waiting on some nice yellow braided line. this will be dedicated to only shark/mulloway/jigging fishing. cant wait to use it. I hear that carbon tech washers are the way to go with these reels. can any one help a little fella out?

A work mate is having an issue with 98 Falcon. Thanks all, Colin

How much 80lb Tuf-Line XP Indicator Braid will I get on my stella 20k???

should I buy the 600m spool? or should I go the 65lb, or 50lb for maximum capacity?

 p.s. has anyone got any pros or cons for Tuf-Line Xp Indicator Spectra line???

Recreational fishers face paying a land-based fishing licence after Fisheries Minister Norman Moore refused to rule it out yesterday as an option to save fish stocks.

Mr Moore said while the State Government had previously decided not to go down the path of imposing such a licence fee, he would look at every option when research into shore-based fishing stocks was completed by the end of the year.

"I don't want to speculate on the future but if the fishery is under threat we will have to look at every option that relates to making sure that the fishery is sustained," he said.

"If those fisheries are under threat, then we will take the necessary action to save them."

A $300,000 research program was announced by the State Government in December to assess the effects of shore-based fishing.

The Government said at the time there was evidence that a two-month recreational fishing ban from October 15 on demersal scale fish such as pink snapper and dhufish had caused some fishermen to switch to shore-based fish targeting species such as herring, whiting and tailor.

Recfishwest executive director Frank Prokop said while such a fee would be unpopular, he wouldn't oppose a move by the Government to introduce a land-based fishing licence. But he said he preferred a general fishing licence of $20 to $30 for all adults who wanted to fish from both boats and the shore. Ben Patrick, spokesman for the Australian Fishing Trade Association in WA and a local tackle manufacturer, said the licensing system was a "dog's breakfast".

Mr Patrick said if all the other licences were abolished, a land-based fee would be worth looking at.

But he said no recreational fisher in WA would be happy about a land-based fishing fee until the recreational community had a say in where the proceeds were spent.

A spokesman for Mr Moore said a general fishing licence had been considered in March last year as one of a range of options.

He said money had been allocated for this year from the newly introduced recreational boat fishing licence fees to management, compliance, research and licensing within the recreational fishing industry.

Earlier this month, it became law for all recreational fishers using a powered vessel to have a recreational fishing licence, which costs $30 a year.

Edit:  PHILIPPA PERRY, The West Australian March 10, 2010, 6:15 am

Great....

Just thought i would let you guys/girls see it on here.

Hey all, one of our members was invovled in the Jurien Bay Freediver death last weekend and in the attempt of getting his mate back to shore as soon as possible for medical treatment there guns and floats were left at the scene. Below is a post from our site which i wont post as most know it and ill keep to the forum guidelines but please if you come across these guns or hear of anything in the pipe line lets do the right thing and get these guns back to the guys that own them and the family. Cheers Mick H 0413 564 730

"On the long weekend two spearguns were left in the water about 2nm south of the Fisherman islands, as well as a danforth anchor and all the associated rope. Both spearguns were attached to brightly coloured floats. The anchor was tied off to a milk crate, which unfortunately is probably creating a shipping hazard.

If anyone has found or finds these guns or the anchor, please call me on 0407 663 140.

All items were dumped overboard or left in the water as we had a medical emergency and had to get to Jurien Bay ASAP.

If someone offers to sell you a used 1.1m Rob Allen Sniper Turbo (sorry about the name), could you please ask them if this is where they got it. I'm not sure what brand of gun Imran was using but it had a reel on it and a float."  Cam

Cheers again Mick 

hey all

i was thinking of using soft plastics..

i heard some time ago that they can give u cancer or lead to cancer? is this true?

cheers danno

Just had a great thought.

How much of a dipstick would you feel if at the end of a days fishing you forgot to log off with your local club or VMR? 

What can I do to remind me to log off at the end of a days fishing?

Well the "Remember To Log Off!" sticker that I got a couple of years ago when I did my Rec. Skippers Ticket. I have just thought of a great place to put it!

On the dash of the boat! Wrong. Hang it off the rear view mirror of the car on a lacky band after you put your boat in the water so it is in your face as you drive home.

 I have even written the phone number of the VMR on the back just in case we are out of radio range because I am sure I will be day dreaming and reliving the moment of the huge Dhufish I have just caught on Toothfish Reef.

Yer Yer I know, ya gotta remember to put it on the mirror in the first place. so I put it on the checklist of things to take/do when going fishing.  

What do ya reckon?

Toothfish

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/09/2841125.htm

Cheers
Dale

Hey guys,

Im heading to exmouth again on the 23rd of this month (bit of a spontaneous trip)... havent been up at this time of the year before... normally go june- august.

Does anyone know anything about the winds, pelagic action, around this time.

