Well, I was 'one of those blokes' this arvo.....total cock up of a pretty simple boat rule.....keep to the right. 

Took my youngest bloke and his cousin for a quick fish this arvo, missus dropped us off to the marina and we jumped on the boat which is penned and headed out. 

I was just explaining to the two young boys that you need to stay on the opposite side to the side you drive cars in Australia, when two small boats come head long toward us, yelling abuse I was on the wrong side. 

With my boat being quite a bit bigger, plus me thinking I was on the correct side, and given this happening many times  before with beginner skippers, I suggested this is not a car on the road, but a boat and suggested they move to the other side. 

They refused to move over, so  being the bigger man I moved over to the 'wrong' side to miss them...... I was not able to retort to the low level abuse they shouted at me given I has two young boys on board......

Anyhow, about 10 seconds later I realised what had  happened..... The missus had dropped me off and I was onthe passengers side, in the car, and subconsciously thought I was on the correct side as I was on the opposite side to what I was in the car...

Now, I have had many boats over many years and done thousands of hours on the water..... And still complete rookie mistakes like this are possible. 

I Had a bit of a chuckle with the boys, and I would like to apologise to the young blokes in the two boats who were actually in the 'RIGHT'...... 

Bloody senior moment.... Haha. 

anyhow, ended well, a quick 90 minute fish fonr the two young fellas netted two KGs, a flattie, a heap of sand whiting and a chunky Baldie that went hard on whiting gear

 Hey guys up in coral bay atm been doing ok getting a few small macks and shark macks anyone have any idea where I should be looking for the larger models been trying all week with not much luck for size fish what depths or areas should I be looking at 

 hi guys, i know its not fishing related but,

i am chasing a couple of off cutts of aluminium tube to do a repair on my Fabdock for my penned boat

i need 1 x piece of tube 63mm OD , with 6mm walls & 1 x piece of tube 50mm OD, with 3mm walls or similar

i only need about 300mm of each lenght, but will pay for 1mtr lenght of each if i can find it

otherwise i almost have to pay for 6mtr lenghts

I am South of the River, but can travel if need be

thanks in advance

I have a 6.6 trailcraft and want to modify the trailer to make it easier to drive on, has anyone done this with a trailcraft trailer or similar? Thinking ill have to remove centre rollers and fit skids? Any advice appreciated, cheers

Gday legends.

Me and a mate are away on a fishing trip and we can't source our 

Preferred TCW3 outboard oil. All We can get is Fuchs Titan.

My question is can we mix oils with no problems??

Example: Shell Nautilus and Fuchs Titan. Are They able to be mixed in an oil tank in an oil injected Mariner.

Cheers guys.

 Hi

heading to coral bay next week for three weeks. Just chasing what depth to find Ruby's

thanks

 We've just recieved more Yeti Colsters and 24oz Beer Mugs, stock is limited on te mugs so get in quick to secure one 

Enjoy

 I'm thinking about taking the plunge and getting a boat builder mate of mine to knock me up a boat...I'm pretty sure he mostly uses the Jackman style kits but i thought I'd put it out there if anyone knows a cracking boat in the length mentioned above...

 Popped out for night fish for some 

tailor for beach baits and a stray 

bronze.. no joy on the sharks but

picked up few tailor biggest 430mm

bait casting mulies . Should start

too pick up especially on those windy

nights . Cheers pirate.. 

Thoughts on what breed of Macky this is?
 

I'm 98% sure it's not a Spaniard. Maybe a broadbar? 
 

Shot in 9m at shark bay over the weekend. There was a school of about 30 of them, which I originally thought were shark mackies so I ignored them, but then double took and thought they were Spanish so I nailed one. Measured 105cm, so not big, but no stripes like the normal spanyardas. I'll tell u what it tastes like tomorrow. 

 Hello to you all.

Im needing to put a trailer under my big fat Shark Cat ( 8.5m ). Let's start a discussion on who makes the best trailers and does it need to be ally or steel?. On an even more fun topic a tow vehicle to mooove this puppy around. I'm needing to be thinking outside the box here with a trailer that's going to be capable of moving about 6000kg ( trailer included ) and a truck to tow it with.
Cheers people!.
 

Hi,

Looking at getting a Daiwa Saltiga 15 for metro jigging.

Would be paired with  a pe 1-3 rod and 30lb braid.

