Ok, so the sweeps have started around the office, the talk and hype of which horse will prevail the 3200 metre race.

What is everyones pick???

Im picking Shocking to push hard along with alcopop. Both run well over the 2400m distance...

There is also Viewed the Favourite, but as the old saying goes..the favourite never wins!!

Whats everyone elses pick?

Hey got this guy in a local perth lake few weeks back and thought it was a bass im not sure so hoping 4 some help?? Also was wonding how common it is to find silver perch bass carp ect in perth lakes, ponds ect??

sample of some of the fishing when out with Absolute Ocean Charters in Broome on 28.10.2009..........these photos show continuous hook ups with a school of gt's....... report coming soon...

Hi Guys,

I will be looking at getting a tinny soon (about 15 ft is the plan for the moment) and i doubt that my hyundai would  do the job at towing it.

Just after some advice for a beginner's 4wd that wouldn't cost too much to buy and would be able to tow the boat to kalbarri or albany, what are your recomendations? what to look for and what to avoid?

any input appreciated

Cheers Guys

Hi all,

This pic is of the Left Hand Side of the boat that I am removing the floor section by section, This is A WARNING for all older Factory Baron Owners of the total lack of drainage in under floor compartments. This is a picture of a 19ft ex-Stern driven Baron Sportsman No.069.  

Hi guys and gals,well two more days and i'll be on the way home,Got some great pics and some good stories to tell,,Isee some of you have been getting a feed well done ,hanging to get out for a fish or dive ,heading out to water bomb park this morning the the sunday sesh for Kathies Birthday ,should be a crazy day .anyways i'll be back soon and will get some pics up Happy fishing

Hi Crew,

I recently got a Canon 50d with the 18-200 lens, anyway, I've been taking a few pics and have been getting a black line on the left hand side of the image.  The wierd thing is, I will do it and a couple of photos will be fine, then the next couple will have the line, then the next few will be fine again.  Its got me really confused.  I've checked the lenses and everything and its all good, well, if other pics are fine then I'm not sure whats going on.  After only having it a week or so, I don't want to send it back just yet, thought I would suss if anyone has had similar problems with their cameras before?

Cheers,

Adam

Hi All,

Am just wondering if anyone can recomend a good sounder and GPS or combo unit for around the $1000 mark. Will be going in 5.4m glass runabout.

Cheers

tonight on the nat geo channel 612 a documentary on marlin and sails looks like a top watch at 630pm ,i know im recording it so i can re watch

Hi all, after a long time of being a guest it was suggested by a FW member to get a log in and make some contribution instead of just reading.  So logged in i am!!

PGFC is my login short for Perth Game Fishing Club. I couldnt think of anything else at the time.  Anyway the name is Rhyss I am currently the president of PGFC and have been for the past 6 years.  This year will see a change at the helm though.  I work for Taylor Marine and look after electronic sales from Darwin around to Port Lincoln. More recreational and Commercial than deep sea stuff. 

Well there's the introduction.  A hello to you all and I do hope I can contribute something worthwhile.

Cheers Rhyss

hi all,                                        just wanna wish all a happy halloween.....    really miss Perth alot esp the friendly people, fishing and all you guys.

Got pulled over last night - not for speeding, or driving crazy , but because my reel wheel carrier is apparently illegal.Car is a stock standard import Nissan Terrano. Imported about 5-6 years ago with the carrier/spare wheel attached. The cop said it makes it hard to see the tail lights from one angle and that you must have lights on the bumper as well if you have one of these YELLOW STICKER. Just about every other terrano Ive seen has these attached and many other cars.Cop was nice about it but has anyone ever encountered this problem?

The pic attached is not my car , but similar

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hey all

i live in gero and was looking at a job in karratha today i've never been there was wondering wat its like and wat sort of fishing people do up there. any feed back would be great 

cheers flagpole

without wanting to ask the obvious, are there any members who have had experience with F/Glass Cats, good points/bad points. Im aware of the upside issues, stability, ride - i have heard they struggle in a following sea - to what extent Im unsure, that info does not come from an experienced boater by any means. I have never been on one offshore, so looking for any advice tips. I will be riding on one in the near future, and thinking of buying one at some stage. Im have been offered a share of a Glacier Bay Cat -27ft, 2.9 beam from memory.

Cheers

Paully  

Waht do you guys use for an Abalone tool?

