Hey guys, my best mate and I in our 50's love our fishing but have been spoilt with access to some awesome creek and off shore fishing in the Pilbara. We made a pact to dedicate a week a year for a boys trip fishing. I've got a good 4.5m runabout but just wanted some suggestions of location to fish reasonably easy, beach is still good with 4x4 but not camp out. 

Down here for a few days. Area new to me so chasing some advice on where to catch some fish.

 Here's a good luck bad luck story. My mate swims every morning at port beach.  Thus morning he picks up a recently lost pink snapper of around 4kg. Hooked deep in the stomach line hanging out of its mouth glow stick attached.  Some poor bugger lost it off the north mole. Classic. He's given it a good home

 
Enjoy 

 Hey legends 

Just bought a nice little 3.8m plate ali tinny while I'm doing my cabin to centre console conversion on the leeder and need to christen it with a trip up north so shark bay is the pick for mid to end of July if anyone has any tips for the area as I've only fished it once before trolling is more my thing for pelagics I'm a confident skipper and can read the weather so not afraid to go a bit further in the smaller tub any pointer would be much appreciated 

Cheers guys 

 Heads up for all those who collect there own firewood.  The perth Hills Jarrahdale wood collection areas are closed!!! We are expected to use the Tumblo area, Dwellingup.  Ridiculous.  DEPOR strikes again

Hey Legends, I've been so lucky to be invited out on Shane's New Hellfire

for anyone interested here's a bit of a vid how it goes

youtu.be/E9Btfdw2zZ0

Enjoy 

Hey guys,

Heading to Augusta soon, and with the rains this week looks like an awesome time fish.

**Looking for some suggestions for how to structure the day on the water?**

The primary goal is to catch a mulloway.

My thoughts are...

Fish the morning for Bream, mid-day for whiting and bread and butter fish and fish the sunset for tailor..

And finally anchor up near the mouth or narrow river sections for mulloway!

What fish would you target? And at what times of the day? River mouth, up stream?

cheers

 Hi

Have 4 nights mid June in Port Bouvard Marina. Taking a small ali boat and hoping to catch some squid. Can anyone advise if there are weed banks banks out from the cut that could produce squid. Happy to also try for whiting and KG's if there are any in this area. I guess there wont be much chance of crabs at this time of the year.

Thanks for any suggestions 

Cheers

 Hey guys,

got a furuno 587 and it has been a pain to turn on lately / sometimes dosent power up without removing and reinserting power cord. Have noticed a bit of corrosion on the head unit terminals, have sprayed them with contact cleaner but it still continues to be a problem. Anyone had this issue with sounders before? I was thinking maybe getting a small wire brush to scrub them but it's arkward to get in there.

 Hey all 

Bit of a curly question which I know has a lot of variables involved, but Ive bought a 2nd smaller boat and it has a minn kota fitted and Im wondering how long the battery will actually last using the spot lock (will mainly be using that feature to hold on deeper spots etc as its too small and I cant be bothered with a electric winch at this point!)

Stats:

Hull: 5.35 Sea jay centre console with a 100hp Honda

Elec motor: Minn Kota 55lb

Current battery: 100ah AGM (not connected to motor or solar for charging at this point)

I will only ever be getting to the spots I have in mind in good/ fair weather so dont anticipate too much swell/ current for it to have to work overly hard

Guess the question Im asking is how long realistically should I expect the current battery to last on spot lock? I do have a couple of larger batteries I can plug into it but hoping to avoid that if neccisary due to the nice and tidy battery boxes and set up of the current one!
 

Cheers in advance

 Are there any electronics gurus out there?

I'm going a full new electronics fitout for my new to me boat and looking for a bit of advise, I'm thinking of going all garmin which is very new to me as I have always run furuno sounders but I'm liking what I'm seeing with the garmin stuff, will be getting a couple of multi function displays, radar, autopilot and I'm trying to figure out what transducer/transducers I should get as I need to fit them before the boat goes back in the water. Would be keen to have a chat if anyone is happy to give some advise.

Cheers

Rod

 Did both days this weekend.. Saturday we 

managed too get onto early! Early being 12am

once wind dropped . 3.5s being the right 

weight for the drift .. now to turn the Into

a pink off the sand.. cheers pirate .

 
Enjoy 

 Well it's once again just like a dream now, the anticipation and build up all gone like tears in the rain :P 

Was certainly a different trip with the wind blowing up the first 3 days and a lot of sitting around, bullshitting and drinking.

That said there's nothing like wallowing in the bay with a beer in hand and 8 scantily clad lasses in their G string bikinis close by makes you kinda forget your not out on the briney trying to slay fish. 

The bite itself once we did get out was very slow when the tidal almanac said it was meant to be a peak midday bite....BS

Anyway we fed the sharks well on a diet of bottom meats and jigs, a lot of them out there now with some nice jewelry. 

Many spots and depths were tried even my sacred spot in 100m produced one Goldband before being smashed with sharks, I lost one particular fish I reckon was no doubt a stonker red about a 3rd of the way up and was ready to throw my rod overboard in utter frustration. That particular spot has produced heaps of fish in the past so it consolidated my theory on the bite time being off.  

Thankfully the next day we tried more north of the bay out in 60m and finally came accross some big bommies which held good fish, each drift producing something good. 

