Enjoy

 Hi All,

i was after an opinion on this rod - from the specs it looks like it would suit what I want it for but I havent actually seen one in the flesh

more specifically I wanted to know what was the sweet spot in terms of cast weight and how much drag you would be comfortable fishing through it. I was after soemthing that could throw 35grams but fish PE3 to the max (about 7-8kgs) i realise i might be looking for a unicorn though!

its for throwing 7inch plastics on a 1/2oz jighead to the bigger kings around sydney harbour (maybe up to 1m or 8-9kgs or so) and also for a lighter setup for use on the rocks - for throwing smaller lures when the kings are shut down 

any help would be much appreciated!

Firstly thanks to the huge response from our 3 Day Winter Sale.

We still have people coming in today wanting the Sale prices so with many customers and phone calls asking us to honour it this week we will extend the Sale.

So, we're going to continue the 30% OFF Storewide SALE until Friday 11th August @ 5pm but no further extensions.

 Just giving people a heads up that we are currently building a rock armour wall to protect the rail bridge from stray ships hitting the bridge. 

This wall will be on the Northern side of the rail bridge.

My concern is that even while we are working in our restricted area we have still had boats and even Kayaks enter the area. We are still placing rock and they are just below the surface at this stage. So if you enter the restricted area you will run aground. There will be special markets in place once finished but rocks will only protrude minimally during high tide once finished. So just be aware of this new obstacle. 

On another note I'm thinking the potential for a really good fish attraction could be a huge bonus.

 Hi Guys

Can anyone help with a parts diagram or schematic for an Australian Surfmaster 2/0 overhead reel?

Thanks

Basto

 Hey guys,

Heading there for a couple nights soon, hoping to catch tailor, mulloway and a bunch of whiting and co.

Ive heard you can catch tailor like herring. Anyone got experiences and general tips?

Thanks :)

 G'day all.

Was fishing down at the boat ramp here at Coral Bay this afternoon and someone in a fourby ute turned up and handed my sister in law's hubby 4 bags of cryovac'd fillets including Cobia, Amberjack, Shark Mackeral and shark of some description.

Have eaten Cobia recently and find it very tasty. Haven't tried Amberjack and not sure about the Shark Mackeral (the shark got handed out around the Bayview Caravan Park).

Has anyone got a good method for cooking up the Amberjack?

Is the Shark Mackeral worth keeping, or a good giveaway to backpackers :).

If the fellas that gave the fish to us are forum members, thanks a heap. They must have some good quality fillets in the freezer if they're giving these fillets away :).

 Actually looking forward to the boat show this year being held at the Convention Centre and Eizabeth Quay. For me it will be to easy to jump on the train and get off right where the show is being held. No more getting jammed up in Mandurah trying to get parking etc. 

http://www.perthboatshow.com.au/

 Has any one ever used WFT gliss line before if so what did you think of it. Looking at getting some but if it isn't any good I won't grab it

 Hi going over to Sydney in Nov 2017 for wedding,any recommendations on fishing charter, hoping to organise bucks trip or if not,sneak out one day on own. Thanks . 

 Hey guys,

Does anyone know of any international sellers that are good to buy from. Specifically looking for rods, and trying to save some coin.

Thanks.

Quick report from a solo session i had on Sunday, was watching the rough weather all week with the hope a window would open sunday for either a morning or arvo anchor and burley session but with the police putting out warnings along with other rescue groups on FB i was hesitant to say the least.

After a 530am wake up and Met eye weather check i decided to scramble and get out there for a look, sun up was due at 7 so to be heading through the islands just after 6 it was a bit safer to at least see the waves and swell coming, quite a few boats had already settled between the islands which i found strange as this is sometimes the most dangerous spot with the breaking water, so i continued to head out to the five using the channel markers as a line through the wash and was soon out to a clear spot and on anchor just before 7am with the burley flowing....no breaking water in sight but still letting out all 50m of anchor rope due the swell...3.5m at a guess, sun just rising, high tide and peek bite time due before 8am i was hoping for a good session.

Within half an hour a double hook up had me scrambling, landed one and lost one at the boat with the bottom hook gone, rebaited the first rod and drifted down another scalie...few more cubes in the water...another shake of the burley cage and i was soon fighting another powerful fish, netted this one successfully, quick spike and measure 83 & 84cm...yahoo!! job done. 

Grabbed the lighter reel i had and tied on the first plastic to come to sight and threw it in to drift while i put the fish on ice and started to clean up...within a few minutes the shinmano elf 4000 started screaming...gezz they were hungry and putting up very good show in shallow water.....landed a few more for fun before heading back in by 9. 

Wind had picked up a bit making the travel back through the islands hairy....had a good look for a minute or two...then went steady to sit safely at the back of set heading in.....was soon up the speed and heading home for Pancakes!!

