Stop by the Mandurah Boat Show this weekend (9th - 11th Oct) to take advantage of Chivers' HUGE promotions on!!
Ranging from small to large outboards and boat packages there is a huge sale for you.

Save a MASSIVE value of up to $4,600 worth of Free Rigging Gear ONLY for the boat show from F30 - F350 Yamaha four strokes.
Grab a double deal on Yamaha's F115B with the Free Rigging Promo AND an extra $900 off to get you on the water.
Get ready for Summer with a Summer Sizzler Special and save up to $600 off 20 - 40 hp Yamaha two strokes.

Along with the outboard specials we will have a range of 2014 model Quintrex packages with MASSIVE discounted prices to move, ALSO with Quintrex/E-tec boat show package deals.

Come down and see Chivers at our stand to grab these hot bargains.

Wanting to know if its possible to connect the 2 units to be able to mark a waypoint on the furuno and have it show up on the hds .
using the hds as a plotter only and it would be handy if this can be done.
So if anyone has done it could you tell me what wires to connect together please.
Thanks
Paul

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping to take the young bloke out for a fish in the next few days around Rockingham, he absolutely loves fishing and he has an old man who is a hack and knows how to catch herring and whiting and thats about it.  

I am hoping to get some good fish for him so that he can talk about it and to have a bit of bonding with him

With everyone fishing knowledge on here can anyone help out a hack on where to go, what types of rigs and baits to use please.

Thanks everyone

Has any one got a Koden FCV 1410 1 kw sounder. Just wanted to see if i could get some feed back.

Thanks

Stoinka

 hey me and a friend have just started fishing for taylor in mosman bay and we didnt do too bad fir the first time trolling we got 4 keepers and dropped one on saturday evening/night. my question is do people just troll around to find them or is there a certin depth that they like to hang round or depth the bait hangs at.

we got ours on a nice drop going from about 9m to 5 m and every time we went over it we got a hit. we were using krystal minnows and they were smashing them.

also i was just wondering what lures people use trolling and were can i find some deep diving lures in the 80mm to 100mm range any help would be appreciated

 I'm gonna get myself a new pair of spotters just wondering on the best lense i've had the penetrater lense just chasing some opinions on the other lenses and weather to chang or stick to the same 

 From the boca site

Best light trolling outfit, budget around $500 excluding line. Obviously lever drag is the way to go. Any help appreciated.

 Put my decky onto this big one in september.was one of a few for the night . Be hard  to top with only a few days left this year.

 Hey guys,

just reading up on transportation of fillets/ possession of fillets 

  Hyperthetically. My mates are going up north for a few weeks fishing, 

i can can only go for a week. So have to fly up and back, 

do i 

(a) take my fish back on airplane 

(B) leave the fish with them  in freezer labelled  and with all my details of flights ect ect 

the way I read it it says it can't be taken back by a commercial courier 

And also  that who ever is in charge of freezer/vessel what ever the fish is stored in, is deemed owner of fillets. unless otherwise proven ( hence  the leaving of details/proof )

any help will be much appreciated 

Cheers 

Dan

G,day havnt been on here fr a while but im hoping id be able to get a bit of advice on the whittley sea legend 22 and bay sports6.4.

ive been doing my research and of course the whittley has been the stand out but whith that comes the price tag.

the bay sports or used to be known as freedom boaats seem more of an entry level boat which i like but im not sure howd they handle out wide.

if anyone owned one or knows much on glass boats mabe you coud help point me in the right direction.

cheers

Howdy all,

The boat show is on next weekend and keen as mustard to get there as always. However, I normally do my run on a Sunday with the Fam for casual outing and a lookise. Never serious buying. This year, heading in with my C/cards on the ready, guns a blazing. What's the best day? I assume Friday will be quieter crowds, but is everyone there set up and ready to wheel and deal or are the bargins on an Sunday.... or all gone?

Cheers

its that time of year when the salmon arnt really aggresive and arent taking lures, everytime i see a few i cast lures and they just swim past it, but they will take a full mulie, so i was just wondering when the salmon arent feeding what is the best lure that i might have a chance of getting one? thanks

Read the article regarding dropping or pulling your mates pots in the West Australian.
Have searched the fisheries web site but cant find anything about the new law . Any ideas what the article was supposed to mean . Quite confusing .

Eyes wide shut - now opened.
On Friday night I enjoyed a most pleasant evening that really opened my eyes to what is involved in fishing deep water for big fish.

