Was at All boats today and heard that at least 3 big 200kg plus blues have been tagged out the back of Rotto today...

Ok here is what I have done,  I was in the local boat shop replacing my arials bases that got smashed on the weekend from the wind and fires (no actual fire damage as our place was missed  Phew).  So while I was in there I thought that my Furno 620 and navman tracker 5600 was in need of a backup unit and in a moment of shear weakness I wound up with a HDS 10 with the platinum navionics card.  Two Parts

1) is this a good backup

2) what is everyones experience like with a HDS10

Cheers

 does any one have a hummingbird gps and how do they rate it??? also do you no if they have geofencing?

Big thank you to all you great folk that sent messages, offered to even bring me coffee and offered help.

Makes me very proud at becoming an Australian citizen and being part of the WA family.

I saw people bond and help and fight fires shoulder to shoulder this weekend. Some Aussie true blue 100 year old families, others asian just arrived, Poms in shorts, Eastern Europeans who could hardly speak english, but were there to help.

It's a great community we have and when the chips are down, the tuff stand to help the weak.

Thank you

Tony Halliday & Family.

any one got any ideas for loading a 6.5 metre boat back onto the trailer by myself the wife usually helps but shes not around for a couple opf weeks and i want to take the boat out cheers

Hi guys and girls, i was wondering if any of you out there have the tld 5 or 10, the reason i am asking is that i have both and want to run 3 and 4 kg but the problem is finding a rod to suit the size of the reels but also the line class as i dont really want to run 3kg over a 6-8kg rod, any recomendations will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Yewie

Wanting some feed back on pro and cons of having carpet bunks instead of rollers. I currently have rollers on the trailer and the boat is a haines traveller about 6.15mtrs.

Thanks
Justin

I qualified to swim the rotto on Saturday only to find my mates boat has electric failure and needs $1500 spending on it...

If anyone wants a day (long) on the water and $500 bucks for doing so, please, please, let me know asap. 

I have a support crew ready and have completed a duo swim, so have some experience to hand..

cheers 

Paul Garwood. 0433585047. paulgarwood@msn.com   

Just curious Karratha boys, have you had any watery fuel since the rains have hit.

I have noticed my VT comm is being a prick to start and seems to be lacking a bit of power.  Maybe I got some watery fuel????

Hope you all got good water separators on ya boats!

We require a young enthusiastic sales assistant on either a part time or full time basis. Selling all forms or fishing tackle as well as stock replenishment and cash sales. Product knowledge not necessary however must love fishing and enjoy talking to people.

Please Call or email Luke for and interview

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 All Boat Business

Luke@allboatbusiness.com.au

Hey guys, just after some advice on who is best to go with for travel insurance...

Most important thing for me is making sure that my gear will be replaced if it is lost or stolen, just wondering who any of you guys have gone with and found ok.

Thanks in advance

thinkin about geting up there for a few days somtime in the next couple of weeksthat mouth looks a little tricky but any tips and are there any reports cheers

i can see 3 different fires around me 2 look really bad

 well im new to this and am in high school and me and mates want to go fishing and we heard the narrows bridge is a good spot for fishing, is that true or do you reconmend going to another place?

Just thought I would make you guys aware of some scammers on gumtree,

Recently there was a Hanies signature runaboat for sale for less the half the rrp,

emailed the seller as there was no contact number, the so called seller emailed

me back with a long winded story about being in the UK and they would release the

boat if I transfered half the money too them, obviously did not happen.

After this the same seller had a quintrex, supposedly brand new for a third of the price,

after their first effort I was totally peeved of and sent them a real nasty email absolutley tore shreds of them 

for being gutter trash and told them they had been reported.

anyhow, I'm sick of these pricks and would recommend others to send them a nasty email

back after they have tried to scam you.

By the way they had the haines on there again a few hours ago but it now been removed after I sent them another email!!!!

I always enjoyed reading his posts.

Was a very regular poster from MtBarker/Albany.

I had a break from here for a short time and havent had the pleasure of reading any posts from the Dreamweaver in some time.

I hope all is OK.

Andrew 

Just a quick question as I have not been north since it opened, is it quicker to go up to geraldton this way or up the brand, I remember someone posting that it cut an hour off the trip but I cannot see how - anyone?

