I have just heard that Swanbourne and Cott have been closed because of shark sightings.

Finally landed my first fish today a baby salmon.     Technically my second fish.     Tha first 1 I caught, which was bigger got away!!!!

I made tha amateur mistake of taking tha fish with me to fill tha bucket with water.    As soon as that f***** saw ocean he jumped out of my hand.    I managed to catch him again with tha bucket only for tha little f***** to jump out of tha bucket.     Talk about a learning curve!!!    Was still an awesome day.    I caught each fish with each of my rods so I managed to bust both cherries in one day!!

Last thing I caught was a blowie and I'm starting to think that it is a sign for tha end of tha day.     Once blowies turn up it all seems to go downhill!!!!

Catch ya on tha flip side

Peace

hey guys,

im just wondering has anyone been on saltwater charters in hillarys before? if so what are they like good/bad?

im going with them in about 2 weeks tims and i want to hear other peoples experience with them before.

This will read a bit like a post on a online dating site ........... but here goes.

I am looking for a keen, and experienced, fisherman/person who would be interested in becoming a "regular" on my boat. I have the boat, however my long time fishing mate has left town and I am often left without a crew to fish with. I dont want to sound like a w@anker however I am looking for someone who:

• Lives in the northern suburbs and has own transport - I live in Butler and generally launch from Mindarie or Two Rocks
• Has a mature attitude - Safety first when I fish and if it is rough I dont go out
• Has own gear suitable for general bottom fishing off Perth
• Prepared to pay their way and help with boat cleanup etc - Even if we dont catch fish

If anyone is inetersted, then please PM me and we can maybe catch up for a beer a talk fishing

Cheers Steve

Going 35 mile off Mandurah on wednesday. Anyone know anything about the Dhuies and other bottom fish around the 50m mark?

Cheers.

any body know why the weather is so shit so windy  southerlys and south west i dont have a boat  so not worried a bout offshore just land base what fish can i get with this shit wind

Good Morning Peoples

I have a Navman 5607 that I bought from a fellow forum member and unfortunately the receipt that came with the unit was lost. The problem we are having is that last week the screen just died on us. When the sun shines on the unit you can see that it is recording stuff but it just does not elluminate.

I called Navico but without a receipt they will not speak with me. I just want to get it fixed and was wondering if anyone out there could point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Conrad 

gday all

i was wonderin if there has been any mackies caught yet this year around rotto. or when are they due to be caught.

cheers

hello all

i am not usally a morning person but getting up for a delivery man (when its your stuff) is always good :D

today arrive my 2 newest toys

xzoga MA-S 73m2
xzoga MA-S 120h2

combined with my black diamond bream reaper i think i finally finished my setup .... for now 

time to head down the tackle shack and line my reels :D  so i can test these rods :D 

Hey guys i am heading up to Jurein BAy for a week as of wednesday for my birthday just chasing any ofshore info for that region as i have herd some rumours of palagics firing up??

Any info on the are on whats biting would be great cheersw Guys.

DAve

Hey Guys,

I am getting all G'd up for the trip to Exmouth at the end of March. I am planning to keep an online diary of the trip which I will keep updated every day on here with pics ect.

I thought I'd post a thread to see what everyone's favourite hard body and soft plastic lures are for fishing Exmouth.  Lets say we have two categories...

1. Trolling ( deep divers and shallow and what species you target with these lures) 

2. Casting / Jigging Lures (and what species you target with these lures)

Looking forawrd to seeing what everyones choices are.

Well just about to move to Port,

and I want to know if the billie scene is the same as Dampier.

Any feedback would be good

Cheers,

Craig

hey guys just brought myself a gps

lookin to find a few co-rds im gussin no one is wanting too give out there spots witch i understand but ya if anyone noes of a few spots i am in chance of gettin a fish please pm me the co-ords cheers guys

dane

hey, i was thinkin of goin scoop netting around mandurah or perth, would anyone know where a good place for that is?

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Went out yesterday and got these, then went on to chase a dhu but the dhuies weren't interested. Early sea breeze so back in by 1.00.

GO BLUES.

Ok i think Andy Mac might be havin a go at me cos i hav looked everywhere in the mag & i cant find the "sealed" section. Is anyone else havin the same problem?  lol    Rob

Last month i see Nick was in the Fishing Western Australia Magazine as always being a major contribertor for a long time with Jacko then Lisa doing T.V work also,,he also did an artilce last month for Western Angler magazine and now he is on the cover of WAFM, he sure gets around.

A quick skim through this months FWA at the local newsagents shows no sign of Nick (only had a quick skim) not sure what the story is but there might be juicy gossip some where,lol

Which brings me to a point that bugs me,,i have always heard if you write for Mag X you can't write for anybody else,,fair enough if you have a regular colonmist gig but you should be able to write for anybody,,don't forget you see Starlo in and on a range of mags,,never restricted to one.

