Hi, I have a 5m Quintrex runabout, never been out in Cockburn sound, want to give it a try before the snapper closure, any hazards to look out for, and how do you reckon my boat will handle it? Me and missus getting on a bit now, so we have to be careful, any advice appreciated. :)

Mal.

so,  in 210m of water heading out off the shelf, we had a drift as there was some sign on the sounder, albiet the wrong or right sign , F**** knows!

my deckie loaded up nicely, with some good weight , but he kind of panicked and lost his mojo ( it was his second ever drop with an elecy)  and  just confsued himself with how to set the hooks. when he dropped that, i had a dbl of green eye already boat side, he went straight back down, and loaded up again.............

to my surprize, typical of a deep drop species, line starts heading out to the horison blah blah......

up popped a 3 foot very odd looking ray. kind of surprized, and better yet, cut the hook and off she swam, anyone ever came across these out their? if so do you know what species?

it was a national geographic live documentary for us, with the morning consisting of a pod of dolphins (8-12) and two different whales species jumping all around the boat, no matter where we moved...(mind you never went faster then 10 knots due to sounding)........

found these suckahs out in the 500s....... mind the sounder clutter, im constntly changing and tweaking settings to get the best result and figuring out whats settings are best for deep drop......

We have a 670ht crusher just need some info on a good quilty light bar.
And positioning of the light roof top or somewhere else.
Any help would be great.

Released  a fair few too was great fun

 hey guys, just after a few opinions on where everyone gets there yamahas serviced south of the river?
cheers Joel.

 Looking to buy a decent large cooler bag to store the catch in instead of my esky. Is the Madfish bag really worth twice as much as the Chiller brand bag? Has anyone compared/owned both? Or is it like comparing a Toyota to a Great wall?

 Anyone help a Fellah out ? Will happily pay in cash or beer

Okay Spring is here (finally) and our Winter hours have finished.

Below are our normal Opening hours often know as summer hours;
 

Monday to Friday 8.30am - 6pm

Saturday 8am - 5pm

Sunday 9am - 5pm

Cheers from the Oceanside Team

 Where is Big Trough Bay? Never heard of it before. Rotto, Garden Is. or Cockburn Sound area?

 Has anyone been catching any herring down south lately?

6 months ago they were everywhere, you'd always come home with a few.  Now I can't find them no matter where I try.  

Are they seasonal?  Do they hate big winter swell?

Or have I just lost my touch?

 Just received my Father's Day present early from the worlds best son. It came with 10-15kg 6ft road, to use on my boat. Can someone help me out with braid selection, it came with 600yards of 65lb kato braid will that be enough to stop a sambo? Or should I get stronger braid. appreciate any advice. cheers 

For those who may not be aware work is about to begin (late September) on a new jetty at Mersey Point in Shoalwater - this is where the Penguin Island ferry will be operating from.

According to the local paper the jetty will be 76metres long and will have a "lower level landing suitable for short term recreational boating vessel berthing".

There's a few details here if you're interested http://rockingham.wa.gov.au/Our-city/Major-projects-and-developments/Major-Projects/Mersey-Point-Jetty

Be interesting to see if you'll be able to cast a line off it...

Enoy

hi all,

can i ask if anyone wants to please give me starting point for a few days fishing out of denham and monkey mia? i dont need your GPS marks just an idea of where to start looking.

plan is some snapper bashing and if its calm enough heading out to the west end of dirk hartog for some trolling.

 regarding the snapper, am i better startring up near cape peron possibly or would i be better heading towards the channel markers for dirk hartog? turtle bay? we really only have 3 odd days and my track record of late is shithouse, it would be nice to put the boys on a fish or two.  really appreciate any info anyone could pass on.... searching and reading isnt really giving me any confidence, and i think ive pested every tackle store enough

i always have spare deck space for local fishing and diving if anyone is up for a bribe :) 

THANK YOU  in advance

Guy

There is a good boat up for grabs at Ross's auctions this Saturday number 1 on the list. I don't know what make of boat it is but it certainly seems to have all the fruit.

Just a guess but seeing as it's going at the police auction I'm wondering if it is one of the boats that fisheries grabbed last year for interfering with other peoples cray pots.

I think there will be some grating of teeth when it goes under the hammer no matter who used to own it.

 Bloody legend in every way this bloke.

 Hey guys need some help with gummy sharks. Keen to target them instead of pinks and have had a few by catch right in the middle of the sound. What exactly do you look for on the sounder. If ya wanna gimmi ya coords that's totally fine to lol. 

Marko

 Gday Everyone ,

Heading to Cocos Island in October /November and looking to do some Popping ,Jigging and Sportfishing . Never been but the place looks the goods.

How ever I cant find a charter to go on . I would have thought a place like that would have had a dedicated Fishing Charter ?Anyone know why?

The visitor center siad to get hold of local and head out . 

Has anyone been and had the same thing? Anyone recomend a skipper that knows their stuff over there? I dont mind forking out decent money for a good boat and skipper not just some local looking to make a quick buck. I did that in Fiji and well...

Enjoy some of the great info on here 

Thanks for your input .

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Hi guys what would you do with this ol thing?

Spooled with 300m of 50lb and has a fair bit of drag

 Got into some kgs  yesterday , let this weird one go.

Has anyone seen it before? Does it have a bad case of tinnea?

Hi guys

I'm looking at building a couple of slat craypots for upcoming season to see if I can knock them out cheaper than buying.

Has anyone got any diagrams/drawings that I could use??

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Mick

hi all,

the other week I purchased a new Stradic Ci4+ 4000 and put it on a new Oceanfire jigging rod PE1.5-4, took it out on the weekend and wasn't really impressed with the reel I was using maybe a 10oz snapper lead and the reel was struggling to wind it up I had to lift the rod up and wind down to be able to retrieve and when I had a small dhu on it was even worse.

has anyone had experience with bottom bouncing or light jigging with the new Ci4? am I expecting too much from the reel? or do you think it could be a dodgy reel?

thanks in advance.

Hi, I was recently given 8 crab nets and am looking forward to catching some crabs in the river this year, however the nets do not have a steel mesh bottom only net with a ring holding it together, will these be ok or should I buy the ones with the steel mesh? Any input will be apprecieated .

Regards Mal.

Looking bloody good over the next two days, Plan to head out Monday arvo and fish until after dark, leave the boat hooked on and head out early tuesday morning. Looks a cracker....

 I was out behind mewstone this morning, on the way back in to Fremantle I got smashed it was very unpleasant can someone help a rookie out and tell me why, was it the wind heading directly into the swell, I really don't want to get caught in that again. Cheers 

 If you could fish anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Bucket list time.

 Hi Forum

I'm heading off to Kalbarri with a 6.3m boat in October. I have been up there with a tinny before and know about the dangers of the river mouth. I have read some old forums about offshore fishing there and was looking for some more info if possible. Hoping to fish for both demersals and pelagics weather permitting.

 anyone been up to ledge lately that can tell me what the weed on the beach is like and whether I can launch my boat off it yet?

cheers