Hey guys, Dose any one have any new's on these bad boy's in the Rocko area.

I have a spoiler for all the gurus!

I am an angler from Pakistan. The supply of fishing gear here is very very primitive. Somehow I have got different types of Soft Plastics in various shapes and sizes. But the problem is that here we don't have specialized hooks or jigheads available to work those SPs, so they are rotting in my tackle bag. I want to know is there anyway that those SPs can be used with very basic hooks and tackle.

Thanks.

hey guys i'm trying to get into squidding a bit more, wondering what the best brands u guys use are? i tried the yamashita and they work quite well for me int the natural colours, but i'm having trouble finding stores that sell them, they always seem to be out of stock. i wouldn't mind trying the haramitsu's or yo zuri's but again finding the good ones is hard. any suggestiong on where i can get some good jigs from? or any other quality japanese brands. i dont mind paying for quality..

went down to windy harbour for the easter break.

I had forgotten how nice the place could be (when its not blowing its ring out.....!).

did all our fishing over the other side of the small peninsula, at salmon beach. its heaps more protected from the southerly around that side, plus a much nicer beach.

heres a few pics of some of the salmon we got. all fish were on 6kg line, all on halco twistys, and were a great fight. the missus took about 10 minutes to bring hers in, but she fought it like a pro.

I woke an hour before the alarm went off and turned it off. Next thing I heard was "OK can you get me a cuppa?" LOL So much for sneaking out.

First pic is of setup. I had all options covered today after a weekend of wishing I could be out there with the weather the way it is. I did have a small effort Friday but it was full moon and not to much action to even worry about. 

Anyway, I went the big guns early and first cast had a major smash and a short fight I thought I had won. The second pic shows the wire trace as it came back to me (with all the rest of my terminal tackle bar the hooks). Oh well.....

Two casts later.. BANG! on again... this time a Mulloway doing it's thing. Great fight and was excited to see it.. DAMN.. lost it in the surf. Oh well.. lol

Not long after I landed a very nice Tailor and managed to put it in the bag. I landed another good one not long after that and decided to fillet the bugger and try for something decent. Yes well; Three rigs later, and about 150 meters of expensive braid, and very sore arms I realised the pair of megga big rays hanging around really liked what i was dishing up. They didn't seem to mind the body art I dressed them up in either.

So I reverted to second option, doing some popping. Not that long before I was amazed by a smash and it was on again. Another really nice Tailor. After that, nothing. I ventured up the beach a while and had a chat with a couple of guys before returning right on high tide and before the impending storm to go again for a while. I decided on anchovies...My! did they work on the high tide! Herring went into them, some nice bream and even a couple of undersized pinkies. To add topping to the cake another smash from a nice sized Tailor at 11:30am in the morning!

Tailor I measured were 46cms, 44cms, and 45cms. Nice fat fish. Great to see for a change dammit!

G'day All,

Went for a crab in oyster Harbour(Albany) on Friday.It was fairly choppy so we marked where we dropped our pots on the gps just so we didnt loose them.Came back to the spot we dropped the pot and it was about 30 meters from the spot we marked. Didnt think much of it till we pulled ot up and found it to be totally bent on half.I know theres some big stingrays in there but i dont think they would be able to do this to the net.No other boats in the area...We can only think that it was a shark? We had some left over pinky frame for bait.

Cheers

chris

How is this sexy outfit going to help me catch more fish?

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What are peoples thoughts on the Penn 340 or 345

I have just recently gone away from the old reef master winch and started using rod and real. Brought a combo for Bottom bouncing 15-25 kg I think with braid. To date picked up a Ray and 8kg Dhui great fun but I recon I am missing several while just getting the hang of the rod and reel set up. Happy with the reel but what are people’s thoughts. For $299.00 are there better reels out there in that price range for bottom bouncing.

Garry

Looking for a reel that will do the same job as an 850 but maybe a bit lighter in weight. Looking at putting 14pound braid on one spool and 30 pound on the other. Thinking around the 150 -250 dollar mark. Will be used for spinning up in nortern waters and some beach fishing around perth.

just putting my boat up for sale its a 6.4 chivers meridian walkaround. built in july 06 has 150hp Evinrude Etec motor has done 200 hours! also includes dual batteries, deck wash, furuno 585 sounder with 1kw transducer, navman 8120 plotter with australia chart, VHF radio,AM/FM radio. going for 65k. post me back if anyone is interested or call me on 0411103018

With the promise of a beautiful day and light wind conditions, Sherbs, Andrew (Son of Sherbs or SOS), Topper and myself decided to make a quick dash up to Flatrocks to try our luck.

After a few unscheduled detours we arrived to find a misty cloud setteld over Flatrocks and the Flatrock itself already covered by a bit of water.

With high tide still a few hoyrs off, we decided to head a couple of hundred metres down the beach to where there was a nice patch of water between the beach and some offshore reef.

Peppering the water with a good dose of Spess' Spessial Brew we were soon into a good school of quite decent sized herring.

Sherbs soon switched to his favourit "blue bait" and began to pull in some nice double headers, Topper landed a nice double header of a sand crab and a herring, my surf popper outfit accounted for a few quite nice herring and Andrew had a lot of fun on some acrobatic herring on his 1000 Okuma and Strudwick bream rod outfit.

