I thought I would start up a new thread as the original was getting pretty long.
The first list is the current list of those planning on taking part.
A second list is to ascertain who is going up on the Friday night.
ATTENDEES
SPESS 4x4 -Sherbert
Albee mangles 4x4 - One spot available
Tailor marc needs a ride
shag 4x4 - Jody - Max199 - Dean
Brenz 4x4 =
boofhead ????
andrew 4x4
neander 4x4
uncle stu 4x4 & colin hay
peteD 4x4 & NoWorries
mitta79 4x4 1 spot available
scottnofish 4x4
vander72 4x4 1 spot avail.
Carolyn & Hubby
Staal Lover Hobie Bloke
tommo77
Russ & Sandy 4x4 2 spots
THOSE GOING UP FRIDAY NIGHT
Uncle Stu and Colin Hay

Lake Kepwari set for summer opening

There’s good news for the South-West, with Lake Kepwari expected to open this summer.
South-West Minister Mark McGowan said plans to transform the former mining void into one of Western Australia’s biggest freshwater recreational lakes were moving forward.
“With the planning phase complete and the partial surrender of the mining lease back to the State imminent, progress is now being made on finalising designs and tender documentation,” Mr McGowan said.
“We anticipate a late summer opening and that means water-skiers can enjoy everything the lake has to offer.”
Lake Kepwari, 10km east of Collie, is a mining void that has been rehabilitated by Wesfarmers Premier Coal.
It holds about 30 gigalitres of water and is almost two kilometres long, one kilometre wide and up to 70m deep.
Collie-Wellington MLA Mick Murray said plans for the first stage of the project included the development of a boat launching area, swimming beach, parking area, barbecues and shelters.
“There has been strong interest in the project from a number of water recreation groups,” Mr Murray said.
“The lake will be a drawcard to the South-West and raise the profile of Collie.
“It will complement the highly successful Collie Motorplex that was also supported by the State Government in partnership with Wesfarmers Premier Coal.
“It is set to become the centre for water-based recreation in the region.”
The project has received $3.29million from the State Government towards construction of infrastructure and management of the site.

Fisheries Minister Jon Ford has increased community representation on the advisory committee that manages the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.

Six new members have been appointed to the Abrolhos Islands Management Advisory Committee, along with three returning members and chairman Peter Driscoll, whose term continues.

The new members include Perth Zoo Animal Health and Research Director Dr Helen Robertson; air charter operator-owner Caroline Pettet; charter vessel operator Leonie Noble; Tourism WA Industry Development and Visitor Servicing Executive Director Jennifer Duffecy; trucking company owner-operator Heather Jones and charter vessel owner-operator Jay Cox.

The returning members are recreational fisher Bevan Suckling; Abrolhos Islands commercial rock lobster fisher Kris Carlberg and pearl farm lease co-owner Martin Jurat.

Mr Ford said the committee traditionally had a strong focus on commercial rock lobster fishing. However, given concerns about impacts from rising visitor numbers and the expansion of tourism activity at the islands, he had increased the committee’s membership from nine to 10, to enlist more expertise in these areas and allow more local representation.

The Abrolhos Islands and their surrounding waters are an A-class reserve and a fish habitat protection area respectively. Both are vested in the Minister for Fisheries for the conservation of flora and fauna, tourism and purposes associated with the fishing industry.

The Minister said the islands’ special values included a rich marine ecosystem, combining both temperate (cool water) flora and fauna and tropical coral reef habitat; internationally significant seabird rookeries and some of WA’s most significant marine archaeological sites and early 17th century Dutch shipwrecks.

“The Department of Fisheries runs a research centre on Rat Island and has four dedicated field staff who spend 140 days a year on the islands,” Mr Ford said.

“The Abrolhos Islands offer a unique combination of marine and terrestrial diversity, as well as a rich history and important fishing grounds.

“The Department of Fisheries, which manages both the land and marine systems of the islands, is therefore taking steps to ensure that increasing visitor numbers are managed without causing detriment to the environment.