Anyway just thought i would pasS my obervesations on,,maybe big changes have happened at FWA ?

Just been down to the local tackle store where I heard a rumor of a 30kg pinkie been caught of Cape Naturalist.

Has anyone else heard this or know any more. Sounds a bit far-fetched but who knows. Do they grow this big?

Hi all had a ball up in kalbarri hired the 7.85m from murchison boat hire for 6 days and bagged out on mackies every day awsom triple hook ups even 4 rods at one time and landed all heaps of small long tail tuna around was non stop

We are visiting South Yunderup soon. Can anyone recommend some good places to fish

in the Murray (if you don't have a boat).  thanks

We headed out at about 5 this morning on the waters by about 5 30 and greeted by schools and schools of small longtail or bluefin tuna not to sure which but they were everywhere also picked up my first tuna on fly :) so we grabbed a few for bait and headed out to the north barge first drop resulted in a nice sambo of about 10kg. Next drop resulted in my mate getting an absolute horse of a leatherjacket. Then something that put a dampener on the day my practically brand new saltiga Xhfs jig rod snapped 3 eylets from the top. So after that decided to come on closer for a bit of a bottom bash in the 30's. Sounder was looking good and from when the baits hit bottom they were getting smashed resulting in 4 or 5 blackass 2 small pinks 1 small dhuie and plenty of other reef fish and a few unstopables. As the weather was turning sour we started coming back in at about 1 30 and there was still schools of tuna hanging around but we couldnt get a hookup. Went for a quick fish and dive in close to garden and picked up a nice 50cm flathead and a few whiting. Great day in all and a nice sunburn to go with it

hey all

i just got little reel for squidding and wen i got to cast the bail arm flips over.

it sed on the box that it wouldnt as it had some sort of magnetice control.

how can u stop it?

i was thinking that as it got older it would cease up a bit and stop.

help please as it is awsome and gose with my squidding rod.

cheers danno

On Saturday 2 January coming off the beach into the carpark @ Hillarys, we found a tackle bag full of gear.

We are hoping to return it to it's rightful owner.  If you know who lost this, please get them to contact us..

Hello all,

As summer is here, I would like to start crabbing in the Swan.

What are people`s opinions on the pollution in the river and the link to aquatic species.

Kind regards

Chris

my recent new boat has a furnuo 600L sounder which I'm having difficulty setting up/reading, it appears to be reading the depth/bottom ok but does not apper to pick up schools/fish, I have adjusted/set bottom lock etc to no avail I know its not showing anything as a huge ray went under the boat and although the fish alarm goes off there is no indication on the screen of the ray also the pic attached displays a lost of rubish and there is only a small distance on sounder from the top to the bottom of the screen, does anyone have this sounder that can shed some light on what I'm doing wrong? I've looked at the demo and this sounder look like it has great capability.....

TIA

just wondering what everyones predictions are for pelagics in metro waters this season.

i am chasing my first YFT and spaniard from perth waters.

noticed while on the boat last trip out , the temp was registering at nearly 23 degrees out in the 30's. hopefully a good sign.

just need to sort out a good spread of lures as will be running 3 rods , and get a couple of teasers to up the chances.  can't wait.

plan so far is to troll the south/west side of rotto early morning around the drop offs , keeping an eye on bait balls and birds .

sound about right??

nice hot sunny day, decided to take the kids out from woodys to get some squid and hopefully some KG then end up at canarc for a swim and a couple of beers,,,,,,,sounds great, lets goooo.

2 klms out from woodys i here a strange noise comming from my 200 yammy 2st,,, what the,,,, then she locked up,,,,,,,,,,, she has sized, no warning whatsoever. Yes before anyone ask, my temp/oil alarms do work and the mator was cold. i think it has spun a big end bearing.

 thanks for my mate that towed me back in.

all in all an exspensive day, hope its covered under insurance.

p.s

one good point, while at anchor waiting to be rescued we had a fish, 15-20 baby snapper all returned good except for 1 that floated away, swallowed the hook a bit to deep.

cry,cry,sob,sob,,,i am going to get drunk now.

G'day fellas, where would be a good place to drop some crabs pots this evening?

So we were out scooping for crabs down in mandurah a couple weeks back and in our travels we came across a large sand whiting, floating along without a tail, but still alive! What the!?!? A quick scan around with the light didn't reveal any large predators so we were pretty clueless as to what could have taken its tail off. Any ideas? I would have thought that if it was a shark or mulloway they wouldn't have left anything to float away alive. Could a crab have chopped its tail off? Maybe it was attacked by the hordes of blowies that were around... poor little guy.