Thanks for any feedback

Went fishing down a lake on the weekend. I stepped on this tiger snake!!!!!!
I had thongs on !. Lucky it didnt bite me!!!felt it under my foot and it shot out into the water. I grabbed the camera and got a few good shots
In the lake there is monster carp swiming around!

Its on a abandoned mansion property

I went down to the edge and stepped on this with thongs on. It shot out and into the water. Grabbed camera and got some shots. I then realised it was a tiger snake :( Lucky i didnt get bitten!

I was orignaly going to just trade my current car in and get a cruiser ute. But seeing as i drive to perth a fair bit from bunbury decided i want to keep it and looked at other options and have decided on a dune buggie.

This is my current choice.

http://dunebuggies.com.au/home/?id=hammerhead150gt.php

Im thinking i can put a T-bar on the Front of the A frame and attatch rod holers on the passanger side. Theres space on the back for tackleboxes and an esky for some food and bevvys.


Just wondering on peoples opinions, maybe so ideas on how else to customize it and wether anyone has tried this before and its been a flop :)

Thanks guys.

i changed it to better knob handle what do you guys think.

does any one out there know anything about the jmc v3002 comercial sounder.

what are they like in general ? good /bad points ?

which transducer to use, i fish no deeper than 200mts

got to be better than my trackfish 6600

cheers

Was down the Bunbury cut today while waiting for dusk i was playing around with some small soft plastics and much to my amusment managed to get into some small pinkys great fun on light gear a guy noticed what i was catching and came down and started fishing close to me by now it was getting towards dusk so i switched over and started firing metals all over the place and getting into the tailor, when i look over at him and notice hes now into the baby pinkys and putting them in his bucket i had just caught a nice plump 35cm tailor so taking that with me i went over to explain that your not allowed to take them and i dont eat fish so i offered to give him my tailor and the rest i catch if he puts his baby fish back in the ocean to live another day him not speaking much english starts trying to tell me "No they bream no they size you go away" even if these were bream wearing pink and blue sequined outfits they were still undersize. (He then procedeed to scream at me everytime i released a fish) Getting sick of him i went to the car and tried to call the fisheries to see if they could come down and do something about the blatant slaughter of baby pinkys :( only to get a voice mail and told to try again later.

Keen to help returned juvenile fish escape from predators, a group of professional estuarine fishermen from the South Coast have invented a unique “Fishute” device.

The bycatch reduction device comprises a concertina-style mesh shute that allows any undersized fish to be returned to the water out of sight of seabirds. Normal fishing activities attract pelicans which prey upon released fish, particularly juvenile black bream, before they have the opportunity to escape.

WA SeaNet extension officer Neil MacGuffie said he helped invent the Fishute after being approached by industry to reduce the environmental impact of the fishery. “We came up with the idea together through trial and error. It really was through industry initiative to operate more sustainably that we were able to develop this,” he explained. 

Mr MacGuffie revealed the device was introduced to a wider fishery industry meeting last week where it was enthusiastically received. 20 Fishutes have been constructed and are currently being used by the South Coast Estuarine Fishery. South Coast Licensed Fishermen’s Association president Paul Benson said the device allowed the fish to be safely released and to acclimatise to their surroundings, before attempting their escape from the pelicans. “We’ve popped some fake eyes on the outside of the device and it’s working well to stop the birds getting too close,” Mr Benson added.

South Coast NRM chief executive Rob Edkins said that by returning the juvenile fish to the water, the fishers were ensuring the future harvest and supply of locally caught fish. “The Fishute is a great example of local ingenuity born out of a real desire to conserve and protect South Coast fish stocks,” he said.

The development of the Fishute also highlights the advantages of this estuarine fishery introducing a Code of Practice for Responsible Fishing. The Fishute project is supported by the professional fishermen of the South Coast Estuarine Fishery, SeaNet, OceanWatch Australia and South Coast NRM. The project was funded under South Coast NRM’s coastal community engagement program through the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country initiative. The South Coast Estuarine Fishery’s Fishute received a commendation for the Environment Award in the 2010 Western Australian Seafood Industry Awards.

Edited Media Release: South Coast Natural Resource Management

i hated the handle knob on the stock kix, it gave me blisters when constanly casting lures and poppers. This gave me a softer touch and now i can keep fishing comfortably.

just thought id let you guyz know i went to Gosnells tackle shop the one with a bike shop joined to it

i picked up 2x penn 650ss for $99 each and a 950ss for $99 aswell

the catch with the 950ss is that you have to buy fishing line cost around $20

theres also 750ss and 850ss for the same price

hey guys. just chasing feed back if anyone is running the furuno fcv-295 iam thinking about buying one with a bl series 28htz 3kw transducer wet boxed. is anyone running the same setup?

