Some time back I put up a post stating that I thought that some of the fishos showing off their latest catch which had the fish covered with blood etc might be better off showing their catch with a nice clean clear of blood. The reason I put this up was that a good friend of mine gave me heads up that an infamous group of low life bottom feeders was about to use such photos showing bloodied fish in a campaign against the taking of fish and were going to allude to the suffering these fish endured during the fight.

It is with great regret that I see the mentally disturbed amongst the general public have finally struck. In the latest issue of the "Western Angler" magazine the editorial written by a highly respected fishing writer details the event which befell a southern fisho, who happened to catch a sizable tiger shark. After a quick photo the hook and accompanying wire trace was removed from the shark and it was quickly returned to the water. The next day the community minded fisho notified the Fisheries dept. that there was a sizable tiger shark at large in the immediate area.

Now most logical thinking people would be thinking good job well done on returning the fish to the sea as it is against the law to keep sharks of this size. Not so fast there cobber. The next thing that happens is the fisho has the fisheries officers at his door who then proceed to read the riot act to him explaining that a complaint has been received from a member of the public and they are at his door to interview him about the incident and in their opinion the fisho should have cut his line the very moment he realized that he had a shark that exceeded the maximum size allowable.

Reading between the lines it appears to me that the interview was not the most pleasant of experience to go through. At the back of the same magazine in an article written by another well respected and highly qualified fishing writer there is an article written under the heading "back lash" which alludes to the blurring of people's identity to protect them from the mentally sick amongst the general population who have taken it upon themselves to being subject to unpleasant actions from the save everything from human interaction brigade.

Now let me state here and now that I strongly support the state fisheries dept who by and large do all of us a good service, however I will also point out to them when I'm of the opinion that they have acted in a most foolish way, like they have over the tiger shark incident. If it wasn't so serious it would be laughable, the fisho reported to fisheries of his own bat what had happened and given them a heads up about the shark in the area then, then is subject to a lecture on how the fish should have been dealt with and they have acted on a complaint from the human excrement of a person who has made a malicious complaint.

I'm very much appreciative of what is required when a member of the public makes a complaint to a public officer, a simple notation on the top of the complaint NFAR (no further action required) would have saved hurt feelings and negative feelings being generated.. Lets see a bit of common sense being applied on the job fisheries.

Is there anywhere you can catch yellowtail (for bait) NOR landbased?

 I was a bit slow off the blocks this year and missed my chance to book a site for the end of May at Steep.... I also read we can't have fires there now which is a shame.

So my question is can anyone suggest another destination that offers the same as Shelter Bay as it is perfect for what we want. Quiet, beach camping/ fishing, fire pit, swimming, somewhere to moor the 6.5m Barcrusher, simmilar fishing to steep ie pallagics, reefies, somewhere to paddle the kayaks and maybe a bit of spearing?

Cheers

Winta

hi guys

headed to freshwater cove in a couple of weeks and it has been suggested that buck tail jigs are what we want. Is this a brand or a generic term ?as I seem to get many results in Google. Next thing is ... What are the better ones and the best place to buy. There are 6 of us going so we will need a few. Also is white the best or an assortment?

thanks in advance, any help is greatly appreciated.

Caught today 845mm, 6.45Kg @35mtrs, small hooks, Occy bait......Midwest WA

 Found a new tackle world shop being readied for opening in about 2 weeks apparently.  Its behind bunnings on joondalup drive next to rugs amillion. Just a heads up for NOR fishos.

 hey guys heading up to exmouth in the folowing weeks do not own a boat and dont have the cash for a charter everyday however might go on one or two would just like to know any areas or rigs/lures to fish up there and will my reels and rods cut it or do i convince the missus we need better stuff  id love to chase gt's if they are possible from land there any help would be great thanks alot.

will be taking a 

saragosa 10k matched to ns black hole magic eye torque pe 4-6

stella 5k matched with ns blackhole magic eye torque pe 2-4 

biomaster 5k matched to tcurve 20-30lb 

and a stradic 3k with ns black hole avenger 10lb 

 hey guys heading up to exmouth in the folowing weeks do not own a boat and dont have the cash for a charter everyday however might go on one or two would just like to know any areas or rigs/lures to fish up there and will my reels and rods cut it or do i convince the missus we need better stuff  id love to chase gt's if they are possible from land there any help would be great thanks alot.

will be taking a 

saragosa 10k matched to ns black hole magic eye torque pe 4-6

stella 5k matched with ns blackhole magic eye torque pe 2-4 

biomaster 5k matched to tcurve 20-30lb 

and a stradic 3k with ns black hole avenger 10lb 

might be going for a night down at the beach near portifino quinns area does any one know what the weeds like at the moment thanks

 New ground producing some decent dhu and a solid pink yesterdy. Dhus caught in 28m and pink in 24. Geo bay loaded with big dhu shallow at moment

Gday all chasing some info on tantabidi ramp. im heading down for 10 days in sept - oct i have a 6.8m bayshore ali boat and am wondering what the cut off for low tide would be to get my boat out . i have checked the search function and can only seem to find info on before the ramp was upgraded.

