just wondering,.....r bonito's all yr around??if i cast and cas lures at north mole, would i catch them?????

gday guys good opportunity for a young fella lookin for an aprentiship as a boat builder
good hours etc and great workstaff would be a great opportunity for a young bloke with a passion for  boats and fishing
pm me if your keen cheeers brenz.

Rules for the comp are going to be as simple as possible. Everything caught gets measured and logged on a piece of paper. At the end of the comp the papers must be handed in to either Tim or myself to be eligible for a prize. Start time 6-30am and finish by 11-00am with prizes awarded around 11-30am. BBQ lunch provided from around 12-00pm.

To ensure everyone plays ball, we will split everyone into pairs, whereby the other angler must sign your scorecard (just like in golf) to confirm your catch. So it is important to ensure your fishing buddy for the day verifies each and every fish caught. Details of who the pairings will be will be posted shortly, sorry but they won;t be father son teams or best buddy teams, but there is nothing stopping you fishing next to your buddy if that's what you want to do.

The list you draw up must have the anglers name, species caught and length (jaw to tail fork). with signature of buddy angler at the bottom.

Prizes for the Swan fish comp will include the following:

Cash $100 approx
Tackle vouchers $150 (Courtesy of Compleat Angler Joondalup)
$110 voucher for a 2 hour massage (Courtesy of Alfred)

Some flexibility in prizes will be expected depending on what gets caught on the day and how many end up entering.

Prize categories will include longest fish, most fish, largest total catch length and classic catch.

As was the case with the NOR v SOR comp we will offer up some cash for best photo taken on the day, so make sure you take a heap of pics and load them up on the site for Bruiser to judge. If you still have some pics from either comp that haven't been seen yet make sure you remember to load them up otherwise you miss out on the chance at a prize. I will try and get some movie footage of a few of you fighting some monster bream and telling us all your secret techniques and splice the best bits up to load onto the site for all to have a laugh at.

The NOR v SOR comp presentations will include several prizes, including Champion Angler, who will receive the coveted trophy and a $120 voucher for Landscape or Horticultural consultation courtesy of Jody.

Second place overall will receive a $50 Hogsbreath voucher
Third place will receive $25 cash.

I still have the shirt, siglet & beanie to give to Kal and his team for the NOR champion boat category and also Steve's trophy for champion angler.

As for the BBQ

We (Fishwrecked) will be putting on a sausage sizzle, (sausages, buns, onions and sauces) so there should be plenty to eat for everyone, unless you want to bring down some of your own food, then that's fine. As for drinks we thought it would be best for everyone to BYO, given we can't cater for everyone's tastes. We will probably have a few soft drinks available but not a lot.

Depending on our budget we may even cook up some bacon & eggs for those fishing the comp in the early morning. Tim will give more detail on that later on, since he is likely to be the chef at that time in the morning.

Just Wondering if anyone has tried night fishing out from Ocean Reef marine at the back of 3 mile reef. Would like to give it a go for Pinkies and Dhuies when the weather is nice.
Have you tried it and what were the results at what time of year.
Thanks
Paul

Congrats to you sherbert for entering the highest users club! Been great to meet such a good bloke and avid fishing partner. Cheers mate and best of luck. Spess.

hey guys.....this saturday the weather and tides are looking fine..and i might head down for a mulla fish....r there any suggestions on where or what....if there is not i might juz head down to the harbour at eshed....any one that could make it there could be great....pls be free to pm me if i wanna meet me there or some other plans....

I have heard the pinkies have been in the sound lately. Went out on friday night for them but the anchor rope got sliced by braid on a big first run from something so had to leave. Can anyone point me in the right direction for pinkies, i was thinking in between garden and carnac but if anyone has caught any lately and is willing to tell where would be greatly apreciated

Looking to set up new boat with colour sounder, never had colour before and getting differrent feedback on breeds, what do you thinks the best and most important easy to use

I need some direction here from people who have done it. I have a week off around the new moon in October and want to head North, was originally thinking Onslow and hit Thev, but I was wondering is there anywhere people can recommend that is a bit closer that will not be too risky with regards to weather. I am towing the boat up and was tossing up gnaraloo or just going to exmouth or coral bay as I have never been to either. For anyone who has fished these around oct novemebr what are some pros and cons/advice. I am mainly looking to throw some big poppers and chase pelagics so the bottom fishing is not a big concern wherever I go. Is Kalbarri worth a look, or too rough?
Thanks in advance. 

