Tried out our new smoker tonight. 

Gotta say the mullet dont turn out too bad at all

As a few of us are lucky enough to be getting away over the next few weeks, just take 5 minutes before you head off to pop your bonnet and check your car. Check the tyres (including the spare). Check your trailer's lights and tyres too.

Cheers for the assistance/laughs/information over the past year and all the best for the upcoming fun times. All the best for 2018 all! Hopefully the year of the Metro Mackie for me.

 Finally got to take the swifty out on the water. Only in the estury but its salty. 

Put the crab nets in but mullet dont stay in the nets for long. Got 1 keeper out of the nets and a couple with the scoop. 

Ended with only 2  mullet the car bonnet rays didnt chew up and dragging the net with them . In the end we got a feed and the boat hit the water and ran well. Had a bit of a picnic while out there as well. Headed in just on dark not knowing the waters were just playing it safe. 

 Hey all.  Taking the boat out tomorrow night to go netting and just wondering if anyone has had success with drop nets for crabs at night. i have scooped at night but never nets. i have put reflective tape on the floats so they will be easy to find .

Cheers Russ 

The old man is about to sell his old school Snyder FG rods one being around 12' and the other being around 9' and in pretty mind condition along with a few old Alveys.

Does anyone have an idea of how much the rods would be worth?

 i`ve been trying to search for a post i saw a while ago about a good place online to buy bimini pipe and fittings

but everytime i use the search function i get this error meesage

Unauthorized access to internal API. Please refer to https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542055

is anyone else having a problem with the search function

cheers

mark

 This is not fair. Finally got the boat all ready to go and get some fresh fish and the weather has gone to garbage .

Might be a case of attacking the crabs just to give the tub a go. Got the sounder and gps all wired up now so will see how it goes. Usual stuff tho weekdays look good 

 Thanks to who ever attached a float to my rope that  had been chopped. 

We couldn't find it last pull  and was about to buy a newbie. 

Pm me if it's you and I can return the float and some beers 

 Just saw this on WA today.

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/toxic-health-scare-mindarie-marina-seafood-eaters-urged-to-seek-medical-help-20171214-h04yqx.html

Hey guys,

Any recommendations or any fishwreckers able to install a small wall mount split system unit in the Nollamara area?

Happy to pay cash but must be legit.

Cheers

Mark

TKO in the eleventh, but the pommie sure took it up to him. Corcoran was cut, ref inspected and said yes good to go, then Horn unleashed some evil on him and that was it.

 Picked the swifty up today. All thats left is the makeup   .

On the way home.just need to get it wet and blooded. Now the trailor. Bearings and a bit of rust and adjust the rollers

 Hey all. just wondering if anyone has had experience with navionics on a mobile or tablet. looking at downloading one but not to sure if it would be viable. reason for it is so we can save our spots manually inputing each time we find new ground. and plan out our day without having to get up on the boat along with being able to see all the contours and depths in the areas. i only have a navman 510 (i think thats the model) thats nearly 20yo. still works but a bit out of date.also have a hummingbird 917c combo unit to work with thats about 15yo.

any info would be appreciated , thanks Russ and Sandy

 after seeing that other thread about cost of boating. how much money do you put into the economy on an average day out all inclusive.

i know we used to allow around $150 for the fay out which covered fuel for car and boat, bait , ice , food and drinks . sometimes it would go to around the $180 mark . but in saying that how much would it cost to go out for dinner and a movie or taking the family out for the day. i think boating would be the cheaper option

Well Christmas and the years end is fast approaching so on that note I would like to extend a warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
I have enjoyed reading the many fishing reports from Chris's rock fishing down south to Thailand's BKKGuy weird and wonderful monsters from the freshwater.
To everyone boating and yakking stay safe out on the water.
Look forward to reading and hopefully adding a few reports next year.
May there be a few more chapters to the chronicles of Petermac.
Finally Cheers Adam for running the website.
See Ya's all on the flip side.

Anybody lose a Wakeboard Thursday morning? We rescued one floating near the Gage Roads off Fremantle around 5:30. PM me if you think it may be yours.

 3 crabs and a hanfull of prawns turned into a tasty treat for 2

 Seem to recall we had some fabricators checking in here, any recommendations? May need some polished s/s tubework done.

Just wondering what you guys think would be the form of communication as it looks looks like I’ve picked up a job out in the great Victorian desert. Going to be out there for approximately a month so I am thinking of taking some form of communication to contact the family and use for work. 

 Went out netting again no mullet but got a feed . Some good size prawns about and lots of just under size crabs about

 For the last 5 years I have tried to do the online booking for moorings and entry to Rottnest without luck.
Every fucking time it comes up with "some of the vessel data you have entered is invalid".

I have rung them several times and as helpful as they often are, only gotten "not sure, you must be entering something wrong".
Even if I dont put any detail in it comes up the same.
I copy it from my rego papers which only has the length and rego number

Anyone got any tips because its bloody painful having to walk in and do it on a busy day over there

 Crew,

Had the big solar system installed now for a week or so so its time to maximise the investment and reduce the payback time....

I have a 300 litre Steibl heatpump that seems to rum sporadically day and night...

Ideally i want to have it run through the daytime period when the panels are producing power and remain off through the night...

Has anyone on here done the same?

What sort of timer set up have you had installed?

 what size sarca  anchor would be ok for a 5 m alli boat

 Im talking about the motor leg not the one that runs between the hips and the feet on the body .

i have always towed with the lug up but have seen others tow with the leg down. 

what is the correct towing method or does it realy matter

 www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/busselton-ironman-swim-canned-after-shark-spotted-ng-b88679141z

THE Busselton Ironman swim leg has been abandoned with a shark spotted as some competitors were in the water.

Those in the water at the time were forced to climb out onto the Busselton Jetty while others closer to shore were told to swim back in.

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Was at the Jetty on Saturday for squid fishing, they closed the Jetty at 6pm hence no overnight fishing, for preparation on Sunday.

Ironman plan foiled by Aquaman - Justice league 1 Avengers 0

 With the swifty only 1 week (fingers crossed) where is the best place to get the scaling bags from and what brand assuming there are a few. never used one but heard they work well and saves lots of time.

 Just picked up the tub this arvo. The work was done by mandurah canvas. I think it looks great . Goes in tomorrow for the final phase of the upgrade . 

 Hi guys is there anyone with an m260 in a cruisecraft and where did u mount it cheers craig

 gone and did it. Got the new heart for the swifty. Goes in on saturday for the operation. oh by the way its a 4 stroke so shes gunna purr and get up and boogie 

 Morning all

Are there any FW forum members who can fabricate an underfloor aluminium tank? I was going to use a commercial operator but thought I'd first put it out for someone on here who would like to take up the job.

It will be roughly 1800mm long, 540mm wide, 200mm high. 

PM if you can do this or if you know someone who can.

Cheers