Dhufish and snapper fishermen wanted to help with research



We invite you to participate in a FRDC funded project called "Development of an agent-based model to communicate the implications of recruitment variability of finfish to recreational fishers".



The computer model (known as an agent-based model) being developed in this study will help recreational fishers and fisheries scientists answer key questions about the biology and recreational fisheries for important WA demersal fish species.



We need your help by completing a short survey (approximately 20 mins) and then join in on a group discussion (approximately 1-2 hours). Both the survey and group discussion aims to capture fisher knowledge about the habitat preferences and movements between habitats of Dhufish and Snapper and how fishers use this knowledge when fishing.



When fully developed, users will be able to interact with the program as a virtual "fisher" who can make decisions such as when, where and how long to fish, given various information, e.g. weather, fuel prices, catch rates etc.



Recfishwest will be holding a workshop evening with interested dhufish and snapper fishers, Thursday 10th September, 5:30pm at the Recfishwest Offices, Watermans Bay Marine Centre, West Coast Drive, (opposite Elvire Street), Waterman.



The workshop will involve a research presentation from Dr Alex Hesp, Murdoch University on research at the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research relevant to recreational fishers.



Please RSVP your interest in attending to



Details http://www.recfishwest.org.au/AgentWorkshop.htm and http://www.recfishwest.org.au/MediaReleaseAgentBasedModelling.htm



TerryF

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You need Recfishwest to look after your recreational fishing future.



Who else has time, knowledge, professional approach, realistic alternatives, willingness and contacts?



Become a member http://www.recfishwest.org.au/MembershipDet.htm

i was at asi this morning and saw a 8 kilo pinky cought on a mulie and squid. just wanted to see if anyone else caught or heard of any being caught so i can understand if it was a good morning or just a fluke.  i went fishing this morning because i thought the blows last night and the high tide in the morning might go well for snapper.   not asking for spots, just the success rate and what they were taking.  Thanks!

I have a old fishing buddy from a previous life coming to visit from 16 Oct till 8 Nov.  Would like to get him into a few sambos.  When does the season start?

You are my new lust.

Halco

Needing to get my boat (2 stroke, johnson 30hp) serviced before heading upto exxy. Where does everyone get theirs serviced NOR?? Im trying to find somewhere good, Wasnt impressed with the last mob i went to.

Oh and BTW Whats an annual service usually cost anyway??

cheers

Bought a new rod today (berkley dropshot salwater series MH 6'6" 6-12kg) that  says s.n.a.c casting down the bottom was just wondering what that meant

I am chasing a 6500 exp saltiga or 20000 stella if someone has one in good nick then fire me a pm and i will come for a look. cheers

I've been looking at tidying up my gear that seems to be strewn from one end of my house to the other. I have a couple of rod racks but they are full to the point of overflowing and I have nothing as such for storing my reels (14, soon to be 16, 17 if I have a fit of madness).

I'm lucky enough that I can donate an entire room just to fishing gear (rods, reels, tackle, fly vice, tying gear etc).

Can people post me up some pics of how they store all their gear at home. I have a few ideas, but I'd really love some creative inspiration!

hey all

ive been watching a video on youtube that has diving for big squid.

do any know where would be the best place to do it.

and has any1 ever done it and had good sucess?

cheers all

Hi all.

Just a quick one. I'm chasing a sounder / plotter matching pair.

The boss has given me about $1500 to donate towards one. 

Does anyone know of anyone getting rid of one or has one they want to get rid of.

Or what I can get (and is worth getting) for around that price (new).

Any info would be greatly appriciated.

Cheers..................

Last night I went for a quick fish at Hillarys, and some idiot was so lazy that he had driven his 4WD onto the AQUA jetty.

He was too lazy to park it in the car park which is 5 steps away.

Then the lazy pr!ck drove off, and left a empty bait bag on the jetty.

Even if it wasn't his, he could of picked it up, or put it in the bin 20 steps away.

How do these idiots get through life??? 

open in 3 hours!

Anyone venturing south to chase trout this season??

I'll probably be heading down Thursday after work (leave around 3ish) to see whats about......

Has anyone used this stuff (particularly Jerry Brown or Izorline). I'm after opinions / thoughts etc etc......

Theoretically the stuff sounds phenomenal, but does that translate into reality?

I was lucky enough to get out for a few hours today off 2rocks and saw a couple of whales about 40m off the back of the boat wich is a bit intimidating in a little tinny. We also boated 3 small dhuies 2 of wich were sucessfully realesed with a realease weight and the third one didn't swim off quick enough as a large cuttle fish came up and decide to eat it wasa very impresive sight and not what i imagined would have happened to the dhuie as we would have put it back down with the realease weight. The only keeper i got for the day was a king george whiting sorry guys no pic's

Took some friends from sydney for a fish this morning out the back of FFB having launched at Cockburn, had a great day after some generous berleying with plenty of fish boated and released. A stonka of a harlequin kept for tea and some massive bust off's on drift baited mulies, one definitely a snapper with the vibrating head shakes and one almost certainly a very very large sambo which nearly pulled the lady guest overboard with an unstoppable run.