After any owner opinions of the Saltiga 15 and whether it’s got enough drag for the job etc

Cheers

 Out early Wednesday before work , found a couple

 We will be open on Monday. 8.30AM to 5.00PM

Hi

Planning to head out  from Woodmans point and fish the drop off at the back of the five fathom bank.

Hoping to get a snapper or dhuie 

Not sure if best to anchor or drift?

Thanks for any advice 

Joycey 

Magic out on the ocean yesterday arfo, no skips but we did manage seven nice tailor. Most on bait but a couple on jigs. Biggest 61 cm. Skipper managed 4 port Jackson’s. Few under sized pinks etc.

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 Hey all

Up in Exmouth atm and just wondering if anyone knows of

any good land based areas to take the kids? Tried the marina and Learmonth jetty but all they've caught so far is a sun tan. 
 

cheers 

Enjoy

 HEY ALL

a few months ago i had a garmin striker sounder and echo map installed

they both worked perfect

my boat has sat around for around 5 months due to work and weather and i recently jumped on it to start the motor (nio issues)

and the electrics

the strike when plugged in says transducer connection lost?

i did google it and theyve saud basically to run through the connections which i have

has anyone else had this problem?

cheers guys

 Hi Everyone,

We are heading to S Bend next week and I would appreciate any advice on beach spots to try?  I have been there two December's ago but it was crazy windy.   Would love to catch a fish not fussy what type really.   Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you 

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Gday, looks pretty good to me.

 All new 4 prong Cliff gaff from Maph fishing. Made from 316 stainless steel these gaff are sure to land you those prize fish off the cliffs

guys im heading up north this friday been watching the weather and wind all week and looking like a lot of southerlys was wondering if anyone had any insight for what im in for and best reccomendations for fishing options have a leeder 650 with 200 opti mainly want to troll vs anchor up or drift any info would be massive help

Berkeley River north of Kununurra......and I didn't catch it my wife did, all I did was loose good fish to the oyster rocks and mangrove roots.   But for anyone considering a five star trip (at better than half price if you watch out for specials) then the Berkeley River Lodge is highly recommended but not for your waistline with five course meals every night and huge seafood lunches

Hi all, in the market for a pair of flick rods. One to cast lures from the beach (surf) with lures up to 3 or 4oz  and the other that I can use for light lures for the rivers and dams ..  I'm a bit tired of lure fishing with my 12 foot surf rod .. it's just too much .. so a shorter/lighter rod is what I'm after .. and i would also like to get my hand into river and dam fishing with soft plastics and small lures .. what are the opinions?

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Just got back from the Mackie Islands so thought I would do a bit of a write up for anyone thinking about going. We took 3 boats and 10 blokes

Day 1
Woke at 3:00am Drove straight up from Perth to Onslow. Got to Onslow around 5pm that afternoon and swagged it at the caravan park. Onslow tav for a good feed and to establish a few competitions for the trip!

Day 2
Checked in at the resort in Onlsow where we were told that we aren't allowed to bring Engels and fuel. Apparently not even allowed to have an Engel on your boat from what we were told.... Found out all this information that was supposed to be sent to us in an information pack but they forgot to send it to us. No dramas unloaded the Engels and left the Jerry cans in the kill tanks as we had 200 litres in fuel in jerries.
Went for a cruise down one of the local creeks before heading over to the island. Quick half an hour walk managed to hook 2 big buck muddies out of their holes. Stoked!!!
On the way over found schools of mackeral that we were sight casting lures at which was awesome fun.
Made our way to the island and unloaded the gear. Team was helpful and had a ute there waiting to unload us so we could go out fishing. Quick unload into our cabin and straight out. Didn't need to go far where we found Reds, Rankin, trout, Spangos, Saddles all in about 25m of water. Was a great little arvo sesh.
Dinner was a feast... Muddies were amazing!!

Day 3
Weather all week looks like its going to be windy in the morning, dropping off around 10ish then picking up around 3pm. Headed out around 9 towards the long island direction. Fished from 25m to around 70m picking up the usual Reds, Ranks, Trout. Had awesome fun landing a few massive chinaman and cod.
Came back towards the island around 3pm where we decided to have a quick dive on a few bombies we found. Crays and Coral trout everywhere. Got a few crays for a feed as we heard the painteds and ornates weren't the best eating and plucked a few trout on the straight hook - According to the Island manager they come in close this time of year waiting for the turtles to lay and hatch so they can eat the baby turtles so was more than happy to help the turtle population haha
Had surf and turf tonight for dinner and no matter what anyone says about the crays, fresh they were bloody awesome!!