I attend the presentation of what is involved in chasing big deep dwelling fish at the Deep Drop Fishing Presentation, held at the Cockburn Power Boat Club.
This presentation was sponsored by Oceanside Tackle and a lot of people with vast experience in all the aspects of this activity where in attendance.
The presentations where headed up by Ryan from Oceanside tackle and he needs no introduction to all of those who have an interest in this developing sport fishing activity.
Various presenters gave freely their vast and hard gained knowledge on what sort of sounding equipment you will need to pursue these fish together, with an explanation of "what is my sounder telling me". Thus I'm sure enhancing the knowledge of all who attended the night, from novices (like me)and to the experienced fishos.

This was followed by an explanation of what sort of ground these dwellers of the deep like to inhabit, and that was a real eye opener, the most salient point being you are not looking for jagged pinnacle type of bottom. With the use of sounder screen shots it was explained very well the type of bottom you need to be on and what various sounder screen shots depicted. This sort of stuff only comes from those people who have put in the hard yards and time needed to gain it, it was further explained that if you start catching "green eye sharks" you are not where you need to be.

Other various knowledgeable presenters also divulged hard earned knowledge about the type of gear you will need to employ to be successful at catching these large fish. To me it was very clear, you can spend a lot of dollars on good gear but, if it's not the right type of gear for this type of fishing then you have wasted your hard earned cash on gear that is high value, but is not what you need to be successful in the pursuit of deep dwelling big fish.

The most salient points (to me) being the amount of line your reel needs to hold and the very short rods used, when it was explained just why this type of gear was used you thought well that's just common sense isn't it, except you never thought of it did you dahhh.

At the mid presentation break all presenters made themselves available for questioning and this was when you could collar them and ask questions that you where to embarrassed to ask aloud for fear of showing just how much you didn't know (well for me any way).

Everyone that I asked for information came forth with a vast amount of information willingly and in language that was clear and concise ie: "that's crap and doesn't work", no nonsense.

To the people who gave their knowledge about fish finders, what they are telling you, the importance of getting them set up right, books of reference (and I must say the publication by John Adams is priceless)together with the best of the deep fishos on how to go about it, and the gear to use.

All this knowledge has been gained by these people over a long period of practical experience and was given so freely you could not put a price on it.

To CPBC your facility was great and a most comfortable venue for such an evening, to all the presenters my sincere thank you and to Oceanside Tackle a big thank you for putting this night together.

To Ryan you have done a great service to those of use who wish to pursue monster fish from the deep.

I’m not sure why, but the better half persuaded me to take the family on a holiday to Bali just before the demersal ban when the big pinkies are around?  Still here, but come home on Sunday.

Having never been to Bali before, I must say it is a lovely place with fantastic people and culture.  We have had a driver so have been to many places and seen many things and I am sure to want to come back in the future.  There are a couple of observations that I wanted to pass on so Members were aware if you decide to visit.  I am certainly not trying to be negative as it is an awesome place with awesome people.

The first observation is about the seafood restaurants and  the need to be vigilant.  We decided to head to Jimbaran Beach for dinner one night, and to watch the sunset.  What a great location.

As it was a seafood restaurant and I don’t eat seafood, I had to go up to order my non-seafood meal with one of our guests.  At this place, you can select your fish, prawns or squid from the ice slurries and they are weighed and passed through to the kitchen for cooking a variety of ways using different methods.  All good with excellent looking meals being prepared.  So, my friend asked me what fish to pick and the old story “if its red its generally tasty” came to the front and I picked what seemed to be a red snapper in good condition of about 300mm long.  Then came the shock when he put it on the scales.  Now I have weighed a lot of fish in my day, and observed them being weighed on certified scales, and generally have a pretty good idea about what a fish weighs.  Now this little red snapper of about half a kilo somehow pulled up on the scales at 1.3kg.  I looked at this guy and told him he had to be kidding!!!!

Needless to say he was very unhappy with my comment and asked me how would I know.  I do have an “arsenal” of photos of fish on my phone and showed him a photo of a 50cm+ KG that weighed about 800g.  I also showed him a photo of a pinkie that weighed 3kg and was 5-6 times bigger than the little red snapper.  He said I didn’t know what I was talking about and told me how little my fish were.  Time to inspect the scales.