Topper provided some of the highlights of the day when a quite sizeable stringray smashed one of his outfits and a particulary feisty sand crab tried to take the top off of one of his fingers.

Topper prepares to do battle with a big stingray and a crabby crab.

Andrew is pretty happy to be back on his feet again.

Sherbs the master of the double header prepares his beach gear

The surf popper rig was very tempting to some nice sized herring

Topper and Andrew show off Toppers crab and herring double header, seconds before the crab turned the tables on Topper.

Andrew does a "Honshu" with a herring while I was pretty happy with this hard fighting Skippy.

A found a nice little area with a reedf system within casting range.

Some of the mornings fish, many of which will be head up to Exmouth for use as bait with Andrew.

All in all it was a great morning with great company. How can you beat being away from the rat race, on a beautiful beach, with great weather and friends.

All the best, Colin Hay

hey all,

I am looking at going deep sea fishing something in the 300meters , what size sinkers ?but if anyone can suggest rigs to use and is it worth the effit.

 heading out behind rotto, Also I have a lowrance sounder with broadband would that read the bottom ok or do you need a 1kw transducer??

could you please let me know. cheers 

Hi guys,

Well the new home is taking up so much time and i've not been able to get a rod out yet but am looking to head somewhere tonight and tomorrow.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where i should try (landbased in Perth) and what i should target? Was thinking of heading down to the north mole as i've never been there before or maybe Hillarys. Any reports from either location?

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,25321320-2761,00.html

{Registration fees for boats less than 9.99m would increase from $124.30 to $223.10. Boats between 10m and 20m would be subject to an increase from $231.70 to $506.90.}

well thats almost double for my old tub.
And what does the government give me back..SQUAT!!!
3rd world refueling facilities around Perth...yes I have seen better in many 3rd world countries. With the fires at Rotto and other places, you'd think they would have upgraded refueling facilities and fire protection ( oh and I am qualified to comment, seeing I designed, installed and commissioned the refueling system for a naval port in 2004! with full fire protection)

then lets not start with lack of pens, public jetties to moor at for lunch on the Swan, or anywhere else in general.

Getting people on and off your boat around Rotto is a farce these days. You forced to beach your boat, as the two small areas you can get people on & off are utterly inadequate for the amount of boats in the area...
Maybe I need to buy a ferry to get service from the state...because Joe-boat-owner does not!!!

yes, my 5am rant for the day!

I bought this rod in 1995 after a devestating house fire that left me with all I had on and that's it! Naturally, this rod has some sentiment to it and means a lot to me. It has winched and popped and tossed, been thrown around everywhere and still remains faithfull to me. So; it's time for a makeover.

I'm using my BBQ spit turner to do the trick here. A new coat of clearcoat greatfully sold to me by the boys at the Tackleshack (at great expense may I add LOL).

I will post pics of the results in the next day or so.

Oh, BTW. Mad Fish is a secret ingredient to home improvent efforts by me....

UPDATED 12/04/2009

last pic is the end result. It didn't take much to bring the old girl back to life. Just a bottle of red to steady the nerves :)

Would you or wouldn't you take a Trailcraft 5.4 to Broome from Karratha in lieu off charters in Broome. Thinking about the fuel and time but I suspect I should take the boat as I have the time.

Original plan was not to take the girl.

Also more space then and can take the Engel with cold beer.

The home engineer suggested why not and I cant disagree.

What do you all think?

Neels

I have just got back from doing my Saturday chores at Woolies in Mindarie. Coming back via Marmion Ave I saw what I thought was thick smoke. It was in fact a pea soup like fog coming off the ocean. Quite strange really. Anyone else see it?

Anybody know where I can purchase any of these?

Gday all, I know a lot of people still use mono and was just wondering what is the best mono out on the market? Mainly interested in 8-24kg line for trolling and bottom bashing on an overhead setup.

I was wondering if the ramp at Jurien has wash down facilities.

Thank you in advance

Chris

I realise that you can catch squid almost anywhere at any time , however can anyone tell me if there is a prefered time of tide and moon phase that seems to produce greater numbers than usual?

hey guys i am headin up to warra staion with brad93 on monday jsut wondring what you think the winds will be like for then next week or so

stoppin of at luky bay the first night hopefully get into some mullaway 

thanks heaps

danobigfish

hear is some pics of some of the gear i got ready for exxy in 3 weeks i think... minus 2 rods... dads 10ft live fibre and his 9ft ugly stick... :D jeeez hes good to me...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anybody knows some good fishing spots in a boat just out from the mylup/binningup area. Any info would be greatly appreciated

any 1 know were the salmon are, thx

would anyone be able to locate a picture of a Shimano Twinpower 10k?

thinking of getting one

cheeers

Just a heads up that the traffic heading down south is already building up. Apparantly there was a truck rollover near Lake Clifton.

Seabreeze is predicting pretty good contitions for most of the next six days for those heading down south to chase salmon. Best of luck to you. Colin

Can anyone tell me what state the Carnarvon jetty is in? Is there any news on if and when any repairs will be made?
Many thanks, Colin Hay

looking at going out tomorrow from Two rocks.

There is going to be a N / NE wind between 8-16knots, i cant remember the last time i went out in N/NE winds, anyone know how rough it gets? with this wind direction?

Cheers