Well since there has been some good fish put up on here lately i was curious to what members have had any state or maybe even australian record captures?

Years ago i held the AAA state victorian mirror carp record, dont know if its still current, my dad also holds the vic and australian record for red cod which is like a bearded rock cod he has had that since 1988.

So do tell if you have one or was very close to one

HI

With the ban looking at dampening the future catches of the V5,
Besides skippy, harlys and whiting, what other fish are worth taking home for a feed?

Also, while on the subject of the ban, What do you think would be the punishment if
you decieded to take a pinky or dhuie during the ban and were caught?

Cheers

I'm moving on from Ranger C'vale to work at a Tackle World store in Mandurah, plenty of reasons but on good terms with the owner of the store where I am now, but it's just time to move on.

I wont be spending much time at Ranger over the next month however if any of my special customers need to come in just phone up first so your not disapointed if you just turn up and I'm not there.

My experiences at Ranger over the last year have been great, the boss there is a real champion and I'm so glad we are able to move on with a hand shake and a smile, it's been a real character (sp) building experience for me and a great stepping stone towards going onto bigger n better things.

Just put this up so nobody can start rumors, everything is sweet and above board and on good terms.

Cheers, Al.

i wouldnt mind this dag as my deckie!!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkExrrm_sQ&feature=related

Does anyone know where i could try and get a job as a deckie on a fishing boat?

Its my Birthday and i got a new fishing rod a DAIWA SENSOR SURF.
But Darn weathers crap and im itching to try it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQV5qvC4M3s&feature=related
have a look i found it funny any way haha
brenz

any one keen for a monday squid bash? land based or boat wether pending
brenz

Congratulations goes out to Paul and Jesse G;

Jesse for winning the photo of June competition and Paul for winning a $50 bluewater Exmouth voucher for frame contributions to fisheries research in June. (drawn out of a hat with a lot of other people in contention)

Could you please PM me your address again and I'll send down your prizes.

Cheers,

Adam 

i was just wondering where steep point is and is it just balloon fishing up there? a lot of u guys talk about it so i am curious? plus is there a camp site?

Just wondering for all though sporting fisho's out there what your best caught fish on the smallest lineclass? Doesnt have to be the heaviest fish but one that gave you sum stick maybe? Ive been having some great fun of late on light gear and just curious on others captutres, cheers.

Yes that right we have got name ,thanks to all the posts there was some great names in among them . My wife has come up with one,which everyone liked ,

" Re'Lisa "

The one i thought was very clever was Dreamweavers A'pauling Jesse'ture. So Collin if your up this way ,or would like to come for a fish, just let me know ,and i'll take you out for the day , if you need to stay the night we can find a bed..

Dont know if anyone else gets into it but Ive just made around five kilo's today in preparation for winter night fishing , basically i use topside or rump steak  after all the fat is cut off cut into thick strips about 3/4 of an inch and  baste in your favorite substances like :

-Chilli oil

-Worchester Sauce

-Chilli flakes

-Salt and Pepper

-Bbq Sauce

-Steak spice

-Honey

-Curry powder

Basically anthing in your spice cupboard , then take the middle racks out of your oven and leave only the top and bottom rack , place al foil on the bottom rack so the basting wont drip onto the bottom of the oven so the mrs dont whinge and then thread the strips of meat onto wooden skewers so that the hang down in between the top rack . Once the top rack is full turn the oven just on  , if its a gas oven you only need the pilot light on , and electric on at the lowest setting and prop the top of the oven door open about an inch . Curing time is around 3 hours or untill meat shrivels and goes dry looking , then keep them in an airtight container and take them out on the boat or on the beach with a beer , cheers feral

and you have to clean the oven afterwards

Interesting read on the Fish For Life Alliance web site. Could someone put the link in don't know how

So why are only certin shops allowed to stock them?

I know we have discussed this previously, but I was wondering if there are any updated thoughts.
What are people's preferred knots for tying braid to a mono or fluoro leader. I generally tie double unis (because their easy and with my old eyes that makes a big difference at night).
However, with really light braid and leaders, I have had one or two knots slip under heavy pressure.
Any suggestions?

The guys at work and I were standing around discussing important things like fishing and golf. And we thought there may be an opportunity to combine the two. Using a special rod holder, and with a golf ball attached to your line, youcould practice your golf swing by cracking drives off of the top of a groyne wall - and at the same time get your bait out a bit further. The ball would act as your sinker. Any thoughts?

I am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction for some landbased fishing options in Darwin. I am going to a conference there next year and I plan to book in for at least one charter. If the landbased fishing in Darwin is any good I will just stick to that one charter.
Any help appeciated, Colin hay

I hope this is the right forum for this question - pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between the Penn 850ss and 8500ss - and the others 450 - 4500 etc? I have an 8500ss and it is superb - about 8 years old and i am looking at buying a backup but can't find an 8500ss.