Regards Carry

 Hi Guys 

Looking at doing a trip to the montes for about 4 to 5 days and have some questions

1. Im mainly chasing GTs, did you find them easy? 

2. Looking at launching from fortescue river thoughts?

3. Can you camp on the islands? 

4. Best time of year? 

5.How much fuel is really needed (looking a taking about 350L) 

If anyone has any more info please let me know. 

 Plenty of Golden Trevally about. This being the biggest for the day.

Hi everyone.

I'm chasing people's advice about operating a dinghy by yourself. I have a 3.75m round nosed punt which I'm in the process of improving ahead of making it a cartopper and heading over to Townsville. I've recently upgraded from my 20 year old Mariner, to a brand new shiny Yamaha, and it runs perfect. I've been taking it for trial runs with my dad, and I reckon its pushing 25 knots. I took it out for a solo run on the weekend, and found that it was riding way too high, so I trimmed it down as far as it would go, and I get a much better plane, but, as soon as I hit a bump, etc... the boat tends to list fairly heavily to starboard (I'm sitting at the starboard stern). I found that if I attached the extender handle to the engine and sort of went closer to the centre of the boat, there was no issue.

Obviously the ideal solution is to have a counter weight diagonally across from me in the boat, but I'll be doing a fair bit of solo stuff, and I cant exactly lump 100 kg of stuff over in the other side of the dinghy. Does anyone have any ideas about how to stop the listing problems? I want to be able to sit comfortably at the rear of the boat, and be comfortable at moderate speeds. I tried googling the issue, but, I found the internet surprisingly unhelpful.

End of Winter SALE > 20% OFF STORE WIDE

Starts 23rd August (8.30am) and Finishes Tuesday 30TH 5.30pm (I week Only)

20% Off Store Wide SALE excluding bait and current specials. Reels are also excluded as we did a special on our reels recently. However, we will still do a deal on all reels regardless and we stock a large selection of spinning and overhead reels.

We also have Less 50% OFF Bargain bin products ie selected demersal jigs/bream & demersal softplastics/super deep jigs and assorted lures etc

We stock a massive range of gear at 20% Off including;

Demersal jigs (Massive range) including Lamble, IMA,Eupro,FCLabo,Caprice,Zesta,Damiki,Vexed,Storm, Abrolhos plus plus Micro jigs etc
Octa & Pirate style jigs including Daiwa & Berkley
Demersal jig bags and accessories (large assortment)
Boat Combo's (overhead & spin)
Fishing WA Extreme rods
Jigging Rods including Eupro, Shimano,Waves, Expert graphite, Jignesis, Majorcraft, Gomoku plus high end rods.
GT rods & General rods including beach/kayak/travel/boat etc
Electric Bent butt rod – Daiwa & Ozflex (full bent butt and mini bent butt in stock)
Squid rods including Egi Force B & C, Evergreen Poseidon Squid Law, Daiwa, Rovex plus more
Squid Jigs including Yo-Zuri, Haramitsu and Gancraft etc
Squid Gaffs, squid carry cases and all squiding accessories
Squid Ezi Tool
All crabbing gear including drop nets & marron nets
Landing nets including Berkley silicone etc
Gimbal belt – Super Deep M&W brand
Gimbal belts assorted
Life Jackets (few different models) including the slim line Crewsaver Crewfit and Watersnake in Manual and Auto.
KTI RPIRBS
All marine gear & accessories
Eva Pack Matic Cryovac machine
Braided & Mono line (including upmarket)
Softplastics including Z-Man, McArthy and Abrolhos
Lures including general stickbaits, minnows & poppers
High end stickbaits & poppers including Abalone
Macky lures including Halco & Rapala etc
Barra lures including Rob Gaden Classic, RMG, Yo-Zuri & Bomber etc
Bream minnow lures including Ecogear, Zipbaits & Cranka Crabs
Large selection of Tackle boxes including Plano/Shimano/Pflueger and HPA
Terminal tackle including mono & flurocarbon etc
Fishing books and DVD's including Fishing WA
Fly Kits including Pflueger, Gillies & Abu (6-8wt)
Dive gear (includes mask/snorkel/fins and kits etc)
Handspears (Gidgy) including fibreglass & Ali
Big Chill Coolers from 50l to 270l
Knives including Swibo, Dexter, Bladerunner etc
Sunnies including Ugly Fish & Maui Jims etc
ALL Super Deep Gear including our custom made rigs/custom sinkers/Esca lights etc
General sinkers including snapper lead & FE versions
Jigging Master super deep jigs 1200g
ALL Richter products, we stock a massive selection of skirted lures (including the new Splash medium) and we're also stocking pre-rigged skirted lures done by Mark Richter.
Also included are Richter wind-on leaders, rigs and teasers etc (PGFC members welcomed)
Pakula, Black Pete and Richter mirror teasers.
Easy Tease Teasers (2 models)
Marlin Flash Teasers
Teaser ropes custom made by us in store.
Cliff gaffs, rock gaffs & general gaffs
Custom made (Locally) WA Sea Anchors from dingy size to 12m boat size.
Anchors including Sand/Jetski/Reef etc
Rod cases including Hard & Soft ie SWLAB and Plano
Ozflex Billfish Tag Poles (3m)
PLUS many many more products!!!
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Cheers from the Oceanside Team.

