Hey all

Finally found a place to stay in jurien we are there for 2 weeks leaving next sunday. 

any hints and trick to fishing up that way. Like what depths and where to start would be great

Thanks in advance 

 Hi There,

I'm very new to fishing (dad & i have just bought a boat) and are primarily fishing out of dunsborough. Is anyone able to give me some help on finding good ground? Is it just a matter of looking at some charts and then driving around sounding for lumps/drop-offs etc?

Secondly, once you've found good ground what is the best way to anchor up over it? We're concerned about dropping the anchor and getting it snagged as we're not sure how to tell on the sounder whether we're above sand or something more snaggy.

Thanks in advance!

 Ended up spending 3 days in Kalbarri, great place to take the family to relax.

My boats steering was locked up so hired a boat from Murchison boat hire, good clean solid boat. Fished the cliffs with one dropped fish, fished the 30s but really slow and no bites, ended up drifting and caught 5 silver cobbler of all things. Didn't know you could get them in Kalbarri.

Murchison was chocolate brown, ended up fishing from the river and had a good result catching approx 12 soapies. Kept 6 for a couple of meals.

Caught 1 x tagged fish, sent in the details and they confirmed that it had grown 90mm in 260 days and had travelled 11km.

Also all the Soapies had worms in the stomach cavity. Didn't tell the missus off course.

Also stayed in a hotel and got bitten badly by bed bugs, have let them know, won't make too much of it because shit happens, would recommend to sleep above the blankets and cover yourself with aeroguard. Itch like you wouldn't believe.

 Happy Aussie day all! 

Enjoy

Hey everyone - just wondering if anyone is heading up to Gamex this year? And If so, any tips for the inexperienced?

very slow night on the beach.. small

tailor which we stripped up and my

mate had a chance too test out his

new saltist on this eagle .. he's been 

pretty flat out with work and family so 

he was stoked too get out for the night..

got the gear out of its head and off she

went too trick someone else too thinking 

they have hooked a good fish .. 

cheers pirate..

Marked a lump a few weeks ago while heading out to the FFB from Point Perron. Thought it was odd, it’s quite isolated and large, I sounded further around the area and found nothing. I dropped the camera over yesterday to see what it was and found that it was a yatch. Does anyone know the history behind it? It looks quite new with not much growth on it.

Long story short I turned off my bait freezer to elimate the source of my power tripping and forgot to turn it back on. That was Sunday and I only realised today when I walked into the garage and smelt evil.

I've got a kg bunch of Shorecatch tuna heads that I bought for a crabbing trip that I'd hate to go to waste so if I can stomach using them will they still be ok to use or will they in fact be more effective?

 Looking forward to a few days fishing down at Walpole- love the rivermouth and estuary fishing down there. Got plenty of squid for bait,so I'm hoping the whiting are on the bite!

But has anyone come back from there recently,and have any latest updates with drop nets for crabs?  Thanks.

 Cheers.

Hey All

is someone able to help me out, i am getting extremlty confused on the fisheries web site about boat limit's they dont say much

so say i am out fishing with 2 licences i can take home the boat limit.

what is the boat limit for demersals?

i know you can only take a max of 2 dhu fish but it doesnt say much about the others

THanks  

 from the minister this morning...

 Hi all with all the shovelnose (white spotted guitar fish?) pics of late I thought I’d share an old pic of a 2.8-3m beast I caught and released at Enderby island off Dampier about 15-18years ago , Tld 20 and 65lb tuf  line and it hurt me badly ! Good fun. 

 Hi folks, just wondering if anyone is heading to Denham for the April school holidays, or am i the only fool.

All them kids & tourists haha. It will be a first for me as we usually head up before or after the holidays to avoid the crowd.

Look forward to maybe catching up if your there.  Good luck.....

HI guys.
am planning a trip to Exmouth or coral bay in may, was wondering if any tips on which would be the better destination.. towing up the 5.4m aluminium, and hoping to do some serious fishing. its the first time we will be boating up here, so was wondering what your thoughts on which is the better destination regarding ramps, ease of access to fishing spots, etc?
cheers!
goat

 If anyone is down in Albany over the coming long weekend I will have the boat down there. Looking for a deckie as my local one is now heading to Perth.

