Anyone fished along the beach down at Peppermint beach, we are staying next week at Peppy beach caravan park want to get a feed ..

 Gday,

Out having a fish inside Port Gregory reef during the week and had a tinne with 4 blokes in it pull up about 50m away and chuck the anchor in. One jumps in for a dive and heads over towards us while the others throw a line in. The diver was dragging a Hi-vis red floating thing about a meter long and 100mm dia which would stand up every now and then????? He swam around our boat and headed along between the reef and my boat where we were fishing and then popped up and floated around for a while until his mates came over and picked him up.

Did he not need a dive flag if hes not diving around his boat and the red thing a precaution or what?

Might be quite legal for all I know , but he was diving near the gap in the reef and the float he was towing could have quite easily been mistaken as a chanel marker and put some poor bastard up on the reef. Not having a shot at anyone but if these red floats are something people are using they need to think were they are using them.

Not the smartest thing Id seen.......

Cheers

Hairy

Enjoy

Hi all! sorry about the huge post!

I am new to this forum so forgive me if I come across inexperienced, its because I sort of am.

Anyways, I am driving up to Ningaloo from Perth on the 31st Januray for 4 nights and heading to Ningaloo Station most likely camping at Winderabandi Point. I will be only SHORE and BEACH FISHING as my friend and I do not own a boat or can get access to use one for the duration of the trip. So I will be doing all reef flats/beach fishing and some snorkelling with a gidgee (spear).

I am aware summer is an extremely windy and hot time of year up that way (I've lived up north previously), my main concern is that I might be unsuccessful with fishing on the flats or the beach/shore due to knowledge of fishing. I have two main rods (Shimano 7ft 3-7kg and an Ugly Stick 7'2 8-12kg) both equiped with decent reels that are graded to the rod strength etc, I'll aslo be bringing a few lighter rods to catch smaller fish for bait etc.. and probably my 11fter for something big if i get bored at night.

Currently have around about 30-40 lures ranging from small whiting lures to massive 30cm poppers (which are staying) I will be purchasing more softies and minnows and other lures needed for the variety of fish up there.

Advice with lure selection on fish type would be great..also some advice or pointers in trying to land some decent fish from the reef/flats or even the sandy parts of Winderabandi Point.

AND if there is also a primarily good camp site for fishing on Ningaloo Station, please let me know! as I am prepared to go where the fish are.




THANKS!


Sam.

Has anyone been yet or any reports ?  

 Has anyone been to the andamsn islsnds goibg at the end of this month want some advice

hi all

i have seen this motor for sale, I know you get what you pay for but just wanting genuine thoughts about this motor for a replacement for my old 1990 90hp v4 evinrude two stroker, enough power to run my 5.25m western craft any thoughts or comments about this are welcome and helpful cheers.

Just wondering if anybody knows if any mackies have been caught off the back of the islands at Jurien Bay. Gonna be up there in a couple of weeks still deciding whether to take the boat or not cheers

 morning, i am chasing some info for steep point, am looking first week of June to camp at shelter bay. 

Am going to tow my 5.2m westerberg up there.

any advice or tips to get up there and condions of the track up there 

TIA much appreciatted 

 i have recently upgraded from a tinny to a half cabin. I’m looking to explore more around garden and Carnac and have seen lots of boats head out to five fathom bank.

do you fish on the bank or east or west of it? What are main species out there?

in between Carnac and garden is that any good for fishing? Do you fish on the reef or sand?

I use the same old running sinker rig most of the time, any time I have tried lures I have come up with nothing.

i use light gear upto 10kg but might have to upgrade as I have been snapped off the last couple of times.

i am a pro at catching butterfish

mainly after squid, whiting, herring and snapper.

i am just starting to eat fish as my 16 month old son loves fish, my wife does t eat it.

i have only ever fished for the fun of it but never done much boat fishing except for the past few years.

any tips on rigs or what to look for would be great. 

I only really drift as I find anchoring I’m always on a shit spot. What is a decent burley? I just throw out that packet mix stuff.

 anyone know what this is, got a whiting head but slimy and dark like a wrasse

 Went out of Hillaries yesterday arvo with my brother to pull his pot. On the way out I was telling him about the many sightings of blue-ringed occys in pots and I was a bit surprised he had not heard of any of the reports. He was bare foot driving the boat and i told him he should put his shoes on before we pull the pot onboard. Anyway we get to his pot and pull it, had a good look around and in the pot for blue-rings couldnt see any so baited it and we both lifted the pot and tossed it over. Guess what dropped off the bottom of the pot and landed right next to his BARE!! foot?  yep - a good sized blue-ring about 5cm across and squirming towards his foot! As he jumped back from it I squashed it with my shoe and he just looked at me in disbelief saying  FUUUCCKKK at the same time. So - good lesson learnt by him. After about 5 minutes into the trip back to the marina I came up behing him while he was concentrating driving in the rough conditions and pinched the side of his foot - wish i had filmed his reaction! would have loved to have posted it on here for all to see  - got him a beauty ha ha  anyway watch out for them blue-rings boys  cheers dave   

 Had my first Tuna and Marlin trip last week, was just going wide to see what I could find as a recon mission, had a few surprises through the day!

