was out on Saturday, pretty early arriving to a nice spot around 7am.

No boats in site nothing the water was dead quiet!!

next minute a boat comes boaring over our way and i said to my mate 'watch thie bloke will come right up and ping us, he was about 2kms away at the time'.

And he came right up and circled us!!! looking at the sounder, looking at us...

At the time all 3 of us were loaded up on fish so was dam hard to hide it.

So they moved aboput 40m up drift of us and drifted right over our run!!!

We were maybe 10 minutes on our location before this happened!!!
First time Ive seen this happen

Dirty!!!

can anyone tell me if they have had any yaght cut accross the bow of my boat and not using the 50 metre rule for a moored vessel the came within 5 metres

anyone fished in egypt ill be leaving for there in 2 1/2 months doing 10 week stints so hopefuly find time to wet a line in the red sea

caught of rotto near horse shoe reef

Red , long shaped , slender , with wisker type fins wierd looking fish

Thanks

Great conditions forecast for today, looking forward to seeing who got out wide and what was caught around the place...no excuses today fellas!

We have a new addition in Bunbury in the way of 2 lights on either breakwall at the entrance to the cut. Noticed them on Thursday nite. Will make life alot easier comming back into the estuary. They are both yellow continuous flashing jobbies. Hooray. Lets hope they dont get vandilised to often.

I have just raised something in Simos regarding the beautiful cod.

I hate killing fish and just wonder if there is or might be a solution to the floaters we are and have been by regulation forced to leave behind (as usual probably for the "Tax Man"). See the link

Cheers

Neels

http://fishwrecked.com/node/22320

got any funny stories on fishing trips, love to hear them,

as you can see in my pic this is the largest thing i caught at a trip to wedge island..

only new to the site but mad keen, will head out as much as i can,and i live n hour from beach atm..

but yeah love a good laugh so what you got??

gidday all anyone getting out over the weekend , weather is lookin the part aye. did anyone see todays paper a 29kg spaniard caught at the back of the five? anyone know about it ?cheers craig

Im heading out of Hillarys tomrw morning, anyone else getting out????

Hi Guys,

A mate of mine has 300kg of lead he removed from his yacht and wants to borrow the size 16, 18, 20, 24 sinker moulds for bottom bouncing snapper type sinkers. In return he will give you a bag of sinkers.

Will collect - prefer SOR - Canning Vale area.

Alternatively does someone want to make him a few bags in return for a shitload of lead?

Cheers

Dave

Hi guys, I am looking to catch some occys or at least try. Are there any spots up north of the river i can try?

and what would i use?

Thanks

Still learning

Riaz 

Anyone have a spot or need a deckie for Sunday? Been too long

Chip in for the usuals

A mate of mine tore his drag washers apart and needs now ones, it dosent realy matter what kind but something with better quaity in them.

thanks.

I'm looking at buying a new rod and reel to use for casting lures off the boat. I would like to use it for a range of species, from herring and gardies to maybe salmon and tailor. I think I want something around the 7 foot mark. Any recommendations on a new rod and reel combo up to about $150 would be great. I'm not looking for anything flash, just something that would do the job.

 Thanks guys.

G'day fella's! Wanted to take the boat for an easy cruise in the swan on the weekend - where would be the best spot to chase some herring?

Hey all. Im heading up to kalbarri at the end of this month, does anyone know how the landbased fishing is going???? Ive got a 14ft dinghy but wouldnt mind leaving it at home and just doing some shore fishing. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanx

vote yes to daylight savings!

more time to go fishing after work!!!

just a post to see what other members are using as there prefered surf combo?
brenz

This should make for a good topic ,

Now i have been out in rough weather in a boat 3+ meter swell but i have never been out where the skipper (hard dude) punched through each wave without backing off until while up in Karraha.

Now it wasnt that rough but we were going airborne strait into the face of on coming waves. I was fully shitting!!!

Each time we hit the oncoming wave it was like doing 10 rounds with mike tyson!!! Hurt like all hell!!!!

Infact no joke my nuts were slapping the seat and as soon as the nut ache went away then BANG!!!! again!! My poor nuts!!! I recong i fracturd a few vertebres in my neck! This guy was a hard ass!!!

He only slowed down when the live well bent the beams in the floor! Thank goodness for my nuts!

Another time was steep point! Got real rough while in the tinny and we hit the face of a wave, i landed face down on a eskie biting my lip and hurting my knees and hands/ wrist and my mate mat smashed his knees against the ally seat!

Whats storys have you all had?

As I am gearing up to do some serious bottom bouncing can anyone suggest a good reel for the job.

Fishing deep water so will need to have line level and be a fast retrieve, anyone got something for sale .

cheers

coley

Hi Guys,

I am keep to put my tinnie in somewhere up the swan, around the Guildford area to explore a bit and throw a few lures around.  Can anyone point me in the direction of a boat ramp up that way?  Your help is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks

Gus

Does anyone have a Saragosa. I am thinking of getting one for some Deep jigging, lure casting etc. Probably get the largest size and load it with 30lb or 50lb fireline

Any thoughts

What do you all think is the best leadewr material and why?

Neels

I have been targetting both. I am just trying to find the best leader for both. Single strand wire with Haywire for the Macs is all thats needed. Trying to find the right combo for the trout has me a little baffled. Is it Flouro for sinking or Mono for floating. And also what strenght as the higher you go the less fish attack. Trying to get the balance right. Any help from the Pilbara crew appreciated (and anyone that has an opinion).

