I fish weekly from Mindarie and do quite well but have not ventured much further than the 3 mile reef. We catch a lot of bread and butter fish but are over ripe to head out further and get into some bigger action. We fish in an 18ft boat and fish nearly all conditions (within the 3 mile reef). Can anybody give us some hints about travelling further and finding some good ground? Got NAVMAN tracker 5500 and Fish 4500? Otherwise, always an extra spot on the boat for another fisho.

Looking at getting into making my own wind on leaders for trolling. From surfing around on the net, they don't seem to complicated.

Anybody hear make there own wind ons? If so any tips would be appreciated.

If you saw some one fishing somewhere would you fish that spot later on.

Like if you saw someone on a rock somewhere along the coast , would you go there to have a try as well, or if you see a boat drifting along somwhere would you ping the spot and go back later to give it a go .

I read some people will only fish some spots at night or early morning so no one see's them , do we really have to be so secretive ????

I have never pulled up to a spot and thought " wow someone is here I better not fish here "

What do you guys recon ???

MAV.

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MAV.

Three colours on the binding just isn't custom anymore .

Had a look at the spread in Saturday's West Australian and it looks like this year might be a bit better than the last one. I was particularly excited by the prospect of wine tasting at the same venue (Hehehe).

Still a distinct lack of tackle shops there (I know the reasons why) but it would be nice to have a bit more fishy content.

The demo's are always great to watch and apparently there is a "fish Fighter" that you can have a go at. Not sure what it is but sounds interesting.

Anyone else going from here?

Headed out with Bouttime on Thursday. Always good to get a feed.

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g'day all

My family and I a planning a trip to albany in feburary next year and am asking for advice on fishing this area. I would like to ask for help from fishing the rocks and beaches in this area (where? what gear? Bait? etc). i will also try and get out on a charter boat so if possible could someone reccommend the best charter in this area. i will also have access to a boat for a few days when i am down there so if possible could someone give me a few hints into where abouts to go fishing (reefs etc).

All information will be greatly appreciated.

Thanx
Mick

hey theres been quite a few fish out in the 40m mark. Ive landed a couple of small mulloway, small sambo nothing huge but all sized fish. i hooked a shark on the all nighter on saturday nite. i suggest go out there and use little herring and live whiting and u will hook up. good luck

I'm stuck here in my hotel room in NZ and I turn on my TV. I turn to sky sports 2 and who should I see but the main guy from the Wanganella banks DVD... for those who have not seen it....in the words of Molly... do yourself a favour and get hold of it...This is not a free plug but I think Gribbo or Shizz might have a copy at their respective tackle stores and if they don't they should. After all it was Gribbo who first showed me and the rest of the boys this DVD... Anyways its a DVD about an ultimate trip, on the "Ultimate Lady", some of the most awesome Marlin fishing I have ever seen IMO. I'll leave the contents of the DVD up to the imagination or for someone else to describe (G and Adi and Bolts hint...hint) or check out the web address at http://www.ultimatelady.com/

Anyways back to sky sports 2 fishing show... the main guy (ie the Rex, Ryan of Steve) of the show is sitting in a 12-14 foot dingy BY HIMSELF somewhere North of NZ, not a breath of wind, the ocean glassy as.... handlining for Blue Marlin. He hooks up using a live "skipjack" and fights a blue for about an hour. One hour later he brings a 100kg Marlin into the Boat on A HAND LINE that is bill wrapped...thats right the it is not even hooked!!! A fair effort I reckon, that from a guy who hasn't caught one himeself. I was really gobsmacked but not as suprised as when he announced that he was going to keep the marlin and smoke it. He then proceeded to haul a marlin as big as the boat into the boat and motor back to port.

We need to get some of these shows on foxtel!!!

just saw on seabreeze that is blowing over 50kts at rotto!! damn thats strong

does anyone here tag snapper, sambos??

and another quick question, are you allowed to CATCH and RELEASE snapper during the ban in cockburn sound??, figured if you werent keeping them it COULD be ok.

cheers street

who offers discounts to fishwrecked members??

i searched and found oceanside tackle & marine but id like something a lil closer to home( sorry boys.

i am looking to buy some more diawa 8x for me reel

cheers street

I'm looking for a way to moor my boat overnight while staying on an island.I've done this in the past using a basic mooring technique of anchoring with the bow facing towards the sea and another rope from the stern running back and anchored to the beach.This works fine but have to swim to the boat to retreive it.Does anyone have a better idea so one can stay dry? A diagram would be helpful,or any idea's appreciated thanks.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20022873-29677,00.html

Hi Everyone!

Just joined the forum and it seems great, keep it up!

I was just wondering where the best places to fish from land are around the Perth area...i'm staying in Freo at the moment and would like just to go and fish somewhere, quickly and easily!
What can i expect to catch around here?

