Hey guys is the a way to tell / see if there is watwe trapped in the hull towards deont od boat ??

 Wednesday myself and a mate headed up to a spot near Leeman. Weather was better than expected so we had a quick fish in shallow after launching at 4pm, managed one 65cm dhu. Didn't think to take a photo.

Next day we headed out at daybreak and went about 8 nm offshore in my little 4.2 savage. We did a drift near some craypots and landed a couple of snapper. This is only the second time we have caught snapper in this area. We then went out to about 35 mts where I found little shows like the one below on my new furuno 628.

These produced baldy and dhus and our 2 person bag for the day was 1 dhu around 55cm, 1x 48cm baldy and 2 x 60cm snapper.

The following day we only had a couple hours to fish so went straight out to the 30s but the fish were quiet and we only managed a 60cm baldy and a 4ocm blackarse.

I really do like the furuno 628, the lowrance carbon 7/totalscan combo was only seeing fish if they were really thick

 Heading out the back of the bay just wondering if any one else can give me some more information about the area thanks

Has any body fished of the new Mandurah bridge.My next door neighbour asked me about fishing of there and I felt most embarrassed when I had to tell him I didn’t have a clue about what was being caught of it and.what gear to use for the fish being caught there. If I can find out what is being caught there I can put him right on the type of gear.

Can anyone tell me what is currently being caught of the bridge and the best time to try, thanks in advance for any info you can help with. 

 Got to two rocks ramp this morn nice and early 4.45am launched the boat and sat at the jetty waiting for daylight as there was only a couple of other boats in the water.Next to me there was a fairly new Ali with all the gear nice boat I not 100 percent sure of the name but it started with reel and I think it was reel addiction.Chatting with the guys as you do about hope ya have a good day where ya going they were going out for the deep drop in the 350m -400m metre mark nice they asked me where I was off too and said we had some really good days on the dhuies out west jokingly they said we might have to ping you on the radar lol.So any way they left the marina about 20 mins before us and we waited for a little bit of daylight before we started heading out, so we get to my honey hole hooked up on dhuies all of a sudden these guys come out from nowhere and are only about 20 metres away from us and ping our spot keeping in mind they left the marina some time before us they waited to see where we were going.so watch out for these pingers they have all the good gear but obviously have no idea how to use it 

Enjoy

 Mate just brought a trophy pro looking for ground out wide if any can help me cheers

Hey guys,

Reading mixed reports from threads I’ve searched. Do the FAD locations remain the same every year?

Navionics has them plotted, but don’t want to treck it out there only not to find them.  

Also, any recent reports?

Lavs

 Has anyone got any advice whos fished the Walcott Inlet and also was there much in the way of mud crabs?

Any camping spots would also be apperciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi All,

Looking for a condition report on the beach access at seabird. Planning to launch a small tinny off the beach in the next few weeks.

I haven’t been there in over a year but have had trouble in the past.

Cheers

Andy

anyone used salmon as deep drop baits? Any good?

also anyone know how far up the coast they are at the moment? Seen a couple of reports they’re still a fair way east of Albany... 

 Looking for some advice I have been given a sperm whale tooth, are there any laws on pocessing whale teeth?  Any valuers aound to price them? Just add no scrimshaw all natural.

G'day Folks,

Curious to hear if anyone has favourite fishing/camping/surfing channels on YouTube ?

If I have some time to kill (Eg. on the train to work) I tend to jump on YouTube and see what I can find. The "channels" that I frequent are:

• Youngbloods (favourite)
• Gido's Land Based Fishing Adventures (I don't know how I stumbled onto this one, maybe from this site ? But I'm amazed that this channel isn't bigger. Really enjoying this one atm)
• Chris Bamman - Camping/fishing
• Jamie O'Brien - Surf
• Koa Rothman - Surf

If anyone else has some good one's to recommend then I'd love to hear them. 

Cheers !

Unfortuntately I was left to cop the photos & stories of Fish caught by my Dad, Uncle & Cousins over the past week from their trip to Hamelin Bay.

Let my boat go in Dad's capable hands Saturday 23rd for the family to use on the annual trip south. 

First day down they reported a couple tuna & a small Dhui & Black rock fish?

second day out they come back with a nice mixed bag of Tuna / Snapper / Harlequin / Nanigui & couple Dhuis.

I've had continual issues dialing in the Lowrance Elite9ti, and now looking at upgrading to a new Sounder unit. However, my Cousin was able to dial it in & they got on to a few nice fish as a result.

unfortunately the weather didn't allow them to fish everyday & they had to spend later part of last week at the camp or the Karridale Tavern.

one return they caught another nice Dhu & dad even a Grouper on jig.

will definitely be booking my annual leave for next years pilgramage

 Anyone hear any news from the Blue Marlin Classic run over the long weekend? Any marlin raised?