“For example, the department recently built 22 public moorings to reduce anchor damage while ensuring boat safety and access to dive sites and it also conducted a major maintenance program for the islands’ three airstrips.”

Mr Ford said the newly appointed advisory committee would continue the previous committee’s work in overseeing a review of the Abrolhos Islands Management Plan.

Finally signed up to do my RST this Saturday - are the self test questions pretty much the same as thosed asked in the actual theory test? I am pretty well clued up but don't have a lot of free time to memorise every detail.

Went out from Two Rocks yesterday ( monday) for the first time. Got there at 7am and was the first boat in. As I have never fished there before and with no other boats around at the time I had no idea where to start fishing. Ended up fishing out west on direction bank as the weather was good. Got a couple of dhuies but nothing to brag about. There were a few trailers back at the ramp when we got in at 4.30pm but we did not see any boats on the water all day. That may indicate we were fishing in the wrong spot.
Looking for advice on the area. Where to start for a chance of a dhuie or snapper.Is it lumps or flat coral I should be looking for. Is there ground worth a try a bit closer in. Is it better north or south of the marina.

Any help would be great.
Paul

Hi All

Headed out from point peron yesterday (monday) with a mate
hoping to catch a dhuie on some new ground we had found
in around 28 meters. Did a few drifts and we caught
Harlis, Black Bums, Sargent Bakers, Whiting,Skippy, Snapper but no Dhuies!

The black bums and skippy loved the soft plastics. My mate also caught a
big KG,Harli and a pike on the sp's.

Was a great day weather and fish wise and great to be out on the water.

We seem to find the right type of ground but never pick up dhuies.
Are we in too shallower water? Any advise or tips?

Thanks

Anyone know where you can go netting for yabbies? Love a yabbie sandwich and a cold beer!

So with such good weather tomorrow, who's going out?

Im heading out from Two rocks for my first fish since coming back from Exmouth so hanging out for a good fish.

May be going to Onslow for a day or 2 next week, based in town. Anyone know what the shore based fishing is like? Within walking distance from town, will have a day up my sleeve, so would like to chuck a line in.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Cheers

Brett

Hi Guys, The time is drawing near were i have to make big decisions about what I bring over to Capel as we are driving over in a Toyota hiace 12 seater bus & what doesnt fit doesnt get the trip!
I have a really good set of thigh waders & need you to tell me if I will likely need em or maybe should put them in our GIANT POQ 2 WA garage sale ? Maybe some of you fellas use em for crabbing?

Hey guys, went to the moore today, caught a few fish, most were quite small apart from a 35cm. took a few nice pics that i like and will post them up in my photo album.

The mouth was broken and the river was very low, alot of dirty water in the ocean, looks like mulloway territory.

Heres the biggest and the rest will be in here - http://fishwrecked.com/image/tid/125 

Cheers for looking.

Hi Guys,

Anyone know if Bundegi Boat ramp is up and going? We are going to be  staying at the lighthouse caravan park next week, and fishing around the Murions, is it easier/quicker launch from the marina or Tantabiddi?

Chers

Okay, with the new Gov Ban being put in place soon, I'm curious to see your thoughts & what will you be doing?

(1) Will you sell your boat?

(2) Will this ban reduce your amount of trips out? 

(3) Will you be targetting other species, if so what type?

(4) Will you travel North more during the ban?

(5) Will interest rates & fuel cost be "more" of a factor than the ban? 

(6) Will this reduce your spending at your local tackle store, if so what amount ie small/fair bit/or alot?

If "all" can be answered it would be appreciated and Thanks in advance! 

Lord give me the strength
to catch a fish so big
before I die

That, when speaking of it
to my friends
I will never need to lie

anon

I reckon that YTkingie in today's paper looks under 20kgs.  It's still a great catch but I call it for being smaller than the weight recorded.  

gee its been pretty quiet on here the last couple of days..... is that cause everyone has been busy fishing?????

