Still a way off, but sounds interesting, Regards Colin Hay

Premier Alan Carpenter has today announced an additional $110million to ensure Indian Ocean Drive will be completed within the promised timetable.

The funding relates to Stage Two of Indian Ocean Drive - the 65km Lancelin- Cervantes sealed coastal road - and means construction can now commence next year, with completion scheduled for 2011.

Construction of Stage One - a $20million 10km sealed section from Lancelin to Ocean Farms Estate - is on course to be opened early next year.

The significant funding boost brings the State Government’s commitment to the major infrastructure project to $145million.

“This new funding enables us to well and truly meet our 2005 promise to complete the Lancelin-Cervantes road by 2011,” the Premier said.

“Indian Ocean Drive links communities along the coast from Perth’s northern suburbs to Dongara and will become a major Western Australian tourism, holiday and recreational route.

“It provides access to excellent surfing and windsurfing, recreational fishing, wildflowers and other natural attractions including the world famous pinnacles in Nambung National Park.

“Completing this link will accelerate investment and economic development along the coast and will provide drivers with an alternative to the Brand Highway, which is a major freight transport route.”

Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan said the Stage Two project would be directly managed by Main Roads, ensuring maximum use of local labour and plant.

“This project presents an excellent opportunity for Main Roads to rebuild its in-house capacity to manage and supervise road construction,” Ms MacTiernan said.

Mr Carpenter said WA’s continued economic strength had enabled the funds to be allocated ahead of next year’s Budget.

“This project is part of our commitment to sharing the benefits of WA’s remarkable resources boom across the community and it will help create new jobs and businesses opportunities for the future,” he said.

hey guys...went down to e-shed just a few hours a go....and wanna know if yellow eyed mullet are good l/b fishing bait???caught heaps....around 20..but only kept 5 to use for bait and also kept 6 yellowtails...the mullet were everywhere today

Hi guys and girls.
I am gradually building up my tackle collection after years of neglect. Thanks to the great info fishwrecked members have provided, I have pulled together a collection of spinning reels to cover most situations.
 Now I am wondering if I could get some advice on what would be the best overhead for casting from the shore, and also handle the very occassional offshore opportunity. My old Shimano was a great servant, but after 25 years it just can't get the baits out there anymore.
I am looking for an overhead that is tough enough to handle the bigger fish, and can cast live baits, poppers, metal lures etc right out there.
I have been looking at the new Shimano catalogue and there are some really nice reels there.
But happy to hear recommendations on all makes and models

All information will be greatly received. Have a pretty reasonable budget.

Many Thanks Colin Hay

Hi Guys,
I'm after some info on fishing Lucky Bay.Has anyone been there,can you camp on the beach? I've seen Lucky Bay on DVD and am keen to travel up there and stay a night or two. Cheers Kev

Ok guys,

The possibility is that over the xmas new years break, I may be able to head down south for a few days, however, my wife and her family usually go down to a lake to camp every year near arthur river (wagin sorta proximity)... just wondering what estuaries and fisheries would be closest to this place to go fishing in... for bream or trout or whatever is around to flick lures at...

Anyone know much about the esturine systems down there and where abouts they are located, lakes or rivers, mainly landbased...

suggestions would ROCK!

thanks guys!

hey guys chasing a new bream rod. looking to spend around about 300 dollars any suggestions? have bin looking at the heartland series. how do they rate?

hi

ive been looking for baitcaster for a while now and ive narrowed it down to abu 6600c4 or the penn generation v75 could you please help me out and post your prefrence and why
i want the reel for inshore and medium bottem bouncing and trolling for salmon and tailor and using it for our shark bay trip next year  

cheers Ethan

anyone fished there lately?
wondering if the slimy/scaley macks have turned up yet? need to start getting some good bait..

cheers
sam

hi there,i am thinkin of buying a new furuno sounder and came across bonzerimports ,can save about 800 bucks getting one from them,has anyone had any probs with them
cheer s ray

hi again...was fishing back at woodman point again...caught heaps of varieties of fishes....caught some pike...biggest going 39.5cm.....and caught a 33cm flathead...and than came some huge squids but only manage to land one....and heaps of herrings and trumpeters around which we use for live baits....about an hour later we got our first big run ..but a bloody miss hookup....second big hookup and got me burst off the rocks....pictures will be up soon....those of u who r thinking of giving it a try....go for it....no regrets....cheers

Saw a couple of interesting rods today, that I have not seen or heard of before.  Angler Rods Braid Busters.  Any good

Anyone have one?

Anyone got any weekend fishing plans? Very windy up here in Exmouth so it doesn't look like there's going to be much on the cards. Whats the weather like in Perth this weekend, anyone going to be able to get out?

Cheers,
Adam

does anybody knows the up and down side of a dacron vs a fully braided line??

i found out that dacron is not suitable for spinning? apart from that i wouldnt know anything else?

can anybody help me ?