Hi People

I'm heading to Fiji at the end of the year for about 10 days and want to do some fishing. What's a good charter company? and what islands are good?
any info would be great.

Thanks

Pulled this Guitar fish 1.3m this morning they always impress me how hard they can pull.

Anyone fishing the heavy tackle comp, we would love to but I'm busy adding to the family. Is looking like it could be a big one with good consistent fishing lately and sounds like there is a good field of about 30 or more boats already signed up. Hopefully the weather is a bit better than forecast so they can get a at least a couple of good days out wide.

 My job has brought me to rockhampton in the QLD,  and we are eager to fish. We tried a beach spot today with limited time, and no result near a place called Rosslyn Marina. After having a decent few mullo in Perth this year I am really excited to try hunt black jewfish and also tuna and mackeral from the stones. Im not begging for spots,  but some tips from anyone who has had a crack up this way before would be great.  I fish clipped pulley rigs with mulies on my large rod with a small rod and handline with running rigs for smaller edibles. We plan to fish Five Rocks on Friday when we have some spare time to do a proper mission, and im optimistic for some larger fish in deeper water. On a humourous note i spent forever trying to fish easterlys in perth with a few days here and there and i come to the other end of the country to find nothing but E's right in my face

 anyone else who has lost the Fishing Mojo ?.  mine has deserted me for the last year or so, just can't seem to find the fish anymore

Anyone in the sticker making bizzo, or any recommendations for them south of the river?

I need a couple of rego and decal stickers for the tub. approx. 500x100, and 200x600. 2 of each, artwork is already done.

 First day Home and have a new swag to put up and test out, here’s a tip. 

Wait till the next day and find instructions, I have managed to snap all 3 poles :(

does anyone know where u can get spare swag poles, have also read that 12mm conduit is ok.

 Hey guys,

looking at going somewhere different in june/july, jist wondering if anyone has fished Point Samson onshore and offshore for GT? Cant find much on the net

cheers

On Friday after checking the weather I decided there was enough of a window to do a quick trip to Lancelin and take my 12 yr son out in the tinny for a demersal bash. We left home around 4 am and launched just after 6 heading out through the hole in the wall and making a beeline for an area I had fished previously in 26mts. We commenced the drift and his first drop with a 100gm jig came up solid but he dropped the fish.

We went back for a second drift and he again came up solid this time to his firt jig caught baldy

We continued to fish for the next couple of hours until the Southerly was cranking. We didn't manage a 4 fish bag out but did mange 3 nice baldies with Liam catching the bulk of them and Dad (me ) having a bad day and dropping any decent fish I hooked. All he Kept doing was throwing my own line back at me "that's why its called fishing and not catching".......Cheeky little shit

Hi new to all this .. I purchased a 4.5 M Aluminium boat with a 50 hp mercury motor .. My Question is can it get to Rottnest. And if it can what is the best time.. Might seem pretty silly questions to experienced boating community but when you a first entry owner you depend on the advise of experienced anglers and boaters

Just added a photo of the boat .. took me awhile to learn ..Lol

 Hi All, 

Ive been out a few times in the river this week for just anything mainly trying to get a tailor, but out of all the times i went i caught absolutely nothing after all up about 15hrs of fishing combined, i was using lures the whole time is there anything that i could do to improve my chances?. Ive been fishing around and at point walter.

Thanks Alex.

If anyone on here has a pot placed around 300m NW of the gap at Hillarys with a bright orange rope you've lost your float and the rope is floating on the surface. I ran over it yesterday but saw it just in time to cut the engine. We tried to tie a bottle to it but it was already blowing 15 knots and we were near the reef and the wind waves were standing up on us so decided it was too dangerous.

https://www.facebook.com/9NewsPerth/videos/1918048811540603/

Very lucky these guys.