Hey guys im after a rod for my avet sx but cant find one for the life of me!!! I perfer around 7-8foot 8-15kg , The rod has to be quite slender because the avet is tiny....



Just targetting jewfish and snapper..... would 8 foot be better for my options? im fishing out of a tinny mainly? will the extra foot than 7 absorb headshakes better?





Brad

Check out this vid - absolutely awesome.  The locations they are fishing are unbelievable and fights are pretty harsh.  Check out the fight on the fish towards the end of the video, the dude almost gets pulled in.

http://tv.shimano.co.jp/movie/tv/paradise_15/

Alright lads and lasses

Looks like theres been some more good trips over the last few days, with some good fish getting caught.  Unfortunately i've not been out due to time.  BUT this long weekend I have been to London and took the opportunity to dive in the aquarium.  Not always sure on how good they are for the bigger fish, but I was impressed with this one and the conditions of the majority of the fish.  The shark tanks were big although they could always be bigger, but on the whole it was a good attraction and well worth the visit if your over.  Here are a few piccys.

Cheers Rog

The piranha tank looked pretty good for a reconstruction.

Gt's and smaller trevs shoaling up!

Turtle swimming over a fake whale skeleton!

Redtailed catfish...awesome fish

Mixed reef community

Lionfish

Sand Tiger Sharks in with the GT's

Close up of the GT's

AFTER receiving “get out of jail passes” from our wives, Sherbs and I decided to head up to Flatrock on Saturday night for an allnighter in the hope that we might be able to find some elusive mulloway.

With the trusty Andrew at the wheel, we arrived at Flat Rock at around 8 pm with a half moon rising and a light south wester blowing.

Andrew maneuvered us to our chosen location, a spot we had fished previously where a reef sits about 40 metres off the shore and nice gutter runs between the beach and the reef.

Sherbs and I soon had our lines in the water and within minutes we were hooked up. Whatever was on our lines had a lot of weight behind them and were pulling hard in the fast travelling current and the small shore dump.

Man, seaweed can sure pull hard - especially when there is at least 10 kilos of it. Sherbs hard fighting lump soon snapped his braid and I then heroically fought mine collection to the shore. Half an hour of de-weeding later, I finally had my rig back.

Deciding this wasn’t looking too good, we headed back up to the beach to Flat Rock itself in the hope that it would be clear of weed.

A few test casts with just a sinker on the line confirmed this was the case and we re-setup camp and soon had our lines in the water.

While the Flat Rock is a good fish attractant, it does make night fishing a little difficult as you have to make your way across the rocky reef in water up to waste deep to ensure your cast takes your bait away from the reef edge.

Eventually we worked out a system and were able to set ourselves up to that we could sit back in the comfort of some fold-up chairs, drink a few beers and fish at the same time.

Not too long after we got underway Sherbs had some movement on his bait which had all the hallmarks of a mulloway enquiry. Playing the patient game he waited till the weight came on set the hook. What seemed like a nice mulloway began pulling away from the reef with that telltale paddle tail action.

After a solid fight Sherbs had the fish at the edge of the reef where it unfortunately managed to hook itself up and then free itself. The disappointment was overcome with the thought that if there was one there must be more.

So we settled down to fish out the night confident we were in for some action.

After a few more hours of soaking mulies and squid baits, we finally had another hit and Sherbs soon had a small Port Jackson shark on the shore and then on its way back out to sea.

That small bit of action rejuvenated our efforts and we sent out some more baits. However, the action certainly wasn’t thick and fast and with a nice fire burning the temptation to pull out our swags and put our heads down until the morning was growing very tempting. Andrew had already succumbed and he looked pretty comfortable all wrapped up in sleeping bags in the front of the car while we froze out butts off in wet clothes.

However we decided to persevere and I soon had nice little banjo shark which was soon back out across the reef.
Another hour or so and I felt a decent bit of weight on my line which I was thinking may have been another big clump of weed. It turned out to be a decent sized Wobbegong which we decided to keep.

That kept our heads up for awhile longer and Sherbs managed to hook and land the biggest Port Jackson I have ever seen.