Picked up a new Penn Affinity 4000 from Oceanside yesterday. What a sweet little reel. Met Honshu. Nice guy, great shop. Any suggestions for a light spinning rod to match up with the Penn anyone. Didn't get a chance to ask Honsu as I had to race off to an appointment at the Australian Marine Complex. I don't if anyone has been there lately, but that would be one, great, landbased fishing spot. Only trouble is, with the navy seting up there in a big way, I don't think there is anyway you are going to get to fish off the groynes there. There of hundreds of metres of groynes, dropping straight into 11 metres of water. Must be something in there. the Regards Colin Hay

hey people...i was fishing at woodman point today...was using mulie....miss a stingray of about 10kg as i could already see it on the surface...but did'nt have enough time to get the net....my dad could not make it to the car to get the net.....than about an hour later...another big hit...calling it to be a shark...as it snapped my line right away.....and about 2hrs later the biggest hit i ever had.....tookmy bait and ran about 70m and then i got the hook up...than it pulled about 200m of my banax reel.....on tight drag...calling it to be a very big mulloway .......and it went on and on...after about 40mins of pulling and running....about 40 m away from me...it snapped my 30lb line....and damn i was pissed..

Cockburn sound crab closure has been extended for another 12 months.

Thinking of heading out to the FADs on Monday for a look see.  Anyone want to tag along?

"This project has experienced some delays due to adverse findings from a recent geotechnical investigation which confirmed that the rock layer was much deeper than the initial external report had indicated. This has resulted in an engineering re-design incorporating an additional 12 piles and a subsequent price variation. The good news is that the Department of Planning & Infrastructure have now endorsed the project variations and therefore the project is now back on track with work likely to commence in a matter of weeks, subject to any limitations such as cyclone season. It is however anticipated that the piles will be installed by January 2008 and the decking shortly after."

Exmouth Shire Newsletter

The Samson Science research project has created protocols aimed at maximising the survival of fish to be released by anglers. These protocols have been developed from fishing activities over the last few years from the spawning aggregations:-

Please download and read the brochure before heading out Samson fishing this season. Remember that these fish are spawning and need to be carefully handled and released to ensure the future of one of our iconic sport fisheries.

From the fisheries website:
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/op/op043/fop043.pdf

well, i think id like to put it out there to see who wants to wet a line in true fishwrecked.com fashion this fine random day during the week...

I got the day off and H0ju and BenY are gonna come with...

who wants to come along? Dunno on location yet, most likely gonna be northish.. hillarys north or something... maybe around ocean reef or maybe even two rocks and yanchep? depends on people and fuel etc and you know how it goes...

sorry for the short notice but if you can make it, come on down! We will decide location once we have a bearing on people who want to join in :D


If noone joins in then FYNE! I hate you too :P

heheheh

the other night while fliking around a 10gram bishop i caught a hardyhead on it, it actually had the treble in its mouth so it wasnt a jag. just got me thinking wat is sum ppl most unusual captures?

Hi all, im new to this site. Im going crabbing in the swan in my boat on tuesday an was wondering if there was any flathead . or flounder around yet.

If you got the paper today have a flick to the fishing section in the motor liftout and have a read of the article im in and how my wish came true...
to say im stoked would be a huge understatement!

cheers
sam

Anyone got any weekend fishing plans?

Looks like we will be heading over to the islands tomorrow to get into some reds and goldband. The billfish have been off the chew, except for Matt Gates getting a 450-500 pound blue marlin yesterday... Just thought I'd put it out there and see what everyone is planning to do / target over the weekend.

Have a good one guys n gals.
Adam

ok well havent been out from mindarie yet i drove up for a look at the ramp the other day and it looks pretty good, the only thing is i would take its a pretty busy ramp on a weekend? also, whats the go with heading out, looks like there might be a few reefs around, is there any leading lines etc to head out or to follow any paths, also if you were heading out from mindarie what would be the best direction to fish and what depth atm

After the disaster of having the drag fail on my reel last night I popped down the road to buy something a bit tougher. Picked up a Banax iso 7000. This is a no bling reel if I wever saw one. No gold paint, just a plain metal colouring. At least I won't have to worry about scrathcing it on the rocks.
I have heard these are pretty tough reels and the sales chap rated it pretty highly. It will should certainly keep me going until Santa brings my Shimano baitrunner.
Anyone have any knowledge on these reels. All input appreciated.
Regards Colin Hay

I was just wondering when the fads will be out, or are they already out there?

We went out thursday and all of our spots in this one area were full of little baby black arse, from 15cm up to 30cm and only a few bigger ones.  As soon as you bait was on the bottom it was getting hammered by them, hopefully good signs for the future.

Pic of the biggest


Cheers
Dean

p.s.  Cheers Ryan for showing the dropper loops, used the rigs yesterday and worked great (no tangles), getting the hang of tying the knots aswell, will be down you way in a few weeks probably