General Discussion

General Chat, Anything of Interest

Dawesville Electrician (Not Fishing Related)

Rather see if anyone on here wants a job or knows someone that can help out with some electrical work on my house. If not will hit up the yellow pages.

Whole downstairs floor lights are tripping off and cant flip safety switch back on. Thinking water leaking onto a light downstairs somewhere.

 

PM if anyone may be able to assist.


This is just too funny to wait til friday...

 


anothor style

 anthor style of pod extention to a glass boat, this one is to suit 200hp


fuel litres

any mathmatic smarties here

my fuel tank is 1800L x 530w x140h

how many litres

135?


wagoe chalets

Can anyone tell us about the Wagoe Chalets. We want to head north in August for a week.
I've read varying reports. If it was a blokes trip it wouldn't matter but taking the mrs so can be basic but needs to be clean.


get rid of the bye rounds. round 16

 finally back to real rounds of footy 

 

hope they toughen up the umpiring a bit heading towards finals


Boating, fishing, camping etc foul ups

 For a laugh/ giggle/ and an arsehole pucker sensation - could have been me - have a look at https://www.facebook.com/Fishing-Hunting-Fuck-Ups-526288704103969


Big John's Jigs - Official

Hello Fishwreckers,

Big day for me today, I've finally launched Big John's Jigs as an official business, and with that, my online store.

I'd like to thank all of you who have purchased my jigs on here over the past decade. The feedback has been great and of the best sort, repeat business.

Would love to receive some feedback on the online store, so if you're inclined please have a look at:

www.bigjohnsjigs.com.au

Hopefully I can get to the stage where I can put back into this forum as a sponsor.

For those on facebook, I also have a page there:

www.facebook.com/bigjohnsjigs

Tight Lines,

John

Ps. This will be my only 'business' related post as I do not wish to detract from the official site sponsors


Shark Bay Charters - Mac Attack

 After 2 charters cancelled in Coral Bay due to the weather was able to get out for a full days with MAC ATTACK from Denham. Had a great day where we bagged out. The skipper (sorry forgot name) was right on the spots with some good fish landed. Plenty of pinkies landed but only a couple of reds that were undersize. We travelled over 100nm on the day

Only hickup was a whale going under the boat and some of us hooking up.

We went right out past Steep Point which was interesting to see from the sea side. Even had time for troll back up the coast but only landed a couple of Shark Mackerel

Strongly recommend if thinking of a charter in Shark Bay. Max 7 per day. 


DVD drive wont eject when empty

 I finally got pissed off trying to find a paper clip to force the DVD drive to open up when the eject button was pressed and looked at the web and found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-udsGwuc30.

 
If you do not have a clear disk then just use any disk and leave it in there.
 
 
Please pass this onto all your contacts.

Kiwigrip

hi, has anyone painted their aluminium decks with kiwi grip and would you recomend it?

thanks


on the market

 well shes been a great and still is a great alround little wepon, but i think its time to move on to the next one. so iam putting on the market for $28k ono which i think is a steal for what its got in it, but if i was to price accordingly it would never sell lol. so if anyone intrested give me a call 0406641377 Todd dont think it will last long thou


Not happy

 House getting built next Door, go outside this morning and see my 2013 95k glass boat covered in dried concrete! Worried it will scratch when scraped off.

any advice on what I should do?


Rd 15 - some general banter, not just the tippers

Hate this Thursday night stuff!!
Think the Eagles way to strong.
Then think Port, Saints, Swans, Carlton, Adelaide.
But Gold coast have some form, Collingwood can surprise, Bulldogs no pushover, and Melbourne at the G ?? Richmond also not clear cut.
So I suspect to get 1 certainty, the rest could go either way, as has been the case all yr.


Advice from auto electrician

 My mates twin engine sail cat was hit by lightning last year and only just back in the water he is sailing / motoring from Carnarvon to Dampier but has discovered the port engines alternator which is brand new is over voltage ....charging battery bank at 16 Volts rather that the usual 13.8 .......is it simply a faulty alternator or can someone let me know what it might be please? 



Shooters Fishers and Farmers

 Give consideration in the election for SFF in the Senate, our candidate Andrew Skerritt will make a fine Senator and representative. There are also House of Rep candidates in Cowan, Jamie Chester and Burt Ian Blevin.

