Hi all,

I'm thinking about flogging the Reef Runner and replacing with a smaller ali boat. Yes i know my body will hate me for it, but I'm after something a bit easier to drag to remote areas and beach launch, so I'm gonna have to sacrifice the comfort.  So my question is, what's a good Ali rig around 17 - 19 foot?  And any thoughts re centre console vs fwd control would also be appreciated. 

Cheers 

Just watching tonight’s game Aust v Windies. Windies have come in with a game plan, lots of bouncers led to silly wickets. Aust currently 5/137 in the 28th, new bloke named Smith going ok with Carey.

 3 blokes arrived in Canarvon at 1500, launched the boat an hour later and headed off to Bernier Island [didn't log on to sea rescue]. 

At approx 0530 sea resce got a phone call from one of the blokes wives saying she got a text at around 0230 saying the boat was sinking but they were all ok, thing is she didn't hear the message come through and only noticed it when she got up.

Seems they anchored the boat and went to sleep on the island [no camping or sleeping allowed on Bernier, Koks or Dorre Islands] and during the night the winds as forecast increased from the east and the boat dragged anchor and finished up on the beach full of water.

The boys from sea rescue took off around 0700, taking a pump with them but due to conditions weren't able to use it. They brought the three blokes back with them leaving the boat to be salvaged yesterday by a commercial operator.

Another lesson to be learnt about checking forecasts, logging on to sea rescue and choosing where you plan to moor up as the east side of the islands offer no protection from the wind and waves in anything from east to north east winds and Red Cliff bay and Hospital bay the only ones with SE winds

Hi everyone,

i was was wondering if anyone on here had had a go as yet in printing any of their own fishing lures and or fishing gear overall? I am looking at 3D printers, particularly because they have come down in price so much recently. I’m not looking to set the world on fire or anything, I just like the idea of catching fish on something for which I have made myself.  Any info or feedback would be appreciated.

many thanks 

scano

Hi guys. With so many tackle stores closing down, can someone tell me what the bigger ones they go to are? Want to go somewhere decent this morning to restock before tomorrow. Thanks

 Pie in the sky for dockers.it all looks too easy this week but what will actually happen?

I recently bought a penned boat - not my first, and wont be my last (its a habit my wife is tiring of!)
Interestingly have had some trouble insuring it - which I thought was odd as it is relatively late model (99) and is a production boat - long story short CLub Marine would not insure it - period - and could not offer an explanation.
All others wanted a survey report due to age - understandable I guess but have had older boats previously that did not require his, RAC have come out as the winner the only catch is I have to fit a GPS tracking device to it.... not the end of the world, you can pick one up for ~100-150 bucks but would have thought the risk of theft would be higher with trailer boats than penned?

For those interested you can follow the fishing comp here...https://www.facebook.com/CarnarFin/

 The boat still hasn't sold so the missus and I thought we might as well head out fishing Saturday. We will be kid free this weekend and this will be the first time we can head out early and have no time limit to being back. Hoping to get my better half onto a Dhu or just anything decent really. We normally just chase whiting so we are just a tad excited about venturing out a bit further than usual...

Anyone else heading out over the weekend? 

 Hi all,

thsi may have been asked before, but i couldnt find any info in the search.

Im about to pull the trigger on the Garmin sounder/GPS.

I am keen to try out the QuickDraw contours on the Garmin, but wondering if anyone has used this (or comparible function for live drawing live charts).

How long will it save data for (can you have a few years of maps saved on it)?

Does it slow the unit down at ll once lots of data has been saved?

Thanks

The ladder will begin to take shape over the coming weeks. It looks like a pretty insipid round of AFL coming up and the Pies and Geelong should move one step closer to September action and GWS are again emerging as a genuine threat during the home and away season.

 Our 7th and last day on the water in coral bay for this year went well with another couple of pbs. I managed a nice red at 9,75 KG just under the best for the trip. Sandy got a pb of spanglie and a first of a blue barred parrot fish that went 5 1/2 kg. 7 reds in total for the day with various other species to give  us the bag out.

 Only a handfull of fish today. But had a couple of manta rays swimming around the boat and dolpins jumping clear out of the water at the bough of the boat.

Hey guys, looking at getting a drone. Anyone have any views on what they have, what's good what's not ?

looking at getting a DJI drone in some form, looking at the cheaper end before spending any decent cash.

Plus, if my drone decides to keep flying out to sea through my own fault, the less money spent, the better it will be lol.

Cheers

Scotty

 After a couple of days r&r  back into the fishing side of things. The day started slow but things changed when the fish started playing ball. As usual plenty of pickers but a few nice ones came up. A couple of spanglies one of which went 3 1/2 kg a nice red from brenden that went just shy of 10kg along with a ok goldie and a few other mixed . I managed  another nice rankin at 8 1/2kg and not realy much else apart from the usual tomato cod and honeycombe cod. Sandy got anothe red but a bit smaler along with the small cods. Weather wise it was good  but the current was ripping. Tomorrows another day.

Genuinely excited about this. This aint no Danny Green vs Boxcar Bob and these are some of the best muay thai fighters in the world and Yod is up there with, if not, the best ever.

Put me tips in Monday at a glance like i do most weeks....looking at it again now theirs a few tough games that could go either way.

a few of mine....Crows, Freo and Sydney.

 Gotta say today was mych better wind wise. Got out early than other day and got off to a good start. I managed a pb red at 6 1/2 kg and another at 5 1/2. Sandy also got her share with 3. 2 a decent size and one smaller which went back to live another day. Brenden wasnt to happy as the taxman took his share. Also managed a first of a cobia that went 10 1/2 kg. Gees they go hard. Ended with a nice mixed bag.

