Gday,
Does anyone know the legalities of craypot floats other than you have to have them?
My problem is I can find plenty of places to put my pots in off the reef in front of my house but being nearly holiday time the chance of them being there the next day isn't real good with all the campers.

What would happen if put my pots in at low tide without a rope or float. (just an identification tag done to the correct specs)
Or a float on a real short rope that technically doesn't float?

The main reason for floats is for identification right, and your own benefit of course.

Whats your thoughts........I just reckon if Im the only one who knows were they are and they are licenced and to spec it should be ok????

Or do you just put a small piece of broken rope on it and explain it must have been cut?????

Cheers
Hairy

 Has the shop in Woodvale closed down? (been closed for last few weeks) cheers Pete.

ps Apologies if this has been covered already.

Hi

Just wondering who's fishing the comp? was a great comp last year.

Video from last year day after the comp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux33-5A8Ffk

Cheers

Brad

 G'day guys,

I've done some research on google and it says if baking a fish whole in the oven when wrapped in foil, a general rule of thumb is 15 mins per half kilo. That sounds like a lot? 

Ive bought a nice 3kg coral trout and the thought of leaving it in the oven for over an hour worries me.

is anyone able to offer some advice on this? Id hate to over cook such a nice fish.

What's Happening with the cray's ?

very quiet on all fronts, ( divers & potters) Looking forward to finally getting my holidays & putting the pots out on Thursday for 5 weeks

 Have to test the new winch & tipper somehow

 hey guys im off for a few weeks over xmas. If you strike trouble or need any repairs over xmas with boat or trailer call me and we will sort it out straight away.

Send me a text or call

0403814674

Good luck with the fishing over xmas and safe boating 

my friend and his family have invited me to rotto in January, and they usually do a bit of fishing while they're there. I'm just wondering what do you catch there? Because fishing is not on their priority list, I will probably be restricted to only about 30 mins to 1 hour of fishing at a time. Because they have 5 boys and things can get hectic.

i am thinking of just bringing my 8ft 2-6kg fibreglass rod which is a noodle, and just a cheap shimano FX2500 with 4lb braid. I don't know if there are tailor there but I wouldn't be able to go fishing at sunset because we will be eating dinner then. I think only jetty fish.

so what do you recommend fishing for there, what do you usually catch there?

lachie 

 Hey fellas heading out tomoz for a quick jig just wondering if any one has some advice etc or rough idea where they are or depth more then happy to swap for a demarsal spot or a few fishing spots up in sharkbay cheers Sam

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-29/shark-bite-at-port-bouvard-beach-south-of-mandurah-wa/5927832

 here's some catches from the home made boat made this last winter for the river but now she's been everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Njow04_KuA

 Hey guys, I'm heading south to Augusta next weekend I'm doing houseboats up the Blackwood river, does anywon know what I'm likely to catch this time of year? And maybe some spots as I will have a dingy

whats the fine for fishing in freshwater lakes like kingfisha's lake? I don't want to go ever if we get fined $500 or something. Any warnings involved?

 Hey guys. I'm chasing some inform on swords and I know a few guys on here have longlined before. Rigging and setups I sort of have an idea what I'm more after is what sort of depths where they common? Are they found on the contours so more on the walls or sea mounts/ drop offs or doesn't that matter and just stick to the temp breaks?? I want to give this a good crack just trying to pile together a heap of info and go from there

Thanks in advance

 Does anyone restore their own fish hooks that are showing signs of rust?  I have replaced these on one of my favorite lures, but if I could get the rust off them, perhaps they could be recycled rather than thrown out.  Is there any particular method for restoring and is it worth the trouble?

 Hi guys just wondering if anybody had used the avet lx 6.0 mc reel and how did it go casting

not long lads,

been doing some recon & getting ready for the deeeep drop kill , bring it on,, some monsters are coming

thats a fact!

Hi guys looking for a new real for demersals, will be used for both jigging and bait. Will the shimano shimano biomaster sw v2 work that. Has anyone had them and are they very good I cannot find much information about them on the web.

Thanks

 Hi guys, me and my dad are planning on taking the family to exmouth. The problem is we dont know much about exmouh and places to stop on the way to exmouth so i am looking for some help.

We have 7 days to go to exmouth and back as my dad is a fifo so we can't stay too long, we are planning on driving there but want to make one stop on the way as it is too long to go there in one day. Any suggestions/reccomendations will be greatly appreciated.

Also my dad and I are going to be doing a lot of fishing although we are stuck land based, the main reason we are going is to catch bigger fish. We are not too experienced when it comes to bigger fish though and we are seeking advice. Any tips on locations, rigs, baits and species caught would be very helpful. 

We will mostly be targeting Spangled Emperor and queenfish as our gear would most likely not be able to handle GT's. 

Any help is much appreciated, we just hope we won't be too disappointed

Thanks

 this is a big shark

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/28/12/47/lucky-seal-escapes-jaws-of-a-great-white-shark

Hello all

Looking for fellow fisho's in Margaret River to go pull cray pots with and go fishing. Hard to pull them by myself and launch and land the dinghy. If someone out there has the same problem we could combine efforts and help each other!

cheers

Let me try this again

No crabbing this season in Cockburn sounds looks like ill have to get from the river again.

Was a few decent size blues last night in the deep river!

Enjoy

 We are going out Saturday for the 1st trip of the season could use a couple of crew. Pm me if interested. ..we have all equipment. ..34 Black Watch. ...just need to share fuel...

 Hi Guys, I was out on the swan river on Tuesday taking the kids skiing, I set up my chat plotter with tracking so I can find my way back to the jetty at night after skiing for a while I noticed that I I lost the charts it was still tracking but I haven't been able to get any of the chart information back like lateral markers or any thing else like that, anybody know what has happened?  I have a navionics sd card inserted as well. 

I am planning on launching in the river on sunday morning and heading out though the harbour.

Want to get some squid first up and the navionics app tells me there is a squid spot about 0.3 nm off the rock wall of FSC.  Has anyone tried there and how was it?  I may stop here and check it out and if no good head to Parmelia bank or garden island.

Then the plan is to troll FFB for tuna or macks and keep an eye out for any sambo jigging opportunities.

Looks like the seabreeze will come in before lunch so it may be back into the river for some trolling for tailor later in the day.

 hi guys, i have heard for ages that carp are bad eating and taste like mud, so i dicided to do some reserch, i found this profetional video of this guy showing us how to cook, clean and to get rid of that muddy flavour, so heres the link, its worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gi0dYjbrJs

 .

Jeeeesus, go to the pub for a few hours and everything is gone. WTF happened, did Bieber have another cry or did you blokes get too abusive? Sometimes, the comedy topics are the only thing to keep the interest going :(