With only an hour or two until sunrise we settled down in out chairs with the hope that the action might hot up.

In fact it got even colder and our baits failed to attract any interest. Sherbs managed to keep his eyes open somehow, but I dozed off only to be awoke by a wave washing around my feet.

Eventually the sun came up and we were refreshened by a beautiful morning.

Unfortunately it was too nice with the sea flattening off with a building offshore breeze.

Sherb’s work mate Doug arrived and we changed up rigs to see if there were any tailor, herring or whiting around.

Sherbs managed a double header of whiting, but the flat conditions were definately not in our favour and after a 14 hour fishathon we decided that was enough and to head back to your warm homes.

While we didn’t end up with the catch we had hoped for, it was a great night out with a great mate and for two old buggers we did pretty well to stick it out in pretty crappy conditions.

Stu invited me to join him for a weekend away at his humble retreat in the hope that it would be third time lucky to catch an elusive Salmon. Time was on my side so I gratefully accepted. Stu had also invited a young Irish fella who he has a work association with. The fella is named Steve and I will refer to him as "Irish" from here on in.

Stu and Irish picked me up from work at 4PM Friday. I parked my car up in the warehouse and we were off! Much to the disatisfaction of Stu we had the tops off the Crownies before he even got out of the car park at my place of work.

An nice trip down. A few beers by the fire and it was time for bed. While we were chatting I nominated 7am as my first Salmon in the morning.

We rose early for usual Stu full breakfast and then it was off for the long trek to Windy Harbour. When we arrived the conditions were perfect with a moderate swell and offshore breeze. I almost wanted to go surfing. After studying the beach we decided to walk some 500 meters to a hole that showed some promise. It took me a while to recover from the walk and set up my two rods. My 12 footer with Mullies and my 9 foot graphite for lures.

It was 7:08am when my first bait went in the water and at 7:10am I had my first strike!!!! Dancing fish! WOW everyone was excited. A nice Salmon was landed as per photo.

An hour later I hooked another beauty! Stu being Stu whispered to me that Irish had never caught a decent fish so I gladly offered my rod to him to finish off the landing process. Well done Irish! Photos show results.

Stu then got some action and landed a nice Salmon. Irish then did the real thing and hooked and landed a fish of his own. I was on again also.

All in all, 5 fish landed, one decided to leave me before I could grab it, and 1 or 2 were released. Nice session!

Back to the shack and a few too many beers. I decided, after much pushing from Stu, to cook a Salmon pie. See pictures. The pie turned out great other than one small issue. The fillets had some sand in them................ Pie tasted great but there was a lot of grinding happening. Anyway, the Kookaburras loved it the next morning.

Speaking of the next morning, it was too far to the beach so we headed out to some of Stus favourite river spots. While the boys played I tossed a few lures in the creek and guess what? Redffin were around. It was some fun.

We then went back and did all the chores through lack of female help and headed back to Perth.

Stu; thanks mate and Irish; thanks also.

I promissed Stu a weekend at S-bends as a payment for such a fine weekend.

I hope you enjoy the pics and sorry it took a while to polish up this report.

Hi all.

Can anyone give me an unbiased opinion on where to take my boat rod for repairs?

Also, need a service done on my reel before heading up north

Cheers

TJ

I noticed when I payed my boat registration I had no other choice but the classification of business.

Does this mean I can claim my boat trailer as some sort of business expense?

just got back from a fish out of ocean reef today. it was a great day out but it was ruined by some rude complacentent ars***les in big cruisers 30ft plus. we had about four guys pass us today whislt anchored all in big boats about 20 metres away goin flat out causing massive wash to throw our boat around. its not that hard to give us a bit of room and SLOW DOWN! iv got more than harsh words for these guys. anybody had the same problem?

Hi guys.


I've been running a small fishing lessons business for about 2 years and it's now exploding as our TV station traffic grows quickly.


I'm getting the point where I'm turning down about $1000 worth of work a week because we're making 14 different TV series and I'm working 6 1/2 days a week.


So ...


the time has come to start looking for people to help out.