Day 4
Thought this day was going to be the better of the days weather wise so my boat decided to head out deep dropping to get see if we could get a few rubies and fish the wells out wide. Rubies were everywhere however getting them past the sharks was a problem. Could have gotten our bag easily but was only getting in 1 in every 3 fish. Got a bag of rubies and headed into the wells. The wells are very fishy and very sharky. If you could get them past the sharks there was everything. Robinson sea bream, pearl perch, Reds. Sounder lit up when you went over a well, but could see the sharks hovering above.
Came in, filleted and had an awesome cheese platter.... Definently a hightlight for the trip hahaha

On this day when we went to put our fillets into the island on the freezer we found that the fillets from the first day weren't frozen. The freezers on the island don't work properly which is a bit average when you cant bring your own engels over. We were transferring fillets from their big freezer to our freezer in our cabin to freeze them then back into the big freezer. We talked to the manager and they turned another freezer on and transferred everything over but still didn't freeze the fillets. In the end they offered to put the fillets into their big freezer which helped but to not allow you to bring your own engels then not having adequate freezers to freeze your catch frankly isn't good enough.

Day 5
Headed towards Rosily Cay. Had a bit of a troll trying to get a couple of Mackies…… Got Rankin on the troll hahaha managed to get some mackies at the back of rosily cay. Casted lures into the wash at rosily but only managed to get long tom. One of the other boats got a good Spaniard on a stick bait casting into a school of bait fish which was epic. This day was extremely sharky, only bringing up probably 1 in every 4 fish. On one of the spots thought I had a massive shark on but ended up pulling up a 35-40kg Cod. When retrieving my hooks the poor bugger had about 5 jigs / assist hooks in his gob and in his gills, don't know how he was still living. Managed to get most of the air out of him and swam him back to destroy someone elses gear haha.
Later on in the arvo I was trying to untangle a couple of lines. Lucky I didn't have the braid wrapped around my hand but resting on it... Something big grabbed the line that was still in the water and burnt / Sliced my fingers open... Was painful and didn't want to look at my hand for a bit but after looking all my fingers still there and not huge cuts but still hurt. Lesson learnt... Get someone else to hold it haha
The next day was looking really windy so this night was pretty big.... Lots of beers and rums resulted in racing the local crabs on the beach which was bloody good fun!!

Day 6
Windy day today so had a sleep in to try cure the hang over. The guys on the island took us over to the sheltered side of the island on their bus where we had an awesome 30 minute session catching GT's off the beach, I managed an GT on a lure shaped like a dick which was one of our competitions we set so I was stoked with that.
Wind died right down in the arvo so 1 boat headed out with 5 people on board that wanted to head out for a sundown session. Massive trout were on the bight. Managed our bag of trout and rankin in about 3 hours. Was a great little session.

Day 7
Headed in from the island back down the creek to grab another couple of crabs, Got a few and headed into Onslow. Drove from Onlsow to Carnarvon where we all got on the sauce and regretted it the next day driving from Carnarvon back to Perth.

Conclusion
All in all was an awesome trip, if its on your bucket list I would 100% recommend it. In saying that I would only do it once as I think theres easier places to go with just as good fishing.
A few things
- Sharks are terrible. Cant do anything about it except keep moving. Some days only bringing in 1 in every 4 fish.
- Cant take Engels but the island needs to improve their freezers
- Cant take fuel unless you leave in on board like we did. Fuel is around $2 per litre on the island
- Cant take booze unless you leave it on the boat. We bought booze from the island which was about $10 per carton more expensive which isn't too bad considering
- Sand flies / mozzies etc weren't that bad, but leave your food items up off the ground as the mice are bad
- Bait out fished jigs / placcies 10 times over so use bait... Also cheaper than using jigs and loosing heaps
- Staff were pretty good and helpful. Some were very good to look at hahahaha
- Fillet station, island amenities were amazing. Good lights and everything at the fillet station which was a bonus.
- Moorings were great, ropes on the moorings must have been changed as they were all in great condition. We had 30knot winds one morning and were no issues