What spoilt the whole day was the complete and utter mongrel who, on an ocean which was littered with just two boats, motored directly at us coming within 25 metres clearly pinging the spot we are anchored on, obviously saw the bottom lit up with fish and didn't just ping the spot he bloodywell dropped anchor within easy casting distance.  The guests on my boat thought the little red cross on my GPS was the same on everyones GPS and when I explained the realities, that those crosses were the result of many hours of exploration he wanted me to pull the pick and go and have a go at the mongrel ............bluntly I wasn't prepared to waste my breath abusing people with no ethics whatever.  If it was you (and I have a photo of the boat and it's extremely close proximity which I am tempted to post on here for all to see) then hopefully this might just prick your conscience, on second thoughts you probably dont have one

been in broome for the last week bloody beautifull weather sorry folk at home but i had to throw that in. Havent done much fishing been to busy catching up with friends and doing as u do in broome DRINKING. Went up the creek intown i think its called dampier creek dropped a few crab nets got two huge muddies tried trawling in the creek but no luck. Heading up the creekn again tomorrow to try and get a few muddies to take back to perth can anyone give me some advice on fishing the creeks what is my bestt chance of hooking a fish of some sort while im here tha people we are staying with havent done much fishing here. any advice would be much appreciatd lures bait i have no idea up here. Thanks

Woke up at 6 on sunday morning after getting to bed at 2 which wasnt to fun but knowing we would be at rotto soon enough got me out of bed. Met up with a mate from work at point peron boat ramp and headed out to the back of the 5's to see if we could burley some pinks considering it was still pretty early. Half an hour of burley and nothing so headed to rotto. Found some nice ground in the 40's on the way but nothing biting so continued to rotto. Got to west end around 8 and decided to burley for some kingys again no action so went for a bottom bash picked up 3 nice blackass one over a kilo and 2 undersize dhuies both on the bream gear and one on a 5in gulp jerk shad which is a first. Started heading back at about 1ish but some nice ground and plenty of whales had us hanging around till about 3. It had been a long day so started to head in again after about 5 mins cruising back seen heaps of birds diving so went over and checked it out we could see heaps of fish swimming along the surface with the top of their backs out of the water but couldnt get close enough to see what they were. We trolled around them for about 20 mins and threw baits at them but they just wernt interested my guess is they were tuna but you would think they would hit a bait if they were on the surface but ah well turned out a nice day and picked up around 15 squid in 20mins back in cockburn sound so no complaints :D

I see that Shimano are now marketing the new Stradic C14s in Australia. They are in 1000 and 2500 size.

Does anyone know what sort of money they are asking?

Here's hoping they find the missing fishermen off Coral Bay safe and sound, if not a little cold and wet.  Let's hope for a good outcome.

I buy the Sunday Times for the lotto numbers and so my other half can rubbish the ugly babies section. I DO NOT buy it for the fishing section as in my opinion having Glen Jakovich post a regular article is as credible as Chopper Reid's gardening tips. So yesterday it was raining and being bored i read his blurb - all in favour of Uncle Norman's rip off licensing fees. No problem for Jako - he gets paid a bomb to write this drivel plus all the other slings he gets for being an ex footy star - the rest of us don't.  

anyone heading out wide tomorow ?

Spent the day floating around the sound in search of pinkies..

No pinkies, a good feed of squid and free entertainment to top off the day, courtesy of the resident sound dolphin !

chasing someone to give me a quote after a fender bender in the rain on friday.If anyone is or knows a panel man send me a pm i may be able to keep them i business if people keep trying to hit me like the last few days.It is like i have a target on meThe repair is for the front end of a standard 100 series white cruser i was chasing a few other little bit to get fixed as well.

I'm going to be getting out in the new boat scout around 5 fathom bank and the like. Its a new style of fishing for me so I'm still learning,

i've heard of people talking about unweigthed baits.

I was wondering how people attach their leaders to the main line? Swivel, or a favorite knot?

And how long would you make a leader for this application?

Any Other tips for this style of fishing would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Adam 

hey

me and the missus went out from mindarie this morning

slow start but got onto some good ground in the end

not before getting stung on the foot by a bluey

bugger me. the pain ended up going to my bollox. ouch

after finding the ground , we set a drift and both got a dhuey on same drop so left em biting for next time. 2's enough

interestingly , she caught the better fish on drift bait where as i got smaller fish on paternoster with lumo squid.

got into a shark and a harlequin amongst other things

and to top it all off , figured something out about sounder.

happy days

any body have any luck landbased this weekend went to north mole twice and didnt get anything.

As I promissed myself I headed up to Flatrock yesterday arvo for a fish. I met up with Sid and his dog and we toughed it out overnight. The conditions were somewhat unusual with a fair bit of loose weed hanging around the break. That made it an early break for the evening. One decent Tailor and a couple of herring was about all we could do. The morning saw pefect conditions but again, weed at the break and certainly no action as we would have expected. I did have one break-off on the big rig but nothing else to brag about I am afraid.

Thanks for the company Sid. I am sure both out dogs will sleep for a couple of days now.