hey guys, sorry aboutthis newbie post but were is the 3 mile reef? a map/co-ordinates would be appreciated

cheers

Hey guys,

Thought i would put up a post on how we went today out from woodies point. Firstly i would like to thank the guys who replied to my post on sounder pics i put up recently, your comments and advice proved priceless today. We headed out from woodies point boat ramp at 6am and headed for a mark in the 40's that i had marked a couple of days prior but had not much luck on. On the way out to our waypoint i came across some interesting groung in 35m of water so decided to stop and have a few drifts, on the first couple of drifts we picked up a couple of undersize black arse which went back to fight another day. A few drifts later my deckie picked up this nice queen snapper

After a pic we also sent this back hoping to uprgrade to maybe a pinkie or dhufish ( fingers crossed ). Reset the drift and dropped the lines once again and BANG my deckie was on again! This time we were pleased to see not a huge but definatelty a size dhufish! The first dhufish we have caught so pretty stoked to say the least, It went 57cm and after a quick pic it was given the lights out treatment then into the icebox for dinner tonight.

After this things went quiet, so we continued out to our original destination but had bugger all luck. Thats when the call was made to head back into the sound and have a quick squidding session, after picking up 6 nice size squid it was off home to clean up and cook our much awaited dhufish

What a great way to end the day, fresh dhufish, chips, coleslaw and some gentlmans jacks to wash it all down! Thanks again for all the help guys, hopefully the fishing gets better from here on in.

Just saw this on the West Australian web site, hope it's no one I know or know of down here.

Cheers

Dale

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/9256696/man-drowns-in-sw-boat-accident/

i have painted bow rails on my rig  that are getting badly chipped. apart from sanding back and having bare rails does anyone have any tips on what i can put on them to protect against , anchor chain or line or sinkers rubbing on them , i have seen plastic tube etc that can be wrapped around 

Hey all.

I was just wondering if anyone knows the exact height of the busso jetty or knows where i can find the height of it? I would like to know the height from the water to the concrete but also the height from the water to the rails?

I forgot to measure it when i was down there the other day. If no one knows the height could some one that lives down there please measure it for me with a tape measure? Im willing to pay 10 bucks for the first person to have the exact height.

Cheers Danno

Anyone have any idea where the new IGFA length records are hiding on the net? Ive been through the official website- only found the rules and regs on there

anyone know where they are?

Cheers

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone knew of a free website that gives the water temp, current lines etc..?

Have found ones like seasurface.com etc… that charge an arm and a leg for the service!  

Anyone know of any free or otherwise cheaper alternatives?

Thanks in Advance!

Hey all

anyone one know anywhere that isn't affected that much by swell

for landbased around the north metro region just for bread and butter species

hoping to get out but weather looks bad all week

thanks alex

Well i went out to my usual big blackie location armed with a block of mulies. Couldnt belive my eyes when i could see monster bream swiming around. Hardest part was getting through the millions of blowies. Finally i hookd this big guy. Was around the same size as my biggest i caught a few yrs back that went 48cm. This may have been bigger? . What a thumper!!!!

Still hanging to crack 50cm!!!! Wont be long i hope.

Felt great to get a coupe shots and let it go. Swam off really well.

anyone heading downtoday for a fish if so were

Good Morning all,

Im heading up to jurien Bay later this week with the family, I was wanting to know where the good fishing spots are up there and what sort of bait i will need. I also have a 4wd so will be able to go on the sand, but i dont have a boat.

We ended up with a nice red bass on the weekend and are wondering if they are much of a ciguatera risk . He was caught out from Exmouth. Have eaten Chinamen from around the same area with no problems so hoping the Bass will be ok.

Cheers Ben

Gday,

I'm looking at heading to Exmouth in mid May hoping to tag my first marlin, and hopefully try some bottom fishing. Would appreciate any hints as to lure types, locations, baits, target species etc that anyone can provide.

Thanks

 After being directed here by Till, I felt it only right to drop a quick line to say g'day.

There are quite a few familiar names here, and it looks like HEAPS of good info, very interesting site!

Im currently fishing and diving out of a 4.8M Ally Savage runabout.

Hope to see a few of you out on the water.

