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Jurien FADs Project

3 FADs were deployed off Jurien on the 15th Jan 2013. Here are the coordinates;

WAUC North 30° 13.0576' S 114° 34.6623' E

WAUC Central 30° 17.5194' S 114° 36.1417' E

WAUC South 30° 21.6075' S 114° 37.2768' E

The idea of a community-managed FADs project originated on FW, and we successfully constructed our initial FAD with purely community resources. The project was managed by Jamie Moir for WA Undersea, after a grant was successfully secured through Recfish West's Small Grant Program.

The project also enjoyed pricing support from Taylor Marine and Jeyco. Storage and transport assistance from Schaffer Loaders.

Fishwrecked members contributed; Browny donated rope. Grantarctic did some welding. Sunshine donated some cash. Sea-Kem got some galvanising done. Southcity104 did some painting

WA Undersea did a lot more than just receive and spend money. We received the following assistance from members; Cameron N-L designed the current FAD. Byron Smith and Raymond Hill did a lot of splicing Ben Kent came up to help us launch (and operated the camera when he had a spare minute).

 

If you contributed and and are as-yet uncredited, just get in touch over the details ;) We still have some leftover bits and pieces up in Jurien and hope to deploy another inshore FAD between the banks, will keep you posted about that ;)


Better Fishy Photos - Tips and Tricks

As fishing these days is about more than just the act of catching fish and involves things like sharing the sport through the internet with photos and videos I thought we might be able to start a thread on how to improve our fishing photography/videos and share tips and tricks.

There are so many things that can have an inpact on how a photo ends up - How the fish is held, Sun location, boat clutter etc etc - and if we can learn some tricks on how to better frame and shoot pics we might be able to turn them from happy snaps into lasting memories that capture the situation.

I know we have a few people on the site who have written articles before and had photos published in magazines so any help you guys or others can add would be appreciated.

If anyone has any photos they would like to ask how they could be improved they could be added to the thread as well for comment/ideas from others.

 


Important****Release Weights Back on the shelves

Through Ryan's contacts in the Tackle trade and Wally's release weight push and Gary Lilley's mould they've got a new supplier and the release weights now (finally) back in production!

So after a few weeks if you are in a tackle shop and you cant see any release weights on the shelves, can you please ask the question.

"When will you be getting any in" if they say, what the!......you just need to say, ring Jason from Sunset Sinkers and he will supply you with some, just to make sure you got that Jason from Sunset Sinkers

Ps Oceanside will stock them

* Yes, no excuses now, stockem, recommend em and use them *

Only one size so far but others on the drawing board fromm what I have read on other forums.

Well done Ryan, Wally, Gary, Jason and all concerned.


Dhufish frames

G'day all you fishermen that target DHUIES , the new RAP newsletter is asking for frames from DHUFISH for research purposes , if you can it would be apreciated if you save the frames after filleting your fish and either dropping them off at a colection point or even save a few up in your freezer and give the people involved a call and they will collect them from your place .

I DO NOT target Dhuies and will never deliberately kill one so I can not help their research but you guys that go out and nail a few could you drop them off.

contact R.A P (Research Angler Program)9203 0111 or call in to the fisheries Lab at Hillaries ( 39 Northside drive, Hillaries boat harbour) and they will help you out ( I think all the Bluewater Tackle stores are receival points for frames ) you can take the fillets off etc they mainly need the heads , if you contact them they will give you the full goss on it but PLEASE try to help out .

thats all this NOB has got to say .

BYE.


HOW-TO: Add pictures/images to the site

Before you start:

1. You must have an account on the fishwrecked site.

2. Your picture must be under one megabyte. If you need to resize the image under Windows XP, I recommend downloading Microsoft's Image Resizer Powertoy. This adds a 'Resize Picture' command to the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer. The medium setting should be perfect for uploading to the site.

Step 1 - Click 'create content' in the main navigation menu. Select create image, and upload.

Or

Step 2 - Click the 'image assist' icon underneath the body text box.

Step 3 - A popup will open. Select the 'add image' link in the upper left corner.

Step 4 - Give the image a title (required), select an image gallery (optional), and choose a local image on your hard drive. Add a description, too, just for good karma.

Step 5 - Click submit.

Step 6 - A thumbnail will appear in the Image Assist Popup. Click it.

Step 7 - Resize the image as appropriate using the dialog boxes in the bottom half of the Image Assist popup. Choose whether to display the photo full sized or as a thumbnail. Change you caption if you really, really, want to.

Step 8 - Click the 'insert image' button at the bottom of the popup, and--presto!--it will be added to you new forum entry.

(Pinched from ThingsThatMoved.com)


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Seatrail Trailers?

 Hi Guys,

Looking to replace the trailer on my cruiscraft 575, came across seatrail trailers while doing some research. Just wanted to know if any one owns one of these or has experience witht them that can give some feedback on quality and if there a good trailer. i believe the frames are out of Asia and the running parts are local and get assembled locally.