Your advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Just got some 1lb crystal fireline in today and its damn fine.....Literally! Far out this braid game is just getting more and more insane/yet interesting by the minute!

Now i need to find a reel small enough to spool it with :P oh , and a use for it.

Hi all, as i am only new to Perth i am still finding new places to fish. Late last year i obtained a GPS mark for what i was told was the Derwent. I have since been told that this wreck is in over 200mtr of water. The mark i have is about 5nm out the back of Rotto and can find a section of reef/wreck on the sounder in 100mtrs of water. This is where i found all my Sambos for jigging last season and big Skippy. Is this the wreck or something different.

Thanks

Fishing conditions don't look too crash hot for Saturday. Looks a lot better for Sunday but some solid swell/seas. The forecast on BOM isn't up to date yet but Seabreeze forecasts Sunday to be good. (cough cough) Say these conditions will have the pinkie fishermen out at Norrh Mole, would certainly be worth a try at some of the local rockwall/groynes if you love freezing your ass off on the rocks. :)

This rain must be flushing the river too considering there hasn't been much of it this season, say there should be some good black bream in the lower reaches pretty soon. Wouldn't be suprised if the mulloway cleared out as well, guess there might be a few lucky north mole fisho's if they put in the time!

Fingers crossed that these front's blow over and we get atleast one good day of fishing.

Good fish, But Bad Fish Photo's!

http://fishwrecked.com/node/2739

First I want to say, that the Mulla shown at link above is a heck of a fish, and I've never caught a mulloway of any shape size or description in my entire life. I admire a LOT any man who CAN catch one - let alone a beauty like that, and to do so from shore just makes it a doubly notoable achievement!
I know it takes dedication & study of tides, moon, weather etc to consistently catch good mulla, and I take my hat off to people who can do it!

For those reasons, if that was my fish, and I had a photo of it I would (and do) keep such to remind myself of such a momentous catch!

That said - likely as not, I wouldn't deliberately "publish it" in order to promote a magazine, website, or charter service etc - or fishing product for example.

It's not whats called a 'money shot', i.e. publishable quality for a magazine cover, in return for a cover shot fee etc...due to the depicted "eye pinch" handling!

I handle fish like that which I'm going to keep to eat - nuthing at all wrong with it - it's a very effective method! Probably it's not something we should be publishing tho, in terms of enhancing the reputation of anglers as folks who look after the resource, and release a large %age of their catch!

Were that fish released, it'd hafta barrack for East Perth (one eyed East Perth supporter) ;o)

So, with that said, heres one of MY personal "crappy quality fish photo's" of a damned good fish, that I keep to remind me of days gone by, that I wouldn't normally publish! (Except to show, that we ALL have these types of photo's and that generally it would be better of we didn't publish them!).

So, you see before you, a pic of a good sized sambo, but covered in blood from where Bro In law Flash gaffed it, and my fat gut poking out, shirt ripped to show my somewhat ample fat gut, and dark shadows across my face, and worse yet it wasn't even caught on a fly rod! :Shock / Horror:

Why keep it (the photo or the fish?).

It was one of the larger sambo's I'd caught at the Abrolhos, and during a "non fly fishing trip" with my "non fly fishing bro in law" - who up till then hadn't caught much anything bigger than a herring!

The skipper ordered that particular fish kept, as we needed extra cray bait for the pots, being the eginning of the 'island season'.

I deliberately left my fly fishing gear at home, and determined to fish Flash's traditional methods, to try and help him with gear, knots, rigs and more importantly "fish fighting" techniques!

He remains one of the toughest guys I've ever had to try and teach to fish...:rollseyes:

He would happily use a 12000 pound warn winch to land fish - to him the "skill" (plumb dumb luck) aspect of fishing - is entireley that (not whether) you get it into the boat, how you do so is totlly immaterial in his view!

He seems to think that if "You hooked it" & "you got a photo to prove it" then your indisputably a gun fisho, seems to be his rationale, toward fishing! :rollseyes again:

So on this trip - I tried converting him to 50 pound braid...to be a bit more sporting in his methods and have a little fun playing the fish.

He lost fish, after fish, after fish, day in, & day out, on braid and every one cut him off in a different way;- around coral, under the keel of the boat, around the props of the boat, you name it every single fish, I got him onto, he lost!

In the end he spat the dummy (as he tends to do, but he's 6 ft 7 inches and 250 kilo's - who's gonna tell him, certainly not me!) and unwound ALL his 50 pound braid onto a spool, then made me walk the length of Big Pigeon Island unrolling by hand our shank of 150 pound mono, we'd bought along to crimp for trolling lure leaders for spanish macs and big tuna etc.

Yep - you guessed it, he spooled up his Penn 330 gti overhead reel with 150 pound mono, about the diameter of fencing wire!

I mean, I played every one of my fish on 50 pound braid and didn't lose one, but that didn't seemingly count as any kind of "skill"?? I
fought all of them away from coral, turned them with drag pressure and rod work (learned from experience playing big fish on spaghetti noodle fly rods), away from the hull, keel, duckboard, props etc etc..