 Road side pick up

 My old faithful penn senator 15 kg boat rod has died 

does any one have a suggestion for a replacement .im looking at a overhead up to or around $250 

cheers

 I've been fishing the sound for years for all species available at the time and have a fair idea of where things are....

And I find it funny when someone catches a snapper out of the sound they say it was caught at the Gravel Patch, is this a generic term for       "Yeah mate, as if I'm telling you..." OR " Just where the other boats were"                     And from what I can gather there seems to be many versions of where the "Gravel Patch" really is. . . 

I was always under the impression that the gravel patch was in the deeper water, as the gravel once came from ships ballasts when they used stones instead of water...         Or is this just an old sea dog story?...

I'm not chasing spots,

I'm just after some clarification about this . . .  

 Hi, if anyone has an update on the track condition to Steep that would be appreciated. I'm heading up in 3 weeks

 hi everyone

just asking if anybody can recommend a good ali fabricator which is NOR to do some work on my tinnie. I've had a look through the search  function but i didn't come across anythig. thanx in advance

 Heard a 6 meter boat was hit by wave and sunk off Cevantees about 17ks Out both guys ok but we're in water for 7 hours. Lucky or unlucky depends how u look at it. Anyone with any details. 

have just recently booked our first trip too steep point for early may 2017. everyone said book early so that's what I did and got straight in,rang the rangers station to pay and pam has said we have got stragglers camp.just wondering what this sites like I know there all pretty much right on the beach,is it really soft sand for tent pegs for example, anyway cant wait too get up there 4 blokes, 2 vehicles and 2 tinnies its gonna be awesome oh and hopefully catch some fish

 Saw this at spotlight today. A helium cylinder and 30 balloons for $50 bucks at Spotlight. 

 Good day All

I am moving to Perth in a couple off months and would like to get my head around what i can fish for.

At the moment i do large sharks and skates with normal rock and surf gear. ( sliding large baits live and dead)

What are my target fish in perth area? All i could google is 5  or 6 fish to target with medium to light tackle. ( snapers and what not)

Some advice would be great.

Thanks all

Enjoy

 Gday ,was just wondering about what kind of seats to get for my boat ,its a 5.5mt ali plate with a couple of metal storage boxes for the base on either side ,already bought the cheap and nasty one,s of e.bay ,go to sit on them and all you feel is  thescrews sticking up through the seat, my 15 year old  son reckons they ,re rank ,and since he  the skipper most of the time  he cops the brunt of  pain ,any help or advice would be great,fathers day is coming around so  if you can,t treat yourself then  when can you cheers

Please see below the tournament flyer for the upcoming Australian Junior Billfish Tournament in Exmouth.

It is a WAGFA sanctioned tournament and is all about the kids.

Last year we had competitors travel from QLD, VIC & all over WA with 6 kids catching their very first billfish with the youngest competitor a smallfry female aged just 7.

I would encourage you to consider (even if you don't have junior kids of your own) to take a neice / nephew / friends kids / next door neighbours kids etc fishing to experience the addictive past time that is Game Fishing. 

Nowhere else in Australia has the close proximity to the fishing grounds and the numbers of billfish than Exmouth, making it the perfect venue to host this tournament for junior anglers.

The event coincides with the school holidays.

The cost is only $25 per junior angler which includes a tournament shirt.

The following guides and tournament sponsors still have these dates available if any of you wish to take advantage of their local knowledge & expertise.

Captain Eddy Lawler, Peak Sportfishing - 0408 734 717

Captain Ben Knight, Ningaloo Sportfishing - 0437 917 427

I will be sure to post a full report at the completion of the event.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards

Scott.

Hi All

I'm a lurker, not a poster but just wanted to drop in and say thanks to all the people that contribute on this site. I for one have learnt al lot about fishing and how to improve. From bream fishing in kayaks in the Swan to Salmon down Sth and the Friday funnies and all the bits in between I now do more catching and a bit less fishing than I used to.

I am land based and use bait. Never had much luck with lures although I bring them out once in a while to see how I go.

Had the pleasure of taking my nearly 80 year old dad fishing on the weekend in the Canning river. We caught a few and had a good time. I was lucky enough to get my PB Bream. 43cm, unweighted hook, 6lb leader and line with a bit of shelled prawn. My new "secret" spot, about number 7 for the afternoon, was chosen because I could park close by and the access to the sand was easy. So not very hi tech. 

 hi, are there any blue gill or sunfish in perth that i could buy, they are an american fish.

 Couple of the better fish caught exploring new ground in the 30s & 40s from the weekend. Was out done by the decky but still good to see some good fish put on the boat.