Thanks, Ian

After not having too much success at a range of Metro spots recently, I decided to head back to my old reliable haunt at Hillarys last evening in the hope I could capture a decent fish.
I managed to sneak out of the office early so I arrived about an hour before sunset, which gave me time to throw out some soft plastics.
I carry a small, cheap, two piece, spin rod in my boot all the time, so I coupled that up with my Stradic 2500FI. Seems to be a pretty good combo as I was able to toss the soft plastics a fair way. The tip is probably a bit too soft, but it did the job. Using my 50c bargain barrel squidgys I picked up a herring and most exciting of all, a first, a pinky on soft plastics. Sadly it wasn't much bigger than the herring, but still it was good to catch a first.
After dark I pulled out my bigger outfit and threw out a few pilchards. There were plenty of bait fish hanging around my burley trail, and I had a few reasonable hits on my small outfit, which was now kitted up with my experimental rig, hoping a tailor or two might be around - or even a skippy or two.
Managed a few more herring on that rig and around 8.30pm I started to feel a bit hungry so I decided to start packing up. I set the small rod down with the drag almost on free spool and started collecting my pile of gear together when zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, the litle rod went off.
Picked it up, set the hook and tightened the drag up a bit. Whatever it was on the end of the line just kept going. I tightened the drag a bit more as I could see my line was half gone, no reaction. It just kept going.
Tightened the drag up a bit more as it headed for the end of the southern breakwall. Ping.
I learned a lesson there. Throwing out unweighted mulies at night on two kilo line off the rocks may be fun, but you aren't going to stop a decent fish. While it was probably a stingray, judging by the way it just peeled off with no head shakes, it will be the last time I fish that light off the rocks - especially at night.
All the best, Colin Hay

Just pulled the humminbird 250dx out of the new boat ,is there anyone who is in need of a sounder , comes compleat with transducer ,dosn't have a insruction book, but there prity simple to use. would like it to go to someone in need of a sounder, and not end up on ebay for a few dollars, send me a pm

I just purchased myself a fising boat that came with a Navman Fish 4433 and was wondering if anyone knows where I can get my hands on the instruction book/manual as it did not come with it........any help would be appreiciated.

Closed fish exclusion devices lead to significant fines and penalties
Date: Monday, 23 June 2008
A commercial fisherman’s action, in fishing for prawns near Shark Bay with illegally altered nets, has now cost him more than $197,000.

In a Perth court today, 44-year-old Richard Frederick Denton, of Nannup, pleaded guilty to breaching conditions of his managed fishery licence in August of 2006, by using nets that were not fitted with a Fish Exclusion Device (FED).

When the fisherman’s prawn trawler was intercepted in Denham Sound and boarded, by the officers from the Department of Fisheries patrol vessel Walcott, it was found that FEDs in three nets on the commercial fishing vessel had been closed off and bound with plastic tie cables.

The devices are used to assist in allowing a significant number of fish, like baby pink snapper and juveniles of other species, to escape from the nets, with only a relatively small loss of prawns through the FED.

After the discovery of the altered nets, Denton’s trawler was ordered back to port at Carnarvon, where the catch and nets were seized.

The trawler’s haul of prawns, scallops, crabs and squid on the day was sold for $52,021.60, with the funds held in trust pending the outcome of today’s case.

Those funds, along with the proceeds from the sale of the three nets involved ($12,000), a fine and court costs of $2669.20 and the additional mandatory penalty of $130,768.80 has led to a total cost of $197,459.60 for the illegal activity.

Gascoyne Region Compliance Manager Kieth Van Dongen said Fish Exclusion Devices were an important sustainability measure and the deliberate binding of them was a serious matter and today’s court outcome had reflected that.

“The FEDs help to avoid large numbers of juvenile fish being brought to the surface and dumped on the deck of the fishing trawler, so they are very important in reducing by-catch mortality and the taking of non-target species,” Mr Van Dongen said.

“The devices are relatively small anyway, but they are a significant method to help release the juvenile fish, while retaining the large majority of the prawn catch.”

Hi

How does the moon affect fishing?
Are you better to fish during a full moon or the week before?

Thanks

Hi Crew,

I don't do this very often but I'd like to advise any fishwrecked member not to hire boats from Bluewater BOAT HIRE in Exmouth. I have hired the boats twice in the last year both with serious problems out to sea. Over the radio the last few weekends, almost as many as I care to remember, there have been calls to sea rescue for assistance. I would hate for any FW member to have their holiday ruined by these less than reliable vessels. (Thats not to mention the spinal surgery you require after a day on the water in them)

Cheers, Adam

Has anyone had any experience with these reels or heard any reports? They look prety good on the small amount of information I have found.
Many thanks, Colin Hay

WHAT’S described as one of the most important developments for seafood consumers in over 200 years was launched today Australia-wide.
It is a scheme whereby seafood retailers displaying the “Approved Fish Names” logo guarantee to use nationally standardised fish names, helping to remove the confusion that numerous surveys have revealed reduces consumers’ confidence in purchasing seafood.