Hi Guys. Just a quick question,is 300 hours on a 2005 140 Suzuki 4 stroke still low or not.

Hi all

I am considering doing a bit of a Xtreme Coolers roadshow for FW members. I am thinking of packing a good range of our products and heading to certain areas that might not have the chance to access specials or the product. I am thinking of mandurah as my first stop. I would set up a tent at a nominated location to showcase our product for a few hours on a Sat or Sunday.

What do you all think? After all, we are on the site to provide a service to its members.

If you are in the Mandurah Peel area and are interested in viewing a specific size or range, comment or PM me so i can make sure it makes it down.

I am looking at a few dates in the next few weeks or so. When i have a firm date i will post all details.

Many thanks and as usual, i would love to hear your feedback.

Cheers

Dave

Howdy people, I'm over at Ravensthorpe working these days and while we are still in maintenance stage, we need a workforce soon. Click on the link for a squizz, I can tell you conditions over here are quite good, so if your looking for a change.......

Cheers

Dale

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Well trust me to catch something weird and wonderful at eshed. As far as i can tell its called a nudiblanch or something like that.

Anyone know exactly what it is? I carefully took the hook out and it started spilling bright purple blood everywhere.

I got it back in the water asap. Hope it lived.

Was on the 2nd too, So happy birthday colin hay

How on earth do I view/edit my RAW images? Can't seem to find anything on here that supports it. Software recommendations?

Thanks.

Just wondering if there is  any dentists on here? just got a few questions.

Hi Guys,

We are booked in to go out with Whitey this Saturday and one of our definates cant make it so we have an open spot. It is $250.

We are targeting the usual and we mainly use jigs and soft plastics. weather permitting we will make a trip to the FAD's and if possible maybe troll.

If anyone is keen and wants to come up PM me. There are a group so if needed you can jump in a car and just split fuel so save cash and prevent solo, tired driving,

cheers

I see theres a jetty festival from 1-9 pm with fireworks and what not and the jetty getting officially opened by the priemier,,might be worth a run down and check it out if you have not got any other plans.

Free to a good home, 1 mangrove jack (approx 10cm), tank reared since 10mm, feeds well on live and dead food, not the best pic as a little stressed, grown too big for tank. location Port Hedland

Big John’s

2011 Fishwrecked AFL Tipping Competition

$30 to play

$10 prize for each round

Prize Money (Overall Top Three)

1st – 60% of cash float

2nd – 30% of cash float

3rd – 10% of cash float

Last place – Ridicule and maybe a wooden spoon.

Rules and Regulations

·        Each round to be tipped by cutoff time on Oztips on day of first game

·        Tip eight winners

·        'Draws’ can be tipped but are only worth one.

·        Tip margin of FIRST game of the round (determines round winner)

·        If you forget to tip, you get the equal lowest tipped score for that round

·        Tip online at 'www.oztips.com', register in the FW comp first

·        Big John’s tips are locked, same as everyone else when the cutoff time is reached

·        Cash due by start of comp – March 24th. No pay, no play.

·        Round winners will be paid via netbank

·        PM your email address to big john so he can email you the oztip comp number and password + big john’s bank account details to deposit your $30

·        Weekly results available on the oztips site Monday mornings

·        Minimum of 20 tippers required.

If there is a two way tie for first overall, they will split the first and second place prize money. 2nd place will get the 3rd place prize money. 3rd overall will get nothing.

Only the top three people will get prize money at the end of the season!

TIPPING STARTS THURSDAY 24/3!

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Went out tonight with a mate snapper fishing in the sound.

Got 10 pinkies but were all around 40cm!!!!!! Very annoying!!!!!

Anyway headin back to the ramp something came flying over the front of the boat and hit me in the face.

We stopped to see what it was and there was a big blue flying fish flapping around on the deck!

Bloody thing slapped me in the face!!! hahahahaha

 since the fisheries have taken a week or more and still have not not back to me, what are the do's and dont's  of crabbing  ? 

  do you need a  fishing liscence from a boat ? 

  are the months you cant crab ? 

  can you only keep males and which is which ? 

  whats the boat limit ? 20 ?    and pots ? 10 ?