Cheers

Neels

I have a '98 Yammy 15HP outboard for sale, it hasn't done much work over the last 5 years and is a good reliable unit. Asking $1100. I'm in Madora Bay Mandurah.

This is a query - not a criticism as my boat skills are as good as my golf skills - lacking but i was interested if the guys diving at Sugarloaf yesterday were site members as i have a couple of questions. It was pretty blowy with a fairly strong onshore breeze and a fair swell breaking - we were showing some U.S. visitors the Capes region and at Sugarloaf there was a couple of guys  - one diving, probably after crays and anchored about 20m off the rocks in a 4 plus metre tinny. We became a bit concerned as they were obviously having a battle pull starting the outboard - finally got it going and headed south into a fairly choppy swell and near beam on breeze of about 15 knots. The boat was fitted with a near full length and width Bimini cover which remained up with the pitching and rolling and crosswind. An hour or so later they pulled up to the Canal Rocks ramp and loaded up and went. This is around 13k's point to point and it seemed to me a risky exercise in a tinny - my queries are: How much risk is there with Bimini's in a crosswind? And - anyone else around Cape Naturaliste yesterday? - if so was a 4.2 or 4.4 tinny too small for the conditions?

Well im now back from my holiday in Karratha. Gee what a time!!!

Got busted off many times by MONSTER unknowns!!!!!

The worst was when i was feeding a unweighted gardie out the back of the dingy and there was loads of slack line and i noticed a 20kg+ either wahoo or big mack jump so i flicked the bailarm over and no joke, the line tangled around it!!! SNAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lost it! I was frantically tryin to undo it but ran out of time. It was like a bad dream.

Ended up catching a smal shark mackeral, and about 3 small black tips which i released

We also went to point samson and i landed 3 nice mangrove jacks. Lost a good GT and Threadfin aswell.

We also went out on a mates boat around the burrup and i caught my first coral trout, small spaniard and spangled emperor. I didnt have my camera this day :(

NOW FOR THE DELEMA..

My mate told his girlfrend that we were fishing for 6 days and she said only if you look after Bella (2yr old girl ) for the night on monday nite only so she could go out with the girls. We agreed. Well me and 3 mates were heading to a fishing spot at 12pm on monday on the dingy and we went through a big passage to get to open ocean. We fished there for a few hours till 3.30 and decided we should head home to be home around 5pm. As we enterd the passage, we were flying along!!!! 40+kph!!! I was looking over the side of the boat and noticed that the previos 5meters+ deep water was only 0.5 meters so i yelled to my mate to STOP THE BOAT!!!! Unfortunatly i was to slow and we run aground . I said to them that the best idea was to hop out to get the weight off the boat and push it. So we all hopped out and started pushing the dingy in this kilometer wide passage. I seen about 15 sharks go past, each time i dived into the boat packin myself, i had turtle swim past and fish. It was amaising! We must of got about 50meters before its was ankle deep and we couldnt go any further.
I said to my mate "Whens the tide due in"??? he said "9.30pm" This was real bad!!!! We had no phone reception and no lights on the dingy and no torch. Also there was no moon due that night. I suggested that we walk to the edge of the passage and climb the hills and try get reception. We all agreed so 2 of us went for a walk dodging small sharks, stingrays, mudcrabs and turtles and walked up onto the shore. Right about then my left thong had a blowout so i waited on a small hill while my mate went higher. Now for the big news stuff....I looked to my left and noticed a etching into the rock and walked over and no joke, about 50 rock aboriginal etchings of pictures of crabs, stingrays , turtles etc I yelled for my mate to come over and we agreed to come back and GPS mark the spot and take pics but for now we were in big trouble with his GF haha.We had no phone reception. Well 9.30 came and tide came in and we motord back to the boat ramp in darkness , had the sea rescue out looking for us and a mates gf ready to tear strips off us. I went back and took pics and marked the spot and guess what??? Im the first to ever find these ones!!! My name will be recorded as the person to descover them!!!!! I will also be able to name the site.
There are a few rock art in the burrup but these have never been seen by anyone!!! The west australian wants to do a story but there may be legal issues due to us not being allowed on that bit of land so im trying to contact idiginous affars to find out. .
Since found out that the burrup rock art is 20,000-40,000 years old. Oldest in the world

pics to follow....

Fellow Fishers

I was launching my boat this morning with my son and a guy with his boat on the other ramp adjacent to me (I think is hull was a thunderbird style? Inboards) his engine blew up! It was a mighty bang.. with bits flying about… I am still speechless just thinking about it.We all came to assist and lucky, the club bosun (Tony) had a big fire extinguisher close by… the owner of the boat is very lucky that the rest of the boat didn’t go up as well, luckily no one got hurt.I really feel sorry for the owner, thinking he is just a guy like us with his pride and joy…and bang!

It reminds us how dangerous boats can be.

My son and I were only about 10-15meters from the explosion…

Johno

hey guys i was wondering if anyone has caught any big salmon around here in perth? I was thinking about going down to coogee beach and try my luck, apparently there were lots of schoold sown there last year.

also just wondering what lure would be best to use and what size? i have a few twistys at 30-55grams, will these be good?