Ok fellas so who's been stocking up on tackle and gear for the comp?

How many of you have lightened the wallet on new rods and reels?? I know I have..

Also what species are on your list and what's on your things to do? My team is after a nice red on placcy and I know a few other guys comin up are chasing a few GT's.

Look forward to meeting yall there.

Cheers Lloyd

Hi Crew,

Got it on Wednesday, took the boat out yesterday to give it a run and see what the settings were like. Only had HDS5 in first but now having the HDS10 we connected both together now it seems the 5 is a lot clearer and more defined. It also holds the bottom travelling at higher speeds compared to what it used to.

I couldnt help myself today, just had to get 1 well no 2, one for the missus aswell. Well who wouldnt at $749 each. Just need a rod for them now, any suggestions. Brian at Compleat Angler Nedlands your awesome.

Hey Guys,

I was just wondering what peoples plans were tonight.

I wanted to know if any fellow fishwrecked members were going to take advantage of the beautiful night we have coming for us tonight.  I am planning on taking the young fella land basedsouth metro to try and get him to experience a big run whether its a ray, shark, mulla what eva just want him to experience some big fish action.

any members thinking of heading out south metro tonight let me know as we would love to meet some fellow fishwrecked members. I  am not too sure as yet to where the young fella and i are going to go. We wanted to go to E-Shed or Ammo jetty but i think its going to be super packed.

Well tight lines all and good luck to all fishos who go out tonight.
Cheers Guys Dave

Well its a record for me, personal worst haha.

Smallest snapper i have ever seen.

I released it and it swam off very stong to grow to a big 9kg monster

Enjoy

Hey guys,
Just picked up a Tyrnos 20

and need a 24kg stick to match it with.

Looking at a 24kg Shimano Backbone Elite
all though was suggested to go with a ugly stick today?

Price Range is = Maximum of $180

Any comments or suggestions much appreciated
Im liking the the Backbone so if anyone could talk me out of it, any bad reviews?
Also is there much advantage of the roller tip in the Backbone??

Cheers Duffman.

Hi guys,

I recently got a Shimano Starlostix 5'9 6-10kg Big Barra,

However i dont exactly know what reel to get with it? Could anyone help me out?? 

Someone on here is selling a Shimano Callisto 100 baitcaster, but again i dont know if it suits it or not?

Thanks,

Mitch

Hi guys,

I recently heard that some types of hooks take forever to rust out if left in a fishes mouth??, like stainless steel?? 

What type of brands of hooks are best to use to avoid this?

Thanks,

Mitch

just wondering if anyone could let me know what i should replace the trebles and split rings on my bomber 15A's with. I caught my first Jack (53cm) during the week and it straightened 2 of the 3 trebles.

Any help would be appreciated

Hey all.

Just wondering if any one has seen one from a local tackle store NOR??

If not any other rods for that price that are similat?

Cheers Danno

Today Bill Marmion the State Environment Minister has announced that he has dusted off the plans and it is under consideration for a series of Marine Parks from Busselton to Augusta.

Recfish West are complaining that they haven't had any input into the proposal and the recfishers on the South coast instead of targeting the Greenie Groups are complaining about commercial fishers. If Marine Parks are put in place and I've said it before you can expect to see your fish stocks depleted even further regardless of what Jessica Meeuwig says because the competition between Recfishers and the Commercial guys will intensify for the remaining stock.

Jessica Meeuwig's knowledge of the habits of the Iconic Dhufish in this region is  extremely  limited and having fished for the species for over 50 years I believe it may well spell the end for that species. My reason is that I believe Dhufish do not grow up in that region but they get transported on the Capes to Capes current from an area south of Augusta and we all know the big bucks start showing up in September onwards in this area.  The big eyes the Dhufish have would give an indication that they  inhabit deep waters before entering the capes region for spawning.

Both the Recreational sector and the Commercial sector need to get their heads together and pool their knowledge of the area to make the Environment Minister aware of the hazards of relying on information from a person who is paid to have an opinion with very little local knowledge. Please feel free to voice your concerns.

Gday people

was in town the other day picking up some supplies at the local tackle shop , I was chasing some swivels and snaps for some trolling riggs as well as chasing some bits and peices to make up some teasers. Anyway got talking to the bloke behind the counter and the topic got going on trolling rigs and the like. Now Ive never strayed to far from the conventional set up mainly, lure / bait to crimped mono leader ,of around 1 to 2 meters attched via snap swivel and a wind on leader, I mainly fish around 10 to 15kg while trolling occassionally go to 24kg leaders would hardly get behond 200lb with the mainstay 100 to 120lb in short fairly light.

The bloke behind the counter mentioned a couple of things in conversation that interested me and was a little outside my way of thinking, first was he used teaser birds on his trolling rigs ie actual in line with the bait lure you are trolling he ran them between the wind on and leader, anyone out there ever do that at all? Be interested to here anything about it, Ive allways used them in daisy chains/teaser set ups.

The second thing we were talking about  was the speed of trolling by way of eliminating by catch ( in short stopping mackies from wrecking lures baits ) for sails I would troll depending on the day 3 to  7knots but as a result would have a few dramas with mackies, the advice was to pick the troll up to around 10 or 12knts this would elimnate by catch but still be good for the more exotic species tuna, doly, marlin, sails, and wahoo any thoughts out there?

few links here from the black bart guys chasing wahoo in the Carribean old vids and probably seen before but I found them interesting in the use of extremly heavy gear, wire and lead weights in trolling. trolling speed at a guess would be 10 to 15 nts  hope the lins work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPgNvi0FOM    Part one rigs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CypwSueKs&feature=related    part two fishing 

a few good sized crabs of the swan wednesday morning

Hey i was just wondering how packed does it get on a sunday night, i want to give it a go but dont want to be shoulder to shoulder also curious what rigs you use and the bait everyone has been using just curious. do most people use a boat rod and put it close to the pylons or use a egg beater and cast out as far as you can?