I need some guys with outstanding people skills who want to get paid $200 a day (cash) to teach people to fish.


It's a hard job but lots of fun and these are the areas I need people in:


1. Bream from shore and from small boats

2. Small boat fishing inshore

3. Offshore bottom fishing and FADs


If you're interested, please email and I'll fill you in. However, I only need people with excellent people skills and a strong work ethic.

Here are some pics of the sort of people you'd be helping. Never had a bad customer yet.

Cheers,

Steve.

hey guys and girls does any one know if the fads are still out or if they have taken them in

hey guys im ff to the fads tommrow was jut wondering if any one could give the cooridants to the the closed ones from hillaries that would be great

Found this on another site so thought I’d post here also… Ocean Reef is our local ramp and I am for the project to go ahead.
Can’t attend personally on Tuesday so hopefully the word will get out and others may attend.
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The Ocean Reef Marina project has now reached a critical stage.

A concept plan suitable for release for public comment is imminent.

A meeting of council will be held at City of Joondalup Council Civic Chambers on Tuesday 5th May at 6.30p.m.

The aim of this meeting is to gain council approval to release the concept plan for public comment.

There are however, a small yet determined and influential group who are likely to oppose the development on environmental grounds.

From what I have seen during the project, the environmental impact whilst real, is manageable and in the longer term, will in fact enhance the areas environmental significance.

What we need are as many enthusiastic supporters as possible to fill the public gallery on the 5th and to ensure that they demonstrate very clearly their support for a new marina.

As noted there is a small minority opposing the development, who in the past have been successful in blocking previous proposals (due to lack of support).

Please,
let’s show our support with numbers!!!

This is an email from our club and i thought any other fishos or boaties that want to see a new and much needed Marina in the area should attend the meeting.

gidday all anyone get out today?? how did you do ? cheers craig

  i a ma keen fisherman, but dont get a chance to out much, i was wandering about joining an angling club.... ?  i have a 5 m boat, so maybe get out in comps etc, and take some deckies etc. etc   any one got info..

 cheers

hey guys

i have a qinni 480 coastrunner with a 70 hp merc on the back 

was wondiring if i could take that over to rotto on a calm day and stay there over night 

thanks

danobigfish

anybody been catching any snapper lately in the metro area

any info would be grately appreasiated thankz

I have a couple of Pains wessex 243 epirbs and the question is I know that they are no longer useable but are they meant to be handed in somewhere so that they can be disposed of or can you throw them in the trash????

thanks in advance

i would realy appreciate some advise on where or how to catch kg's ive caught 2 in the passed 4 years & spent god knows how many hours trying for them i cant seem to find them any where around the metro area the ones i have caught have been up at lanno while going for snapper & dhuies  and jagged both they where the best tasteing fish & would love to be able to go out & catch some more

Bonjour

Just been shopping and saw freshwater cobbler in the fish counter.  Unfortunately it was battered so unsure of what it really looks like.  Bought some and ate it, tasted good.  Just wondered if it comes from your neck of the woods and if it is similar to the saltwater variety of cobbler that you have?

Cheers fellas

rog

Good luck to you all. Should have planned my holiday with this instead of Broome for 2 weeks just gone. Poor fishing and the worst launching facilities for a tourist. Perhaps Broome members should lobby to get a facility for launching that is user friendly.

Sorry bitching

Have a great comp and wish I was there.

Neels

On the 16th April 2009 Adventure Bound presenter Neil Tedesco passed away suddenly in a tragic accident at his local gym while free diving training.

Im not sure if any one has seen his fishing show Adventure bound but it is one of the best fishing show i have ever seen and was one of the best hosts as well never got over excited showed great techniques. just what i could see a awesome bloke and one of the best fishermen i have ever seen was a big hit over the east coast.