Heading down to the old swan brewery with spess and my son, Spess is trying his luck at mulloway and iam going for bream, Report tomorrow if it turns out ok
STEVE

Looking for someone to do the annual service on a Yamaha 115           4 stroke. Currently been getting my Boat Serviced with a well known Boating Sales and Servicing outlet. ( not sure on the protocol with regard to naming them ) Purchased boat from new and felt that it makes sense to have them do the service on it. But after numerous problems occurring after each service have decided it is time for a change. Was hoping somebody could make a  recommendation.
Cheers

i might head town to cottlesloe beach....do anyone knoe wat i could encounter down there??/wat bait??......and most important ly...is there any good spots u could share wit me....haha

Anyone tried this line before?? comments please..

hey hey....it wasnt a lovely day to start of with!!! when to mills start this morning(17/08/07) departed at 0700am then travel 2 hours north!!! did so much travelling...after 2 hour went by we stop at 100m depth......and the swell was terrible!! one of my mate was sick the whole time and he didnt fish at all!!! so he wasted his money...ok back to me, well i was feeling sick too but i kept it in!!! we were planning this trip since july and postphone till today which has finnaly come....was using a penn rod dunno wat model but it was 5"9' 15-24kg line with an alvey reel anyway we were using 60lb line....with a huge snapper sinker(dunno wat size).....first time using alveys and didnt know how to use it...anywya called the skipper to help me and finally the ship has sail(the fishing has began) everyone(left and right) we pulling up fish!!! first one was a pinky abt 5 kg then a baldy abt 6 kilo....then the skipper ask us to reel in coz we were going another spot....and OMG reeling in is not fun!!! everytime i'm the last one who reel in the last.....it was quite embarrassing though... anyway back to me again....all together i think we had abt 10 stops(the swell was still terrible).....right up to the last stop it was nearer to land(thank god the swell was going down) the whole dya i nv had bites!!! till the last drop!!! and i finally landed a sambo!!! 10 kg!!! ahha it was my first a biggest deep sea fish!!!haha then we head back to home and i was given the award of the biggest fish.... unfortunately i only had 1 bite the whole day but it was worth it!!! C:\Documents and Settings\Troy Ong\My Documents\IMG_0158.JPG(donno how to put the image up?)

Was just talking to Hoju on MSN and im puzzled...

You know when you look down on your rod and it has "lure weight 28 grams - 40 grams" its pretty self explanitory....

But is that specifically talking about lures, taking into consideration that this would be the optimum weight to keep the lure's action and movement the best?

Or is this the optimum casting weight aswell??? Because now I think about it....

How much would a whole mulie ganged or snelled on a paternoster rig, using a size 4 star or snapper sinker rig weigh? Surely a whole mulie would nearly be like 40-60 grams by itself, combine hooks and then the sinker itself would be 80-100 grams...

Im trying to suss out what the max any given rod could give before putting itself in danger :P

gday,

selling okuma T20L...spooled with 15kg blue trilene and a 80lb wind-on leader
it is the model with the winding "rachet"!
reel has been used a handful of times and still in mint condition!
great bottom/trolling reel..

sell...$100


cheers
sam

For free ADI microscan 24" monitor with accesories pm or phone 0422526513

Please add your name to the list below by using copy and paste.

Again please refrain from any banter on this thread so we can easily know who is probably going to be there and who is not.

Attendance List

Andy Mac

Please list your name in a post, with each successive poster to copy and paste that post whilst adding their own name and or those of their fishing buddies.

Please do not use this thread for anything other than posting your name to the list. If you want to start some banter start another thread.

OK Guys and Gals, we have a date set on 25th August (provided its not raining cats & dogs). Venue to be Burswood foreshore as mentioned by Jangles, Hoju and Rickets among others as being a suitable spot to fish from shore and gather for a few refreshments.

The presentation will involve the awarding of the champion angler for the entire event plus a few awards that were missed at the NOR comp. We have some prize money left over so will use most of that to supplement refreshments if we can. Depending on how many are likely to turn up will dictate if we put on  snaggs or liquid refreshments or both etc.