Non of my knots failed - because I played the fish to the capacity of the gear I was using, whereas Flash just pulled on everything like it was a hi tensile herc alloy snig chain, untill something let go, - usually one of his coonazzed knots, or something equally stoopid!.

You just cannot teach some guys....some guys will always be just "catchers of fish" while others MAY one day aspire to be a "fisherman" in the true sense of the word!

And so - I keep such photo's to "remind me" of days of fun gone bye...and things learned along the way about fishing and fishers!

Generally speaking they shouldn't be published tho - they are just "keep sakes" of family fun fishing times!!

Take a look at the blue 150 pound mono comming outta the mouth a this fish! This took any skill?

My own kids have lifted fish by the eye sockets pinch method when they were young - I just don't generally publish such pics - but I keep them for their value to me as a parent, as a record of the raising to a fishing life, of my kids!

And this is the whole point of my long post here. Theres nothing at all wrong with sharing a few pics with ya mates that support a story or demonstrate a point, when your here braggin about what fish you caught etc...it shouldn't matter if the photo isn't National Geographic magazine standard quality, in terms of every technical aspect, as long as it brings back good memories of a memorable fish or outing for you!

Just try not to submit those type shots to magazines for publsihing or entering them into "fish photo comps" etc is my advice.

Cheers

"Piscator, non solum piscator" which freely translated means something like "A fisherman, not just a catcher of fish"

I went out this morning easterly was howling trolled for a bit and belive it or not a seargent baker on a halco deep 7+ WAS NOT WAT I EXPECTED HOWED THE REST OF YOU GO DID ANY OF YOU SEE THE BOAT AT MINDARIE? SOME ONE FORGOT THE BUNGS.

With the wild weather last night it might bring some intresting fishing. saturday sunday might be the go. there rumours of yellowfin tuna and the odd spaniard around staggie reef . are they just rumours. any pics out there!

Just thought I'd start up some discussion on your favourite fishing location. Some where you like to spend your quality fishing time when you have the opportunity, taking in the serenity or having a drink with friends, or catching that big one.

My favourite would probably have to be the Frankland River at Nornalup, slowly cruising the snags having a flick every now and again drinking schnaps out of the bottle cap trying to keep warm with a boat full of good company.

Whats your favourite fishing location/moments?

Heres the photos, not the best but you get the idea - click to enlarge photos.
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Anyone going out on the weekend? Could be ok with relatively light winds. Going to be very hard to get out in the metro again after Exmouth, but it has to be done.

Hope you all have a good weekend and get into some fish.

Cheers,
Adam

Saturday: E/NE winds 10/15 knots, tending N/NW 8/13 knots in the afternoon. Seas to 1.0m. Swell to 2.0m.
Swell at Cottesloe: to 0.5m.
Winds on Melville Water: should be similar.

Sunday: NE/N'ly winds 13/18 knots easing to NE/NW 8/13 knots during the afternoon. Seas to 1.0m, swell to 2.0m.

ok guys help needed lol:
going to fish false entrace august 3rd and not quite shore what to expect.
what fish do yo usually encounter at false that time of year and am i better of spinning or baiting the water.
gonna be fun as i have never cliff fished before so it should be good.
cheers brendan.

whos heading out?

i am leaving two rocks 3am fish the first last 2 hours of dark until mid morning?

hey guys huge favour
does any 1 have the containers co-ordinates .
i no its a huge thing to ask but maybe i could sweeten the deal by offering a trip out thereto who ever is kind enough to help me out.
c heers breno

I've been thinking lately after reading so many stories about the demise of the WA Dhufish, what fish might take up the mantle as the prime tucker target if we decisde to shut the Dhufish season down to help it recover. The most stunning looking fish that is readily available in WA Metro waters is probably the Harlequin.

[img_assist|fid=27317|thumb=1|alt=Harlequin|caption=Top tucker, easy to catch, in abundance????]

It doesn't grow nearly as big but it is a great lure target (scoffs those silstar jig-em-rigs with gusto) and I have seen a few pics of Harlequins with other soft plastics in their gobs before.

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So my question is, if the only way to ensure we can keep catching Dhuies is to close the species as a no-take species for a few years, what would you switch your target species to. I've picked mine, what's your's?

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quick question.

if i go fishing in the morning and catch a boat limit CAN I lend the boat to a mate to fish in the arvo?

was thinkin bout this today if amyone could help me on this i would be very happy

hey guys gota a near new kota (fished 1 comp ) thats done 1and a half hours max for sale.
55lb thrust
auto pilot
super long shaft
foot control
no scratches at all .
brand new cond
with deep cycle battery
new $1500 (not inc batery)
all i want is $1200 (inc battery)
if interested just reply to post or pm me
cheers breno