If any Fishwrecked members need a new 406 epirb I have access to buy GME MT 400 Epirbs at a cost of $460 per unit they would take a week to come in I just bought two today one for the Barcrusher and and one for the centre console beats paying 500-600

Gday, been creek fishin up north for a couple of years now and still havent really caught anything worth writing home about. Only had the boat option for a year now and still havent caught anything except Jacks and stinkin cattys! I reckon I have read and researched just about everything there is for Creeks but still cant get into anything different. Just wondering if some ppl might be able to give me some advice/info on catching/targetting Blak Jews, Threadies and barra. What ground to look for, what depths. How much depth change makes for a deep hole, as i am thinking 1m+. How far up the creeks is worth fishing? Is the area towards the mouth more productive then further up? What type of baits etc.

I have been fishing mainly in the Ashburton, Fortesque and Balla Balla systems.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as i am getting frustrated!!!!!

Thanks

VIC tackle thieves still on the rampage 29 Apr 2009 Further to recent reports of tackle thefts suffered by retail stores across Victoria comes more police verification of Melbourne tackle shops being targeted by thieves. Around 100 high value fishing reels were stolen and glass display cases smashed in the most recent burglary in Mahoneys Road, Campbellfield, at about 2.42am on Saturday 25th april, 2009. About 400-500 fishing reels have been stolen from stores from Hoppers Crossing through to Narre Warren. The same reel types have been reported stolen each time and estimated total value is up to $500,000. Brands include Okuma, ABU, Shimano, Daiwa and Penn. None of the reels have their warranty documentation, as the boxes have not been stolen. Anyone who can help police with their investigation is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

someone is going to be having a private megga sale

Oceanside Tackle and Marine is having a "Mega Sale" for 10 days only. This Sale starts tomorrow May 1st and will finish Sunday May 10th. Our standard prices are very competative but this Less 20% for website members is a great incentive to buy up now & save $$$.

The Sale is for ALL goods in store (bait excluded and no lay-bys) so, if your wanting to just top up the tackle box or are planning a northern trip away then "Now's the time". Boat rods, jigging rods, spinning reels, overhead reels, fly reels and many other boat combo's also on sale. Other stuff like braids, jigging equipment, lures,gamegear, tackleboxes,squid jigs,snorkeling gear, boating equipment,cray pots,iceboxes, terminal gear and much more at ALL less 20% OFF.

Please let us know your a website member (if we dont know you that is) and tell us your wanting the Mega Sale prices as this is for web members only.

** For all sales enquires please call Honsu or Ryan on # 9337 5682 **

Regards,

Oceanside Tackle & Marine

** OPEN 7 DAYS **

Hi everyone.  I am looking to replace some rollers and spindles on my trailer.  They are the large, black rubber, v-style keel rollers, supporting a 24ft glass boat.  I will be checking out BIAS, Whitworths and BCF for price, but would be interested in suggestions for "value for money" suppliers from anyone that has done the research. I am on a tight budget!  I would also be interested in buying any suitable rollers that may be lurking in sheds anywhere if they are in good condition and the price is right.  (I can supply sizes to anyone that may have some to sell, once I get a chance to measure mine properly.  The boat is stored away from my home.)

 Thanks in anticipation .  Peter

As a follow up to wopjrb's tip that he uses marshmallows to catch Mulloway and OT's success with catching a herring on a piece of hot cross bun, I thought it might be intesting to start a post to see what are some of the strangest baits, rigs or lures that you have caught a fish on.

We used to use licorice to catch bream many years ago and I once fashioned a lure out of chewing gum and a bit of tin foil to catch tailor at Hat Head in NSW.

How about you guys and girls,

All the best, Colin Hay

Hi wondering if anyone on here has a koden sounder...looking at a Koden CVS-833 Colour LCD Echo Sounder..any feed back would be mint, cheers!

Find it strange that there is no report from gamex on the EGFC web site. I would think they would be keen to publish the results but I have not seen them anywhere. Am I looking in the wrong places ? Has anyone else seen a report somewhere. Would also be nice to find out the results from the billfish tags and where they were caught. Is this info out there somehere or is it for the chosen few. This year boats were asked to fill out how many fish were raised as well as tagged . I recon this info would be great to get hold of for future trips.

G'day all - Just looking at putting a basic GPS unit in the boat and wanted to know what the cheapest unit is out there? Nothing flash, but not handheld? Any info would be appriciated. Cheers