 I saw a boat, around 20 foot heading out from the Woodman Point Boat Ramp at around 6:30AM this morning. Hope he's back in by now - looked pretty horrible out there at 6:30AM never mind now. At least he had all the boat ramps plus the entire carpark to himself.

Just thought I would put it out there if anyone wants to make some grapple sinkers I have cut my mould to fit wires and do so ( or snapper sinkers). If you have lead we can cut a deal , cook it up , have a beer, yarn and split some of the creations .  Some I made on sat attached

Wife just bought some prawns from supermarket (Kailis Bros) ,prawns from Thailand/vietnam dont you just love that.

My sincere sympathy to those who lost loved ones on the sinking of the prawn trawler out of Carnarvon last year. I am raising this subject with the hope that wee all can benefit from the inquest currently being held into the tragedy.

Has any body else been reading the reporting's of the coronial inquest into the sinking of the prawn trawler out of Carnarvon last year with the subsequent loss of 3 lives, I think the trawler was named "Returner"

From the reports in the "West" it is appearing that the removal of a lot of lead ballast put the ship at risk through loss of stability. This may have played a very significant part in the cause for this vessel to be lost.

The reason I am bringing this up as a form subject is this, how many times do we read on this site about members doing mods to their pride and joy and I wonder just how many of us really know to what extent we are altering the sea worthiness of our boats. I know I have made some mods, fitting fixed trim tabs and putting in another fuel tank without really sitting down and doing a bit of serious thought about the possible effects this may have on stability in heavy weather.

The trim tabs worked great in reasonable seas, however after coming home one time with a quite large following sea and imitating a Collins class sub doing an emergency dive I quickly changed them so that I can raise them to a neutral position when coming home with a following sea.

I think this tragedy should be a bit of a wake up call to all of us who do our own mods to boats to get some advice from the people who build boats for a living and are/should be well qualified to give their advice about our plans to alter our craft.

Hi All.

I am more a spectator on this forum than a regular participant, but i thought i would share this with you.

I have been using this app for a while now, and used it this season for Salmon. I know lots of people are using drones to spot schools, but what i like about this is that you dont actually fly and land the drone. You create a mission, and then press the fly button (look for the school by moving the camera, but the drone carrys on doing the mission as requested). Off goes the drone on a patrol and once its finished it lands. I guess i like the idea of spotting a school of fish and being able to go and cast at it without worring about the drone (it will just land on its own, once it has finished). I have seen a few videos recently of guys using a trolling out rigger clips attached te the bottom of a drone, and all they do is pull it out when they are over the fish. I might have to see how they rig it up and give it a go.

Besides my personal use of the app, i would think it has various uses for guys on the forum. If you hunt, how much better would it be to send the drone up on an automated mission to spot the pig. Spot them and go, instead of leaving a mate with the drone, or having to land it and hope the animal has not moved.

The app has actually been produced to use as a shark patrol, which over this part of the world, will prove pretty usefull.

Best of all, its free...

www.surfranger.com

Anyway, here is the link in WA today for you to have a look at.

www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/app-developers-test-public-drone-shark-partol-over-perths-beaches-20170728-gxkuf5.html

1 to go. Must admit pretty sad to see andys gone. His other bigger and safer .

Notice the young fellas been pretty Fired up lately reminded me of this

Enjoy

Hey guys

Im hoping someone can give me some advice/opinions on getting a new chart plotter

I have a furuno588 with the 1kw transducer

I was originally going to just get a lowrance chart plotter/sounder and just use it for the plotter and use a markfish device but now I'm thinking it might be worth to get a 1 kw chirp for the lowrance

What are people's thoughts on running both the 1kw transducers and can it be done or is it just not worth it

Im open to any ideas or different recommendations, I'm definitely no expert and need all the help I can get

Thanks for may help

 Hi all with the shite weather last few w/ends & this one no better, was thinking of going to Golden Ponds have read reports on the search funtion but has anyone been latley. Thanks.

got this pink today! gave me a dusting on 6lb.. but when u have to take the photo in the boat to ot give away any spots... being so close to land! Went 50cm...

Put my faith into this mob to fix a problem I had with a reel. 3 months later with limited correspondence from the service team, replaced things and couldn't fix the initial problem.

I took it upon my self to go down and see what the status of the repair work was, to be told they cannot fix it and by the way you owe us $90 for the work we have done.

Shit service do not recommend that shop.

Godders

 Another year has come and gone and the hope for glassy weather was soon evaporated in the week leading up to the trip with absolute rubbish forecast for as long as we could see. The previous two July school holidays were also windy and proved to be hard work. In the lead up to this years trip, we all commented 'surely we cant have 3 years in a row of shit weather..' how wrong we were. Over the course of the two weeks, the wind dropped under 10 knots for two days, with the majority of days being in the 18-24kn range. 