I seem to be doing something wrong but tryng to pin point what it is i have read every book and article ever writen about the mullas but still on th 0 mark after thousands of hours and thousands of spots.  So i thought i would pick all your brains

i also understand if you dont want to tell me as fishing secrets are important lol

Well been a big build up for the yearly trip north.

As some of you know, we are spending 9 days at port gregory, then heading up to exy for the Fishwrecked comp spending 9 days up there too!

Port gregory we have 10 people - 2 boats, Exmouth 9 people 2 boats (mine and a 9m protector)

To say we are taking enough gear is an understatement!! worked out last night Scano, myself and a cousin or mine are taking 28 rods between the 3 of us, let alone anyone else!

Seems every 2nd day is another visit to the tackle store, im sure we have 250 lures, and 100 packs or plastics! We think it would have been cheaper for all of us to go to europe for 2 weeks!!!

Leaving frist thing Saturday, with the weather looking pretty good for Sunday, possibly to make it to abrohlos islands, but monday tuesday wednesday looking nice n windy!

Did get a quick report from someone who came back from port gregory 2 weeks ago, saying the water temp was a staggering 29 degrees!! and said they were bait casting mulies for mackies in some parts of the reef system. Tailor up around 5 kilos all too common, and some honker pinkys!!! Definitley enought o get my blood pumping!

Will put up a few photos along the way as well as try get one showing all the fishing gear we are taking, it really is rediculous!

See quite a few of you up in Exmouth, we arrive on the 3rd!

Cheers

 Scary isn't it!!!

Coming up on the 10th of April. Lots of prizes on offer. Anyone looking at having a go?

been busy and havent been posting much,but about time  it came along :) . 15kg mulloway from the sheds

thinking of heading out to rotto for a troll for tuna just want to see what everyone thinks

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/wa.asp

cmon till you know your stuff

 hey guys heading up to shark bay on the school holidays with a few mates just wondering what can be caught landbased there either big or small as ive never been there before? any info would be great

 The last few weekends I've done a bit of squiding around GI and we've been getting into them but they're all small to medium sized, not one big one to be found. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed the sizes to be small at the moment and any theories on how the squid size varies now and then. 

Do the squid give birth during a certain time of the year or just whenever? Seems like there may have been a big birthing a month or 2 ago with all these small ones being around now. Anyone know a lot about the humble squid's life cycle?

hey guys i want to hit the fads on saturday but havent been for couple seasons now :(

Any particular fad working wonders?

Hi guys,

I have compleated my latest article about Kalbarri, got bulk Tailor pics but im short of a couple pics of mulloway  .

Any you guys have any good ones i can use. I will make sure your name is on the pics.

Regards

Marc 

Got out early to the westend on Friday -i reckon there were 30-40 boats out wide, picke dup this mack withing about 5 minutes of dropping th elures out, hit a halco crazy deep that was in tight behind the prop wash - trolled for another hour and got nothing so instead of bottom bashing we decided we would head back into to Thommo's  - backed up to the beach coffe and the paper -awesome day out !

ps -finally got the hang of posting pics -special thanks to Matt (hlokk) for helping me out :-)

1. You have fished all day long, casting poppers and stickbaits endlessly at big GT's, and finally get back to a 5 star resort on the beach which has a lovely little bar with cold beer........

...thinking, thinking, thinking....a beer sounds good, but I think we have a better plan.......

...grab your PE3 jigging gear, sling the local guy in his local banana boat $50 and go fishing of coarse....Wungu the Legend...........

Happy days.........

All fish donated to the local village.

2. When you are heading home after an awsome week of fishing, have been dropped off at the airport at Kadavu (right on the beach), checked your bags and all the gear in to the airport guys, and you hear the plane has been delayed for 3 hours............

.......but you realise the boat we have been fishing on all week, that dropped us off at the airport, has not left yet...

......grab your PE3 jigging gear back off the airport guys, sling the skipper $50 and go fishing of coarse.....

The airport guys were so amused, they decided to bail work and come along....

Miss that place...................

Any advice on beach fishing rigs, lures, locations would be great. Also have small boat so hoping for some flat days (albeit no surf) to get amongst it.

Cheers

piced this mac up yesterday about 4 ks out from quindalup in 12 meters of water.wasnt even planning on a fish were just out to take family for a cruise to the cape when i spoted one swimming on the surface ,droped a couple lures out the back and had a hook up within 5 minutes

Hey everybody longtime no hear! good to see some nice fish been caught! hey not long ago I broke my handle on my 9500 offshore Fin Nor in barri and am having trouble tracking one down! would anyone know where to get one from around perth even if its not the original a custom will do! if so could you please send me a p.m. its my fav stump puller and im off to the abrohlos and would like it with me. thanks guys n gals! happy fishing tangles

with so many people getting interested in land based shark fishing myself and cuthbad were thinking of putting together a shark mission . so let us know if your keen.

location : the spot  carpark yanchep approx 2 km past club cap turn off

date: sat 9th april

time: as of 5 pm

brenz