For a start, the scales were showing 200gm with nothing on them.  Add the metal bowl, and the fish, and you got to his number.  Why do we have to pay for the weight of the bowl I asked, and you have not even zeroed the scale?  By this time he didn’t like me at all, and was getting quite hostile, so he reduced the fish weight to a kilo (still double what it was in my opinion) just to get us to go away.  With a few people in line it was time to move on.

Being the OCD type of person that I am, I stewed on this rip off over dinner (which was pretty good I must say).  I had to see if I was right or fish are just really heavy here.  So the cunning plan was to get a bottle of water (330mL) and weigh that when dinner was over, and no one was looking, and see what it was on the scales.  What do you know, about 350g of water and bottle weighed about 700g on the scales.  Much to the embarrassment of my family, me and our dinner guest (that can speak the language) took them to task over this.  To their credit, they didn’t question us and refunded half of the cost of the seafood to ensure we didn’t take it any further.  I don’t know how many people pick these things up but there is clearly a lot of extra cash coming in, or in the alternate the prices on the menu are too cheap per unit of weight.  We got a reasonable result in the end and I guess the message is to watch everything that is going on when people are trying to sell you stuff.

The next observation made me sad.  When we first got to Bali, I asked our driver to take me past the memorial and site of the 2002 atrocities.  For understandable reasons, some members of our group did not want to dwell on the event so we just drove by.  I know the impact that the event had, and still has, on many good people and started to do some research on it with many hours of reading about how wrong it all was and what great people were taken.  I had to go there and in a way pay my personal respects to those that were lost, as my readings had brought me close to the event and the people involved.

With the family wanting to go to Kuta for the beach and shopping (we are staying in Sanur), it provided me the opportunity to walk the couple of kilometres from the beach to the site and have the time to myself to reflect.  The memorial at the site of Paddy’s is an awesome thing and the governments and people involved should be proud of what they have done.  It is a fitting tribute at the site that was Paddy’s Bar. 

The Sari Club site is a different thing altogether though.  It is located across the road from the memorial and is currently an unsealed car park.

I wandered into the site to have a close look and I must say was not particularly impressed with what I saw.  The rear of the site is basically a bit of a rubbish dump with the remnants of the tiling of the old toilets still affixed to the boundary walls.  This area is generally derelict.

The front is the car park area with a couple of shop booths near the entrance.  I didn’t ask how much it was to park but I suppose it would provide a service for those wishing to attend the memorial across the road.

Probably the most disturbing thing is saw was someone using the site as an open air urinal.  I had read a number of reports about this practice but to see it first hand was disappointing.

The site was also “home” to some underprivileged people that had erected temporary accommodation.  I guess this is just an opportunistic use of the site.

I read a lot about the issues at the site, and the efforts of some Australians to have the site turned into a peace park.  It seems that the site owner is willing to sell it, but at 5-6 times the market price.  Also, the guy that has a 30 year lease on the site is unwilling to relinquish it.  To its credit however, the Indonesian Government appears to have placed a moratorium on any development of the site.  It could potentially compulsorily acquire it but this would no doubt be a political nightmare that would have to be funded from somewhere.  So, I guess it is a stalemate and it will continue to be used as a car park for the foreseeable future.  It is unfortunate as it would be good to see a respectful use at the site rather than what it is now.

As noted above, Bali is an awesome place and the above is not intended to be a criticism.  It is just a couple of observations that I thought Members may be interested in.  I will certainly be coming back and encourage people to do the same.  Hopefully the wind is kind on my return and there are still some pinkies with my name on them before the ban. 

Few pics from last  night

i have 2 lowrance hds gen 2 combo units and want to run one as a sounder and one as a plotter . My question is ,do i have to do anything in the settings of

the one i want to run as a plotter to stop it wanting to send out a ping If it doesnt have a tranducer attached to it.

If i do nothing , will it damage the unit in any way.

Thanks

Paul

Hi all,

My Garmin GPS/Sounder 12 inch combo has shit itself and I'm looking at getting a 587 sounder and Simrad/ Lowrance 9 inch GPS unit installed depending on prices at the boat show next week. Only drama is that I have a Airmac TM260 1kw tranny with a Garmin plug that's going to need to be spliced into a Furuno plug. I'm looking at getting something to cover the hole in the dash and need to have the holes re cut to hold the new equipment.

Although it's something that I'm sure I could sit down and work out myself and persevere, it's also a big investment in $$$ and want it done well.

Can anyone recommend someone to do this sort of work?