Cheers

Dave Manning

Hey guys is it still worth towing some luers if the weather persists or have the billfish left our waters for good

  Hey seeing the topic of soft plastics today i wanna get a set up cranking purely for fishing plastics , I dunno what type of reel or rod to use , atm i have a few reels on the side maybe to get me started , although i might need heavier. I have a plueger contender and a dawai regal 4000, would these reels be fine or would an upgrade be needed ? Also any suggestions on rods as i have no clue what tpye of rod to use for soft plastics ?  not anything to expensive , good quality but not over priced. Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

hey all,

Purchased 2 Yamishitima* squid jigs in1.8; in Pink and a Brown with a green tint.

5 squid in half an hour, wasnt to bad saying that i was still using the old ones for a little bit, but all 5 squid were caught on the pink one.

Cheers all!

hey guys,

sorry to put up another "need help post", but weve got our 11 year old cousin over from sydney, and after we bought him a cheap k-mart combo over as a present a couple of years ago, hes had a ball catching all types of small fish off the beach.

Me and dad are gonna take him out for a fish tomorrow after the dawn service, but being informed by his mum that she dosent want him on a boat, where stumped on a good land based spot we can take him, as anytime weve got time to fish, its usually outa the tub.

I dont mind what were catching (as long as it isnt blowies) and can go anywhere from 2 rocks to down around rockingham.

any advise would be awsome,

cheers rob

Hi guys just wanted to know whats bitting down mandurah way land based any help would great thanks

hey guys

going out tomorow and i normaly dont use ocky, but i got some local stuff and want to know the easiest way to skin it,

as we all know what happens if you dont skin ocky when bottom bashing.

we got a nice mix happening tomorow.....ocky,squid,fish fillets and plastic, one should be good??????????

thanks in advance

ron

hi guys

does anyone know where i can get some 3oz jig heads today(sunday)

thanks in advance

ron

Hey guys, can anyone tell me if there is anywhere open to get bait today for a early start tomorrow? South of the river if possible. Or even places open early tomorrow morning? Cheers guys.

hey i was jst windring if any one knows any good spots for shaks up near lano or do you just have to find a decent hole and buley up. we gi 40 kg of berly so should be right for that but any one got any advoce.... cheers

Happy Easter all!!!

Hope the weather stays good for monday!

Cheers!

Not fishing related, but worth the post.

Dad played and I did guitar work, so got a AAA pass to see the legendary band themselves, ZZ Top

Hey guys,

Recently i have purchased a furuno 620 and have been testing it out mainly in shallow water. Yesterday i headed out to have a fish in some deeper water for the first time with this sounder, i have been out this far before but only with the old black and white job that came with the boat and never had much luck. All im trying to find out is what have i got on the photos i have uploaded? is this what structure looks like in the 40's?? i had a few drifts over these patches with not much to show except for a charlie court and some colourful looking reef fish. Any help would be much appreciated, Cheers  

Haven't heard many reports up that way lately .

Will be heading up on Monday (25/4/11), armed with jigs/plastics.

i put braid on my reel, fireline crystal 10lb and i think the line is twisted or somthing causes evertime i cast my lure or softplastic, the line is goin loose on the ree,l and somtimes doesnt wrap onto the reel propaly it misses the spool and goes under i need help with this asap is there a way i fix this or do i need to take the line of and buy new stuff cause i leave for my holiday tommorow ???

any help much appreciated

cheers danny

hey chasing dhuie's in dongara. does anyone know of some good ground ! dont laugh at me ! 

 did anyone else head out today.

 I was checking Seabreeze all week and it looked sweet untill last night when they changed the prediction.  We headed out from Woodies at about 6ish anyway with 3 newbies on board, heading for the West End to troll up some Mackies.   Got to just before Carnac and hit a crazy washing machine chop that only got worse and worse.  Ended up busting through it and put some lures out, trolled for about 3 hours all around the West End, conditions got worse, I got more annoyed.    We ended having a bottom bash out that way and picked up some Skippy, then turned for home with a big following sea.

All in all a pretty frustrating day and lousy conditions.  I ended up rigging lines for everyone all day, tying knots and doing all usuall fishing lessons to help people that haven't fished much which was fine, just tough out there.  The highlight of our day was a Mutton Bird picking up a small Tuna skirt that I had shotgun and then getting it hooked through the beak.  I was flying a kite for a while there.

Did anyone do any good??  Any Mackies around