Just wondering whos going out

Got a good customer of the shop that is looking for 2 people to go out on mills charter tonight as 2 people have dropped out, $200 a head, guys name is david and phone number is 0432528169

Im sick to death of going down to the river now to popular places such as whyndam bridge belmont maylands the list goes on to find that (not being racist at all)some of our overseas friends poaching numbers of bream that are simply finominal sometimes 30 at a time with atleast %50 undersize , this is just going to far now ,we try to educate them and the plead they dont understand english or simply just smile and say GOODBYE. why dont fisheries start deploying officers in large numbers to these popular places to nab some of them. I can almost guarentee if you go to the upperswan you will find ghost nets etc gettin put out . you ring the fisheries to bring this to there attention to no prevail every time so why bother. do officers operate at night if not maybe they should cause we have to find a solution to this quik smart before we wipe out our fast dieing river system.
brenz

Hi guys,

Did anyone pick one of these up the other day? They went on sale yesterday and were all gone by the time I got there last night.

Luckily I called up the day before and put 2 on hold, one for the missus and the other a spare.

Any reports on them at all? 7' single piece graphite, 8-15lb line weight.

The guy said there would be 40 coming in next week, so maybe call up and get them to hold you one.

wicksey

was thinking of buying one for my shimano baitrunner? any one got one? do u like it?

Ok a couple of questions which you can answer with a single word

1. lures or bait
2. Overhead or spinning reel
3. Barra or billfish
4. boat or landbased
5. rivers or bluewater
6. Stubbie or can

My answers although they are tough, i have to stay true to the barra

1. lures
2. Spinning
3. Barra
4. Boat
5. Rivers
6. Stubbie

Looking to get back up to Exmouth next year and was wondering what the best time of year is for lighter winds. Is there such a time ?
Always seems that when the gulf is calm the west side is blowing and vice versa and all in the same say.
Not quite sure if good weather equates to good fishing but more time on the water can't hurt.
Thanks
Paul

I'm up there end of August for a few weeks for work, and we staying about 20km from the river.

Has anyone fished this area, what gear is recommended, lures etc and info on the ramp at the river.

We will have a 4x4 Cruiser ute (full mine set-up) and access to a 4,5m tinny with luck. So we hoping to do a bit of Barra chasing etc, but none of us have fished the NT before.

thanks

Tony

Does anyone know any good spots to fish in Lano?

Planning on heading down there this weekend for a bit of a fish ...

Cheers fellas, Tommo

Question gang?

Something that's been bugging me for years on and off, and I finally recalled it whilst I was in here, so I'll pop the question:

Many years ago, my twin brother caught a mulla in shark bay somewhere, shore fishing.

He froze it and brought it home.

When we defosted it and prepared the fillet pieces, we noticed that there was sand right through the flesh - not just inside the sales, or just beneath the skin, but deep down and right through the flesh.

Any theories, thoughts, explanations why this would occur? 

G'day,

Next on my catch list is the sea mulloway(hopefully), have no clue on where to start how deep and baits. Any info would be great.

Cheers

Rob 

Hello fellow fishing addicts

I am after some info and help as to where i can get me a feed of (big) taylor.
I live in Rockingham and have a boat. I used to get a few by the grain terminal
in the sound, but the last few times nothin biting. I have fished from a couple
of beaches up around long point and port kennedy but only ever get the smaller ones.
I usally use a gang with whole mulies or a lure.
I would prefer to get them from the boat though.

Can anyone give me a hand at all?

Thanks
your addicted fishing rat.

Hey guys, I was just wondering if threre has been any reports of tailor-salmon yanchep and suroundings?

because theres some huge gutters there and i could imagin that large schools of the bigger tailor will constantly be passing by.

and mabye one or two schools of salmon will still be around there.

im sure ill be heading down as soon as the weather clears up

 any one got any reports? and if so please keep me updated

cheers lads

seb

I'm looking for a supplier of Garmin GPS accessories for a car-nav system in Perth.

I need a windscreen suction cap mount for a Garmin Nuvi 760,

does anyone know where I can get one urgently today.

thanks

Tony