Mr Ted Loveday, Managing Director of Seafood Services Australia said today’s launch of the Fish Names Brand Scheme was a critically important innovation for both seafood businesses and consumers.

“A lot of people in the seafood industry are very excited about this scheme,” Mr Loveday said. “It’s a breakthrough. It’s been a long time coming and will make a real difference to seafood retailing across the nation.

“It’s adoption by all the retailers at the Sydney Fish Market from today is just the beginning, and a very significant indication of how responsible retailers believe adopting the standard fish names scheme can benefit their business and help consumers. The Sydney Fish Market is the largest seafood market in the country and all of the retailers there recognize the benefits of this scheme.

“By adopting the scheme and displaying the ‘Approved Fish Names’ logo in their premises, participating retail outlets can demonstrate to customers their commitment to the accurate use of names and labelling of fish. That will certainly give them a marketing edge”.

Mr Loveday said the SSA scheme aimed to strengthen consumer confidence in seafood.

“The Australian Fish Names Standard AS SSA 5300-2007 defines one Standard Fish Name to be used for each seafood species produced or traded in Australia. The list was developed by SSA’s National Fish Names Committee through an extensive consultation process involving seafood experts, consumer representatives, fisheries managers and other stakeholders -- a mammoth six-year project involving public consultation and the assigning of names for 4,500 seafood species -- and was adopted by Standards Australia as an official Australian Standard in July 2007.

“Confusion over fish names in Australia began at least 238 years ago, when Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay and his crew caught a reddish fish he named ‘snapper’, because it was similar to an entirely different family of fish he was familiar with from earlier trips to the Americas. In fact, Cook’s ghost can rest easy: that name is so popular it has been retained as the standard name across the country. But that’s ‘snapper’, not ‘schnapper’: the extra ‘ch’ was an adornment restaurateurs added later.”
List of Standard Fish Names For Some Popular Species
The following list shows the Standard Fish Names and obsolete names for some popular species (by State). Full details of these and all of the 4,500 species in the Australian Fish Names Standard are available on our user-firendly, searchable online Standard Fish Names Database at: www.fishnames.com.au
State Standard Fish Name Obsolete Name
QLD Blue Swimmer Crab Sand Crab
Moses Snapper Moses Perch, Fingermark Bream
Golden Perch Yellowbelly
Saddletail Snapper Saddletail Seaperch
Tropical Snapper Seaperch
Yellowfin Bream Bream
NSW Mulloway Jewfish
Blue-Eye Trevalla Blue-Eye Cod
Bight Redfish Red Snapper
Morwong Deepsea Bream
Orange Roughy Deepsea Perch
Luderick Black Bream, Blackfish
Mahi Mahi Dolphinfish
Bar Rockcod Bar Cod
Cobia Black King
VIC Escolar Butterfish
Rudderfish Butterfish
Rocklobster Crayfish
Morwong Deepsea Bream
Orange Roughy Deepsea Perch
Barracouta Snoek
Blue Weed-Whiting Grass Whiting
Silver Perch Black Perch
Cobia Black King
TAS Rocklobster Crayfish
Blue-eye Trevalla Deep Sea Trevalla, Sea Trevally
Blue Warehou Trevally
Silver Warehou Trevally
SA Australian Herring Tommy Ruff
Australian Sardine Pilchard
Rocklobster Crayfish
Golden Perch Callop
Trumpeter Bastard Trumpeter
Ocean Jacket Ocean Leatherjacket
WA Snapper Pink Snapper
Tropical Snappers Tropical Seaperches
Rocklobster Crayfish
Australian Sardine Pilchard, Mouli
Saddletail Snapper Saddletail Seaperch
Silver Trevally Skippy
West Australian Dhufish Pearl Perch
Skipjack Tuna Bonito
NT Blue Threadfin Threadfin Salmon
Mulloway Jewfish
Goldband Snapper Jobfish
Saddletail Snapper Nannygai
Tuskfish Blue Bone Tusk or Parrotfish
Tropical Snapper Seaperch

Gday knackers,

I've been struggling to get into some squid for the past couple years and haven't caught one probably since 2006 and I've been trying so much everytime I go fishing from the stones. I work my squid jigs close to the weed and don't even get a touch or follow, I use small jigs and still nothing. I atleast fish for Squid for about an hour before I fish for fish. My squid jigs are the old Razorbacks in Pinks, Orange and others. What the hell am I doing wrong?

1- What could I do to break the drought?

2- What's you're recommendations on Squid Jigs?

3- Actions to use on Squid Jigs?

Cheers fella's, well appreciated.

Darda

G'day guys,

whats a good bit of bream gear rod/real braid got a budjet of around $300-$400, I like using diawa...

Have no idea about rods slow or fast taper? overhead or spin?

Any info would be good cheers

Rob Seed

Just got my new Lawrance sounder ,was wondering if anyone has epoxyed there transducer into the hull ,and what should one look out for when doing it this way. is this way recomended or just stick to the out the hull installation...