3 FADs were deployed off Jurien on the 15th Jan 2013. Here are the coordinates;

WAUC North 30° 13.0576' S 114° 34.6623' E

WAUC Central 30° 17.5194' S 114° 36.1417' E

WAUC South 30° 21.6075' S 114° 37.2768' E

The idea of a community-managed FADs project originated on FW, and we successfully constructed our initial FAD with purely community resources. The project was managed by Jamie Moir for WA Undersea, after a grant was successfully secured through Recfish West's Small Grant Program.

The project also enjoyed pricing support from Taylor Marine and Jeyco. Storage and transport assistance from Schaffer Loaders.

Fishwrecked members contributed; Browny donated rope. Grantarctic did some welding. Sunshine donated some cash. Sea-Kem got some galvanising done. Southcity104 did some painting

WA Undersea did a lot more than just receive and spend money. We received the following assistance from members; Cameron N-L designed the current FAD. Byron Smith and Raymond Hill did a lot of splicing Ben Kent came up to help us launch (and operated the camera when he had a spare minute).

If you contributed and and are as-yet uncredited, just get in touch over the details ;) We still have some leftover bits and pieces up in Jurien and hope to deploy another inshore FAD between the banks, will keep you posted about that ;)

As fishing these days is about more than just the act of catching fish and involves things like sharing the sport through the internet with photos and videos I thought we might be able to start a thread on how to improve our fishing photography/videos and share tips and tricks.

There are so many things that can have an inpact on how a photo ends up - How the fish is held, Sun location, boat clutter etc etc - and if we can learn some tricks on how to better frame and shoot pics we might be able to turn them from happy snaps into lasting memories that capture the situation.

I know we have a few people on the site who have written articles before and had photos published in magazines so any help you guys or others can add would be appreciated.

If anyone has any photos they would like to ask how they could be improved they could be added to the thread as well for comment/ideas from others.

Through Ryan's contacts in the Tackle trade and Wally's release weight push and Gary Lilley's mould they've got a new supplier and the release weights now (finally) back in production!

So after a few weeks if you are in a tackle shop and you cant see any release weights on the shelves, can you please ask the question.

"When will you be getting any in" if they say, what the!......you just need to say, ring Jason from Sunset Sinkers and he will supply you with some, just to make sure you got that Jason from Sunset Sinkers

Ps Oceanside will stock them

* Yes, no excuses now, stockem, recommend em and use them *

Only one size so far but others on the drawing board fromm what I have read on other forums.

Well done Ryan, Wally, Gary, Jason and all concerned.

G'day all you fishermen that target DHUIES , the new RAP newsletter is asking for frames from DHUFISH for research purposes , if you can it would be apreciated if you save the frames after filleting your fish and either dropping them off at a colection point or even save a few up in your freezer and give the people involved a call and they will collect them from your place .

I DO NOT target Dhuies and will never deliberately kill one so I can not help their research but you guys that go out and nail a few could you drop them off.

contact R.A P (Research Angler Program)9203 0111 or call in to the fisheries Lab at Hillaries ( 39 Northside drive, Hillaries boat harbour) and they will help you out ( I think all the Bluewater Tackle stores are receival points for frames ) you can take the fillets off etc they mainly need the heads , if you contact them they will give you the full goss on it but PLEASE try to help out .

thats all this NOB has got to say .

BYE.

Before you start:

1. You must have an account on the fishwrecked site.

2. Your picture must be under one megabyte. If you need to resize the image under Windows XP, I recommend downloading Microsoft's Image Resizer Powertoy. This adds a 'Resize Picture' command to the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer. The medium setting should be perfect for uploading to the site.

Step 1 - Click 'create content' in the main navigation menu. Select create image, and upload.

Or

Step 2 - Click the 'image assist' icon underneath the body text box.

Step 3 - A popup will open. Select the 'add image' link in the upper left corner.

Step 4 - Give the image a title (required), select an image gallery (optional), and choose a local image on your hard drive. Add a description, too, just for good karma.

Step 5 - Click submit.

Step 6 - A thumbnail will appear in the Image Assist Popup. Click it.

Step 7 - Resize the image as appropriate using the dialog boxes in the bottom half of the Image Assist popup. Choose whether to display the photo full sized or as a thumbnail. Change you caption if you really, really, want to.

Step 8 - Click the 'insert image' button at the bottom of the popup, and--presto!--it will be added to you new forum entry.

(Pinched from ThingsThatMoved.com)