 

Cheers

Surfer


Maylands boat ramp mishap

 Anyone see the ram Ute in the water at maylands boat ramp and know what actually happened ?


Wanted to buy

Have a new Asian client (Human trafficker) looking for free commercial boats to be gifted to him, to those that just went out of business please donate your boats to this worthy cause. AMEN


Nationals petition against the ban

The National party have organised a petition to protest the ban, its at

www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCepetitions.nsf/petitions/25-0034

if anyone is interested.

Cheers, Wagyl


Nationals petitiion against the ban

The National party have organised a petition to protest the ban, its at

www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCepetitions.nsf/petitions/25-0034

if anyone is interested.

Cheers, Wagyl


Insurance for a Stage 1 Boat

Does anyone know of an insurance company that will insure an aluminium boat that is at stage 1 (all hot works complete and ready for fitout). I have just got a new boat and trailer and doing the fit out myself and was hoping to insure it for theft or accident while travelling . I have to take it back down south from Perth. Most of the standard boat insurance companies will only insure a finished boat. Any help would be much appreciate.


craypot suggestions

 Hey guys,

getting back into craypots after many years out and just wondering best recommendations for type of pot.

Im using a 5.6 mtr hydrofield so fair bit of space but no tipper or winch at this stage.

should i buy new or just hang out for 2nd hand and should i go fullsize or will 3/4 do the job?

Also any improvements of the plastic pot in recent years or are they still inferior catchers??

would appreciate all experience and opinions.

cheers

Rob


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Changes to Demersal Season

It's happening... released this morning and on ABC radio 


Picked cray

 Wonder if this lasts till next week 


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Advice on Hilarys boat pens or the dry dock racking

Hey Team, 

My 4wd recently got T-boned by someone running a red light recently, looks like its a very long wait time for new motor. I'll be sorting loan cars through insurance etc, but was considering taking my boat off trailer and leaving at Hilarys rather than messing with buying a s/hand 3.5t towing motor for the period. 

Does anyone have experience and able to offer anything up? I'll be calling through for further details in due course but chasing first hand experiences if possible.

 


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Heads up everyone Deckee is here

 If you are asked for more info by your local sea rescue group please be patient, we are all moving to the Deckee electronic LOLO system.  Once your data is in the system it will come up automatically but please be patient whilst we all build the database.  Regretfully whilst we have tons of data from Cockburn, FG and Woodman members we were told we could not preloaded due to privacy ......despite the fact they had already volunteered the info ......go figure 

 


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Beach tailor

 Was a late tide and not much wind chop

wasnt sure we would see them in numbers .

but once they sun set they came on and 

bit well into dark . Got a little bronze 

Saturday night and lost two. 100pd

mono is like dental floss for the larger

sharks . Should get a couple of sessions with

this lot .. biggest went 50cm .

cheers pirate .


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Flares

 Never noticed before, but checking the expiry date on my flares to find that the smoke flares expired 3 months before my rocket flares and they are in the same packet. WTF, it shouldn't,t be allowed to be sold if there are two different exspity dates Rip off for sure and could get you a fine from your friendly water po.ice.


Flares

 Never noticed before, but checking the expiry date on my flares to find that the smoke flares expired 3 months before my rocket flares and they are in the same packet. WTF, it shouldn't,t be allowed to be sold if there are two different exspity dates Rip off for sure and could get you a fine from your friendly water po.ice.


Flares

 Never noticed before, but checking the expiry date on my flares to find that the smoke flares expired 3 months before my rocket flares and they are in the same packet. WTF, it shouldn't,t be allowed to be sold if there are two different exspity dates Rip off for sure and could get you a fine from your friendly water po.ice.


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Albany January 2026

Hey Fisho Fam 

Im seeing if anyone can give me info on fishing in Albany. We have booked a week and a bit stay in Albany in early January with a heap of farming friends. Im considering taking the big boat (615 Barcrusher) or just the dingy. Happy to share any info I have in exchange or buy someone a beer when im there haha!!

- If possible I wanted to get out and try get a dhu or snapper something decent to eat. Is ground hard to come by? Looking at the map it drops off pretty quick

- If I take the big boat whats the best boat ramp to launch from?

- Keen for some squid, been lookin on youtube and everyone seems to go to emu point?

- Years and years ago when I went down there as a kid we used to get crabs in the kalgan river in January, still get plenty of crabs down there?

 

Appreciate the help 

Josh


Crays 2025

 Might be a bit early but decided to get the 2025 Crays discussion going.

Talking to a mate today and discussing when we should get the pots out. We go out off Mindarie. Last year they seem to run a little earlier than the year before so be interesting when they start running this year? Thoughts? Thinking in the next couple of weeks might get the pots in.

Interestingly I was out off Woodman point just before the demersal ban and noticed lines of pro pots already out but in deeper water - 40s


Transducer mounting in kayak hull

 G'day all. I'm curious as to whether 'sounder transducers will shoot through the plastic material of a kayak hull. Thanks in advance, John.