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Day started out with this guy parked out the front of our house.

Next we had the local ANZAC day parade come past us. Great way to start the day.

Todays plan was to hit Peak Island. We stared out trolling for mackies on the north side of the island. Ended up with three after a couple hours of trolling.

Next was out deeper to fish the bottom. After a bit of searching found some ground. Harro hooked a nice red straight up.

Things went a bit quite for a while.

Saw this bird hitching a ride on a turtle.

Once the sun set it started to fire up. This was the end result to an awsome ANZAC day.

What is recommended for beach fishing footwear in tha winter?    Went down with tha wife over tha weekend to find that tha sand temp had dropped dramatically.   I don't think that thongs are gonna do for tha winter. 

hey, just got my boat fixed and ready to get out on the water, and i really want to catch a pink snapper where is the best place to look around bunbury and what kind of bottom do they hang around and best time to target them, any info much appreciated

cheers

Thinking of building a boat as a long term project. My idea is an island cab around the 5m mark. I've heard that there are boats you can build from flat packs. Not sure If I want to go this way or build from scratch.Would like any ideas you guys have re- building , design website info etc. Maybe someone has had a go at building a boat before and can give me a heads up. If I go ahead with this I will give progress reports and post pics as she slowly comes together.

hey guys just a quick one i just wanted to know how many people fish at penguin island and what have you caught ther ei have got a flathead tarwine brim and rock cod im talking about the back of the island and the sand and rock flats around the island  so not of the jetty or the beach near safetybay

Caught this in reefy area near Point peron.

Anyone know what it is? I released it anyway

Some of the F/W members know I have a friendly fishing comp. each year with my fishing buddy Garbo, but I thought I'd let the rest of you know how it works.

Every time we go out which is most weekends, we compete for the most prized fish caught each day as well as the biggest fish for the year. Species include Snapper, Dhuie, Blackarse etc, but usually the rules (which don't really exist) change every trip, depending on conditions. The loser has to buy the winner a 6 pack of his choice after each session and the over all loser for the year has to take the winner out for a meal and drinks.

As you can see we have even made a trophy between us which Garbo holds for winning both catogories last year. So far this year I'm leading both divisions but no doubt Garbo has a trick or 2 up his sleeve to catch up.

Hi Crew,

The fishwrecked Exmouth competition opening night will be held out the front of Mako Magic's place which is - CHALET A - at the LIGHTHOUSE CARAVAN PARK.  It will be on the Friday night before the competition at 7PM.  It should only take 15-20 minutes to get it all sorted (please try and get there a little before 7)

What will happen is I will hand each team their own clip on tags for the comp (different from last year) and the rules and go through how the comp will be run.   Each team will need to put their individual badge on the fish they catch and take photos of fork length, total length and a photo of you holding the fish with the badge in each of the pics.  You will need to measure the fish as it sits naturally, if the photos look like the fish has been distorted to lengthen the fish then that entry will be disqualified.

There will be categories for almost all of the prized fish in Exmouth waters - if you wish to catch and release or catch and kill that is completely up to you and as the competition is a photo competition - fishwrecked holds no responsibility for your actions.  Upon accepting the entry details you acknowledge that you enter at your own risk and will have agreed to an indemnity waiver effectively stating fishwrecked is not liable for your actions.

The prizes will generally be around $100 cash for each section, I am weighing up buying a birds eye flight as one of the prizes (hang gliding over town), Mako Magic has donated a custom built game rod and triton: http://fishwrecked.com/forum/exmouth-2010-biggest-marlin-prize-finished for the biggest marlin caught (the fish will need to be measured so please have a tape measure on board - any issues with this prize will be sorted by Matt and myself and a winner will be decided)  Gully has decided to do up a print as he did last year, this year it is: 

I am also hoping to get Men on Boats on board with a 100 hour service as a prize and will also be doing a random prize for the best photo that sums up the weekend, or just something cool.  I haven't assigned specific prizes to categories as yet, just sorting some of the finer details, but things should be done soon.  There will also be a junior section this year as well as a landbased prize.

I'm sure theres more I've forgotten to mention here, but its getting sorted, if you have any questions, please let me know - otherwise I will outline it all on the Friday night and hope to see all off you who have registered there. :)

Cheers,

Adam

this is my son and his cousin fishing in the swan today, dropped them off at 8am and picked them up at 2pm, they didnt get a lot but reported a couple of nice size bream and a lot of small ones (returned of course).

good exercise for a couple of boys playing footy and keeping them out of trouble.

i offered to take them out in the big boat but they decided to canoe instead.

does any one know of who stocks alvey parts or rebuilds them?

i have a snapper whinch that the anti reverse gear is not engaging properly, when you strike hard it slips.

i have pulled it apart and it is the bronze gear inside that needs to be replaced.

any help appreciated

hey guys.. i have recently invested in a daiwa catalina rod (daiwa catalina 762 XH) the specs are its 7'6", 3-6oz, PE 3-5 and i was looking at putting a daiwa catalina 6500 on it and having PE 5-6?, can anyone please give advice about the setup and if the reel would sit nicely on the rod!?!?

cheers anyone who can help :)

Jack

Hey guys

does anyone know a website other than seabreeze to look at for 7 day weather predictions?

i usually use seabreeze and try and get an idea from the lancelin and geraldton graphs, but lately they have been to very different graphs.. if you use seabreeze, do you find geraldton a good reference or lancelin?

cheers

Hi all.