Gday peolpe, we're  heading out off Onslow for a few nights in a few weeks time and was wondering if the boat ramp carpark is ok to leave a cars with trailers for a couple of nights? Makes a long drive back to Karratha with no rollers or wheels on the trailer if you know what I mean. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheerz

Daisy

im going up to Jurien Bay

whats the best way to catch these guyz

trolling or drop???

im leaving tonite so all the help i can get would be fantastic

cheerz boyz and galz

hi all, im hoping to rig my jetski up with a setup like this before the salmon season kicks in. im only 10mins from a boat ramp in cockburn sound and was wondering what kind of fish i could expect to catch if i did a bit of trolling out near garden island and carnac. how close do the bluefin come to the sound? i read a report a couple of weeks ago in the paper and it said a fisherman caught 2 shark mack to ten kgs in between the islands by flicking SP's. is this believable? and also, has anyone had luck catching jumbo tailor from the reefies around penguin island in safety bay??

Courtesy of the ABC

By Carly Laird

Sushi-lovers in Japan could be in for a shock if a proposed international trade ban on northern bluefin tuna goes ahead.

The United States has announced it will support the ban when it is put to a vote at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) later this month.

But Japan, the biggest consumer of the fish, has indicated it may not honour the ban if it is approved.

Peter Trott, the fisheries program manager at the environment group WWF, says bluefin tuna stocks have been in steep decline across the globe for some time.

"All species are under extreme pressure from fishing activity due to the insatiable appetite and demand for the product on the Japanese market and several other Asian markets," he said.

Brian Jeffries, the chief executive of the Australian Tuna Association, says there are three main types of bluefin tuna.

"Northern bluefin tuna or Atlantic bluefin tuna - then another type of northern bluefin which is called Pacific bluefin, which is obviously Japan and Mexico - are the major catchers," Mr Jeffries said.

"Then there is southern bluefin, which runs around Australia towards South Africa and New Zealand."

At the end of next week, representatives from 175 countries will attend CITES in Doha. They will be debating whether to ban all international trade in northern bluefin tuna.

"There's no doubt a number of countries at the CITES conference follow the United States' lead," Mr Jeffries said.

"The US has tremendous influence in its own right as the EU will when it finally makes its decision about which way to go."

But Mr Jeffries believes it is a decision based largely on self-interest.

"The effect on American and Canadian fishermen will be quite minor, particularly as the US government has announced that those fishermen will be allowed to continue to catch their quota," he said.

"So the only ban we are talking about here is not being able to trade it internationally. They are certainly not talking about a ban on catching at all."

Mr Jeffries says this means tuna caught by Americans will have to be consumed in the US.

"There's a substantial market within the US," he said.

"It is just at the slightly higher prices in Japan at various times of the year for specific types of fish, but that can easily be consumed in the US."

'Close' vote

Mr Trott says it is difficult to know which way the vote will go in Doha.

"It's going to be very close. There is a number of countries that are still undecided and Australia is particularly one of those countries and also New Zealand," he said.

"We should really be, as a responsible fishing nation, leading this charge in terms of supporting the ban as well."

Mr Trott says the ban makes economic sense for Australia.

"If you remove the Mediterranean bluefin tuna out of the market equation, then there's a clear market opportunity there for southern bluefin tuna... to increase the market share that it currently occupies within the Japan marketplace," he said.

"When you remove a product from the shelves, there is going to be another product that takes its place that is very similar in nature.

"Unfortunately the southern bluefin tuna fits that bill quite nicely."

Mr Jeffries disagrees, saying it is highly likely the southern bluefin may be nominated for a similar CITES trade ban in 2013.

He says this would hurt the Australian industry more than the short-term economic benefits that would come from a ban on the northern variety.

He also believes it could encourage black market operators.

"The black market trade in this case is to export somehow to say China, and China can then process the product and it gets imported into Japan as fillets, frozen fillets where it is very difficult to identify which fish it is."

What are you doing for 4 days of Fishing Mayhem over Easter 2010....??

hey all

my best mate who is on a prawn boat at the moment 2hrs north of perth, my girlfriend and myself, are just about to leave melbourne on an aus trip 1st stop perth. keen to get fishing and maybe even some work in if there's any!

just wanted to ask if anybody on this site HAS or knows someone who has 30ft by 2 meters for our bus to be parked in exchange for work or money. we're friendly hard working 20 somethings with a taste for adventure. would love to get an insiders view of w.a.

thanks guys

Stacey and marty

0422415108

If you dived SOR over the weekend please check your boat - found a really nice dive flag and pole on the side of the road - if it is yours PM me with a description of the pole and flag material and i will be pleased to return it ...........................Sunshine  

hi there,

i am keen to do a bit of trolling in the tinny with some lures, either in the river or not to far out off the shore. What can i catch and where do you guys suggest that I go. I was just going to use some halco twistys or rapala lures....any suggestions?

thnaks

so ... how many kilo's of drag will actually pull you out of a boat

(you're 80 kg's by the way and don't say no to the odd pie)

guy in fishing shop said 10 kilo's , but i reckon i could hold on to more than that and stay dry.

hi i was wondering what soft plastics are working in the metros

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