 Been fishing a bit with the old fella round 

the corner for a while now ! Good too have 

cold can and listen too his stories from 

when he was back in tassie and wet a 

line.. I got smoked earlier on by what I 

thought was a nice shark on half a snook

being line cleanly snipped at hooks then 

it was Oldman s turn on what first thought 

too be a large eagle any how 15mins later

i beached him his first hammer... he was 

a happy man with a new story for me and 

him too share ! Nailed a fresh herring from 

my bait supply! Cheers pirate.

 heading out tomorrow for a fish, generally try just get some squid and whiting around woodmans point. Would like to head out behind garden or around Carnac but not sure what bait or if I should be using lures. I see a lot of people jig these days but I wouldn’t know where to start with that. Any help would be much appreciated. Also is it worth using burley 

 Early at it for the last day of the year with my young bloke and the first mark we hit had a big patch ,dropped a jig or two and one at 20kg one at 14 a couple released, left them on the bite home at 9

 Hi, everyone. I posted a WTB on the Buy/Sell for a Shimano Ci4+ Stradic 2500FA spare spool. After some looking around I realiased that lots of shimano spools from different models are 100% compatible with others. I couldn't find any info online for my Stradic Ci4+ 2500FA, so I was wondering if anyone knew which (if any) other models have compatible spools.

Cheers!

Poor bugger .

 Howdy

Is there anyone around warnbro or Rockingham who can straighten out my anchor for me please, I got it stuck and bent it at right angles driving it out cheers and thanx.

 Good afternoon guys. I'm interested to hear from people that own or have fished on the Boston whaler boats. Prefer info on the outrage 240 but other models welcome .. Specifically want to know what the stability is like at rest. Is it possible to stand up the nose in choppy conditions ?? 

 Got out today chasing some more beach

bait for the warm nights ! After pulling pots

out !! Bloody glad getting up early then 

work has knobs on it but ended up with a 

few which was worth it .. knab these pike

biggest at 78cm on little lasers and some

herring on metals I have a nice resuply

Good day out lads and left em biting

inclose mindaire.. cheers pirate

 Miss 9 and I headed out from the Augusta boat harbour about 630 am, by 8am we had a 56 and 64 cm dhuie in the boat so went exploring. I got smashed by what was either a samson or a ytk and Miss 9 landed another dhuie, a 49cm model on a soft plastic. Once I positioned the rod correctly in her hands she did it all herself.

 Looks like there is a new launching facility in Kenwick 

 Fellas can anyone tell me how to set North up on the screen so it's not going round in circles.

 G'Day all , compliments of the season to everyone.

I'm wondering if anybody has used heavy braid instead of wire to reduce bite-offs. I know they use woven dyneema for cut resistant gloves and I imagine it would (possibly) give better bait/ lure presentation and spook fish less. Any personal observations or thoughts appreciated, Thanks in advance,    John

 Hey all

just wondering how much rope do people use to set up a drift anchor, my boat is 5.25m fibreglass cheers

Hi folks, 

Last couple of trips out I've been having a few issues with my sounder. 

First up it wouldn't turn on when I got to the boat. I fiddled with the cables, unplugged them and plugged them in again, tapped it, slapped it and swore at it. After about 40 minutes I gave up and sure enough a couple of minutes later it turned on by itself and ran fine until I shut it off when the day was done.

This morning I went out to pull my pots and it started fine when I got onto the boat but after pulling the pots out the back of the bank it stopped and wouldnt go again. no amount of swearing and fiddling could change its mind this time. 

It looks to me as if the back of the yellow plug (structure scan?) is badly perished but all other plugs look fine. Could this perished plug affect the units operation? or does anyone else have any other ideas what could be wrong? My thoughts would be to plug it into someone else's cabling and see if the unit runs fine therefore meaning I have an issue with my cables. trouble is I don't know anyone running a Lowrance.....

All constructive advice welcome :)

 Hi lads I went out today in the boat and after hitching the boat up and towing it home iv realized something wasn't right had a look at the trailer and the 3 cross bars have cracked( as in the photos below) is it just worth getting a new trailer as a few other things are buggered on it too or should I get it fixed the boat sitting on it is a quintrex 5.7 bow rider any suggestion would be appreciated new ,second hand ,good trailer brands ,fixing solutions etc cheers guys and more annoying is I had my jurien bay boat trip lined upfor the 4th of January

There has been a lot of people that have had there pots pulled and taken in the mandurah ate

Enjoy