Just having a couple of issues with the location of the transducer, in the installation manual it states that the transducer is to be located on the starboard side of the boat. The installer has installed it on the port side of the boat, and as you can see by the picture the transducer is a to high up along the transom aswel.

Does it make much difference if the transducer is on the port side?

Any information would be greatly appreaciated.

Thanks
Justin

gidday all just had a squizz at the fin nor offshore reel what a beast the bigger ones have a nice t bar handle ,there a little heavy but strong as lookin at the 8500 model

i know this isnt fishing , but saw something yesterday that made me so angry i just wanted to call the cops, picture this , doing 100 down the highway and looking to the car next to you and seeing a couple in their car with a child no more than 2 standing on the front seat between mums legs and leaning on the dash with his head almost touching the windscreen, i could just picture an accident with a 2yo child flying through the air after busting through the window. a question for you all. if you had a camera handy would you take a pic and dob them in to the police , follow them and have a few choice words with them or would you just leave it be . i wanted to get a pic but my truck just couldnt keep up as it has a speed limiter in it. even had the camera ready and rego written down. prob is i see it all the time, even seen a young mother breast feeding her baby on her lap doing 110 down the road. why are some people so stupid 

Hi Crew,

Having recently got a new camera worth a fair few dollars and having some pretty good u/w vid camera equipment, I've decided to get myself some insurance to cover them.  I'm also heading o/s in the near future for a quick trip and would like to have my photog stuff and fishing gear covered.

Can any one recommend a good insurance company that they've had dealings with, in terms of price and support and I guess 'no hidden factors' in their policies.

Cheers,

Adam

Hello to all you Fishwreckers out there. I would like to introduce myself as a member now to this site. I have been reading through the posts and would like to make some contributions myself. I gain alot of knowledge from Fishwrecked and hope to post pics and advice from my own adventures. I am a dedicated family man these days which has reduced the number of days I get out fishing... until my 2andabit year old can be by my side. Other than that and mum has to come and she spends the whole fishing time chasing him! Anyways I have a trip booked in 3 wks down white hills so not long now.

Happy reading and goodluck fishin!

i heard on the radio on monday about a bloke that fell down some cliffs down south while going fishing and took rescue around 8 hours to get to him, cant remember where exactly it was but has anyone heard the same. must have been keen to get a feed if you got to climb down a cliff face

posted for Sherbs  

 caught by Sherbs while beach fishing last weekend who would have thought it .. (yes it was released) *LOL* 

Not the clearest pic but this guy like to also get washed off reefs  so can you name him  

Police are looking for up to 30 juveniles responsible for a vicious attack on two 21-year-old men at a beach in the Perth suburb of Mindarie.

Kyle Williams says he was dropping his younger brother and sister at a beach party at Claytons Beach on Friday night, when a group of youths began pelting his vehicle with rocks for no apparent reason.

Mr Williams says the attack left his 21-year-old friend with a broken jaw and missing teeth.

Mr Williams says he has a head wound, bleeding on the brain, a shattered eye socket and a suspected broken bone in his neck.

"There were about 30 or more people on top of us and rocks, while I'm laying on the ground," he said.

"I can't remember too much of the night, they wouldn't have stopped if there weren't people there to help us."

Courtesy of the ABC

I’ve got bit a dilemma. I’ve got my last marine class tomorrow and we’re going for a fish just out the heads for a couple of hours. Question is what to target?? It looks like the squid have dried up a bit and I was wondering what you guys think I should target, Skippy, whiting, herring, tailor or squid? At this stage I think I’ll take some squid tentacles I’ve got in the freezer and get some whiting and maybe try for some Skippy on SP’s once we get some burly out.
Cheers Miles

G'day all, can you camera guru's give me your opionions on these camera's as I'm thinking of getting a new one atm. Looking at the Canon EOS 1000D with 18-55mm & 75-300mm lenses, Nikon D3000 DSLR with 18-55mm Lense or the Olympus E-450 DSLR with the 14-42mm & 40-150mm lenses. All about the same price - don't want to spend more than $1,000 - $1,200 max.
Really got very little idea about camera's so help would be great - it will be for your everyday family shots ect. Gotta be pretty easy to use though'. Will just be for still shots as i already have a video camera. Cheers fellas

Then we read about string theory's 11 dimensions. What do we picture now? Nothing. Perhaps we feel we're not smart enough to visualize them. In reality, our school teachers neglected to reveal a vital fact about science: Some things cannot be imagined. Maybe we should know what they are.