I'll be heading down to Point Peron tomorrow for sunrise throwing around some lures in search of salmon and anything else.  

I've never been before so I was hoping some generous individuals would share their favourite locations in this area. 

I was thinking of trying the area on the south end (just south of the car park), and the beach as you head east.  Is this side or the northern or western side better?

Another area I was thinking of was the area east of the boat pens on the northern side, or the western beach south of the cape along Lease Rd. 

 
Where should I start and where should I move as the day moves on. 

Thanks for your help! 

Well, thats about all I know - apart from they have a decent stock drag these days.

Sorry no pics , I forgot the camrea,

Today was the best weather I have seen for a while. Started with a bottom bash but not much happned, but did land 2 big chinas( put back). Then went for a troll and raised 1 billie with it  messing around for a minute or 2 then left us with much discuss. Scored a little mack and then watching the sounder I saw the biggest lump I have ever seen full of fish.

20mins later 2 trout 59, 64    1 rankin  68   1 red  62 and 2 saddle tails both low 60.

It has been 3 months from the last time i fished (in karratha) and was very happy to wait for all this time to go out in my new town.

Cracker of a day,

Craig 

Need help,dont know if i should go off the groyne tonight at about 10 or early tomorrow morning,has any one had more or less luck with either time?

Headed out off Bunbury today with the aim of jigging a nice Snapper or Dhuie, but we got into thumping big Salmon about 25 nautical miles offshore.Took fish on soft plastics as well as metal jigs.

We will be heading up to exmouth on 10th may. If anyone is interested in hooking up for the trip, (convoy) we can arrange to meet up on the way somewhere. We will be leaving from the northern suburbs at around 4:00am with brekky in dongara around 8:30am arriving in exmouth about 7:00pm.  I would be interested in knowing when others are heading up. Safe trip to all.  Rob

I just heard there was a lighthouse chalet available from 9th - 19th may at the lighthouse caravan park. Im sure it wont last long. Good luck.  Rob

My patience has been rewarded! I took the new girl for a run today and had the great company of a few of the FW old farts and some of thier friends. A great day and some stories remembered. Here are a few pics.....

FW uploads are not working so I will post some more pics soon.

Thanks for the offers to help with the resizing of pics guys. Looks like I have to get a mate to sit down and show me sometime later. Bloody hopeless with computers mate, they drive me round the bend 

 a little while ago a posted up about making my own burly out of your old fish frames/old bait/shit fish.

i finally got time to modify the chipper and it works a treat, you do get the ocassional big piece, but this minced up hole heads and frames.

i even managed to get an(donated) 8kg dhuy head and frame down in one go.

frames to be fronzen first, dose not work as good on raw stuff, i also noted that it would be best to freeze the frames flat, instead of being all twisted up in a coles bag.

i just got out the big gimpy and bashed them flat (learn by your mistakes)

then remove the top piece and clean up was easy, now i know it works i will make the top out of ally.

this is the minced up product out of the chipper

adding in the pollard/breadcrumbs/oil in my mixing bowl (an old bath tubb i converted to a hydro bath for my dogs work as an exellent mixing bowl) and so easy to clean 

the finished product, freeze in my fish freezer,ready packaged for easy use, fits into my pvc pipe burly cage i made 

now for the test to see if it works? cant see why not.

no more throwing out my unused bait or stinking the bin out with fish frames, its all getting chopped up.

another thing i noticed when making it, is the flys were hanging around the old frames sitting on the ground, as soon as it was minced up they would not go near it, dont figure hey?

test it tomorrow.

One dead, two hurt in serious injury

Chris Robinson Perth Now April 24, 2010 5.16pm

The RAC rescue helicopter located the three men some time after 3pm this afternoon after they had been separated from their 4-metre overturned dinghy.

One man was pronounced dead at the scene. The two remaining men were taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, where one – a 14-year-old boy – remained in a serious condition yesterday evening.

Members of the Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group spotted the overturned vessel about five nautical miles off the Two Rocks coast at around 1:20pm.

Police say the men had set off on the boat earlier today.

Police are yet to determine the relationship between the three men.

Hi all - going after some squid this weekend in Mandurah - any good spots to look ?   Thanks

hi guys just wondering if there is a easy method of taking good line off a reel and putting it back onto a empty plastic line spool because its still good but want to change it to a heavier line its easy to put on but there must be a better method than reeling it up like a handline .cheers

im heading to rottnest on tuesday for a bit of a break from the kids.

dose any one know where you can/cant fish, and mayby the best places to go??

also what gear to take and what i might catch (is there any salmon left?)

Thanks guys

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/1044049/razor-toothed-alien-fish-found-in-ocean

just wondering any one heading out tomo for fish light to moderate 13 to 18 knots ese is this good