applies, PM me and I will post off the tickets as soon as the funds are deposited in the account. Unlike last year the books only come in two sizes this year, 25 and 50s but I will be able to arrange them in sequence if you prefer

Thanks in advance for those that wish to buy tickets
John Nelson
President, Carnarvon Volunteer Sea Rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqDvikqIH0

Sorry about being in fishing discussion session

Not fishing, but i have to say , Black Sabbath you still rock, 40 years since you played in Perth and my neck is sore from head banging + I havn't seen that many DB's and black T-shirts since the old day's back in Balga watching Rose Tattoo , the Angles and the Jet's.

Sorry , i know this is not about fishing or football. But Who do you remember playing at a local pub when you were young ? Ive seen quite a few big bands who wern't so big at the time, and a few comedians like Rodney Rude at the Sundowner Hotel. (that was awsome )

Please share an experience with us from the past . ( young or old )

Cheers Grant ..

im  of to exmouth in june how far to y and eve island and wat can i expect to catch  first time fishing exmouth so any pionters would be great thanks

If you could spend 2 weeks anywhere in the world fishing, where would you go.
Mine would be one of 2, Three Kings N.Z. or the Rowley Shoals.

Heard yesterday that the proposed VHF repeater station for Steep Point is operational.

Channel 22 on VHF will get you back to Denham without any problems from outside Dirk Hartog Island.

Just a heads up for those who may be interested. I've seen some youtube promo's and it looks pretty good.

Can't say I'll miss you.

quote"the deathly silence Tim-o  - I'll be closing my account if Port beat the Eagles hehehe"end quote

Karma's a bitch, especially for the vertically/mentally challenged out there on the world wide web.

CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE of epic proportions tonight.

 Just found this..... any comments 

Officially the worlds champions at it.  

Olive recipe from other thread

From the http://fishwrecked.com/forum/landbased-mauds-broad-bar-mack thread an explanation was required.

The interesting thing is that many cameras these days also have on board geo location features, so it is not just mobile phones you need to be worried about.

When an image is saved by a mobile phone camera or camera, it is saved in a file format on the cameras storage media.  Embedded in the file format (JPEG, TIFF etc) is another type of data that saves information about the image, such as time, date, location, people tagged in the image, size, resolution etc.  This data is known as EXIF:

P.S Apologies for the length of the post, I was testing how to view the geolocation on images in windows 7 but none of my mobile captures have had the gps on.  I will test it today after I get back from work.

Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG Discrete cosine transform (DCT)[1] form compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data).[2] It is not supported in JPEG 2000, PNG, or GIF.

This standard consists of the Exif image file specification and the Exif audio file specification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format#Geolocation

The Exif format has standard tags for location information. As of 2012 a few cameras and a growing number of mobile phones have a built-in GPS receiver that stores the location information in the Exif header when a picture is taken. Some other cameras have a separate GPS receiver that fits into the flash connector or hot shoe. Recorded GPS data can also be added to any digital photograph on a computer, either by correlating the time stamps of the photographs with a GPS record from a hand-held GPS receiver or manually by using a map or mapping software. The process of adding geographic information to a photograph is known as geotagging. Photo-sharing communities like Panoramio, locr or Flickr equally allow their users to upload geocoded pictures or to add geolocation information online.

Most of Nokia's Nseries mobile phones (such as the N95) have a GPS receiver and use Location Tagger,[4] a piece of software from Nokia Beta Labs. All captured images are tagged with corresponding GPS coordinates when a GPS signal is available. The second generation of iPhone (known as the iPhone 3G) by Apple Inc. is also equipped with a GPS receiver and uses the receiver to geotag photographs taken with the device. Subsequent generations (the iPhone 3GS, 4 & 4S) also support this feature. The first generation iPhone is not equipped with GPS, and uses a service provided by Skyhook to triangulate and approximate the location at which a picture was taken - using nearby cellular-phone towers and WiFi hot-spot signal-strength data. The Skyhook service provides approximate GPS location information which is then added to the Exif data associated with the picture. Also mobile phones with the Android operating system as well as BlackBerry smartphones with a camera and built-in GPS or Bluetooth GPS add-ons can geotag images with the included camera application.

In Windows XP, a subset of the Exif information may be viewed by right clicking on an image file and clicking properties; from the properties dialog click the Summary tab and then the Advanced button. However, using this tab to edit Exif information may damage certain Exif headers.[19] As of the release of Service Pack 3, Windows XP still shows evidence of corrupting Exif tags when modifying JPG file properties via the file properties window.[citation needed]

On Mac OS X 10.4 and above, basic Exif information may be viewed in the Finder by doing Get Info on a file and expanding the More Info section.

On Unix systems using the GNOME desktop environment, a subset of Exif data can be seen by right clicking the file in the Nautilus file manager and selecting properties. In KDE, it can be seen by right clicking in the Dolphin file manager, selecting "Properties" and then "Information".[citation needed] Many Unix image viewers give the full set of Exif data.

In addition, there are many software tools available which allow both viewing and editing of Exif data.

Sharing photographs with Exif information may present privacy problems such as revealing a location. Such information may be edited out before sharing the file. Alternatively, there are metadata removal tools that will remove Exif information.

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After basically a faultless eighteen months of pleasure running, I am finally selling my pride and joy. It has certainly been a fantastic boat having given us plenty of hours of  fishing and cruising Perth waters.

If any of you are interested, the details are listed on Gumtree under Douglass Craft runabout.

Cheers.