Undeterred and with the view of the fish arent going to catch themselves, we ventured out most days into the unhappy sea with at times more white water then not and the tops being blown off passing lumps of water. We were drifting over 1kn most days and had to up the amount of lead to hold bottom. 
We spent the majority of our time out in the 120-140s chasing goldband. We did well on the reds earlier in the year at a different location so we were all keen to hunt golds. Most days we seemed to get our bag, and return to the ramp late in the afternoon. 

We had a young fella on board most days who didnt fish much due to the depth but the smile on his face was priceless. When i was younger, a mate of my old man used to take me out fishing in coral bay and i still hold onto those memories dearly so its cool to pass on some memories to another young guy who will be driving our boat in the years to come no doubt

Swell was barely there most of our trip which was nice as that on top of the rank weather would have kept us ashore a few more days. 
We didnt have too much of an issue with sharks which was nice but they did pop up a few times. 
My uncle hooked (on consecutive days) a 6-7ft whaler shark in the side fin and dragged it up sideways from 140m...possibly the funniest thing we have seen in a while but the poor fella was sore in the days after. 

Interestingly enough we hooked a small green jobfish on the troll one afternoon which i havet seen too many being caught on line.

Nice to see lots of the same crew getting about up there and the trip was topped off nicely with a QLD win in game 3 of the origin. 

Was nice to get through this year unscathed as last year i sliced all 3 tendons in my finger and most of the nerves were damaged requiring a quick dash back to the city for micro surgery. Not having to deal with that was great this year...however i did have a few strangers come up to me and hang shit on me for doing it last year which i laughed at.

We stopped through the Galena Bridge camp at Murchison on the way home with what seemed like half of coral bay.

Only 11months until we are back there

hey lads and ladies,
planning a trip to NZ and have a few days up my sleeve.

chasing advise on fishing charters there, any one been before? hoping maybe for a big king\

TIA

pegz

 hey fellas installiung a few new rod holders for trolling got a fibreglass boat any tips  / methods on drilling the holes for the holders etc

I'm bloody angry, I have just read a half page spread in my local paper about the threat of white spot disease spreading to cru stations in WA and the threat of such an event happening.

The message the article was putting out was that fisheries where requesting all anglers to take care in what they were using for bait, and to give imported raw prawns a big miss so as to reduce the possibility of white spot disease getting into our fisheries with the devastating results that would follow.

Now at fist read this seems like a good thing to put out to the community as fishos are the last line of defence against the introduction of this disease getting into our waters. As they are the last chance this disease will be discovered, i.e. when you shell the imported prawn and put it on the hook or don't shell it such as may be the case.

I have seen a few articles on TV and other media about the devastating effect this disease has had on the prawn farming industry in Qld and it has certainly put a few of these guys on the bones of their bum.
When it was first discovered in imported prawns a ban was put on the importation of these prawns for 6 months, that ban has now been lifted.

I'm absolutely "miffed" that this situation has been allowed to come about, what has happened to the first line of defence against the importation of dangerous food or other stuff into Australia.

We have a specific government body whose job it is is to make sure stuff like this doesn't happen, so just how has this sad situation come to pass. My money is on the following scenario,

Papers covering the importation of these uncooked prawns is forwarded by the importer, some where in the wad of paper work is a document stating the all the required quality checks against these prawns having disease have been complied with and all are ok, "trust me" yeah right.

So all the ticks are in the right boxes everything is ok no need to have a random sample taken for an eyeball examination. Quality disease free prawns are guaranteed.

The head shed of these government agencies are paid a very good dollar to make sure infestations and disease don't get into the country, it appears to me that they seek the very easy road to doing there job by accepting if the ticks are in the right box on the relevant QA form then all is ok, this attitude has allowed White Spot to get into Australia and we are all going to pay for their lack of commitment one way or another.

WA gov has spent a good bit of money trying to get the Swan River prawn back on peoples menu again it would be a bloody tragedy if White Spot gets into the Swan River system and kills this project off before it can get fully established.

I would like to see a ban placed permanently on the importation of all foreign crustations

Full stop

I'm tired of tying dropper loop knots and they slip under high loads so I'm interested in gearing up to make my fishing rigs with crimped connections. I'm keen to save some money and purchase in bulk but the quanities are more than I will ever use in a long time of fishing. I bought a crimper today and somes swivels and crimps in small quatities and the prices are mega expensive buying like this.

Is anybody interested in sharing and saving heaps of bucks on crimps and leader and possibly 3 way swivels?

Here is my suggested purchase and I'd be happy to split into 3 if there are 2 others keen.

 Alloy Fishing Crimps 1.2mm x 1000  $25

Total including freight would be $75 each for a 3rd share which would last ages!

PM if interested

 Hi guys

I have been regressing my reels and have found that the grease l have been using is way to thick and was wondering what you guys think is the best grease to put on your reels?