The blessings of the fleets have been held, licences are being renewed and fishers, both recreational and commercial, are preparing for another season of catching and enjoying one of our State’s most popular seafoods.

Right, this is more of a troubleshooting thread regarding the Abu c4 5600.

I use this reel on a Abu Morrum 5-6KG stick, and for some reason, everytime I cast this thing, it fails.. either in a birdsnest hardc0re or the lure/jighead flies out and just goes straight down into the water/sand below me rather than out into the blue yonder...

I have an Abu c3 6500 which is on a Morrum 6-8KG stick and this reel absolutely pwns, it casts mega far using a 40 gram metal and I have no problems using this thing with little or no brakes.

However, for some stupid reason, I just cant cast the 5600!

the 5600 has 14lb suffix on it and the 6500 has 20lb fireline.

Any ideas why?

Does anyone else have experience with these two reels and find there is a massive casting difference and technique between them or should it be pretty straight forward... if you can cast one, you should be able to cast the other???

Maybe its the Rod? Or Lurweight to line ratio?

I was casting the 6500 flat out with over the shoulder casts, nothing small like under or side arm so yeah, just so dumbfounded as to why this 5600 doesnt like me.

Who can i PM to verify the location of the blackwall reach barge and yacht. I am dead certain of wish buoys they are on i just dont know where to drop the lines ie towards cliffs, away from cliffs or directly below, as last session came up trumps for me.

DO any of you guys heat and bend chemically sharpened hooks?
 Ive just started doing it to heavy duty livebait hooks (hoodlums) to make them octopus style.
They seem strong enough but am worried when they are under load the heating and bending may have made the hooks brittle causing them to snap. Anyone had problems with snapping them?
Catchya

Hi Guys, i use my tinny mainly for squiding and no matter what i wash it with it still smells.
Is there any cleaning products out there that can solve my problem

cheers Troy

Headed down to Trigg Point this morn about 5.30am. Walked out on the reef baitcasting mulies and ended up with 4 tailor (35-45cm) and 1 good lil salmon (52cm).
One guy was using metals and only managed the one, and another guy got nothing on roosta 80s. Seemed to take a liking to bait this morn!
good fun though, got soaked by the waves but it was worth it..

cheers
sam

Tailor Sesh

has enyone here heard of a lure brand called timber wolf cos my brother and his mates were out diving today at hillarys and found a timber wolf lure imbedded in the weed patches

hey guys. seeing as me and few of the blokes from this site are heading up north on the weekend, just wondering wat typwe of lures you would recommend for big tailor, already taking up 30-40gram metal slices and a couple of roostas, any other poppers? stick baits? ect.. cheers

Looking to buy a decent pair of split ring pliers any suggestions someone mentioned the duo but is there anything else that someone has used and thinks is better quality and that will last,looking for idea's

Just saw your mug on the cover of FWA.  Well done, and got a bit of a FW logo in there too.  Good Stuff!

Ok, well, i thought it might be a good idea, since tis the season now for it and coming up... to throw it all out there about hunting these fish..

Now I dont mean, knock off from work, its blowing a NW or SW not too strong to battle to cast and not too light for no chop so Ill go fishing and see what happens at sunset...

I mean: OK I am going to hunt tailor, ANYTIME OF THE DAY..

Apart from the usual rigmarole of berleying up bigtime near some whitewashy, reefy sandy gutter or hole, i really want to get a good list of spots that can fire during the day, aswell as early morning and sunset...

Im sure others would be keen on finding out some info on this as I hate it when you got some time up ya sleeve for fishing and you wanna go L/B and you want to try for some tailor but you got no bloody options because its either too sunny, or too flat, or just not right conditions where you usually go....

So I guess what im asking is, does anybody have any standout pointers or qualities that they look for in a spot for fishing for tailor during the day?

Better yet, does anybody know some good stretches known to hold the toothies during the day? Ie, stretches of beach or something that actually have something to hold the fish there...

Or is this a fallicy question and no matter what, unless its just a blue moon thing, the tailor just cant be had during the day because theyre too far out.

so whoes goin out on sunday might be a few hours fishin to be had ?

i've got a school camp comming up to walpole and i want to take a rod but it has to be teloscopic. as i will only use it once i dont want to spent much more than $30ish. i was wondering weather any one had one i could buy or weather anybody knows where i could get one, will mainly use it for chuking lures around, and i will matched it with 10lb
cheers

gday guys,

havent been out for fricken ages and im pretty keen, if anyones heading out n they need someone, im more than keen

chip in the usual..sundays looking the best

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDW11400.html

cheers
sam

i want to buy a new rod and reel for flicking soft plastics there is just to much to choose from which one should i get, need some suggestions (keep the price reasonable lol) it is just for small plastic Bream, Flathead, herring etc   

Hey pertherians

I am going to be down that way as of sunday for a week  on a course.  I want to pick up some gear including a new barra rod to replace the one i snapped on the weekend.  What is close to the city that i can get to preferably on a saturday for a look,  I will have a car but i cant really be bothered venturing too far.

Cheers

Has anyone been crabbing by any chance down mandurah since the peel harvey estuary was re-opened? i was thinking of dropping some nets on the up ad coming monday and was wondering what the numbers were like down there.

cheers
james

After seeing pictures of Andy and Tim tagging a number of different demersal species, We were just wondering how you go about getting the required equipment/permissions to tag Demersal species, would give us a chance to tag many of the undersize fish we catch and release.
Tried a google and didn't come up with anything

Cheers
Dean

Shimano T curve 400 overhead jigg stick Not bein used still got tags on it, New to buy 1.7 m two piece jig weight 300-500 gram line weight 37 kg has bag as well

Mum bought me a new one as did the sister so one is for sale

$160 pm if interested 

anyone fishing tonight ? or tmr night?? maybe at triggs or floreat beach?? i wonder wat do you catch there at floreat? havent been there? anyone been there could tell me wat is it like?? hmm feel like going for mulla or tailor....any nice spots ? any recommendation for those fishes?

Anyone ever test the catch rate comparing the two different bottom rigs?

Has anyone tried an Okuma Axeon AXS-90? Seems to be a nice strong reel for beach and rock fishing a reasonable price. Thanks Colin Hay

heading out to the swan on friday for a scurf and a fish. never fished the river be4 and was hoping to get my fist fish on SP's could some one recomend a spot. we'll be in my mates dingy and launching from freshwater bay so could travel as far as the narrows or blackies. was thinking of heading round to point walter and chucking some SP's, HB's and even some prawn stars at the spit

any help is appreciated
cheers miles

A mate dropped off 8 really large meat tubs for me but being that they are a metre long and two foot wide have 6 that are free they are heavy duty plastic,if you want one send me a pm

G'day Guys,

Recently I have purchased the first 2 editions of the Ocean Geographic magazine and think they are superb and well worth a look for the $10.95. They release 4 a year and have stunning underwater photography, paintings, articles and environmental information from around the world. It is called the 'Almanac of Our Seas' and is more on the conservative side and only covers a little bit on fishing, more the commercial impact of fishing, but its images are awesome. The latest one has some brilliant sailfish, shark and coral pics too.

If you are in your newsagent, have a look, its pretty good!

Cheers,
Adam