In order to have some prizes for the Swan Fish mini comp it would be appreciated if those wishing to enter the comp donate $10 each to the prize pool as was the case with the NOR and SOR legs. All donations will be returned in prizes, unfortunately it will not be as heavily subsidised by sponsors as the Blue Water events, never the less we still have some great prizes on offer.

If you don;t want to fish the comp please still come on down and catch up with everyone on the day, make some new friends and maybe score some new fishing buddies.

I will post another thread where you can nominate to enter the comp and another to nominate to just come to the bbq. Please place your names there so we can get an idea of how many are going to turn up.

Given that its a shore based comp only, it will need to be conducted within eyesight of the bbq area, where we will have a few fishwrecked crew running around with scales trying to weigh the fish caught, so as to allow those wishing to practice C&R to do so and still possibly win a prize. I suggest we start the comp at 6-30am (sunrise) and finish it at 11-00am with presentations by 12-00 midday and everyone then available for the bbq at 12-30pm.

Details of prize categories will be posted in the next few days, when Tim and I have worked out what the hell we are going to do.

so unlucky...i was fishing for breams......fish for a whole 2 hours....witout a single nibble...after that...the worst is yet to come...i lost bout 5 rigs....after all thqat b4 going home....a big pack of mulloways came in....the grunters were flying everywhere....i [nearly cried]....haha...didnt...have the mulla rod at that time

hey guys..i thought of buying a new bream rod....any opinions or tips??/not to expensive...around mid range is fine...i found a new secret spot....laz nite a guy there caught a bream almost touching 3 kg in the swan.....

My new PB is a 94kg, 6'2 rickets fish...

After a good days work yesterday and finishing early, me and my mate decided to go down mindarie marina just to throw some metal slugs around in everyone elses berley trails (man the place was sooooooo packed on the low tide) yesterday.

Had 1 run but it busted off at the rocks which sucked and my mate didnt get much a chance out there cos he had to switch outfits to his kix and nitro...

I was using my new abu morrum/abu 6500 c3 combo and it was bombing out into the trails... was really liking it.....

Anyway, was jigging and retrieving in particularly quick one time and just as the 40 gram Knight was reaching the rock wall, I jigged it up to get it over the rocks and snags... and it flew back up, like ive done so many times before... to where I thought was behind me... however, there was no weight on the line....

As I wound in, i realized the treble was lodged in my forearm HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A little bit disgusted, I turned to my mate and said, "check this out!" and his reply was, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

By this time we were both pissing ourselves laughing and he came over and found the hook embedded all the way to the bend in my arm, whereby he began to pull it out... then I remembered, I didnt crush the barb HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So we're both sitting there pulling this hook, (dunno maybe the adrenaline had numbed it, cos it didnt hurt at all, didnt even know I had been hooked) and it wouldnt come out... the barb was sticking out but just couldnt free it... so Ty grabs the filleting knife and goes, "look away"

I said nah im doing it... so I grabbed the knife and just as I was about to cut... I thought, "Shit, I aint had a tetanus needle in like 17 years" so I we decided to go to the doctors...

the first doctor turned us down and told me to go to the hospital... the second decided to give it a crack... by whcih, I had already downed a nice big scull of Tooheys Extra Dry in the car, in fact, there would be no funnier site than a guy holding the weight of a 40g Knight with a beer in his hand, trying to drink it...

Anyway, they got it out, gave me a tetanus shot and now my bloody arm hurts a whole lot more than it did yesterday.

My wife recorded the "surgery" on her mobile phone and there is a photo... but you know me, I just cant be assed uploading stuff....

However, a person's imagination makes it look better... 1 of the 3 treble hoooks buried in my forearm up to and almost around the bend... LOL

    Hi guys just wondering the other day I saw somone putting down some crabbin nets in Mindarie I thought the season was over ... if you put out nets what size crabs can u expect currently ? I sit worth the effort?

Hey guys,

Was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on where i can possibly land mulloways. Thinking of night fishing. Replies here or PM's would be much appreciated. Also any tips on what baits to use? Thanks!

sorry if its a stupid question...but do they have any beach fishing in the metro waters???juz wondering...etc:whiting,mulla,snapper,and other fishers...thanks

Out fishing on sunday, there were loads of pilot whales out and about, we saw about 10, and they all came very close to the boat.

Took a few pics but none turned out :(