Thanks

Hey
We are looking to get into a Toyota Prado diesel, I have only previously had a AWD and been looking around.
Toyota seem to hold resale so, seem like a good buy.
Don't have any 4wd experience but am keen to start, had a reality check a few weeks ago. A mate was up north on a vessel, was only 53 and had a heart attack. Couldn't be saved so enough of not taking life to the fullest.

Have googled jeep and not to keen after seeing the moose test etc.

Any thoughts on the Prado?
Thanks
ShaneO

 Just saw this on Facebook. Nice pinkie. 13.5kg.

 Hey guys, heading up to Sandy Cape over the weekend and wondering if anyone has been there lately and what the fishing is like? Get to test out my new Navara so access is no issues. Also, is there any mobile coverage up there?

Cheers!

 I was up at Ascot today passed my fav spot an noticed someone with a very large rod on roof rack parked nearby.

 Got me thinking, i would assume people dont do it to not attract them, but still....Not something i would try these days as im not fit enough, but would interesting to know if anyone else has.

 Hi All,

Thought I would start a thread for the 2015/16 crayfish season, I have searched the forum for information on using cray pots but thought I would start thread about where you will be getting your crays this year, when you will start dropping your pots and what depths you will be hunting in. This year will be my first year at having a crack dropping the pots, I have all ways gone diving for my crays all have done well off the scarborough reefs in about 14 metres of water. This year due to living further north I will be setting the pots out from Mindarie in about 10-15 metres of water see how we go we will have 4 pots so it will be a bit trial and error trying to find them. What is everybody elses plans to catch crays this year?

Its the time of year with the snapper ban in place and the demersal ban to closely follow that I think about going deep. The difference being this year I will go the distance and invest in the gear to get started. I'm looking at two reels and I would greatly appreciate opinion from others. Shimano Plays 9000, Daiwa Tanacom Bull 1000 I'm a bit of a Shimano tragic so I'm leaning in that direction.

Enjoy

 Well, after a long fishing drought i am set to break it next week in mandurah.  Last time i wet a line was steep point in may this year.  Fishing desires have been put on hold over winter while i found a new car as the engine karked it in the last one coming back from steep point, and i also undertook installing a kill tank into the boat.  In amongst that some family dramas and challenges have kept my focus, but fingers crossed they're all moving in a positive direction.  Most recently the misses did her MCL in her right knee which threw our plans for a week in mandurah into disarray.  But she has declared herself fit and so we're off.  I have to work the first few days but i have checked the forecast and later in the week may be promising.

So it is time to put the kill tank to the test and hopefully fill it with some fish.

Getting two new cray pots delivered to me while we're there, and found a local selling second hand cray pot rope.  So in my down time I'll have some splicing to do.  I'll find time to catch some herring for cray bait come november, and might even putter up the murray and have a counter meal at the ravenswood.

put in at east freo, our daughter and her 2 kids,cruised down to the moles, went into the fishing boat harbour had some lunch,put the pick down in 4 metres bit of berly and the fish turned it on for my little crewie, lots of skips, yellow tail and butterfish, threw most back, good fun, went for a cruise to blackwall reach and then back to the ramp, great day out

 Looking at putting wrap around stainless steel snapper racks on the Surtee's can anyone suggest a local mob that has them,I dont want the poxy 3 way things that some of the tackle stores stock

 went out a few nights ago before the ban kicked in and finally got myself a pinkie 

Im very much bad luck when it comes to fishing but that didn't stop me from getting my own boat. After a few teething problems with it and my piss poor fishing ability the first handful of excursions hadn't been much chop 

After a fair bit of studying a sunset trip to finally bring home a pinkie was agreed with me my dad and his mate 

After a couple of stingrays we finally got a bit of action and my line went of like a train hit it. As the rod was in the rod holder it actually broke my rodholder when it took of. After a bit of a fight which wasn't too light as I'm nit going to be fishing light until I have actually got some fish on-board I'd hate to lose one when I haven't court one;) well I netted a 80cm pinkie. All three on the boat actually hooked up at this stage but only one boarded.

I took some photos baited dropped back down then bang on again within 2 mins. This time a slightly smaller 70cm version was pulled aboard. We had a few more hook ups and a visit from a north west blowies. Then our night was over.

The boat still has a couple of issues and my fishing ability is still very suspect not to mention my skippering ability but I'm on the board and couldn't be happier.

And thanks to the guys who commentated on my previous post asking for tips muchly appreciated