 

Rick


48 hrs Storage Ideas

Just asking all you Perth members if their is anywhere I can leave my car and boat in a secure place in Perth for 48hrs.

I will be on my way up north (Boy's Trip)  but will be staying in the city for my son's birthday before they return home to Bunbury.

I have tried several storage places but they only want to sign you up for a month minimum, which is fair enough!

I you have any useful suggestions, or contacts please fire away.

Thankyou.


Lawyer needed

 Nothing huge. But need the asistance of a lawyer to look over f11 form, regarding the seperation of my daughter and her guy. anyone able to help. Im not looking for free time, happy to pay. Needs to be this week please.


Steep point camp fire alternatives

I'm staying at shelter bay later in the year and I was wondering if Paul allows fires in a contained steel fire pit or is it a total fire ban throughout? I've heard he doesn't tolerate any type of fires but surely people have taken webbers and coal beads up there? 


Geraldton members?

 Any Geraldton members want to catch up for a countery on one of these rainy days?
T Bone and myself, plus there is one or 2 others who may be around.

Anyone else?


Thoughts on this Interesting boat Ad Im reading (Have seen twice - 2 different papers)

 Trailcraft 2008 6.6m hardtop, 200 Yammy 4stroke with Furuno 585 and gps/plotter $12.950  Would post pic of Ad if I knew how.


A "NO" Vote from me for Labor and the Greens

Quoting Scott Coghlan - todays Sunday Times 26.6.16
" if elected the Labor party and Greens have agreed to immediately implement the ludicrous marine park management plan ".
Big decisions to be made when weighing up who to vote for next week.
Everyone has their own reasons on who they vote for, but I personally can't stand being locked out of more area's to fish.

What's your opinion and who are you voting for ?


BREXIT, maybe a lesson for voters here!

With the recent surprise outcome of the UK's BREXIT referendum many poms it appears are suddenly realising the enormity of what is going to happen, maybe Boris Johnson more than anyone else as he will likely inherit the poison chalice and if he doesn't take it he is finished.

He looked pretty stunned to say the least...

A petition to redo the referendum gains more than a million signatures within hours with countless "leave" voters now saying they didn't really understand what would happen and didn't expect or actually want to win.

Personally I don't have a lot of interest in BREXIT even though the missus is a Pom.

Similarly here, I'm not even certain what would be a good outcome for our election, but there's little that annoys me more than hearing "I don't bother to vote" or "I don't care who " or "they're all the same so I dont..." and complaining about politics at the same time.

Its called a "donkey vote" for a reason, so at least take an hour to look into who you are voting for, or else you (and the rest of us) will get what we deserve, and it could hurt.

 

EDIT-My point above is just make sure you know what and who you are voting for, and not at all about who to vote for.

I had never really thought about it before but there is a compelling reason to make voting non-compulsory, to ensure that only those who give a shit have a say.


Gladstone?

Now that I am more or less based at Wooramel, chasing a rough area to fish out of Gladstone.

The only time I have put the boat in there was to tow a dinghy in that had broken down on Christmas day in 2014 and only had to travel about 1nm to do that, so any suggestions are most welcome.


Scales

 Can anybody recommend a quality set of hanging scales my butchers set scammed from a coles refurbishment have shit the tin mechanical or digital will do up to 100 kg. I live in hope lol.


RIP Eoin Cameron.

 I'm an ABC tragic and a Cammo fan. So sad to hear of his passing. The King is dead.


RDF Liferaft

 Hi guys just chasing a bit of info on this Liferaft. I picked this up the other week and was wondering a couple of this about it. 

  • do you have to get these checked or registered cause it has an epirb it?
  • what is it worth, if anything?

Any input would be appreciated. The thing can hold more people than my boat. 


My missus may have driven your missus today

 Not fishing related.  My wife drives for uber.  Today she picked up a very nice lady and through conversation established her husband is also a fish wrecked junkie...

 

I have a first and last name and a suburb, which i am not going to publish here.   But you live in the north eastern fringe and had a towball and tinting fitted to your car today.

 

If you want to, please send me a PM just to say hi!


Herring

 Does anyone know if there is herring in freo harbour Or any jetties around freo ?.

I enjoy a feed of herring and because I'm in a chair its easier to fish from jetties.

cheers