The Coronation when hooked darted for his hidey hole and nearly bricked me before I gave him/her/they/them  plenty of slack and it  poked it's  head out finally and got him/her/they/them upwith high fives all round.  

The Estuary I took for a shark and was pissed off for a bit before somthing twigged it wasn't and first sighting of colour had me yelling spittle for the net, it went 13.4kg nice stocking filler that one. 

My PB Cobia at 16.1kg was pretty stoked with that. The Cobia actually saved our bag for the trip, there were plenty about  although we did get Some good Rankin, big Redthroat and Spangled. 

The Mackies were good on the troll as well as a nice Yellowfin where we had excellent Sashimi one night.

Last troll of the trip saw us hook up to a Billfish in 30m just out of the bay, my son saw it jump but couldn't make it species wise. I did see it thrash about on the surface before it knifed through the leader FFS 

Plenty of good laughs, banter at the filleting shed and a great steak night with a bottle of Grange put the icing on the cake. 

Will be back for more punishment next year

 Only 4 ramps, top car park is gone, normal Rd in is gone, only 4 ramps, small car park down below, ordinary wing got 1nice  pink and heap of small ones , so early day

 Hey guys... so just arrived in Denham after leaving Exy but only here for 2 possibly 3 nights and have never fished out of here before so I'm basically throwing out a scared schoolboy cry for help on any info that might help me find anything (preferably top water) that might bend a coupla rods? I have no clue where to go or how to fish the area so any help will be sick! Cheers again f wreckers!

So, out fishing about 5nm south of Rotto about level with West End at lunchtime and radio goes off with a Pan call.  Epirb gone off about 14 miles west of us, Coast radio asking for assistance.  There were about 5 boats out further than us but no one responded, so we thought stuff it, we will go and help.  Were told the epirb coordinates were only accurate within about 4 miles, so we headed to that point.  Nearly there and caught a flash off  windscreen about 2 miles south and headed for it, found 2 guys in about a 16 to 17 ft boat with original rego in the 76000, so I guess built about early 80s or earlier.  They could only get there motor into gear in reverse, perhaps they should have taken the lid off and tried to select forward manually.  The interesting thing was that there was no radio aerial on the boat, and if they had a handheld there was no sign of it, nor did they try and call on 16 as we got nearer.  I asked where the radio was and they said they had also lost power to the front, but when I asked where the aerial was they had no answer.  Anyway, waited with then for half an hour while the cop boat arrived, then headed back.  All in all we travelled nearly 28nm, wasted 1 and a half hours, as did 2 other private boats that were also heading out.  I understand that we all need assistance at some time, but FFS, at least have a radio and an Epirb with GPS on it if you are going out 30nm from Fremantle.

 Im interested in buying one, does anyone here know if they are available in Perth ? I need to cast a bunch of sinkers in proper haste. My system is too slow haha, any insight is appreciated. 

Had enough of using squid . Only using one rig pain is ass . Couple of bites squid gone. Up you come. First dive in over a year. Dug out semi dry ( nice and hot) . Enough bait to last a while.

 Heading to Thevenard Island end of next week with our boat. Anyone there now or recent and know whether the sharks are a problem. Fingers crossed for decent weather. Cheers 

 Heading to Thevenard Island end of next week with our boat. Anyone there now or recent and know whether the sharks are a problem. Fingers crossed for decent weather. Cheers 

 Numbers and size definitely improving . 
water fairly clean slow start . But picked

up . Quick swap out too lighter jigs with 

the drop in the wind which pinged most 

of them . Especially the bigger squid I 

find the smaller jigs .. cheers pirate ..

We have been getting onto some nice whiting and other beach species down south.
I think it's time to introduce the mrs to the Alvey life. 

Who in perth has the best range of Alvey rods and reels for sale?

hopefully picture attached to brag  

 Gday, Up in Exmouth at the moment until Wednesday and was wondering if anyone has any idea where the Spaniards are hanging around at the moment? Have put in some serious hours trolling along the back of the reef from northwest reef all the way down to around turquoise Bay Area with not even a single hit on any of the hard bodies, laser pros, samaki pacemakers, nomad Dtx minnows. So just wondering if anyone could point me in a general direction of where they have had any success recently? There's a carton in it for someone if they point me to the goods ;) 

Cheers!

 
Enjoy 

Last time out the Furuno FCV627 failed to power up. Took head unit to Furuno/Taylor Marine in Henderson & they put in on their power cable and they tell me it powered up no problems so therefore the cable was the issue. Bought (~$150) & installed new cable. Head unit still wouldn't power up.
Multi-metered cables at fuses 12.77V, fuses fine, cut some small wire and inserted into cable end connection points (see diagram 7+ & 8-) still 12.77V. Contact cleaned the head unit connection pins, & they all appear to be fine. Anyone experienced this or can offer some fault finding I ain't already done?

After advice about any techniques/tools that people use for pulling occys out of their holes in the reef? 

I have always just used a cheap aluminium gidgee which for the most part does the trick, but I am sick of breaking the flimsy things! 

I typically try and lever them out with the gidgee so not sure I want to try this with a fibreglass gidgee.... Thiking something more along the lines of a hook fixed to the end of a pole to pull them out. 

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