Keith from The Prodigy has left the surly bonds of Earth . Spent many a ( how do we say Fucked Up ) good evening , morning ,whatever time of the day gurning away and loving his music. Outta Space had to be my best track . Time to plug in my earphones and do some damage to some eardrums . Another good one has gone forever 

 Swang out late with lures in at 9.30am first 5mins 

ended up with a nice pike that inhaled the little 

rapala ..... had a 10 min squid with no joy !! 

Decided too get our bag of herring on metals with 

bonus of a large 80cm pike nailing the little metal 

just as I was telling my mate they will take them 

as well as the divers ! My mate managed a little 

tuna of some sort that went back .,, two biggest 

got a brown sugar rub and got smoked.. !! 

Cheers pirate...

Just saw your post the gearbox issues with the 175 Verado was this you ? Commodore ? Hope all is well now if it was you I towed back in at Tantabiddi yesterday! 

Awesome day today , went 1 from 2 on the blacks - lost a solid fish 80+kg at a guess but boated another smallish beast. Went Mack trolling in the morning north of the entrance which was mental. Exmouth in glass offs is just amazing.  

I was lucky enough to receive a Tiagra 30WLRSA as a gift. Will mainly be used Perth Metro trolling for macks with the occasional trip up north. Thinking of spooling it with 15kg mono. From my research it appears that shimano updated their trolling line up last year and it appears that many of the previous features of the TCurve Tiagra are now on the Backbone... but I cannot find a 2018+ backbone in WA.

I did the foolish thing of looking at the top of the range Tiagra Hyper at Bluewater and wow, what a nice looking rod.

If you were to be buying a new trolling rod for a Tiagra 30 in 2019, what would you be looking at?

I have some vouchers for a well known supermarket style fishing store which I would ideally use, however I am noticing that they seem to specialise in lower end rods.

Hi Crew

Can anyone point me at information about where to head on my first Abrolhos trip?

26' Plate Ali doing day trips from Gero. I'd prefer to camp (swags) but the info seems to say that it's not allowed. 

I'd like to go spearfishing as well while I'm there. It's a huge area, it would be great if someone could help narrow it down a bit for me. 

 Just want to give a shout out to the boys who were fishing off Exmouth today. I blew the gearbox on the verado today having just been fixed from overheating. 

The boys stopped and gave us a tow back to the ramp. Lucky we were not 40km south as planned.

Thanks heaps guys and if u need anything in town whilst your here let me know. Nice work on the blacks.

gday fishwreckers,

wanting some advice on spreader bars for the next bill fishing trip.

there seem to be a range of options from 60 buck eBay specials to 400 buck US imports.

Just chasing peoples opinions and experience with different types.

thanks

First fishing day in Exmouth today and the first time trolling skirts in the crusher and got a Black each by 10am - Exmouth rocks ! Yellowfin everywhere too in by 1pm for lunch. Great day all round  

Hi, I’m staying with family in Woodvale and would like to go out with the lure rod for a few hours. Any recommendations where to go? Thanks 

Enjoy

About a year or so back I made the comment in the forum about the apparent lack of blowies in the Mandurah estuary system.
Well the same thing has happened again, I usually use blowies for crab bait as they make a reasonable bait and last a fair amount of time, my usual way of getting them was to put an oily (tuna oil) rag over the back of the boat and just scoop them up with a prawn net. If this wasn't very successful then a bit of burly and a paternoster rig was used.
To my surprise I haven't seen a single blowie in the estuary this week I have as a matter of interest looked at most of the fishing landings around town and found zip, now either fishos are being very good in cleaning up after themselves and putting all the blowies etc back in the water or they are not catching any either.

Has any one else noticed this (bloody good) situation down at Mandurah.

 We finally were able to secure a camping spot at Tamala , Shell beach, for April, which I believe will give us better access to some quality fishing ... as we have only been to Tent landing any info about Shell beach and fishing from there would be awesome....will post pics when we get back.. 

 Some hauraki gulf Snapper on slow jigs from last Mondays fishing trip

 before i start please be kind - that means you jackfrost 

Had my Jeep KL trailhawk for a bit over 3 years now - idiot i know

in that time the car has had rear axle seals replaced

The rear RDM replaced?

The driveshaft replaced

New battery

parking sensors fixed mutliple times, all seemed to be going great after a few months and jeep gave me a one year extended waranty. least the wankers could do, this all went doen hill 2 days ago. was at the intersection on mandurah and pinjarra road at the mandurah forum, went to take off from the lights and lost power and accelaeration. this was followed by some weired noises. had to pull over for a bit, turned back on and seemed ok, drove around the corner and got as far as work clobber on pinajarra road on my way to jeep to get it lloked at. 

The all heel broke loose, squealling noises, grinding noises (all very loud) the check engine light came on and service transmission light came on. had to pull over and finally gota tow to jeep. 

This car is an absaloute joke, we dont have lemon laws in australia and i am getting know were with jeep. they have now said its a seperate issue as they have said its a power transfer unit which has not previusly broke. so they will just replace, worst case is whole new drive train. does anyone know where i may be ale to get help, the dept of fair trading said to lodge a complaint if jeep does not help. but cant see that being much use