Picture this: You're an astronaut on a planet with red polka-dot clouds. The surface is a vast rubber sheet. As you bounce along, you suddenly see a flock of flying bulldogs. The pack leader hovers in front of you like a hummingbird and speaks perfect English: "Welcome. Can you help settle a debate we're having?"

"Um, sure," you say.

The alpha bulldog whispers: "Who was the greatest baseball player of all time?"

You guess, "Ruth?" And that's what they all wanted to hear. The dogs excitedly bark, "Ruth! Ruth!" as they lick your face until you're covered with slobber.

The point isn't that I'll never make a living writing fiction. It's this: There's no such thing as polka-dot clouds, rubber planets, or flying dogs. Yet you had no trouble picturing the whole thing. That's because our minds can easily weave familiar elements into a new context. Titan's surface or flying dogs present no challenge for our imaginations.

But now consider Galileo's observations of Saturn's rings. Even after decades of studies, he never figured out what he was seeing. He thought the rings were like teacup handles. It took nearly half a century before Christiaan Huygens finally got it right. That's because Saturn's shape lay outside human experience. On Earth, there is no example of a ball surrounded by unattached rings. Spiral galaxies resemble nautilus shells, nebulae look like clouds, star clusters like spilt sugar. Alone among nature's marvels, Saturn had no analog.

A bear wanders past my window once or twice each year. At first glance, I always think: huge black dog. Then the truth hits. One's initial impulse is to perceive the familiar.
Conceptual struggles arise when there are no associations, no past experience.
We are all prisoners of our backgrounds and experiences. Conceptual struggles arise when, as with Galileo, there are no associations, no past experience. You cannot explain the color blue to a person born blind.

Equally inconceivable are any extra dimensions beyond the width, depth, and height of everyday 3-D objects. If additional "string" dimensions exist, they cannot be pictured — by anyone. We've all been "born blind" to them.

Then there's quantum theory, which has a virtual patent on the inconceivable. Quantum theory reveals objects' behaviors as neither logical nor illogical, but "non-logical." Say an electron has two possible routes from its source to a detector. The equipment shows it arrived, but it didn't follow path A or path B. It also didn't take neither path — if they're both blocked, the electron goes nowhere. Nor did it somehow occupy both. Because these are the only choices we can entertain, we're stumped. Not A, not B, not neither, and not both. It did something else. Physicists just shrug and say this particle was in a state of "superposition." But they can't imagine what that actually means.

Or consider the common question, "What is the universe expanding into?" People usually think of an inflating balloon. However, the correct way to visualize an expanding universe is to picture all galaxy clusters rushing directly away from you, no matter where you're located. This simply means that the space between galaxy clusters is growing larger everywhere.

If you instead picture the universe as if you were outside of it, you're making a mistake. Nothing exists beyond the universe, by definition. Because you cannot view it from the outside, that particular visual dilemma goes away.

Does this still leave unanswered questions? Sure. But any study of the universe as a whole must arrive at barriers where no further visualizations are available. That's just how it's set up. Infinity, the Big Bang zero moment, singularities, curved space, superposition: Many science ideas can be stated but not imagined. This is especially true of cosmology.

So don't ever feel insecure. Experts cannot do much better than you can. Cosmologists use more math and carry cause-and-effect relationships a few extra steps. But their endpoints are just as inconceivable as your own.

Once you accept this, you no longer feel stupid. Or else you feel more stupid.

Not sure which.
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This is very relevant to us in WA, where many times we find the public, politicians and law makers battling to understand how to do things differently, when they stuck in their closed minds.

In away many in WA are like the blind person who can not fathom how important colour is to the sighted person. So be it the same for the deaf to realize how sound & music is important to our daily lives.

We battle to change forward many things, be it daily stuff, to shopping hours, to how we police from fishing to thugs in night clubs. Yet in hind-sight we look back and say " how the hell did our parents do it with out mobile phones and laptop computers etc..." yet we just as blind to the advances of the future.

Kind of like catching fish without bait to my grandfather.... he would never believe I go fishing now without any bait, but a funny little rubbery thing with a hook hidden in it... Jigging to him would be what he did in his wood-work room...

Well got up this morning and the time on my puter has moved forward one hour?????
any one else....
PS didnt DLS get voted out???

Regards Geoff