 Certainly wasnt the best day for wind . Got out anyway and got a few fish and donated a couple of reds to a taxman in a pin striped suit at aprox 3mtrs long . Sandy again managed to get the only red on the boat . Finished the day with some tuna fun and watching a humpback frolicking on the surface .

G'Day crew. With my recent boat purchase I got a Garmin sounder/gps with the BlueChart g2 and it's just not the same or as detailed as my old Lowrance running Navionics.

As an addition to my Garmin,I'm looking at getting an iPad with Wifi+Cellular as they have GPS and works well with Navionics. However, I've been told once you loose cellular reception you loose GPS, rendering Navionics useless out there.

I'd like to purchase a new Lowrance HDS Carbon instead but I'm trying to keep the cost down while still having the big screen (and keeping the mrs too).

If I was staying local I wouldn't think twice about it, but since I'm heading 100+klms off shore (And in the Pilbara so it's remote) I don't know if the above information is correct or not.

Has anyone got Navionics on an iPad they use in areas that does not have cellular reception? Or has anyone done similar with any advice?

Cheers, Mike

 Another day on the water went down well with a nice mixed bag. And only one big red lost to the damn taxman

 Finally made it after a long wait to get there.first day on the water with a nice mixed day. I nailed a pb of rankin at 8 1/2 kg and Sandy got her mothers day red at 5 kg. And the rest was shared between us . No sharks today.

This is about as far as I have got with it, will update in a few weeks when I get home from work, assuming the thread has any interest.
Maybe an alternative from the footy stuff 

So, a fair time back after a bit of to and fro about getting hold of "her" car to pull the boat down the ramp I decided it's time to get my own rig and sell the Hilux.

Being the sort of bloke who cant just get a loan and buy one (never borrowed for a car or boat) and needing something to carry my 5 kids and tow 3.5T at times there was limited choices anyway.

Decided the best option was to look for a cut down 105 Landcruiser.

Not a fan of the 1hz so when this popped up on Gumtree I made the bloke an offer subject to inspection with 300ks on it, stat write off HDJ100.

These are generally accepted to be the "Landcruiser Toyota should have built but didnt", due to their engine policy of only 2 or 3? choices on any model.

It'd been t-boned at the rear.

Was thinking I should be able to pick some holes in it and knock it down a bit further when I look at it.

Grabbed a trailer and drove to 450ks, chucked a battery in only to find it had actually only had 220.

Price was about half what the wrecks sell for at auction so drove it round the paddock and grabbed it.

Started sniffing around for a 105 wagon or dual cab, and after a few months came across this...

Looks pretty rough but it actually only had a couple of small bits of rust, $1500. Plus already chopped from new and been rego'ed though it'd been off the road since 2010.

Someone elses abandoned project.

Downside was that if Id picked one up already on the road and driving I could have sorted it in a few weeks, but hey, wheres the fun in that 

Pulled body off and stripped to literally every bolt on chassis. Ute had been a miner, but pretty well every inch underneath had been heavily coated and protected.

Nightmare to get off, but like new underneath, this is actually after the diffs and shit were swapped for 3.9's and refitted.

Body similar, not a single wire or bolt on component left on it, then off to get painted.

And here is where it ground to a stop...

Took the bloke around a year to complete, there was some feisty texts and calls.

Meantime I stripped the wreck and put the chassis stuff together.

Didnt want to fuck it up so limited beer to about 3/4 of a carton 

Connect up brakes (used the ABS from GXL), looms, fuel tanks in, chuck in a battery, bleed her up, crank her over and..
Fuck all 

 Just a word of warning for those traveling north.that dont know already.As we found out both billabong and overlander are no longer 24 hour servos. Overlander closes at 10  and reopens at 6. Luckily i had the forsight to carry a couple of jerry cans of fuel. 

Comes around quick, some good games this weekend. Bring it on.

 So I'm a soon to be ex member of a FB page called Freo massive. The tree hugging left have just about taken it over and have taken aim at balloon fisho's and rubbish left behind by land based fisho's. I tried to have a rationalised discusssion but of course they can't control themselves and just start finger pointing at us all who fish.

I told them with this attutude you just lose anyone with good intention and in the end we  will tell you to fuck off. I totally support cleaning up after yourself etc as most of us do, but it's not good enough for them. 

Ha ha one of them said you need a licence to balloon fish from shore which I told her you don't and to do some research and educate herself. She cam back to me and said she already did in a meet with Dave Kelly loooool. I kindly told her what a flog he is and how he just about destroyed the crayfishing industry. 

They are out there fella's determined to piss us all off. 

I recently read on another fishing forum that there were numerous occasions where the gas cylinders had unknowingly become unscrewed from the PFD.  Some were concerned enough to vow never to wear an inflatable again.  I am posting this as a reminder to others that maintenance checks are required on inflatable PFDs.  Anyone on here had any issues?

For the Exmouth regulars that stay at the Lighthouse Caravan Park, we just tried booking for the July school holidays 2020 to find out the park is closed for renovations from October 2019. They don’t know when the park will be reopening so not taking bookings at this stage. Now to think of a plan B!

Well in my best Willy Nelson, we’re on the road again. Doctor gave me clearance to get back on our travels so booking a couple of flights each to get back to Geraldton in a couple of weeks and drive back to Mingenew where our bus is. Minus the pooch, we’ll pick him up again later on. Going to spend a while exploring the gold fields, oddly enough, in all our travels, we’ve been to Kalgoorlie just the once, so looking forward to visiting some of these old towns before we go and trip around the Murray River in the summer. Bring on the yella bellies.