G'day

A good mate of mine recently moved down to Cowaramup. I'm driving down in a couple weekends time to visit and was hoping to get a bit of land based fishing action in.

I have never fished land based down south at all and don't even know where to start. If anyone could give me a heads up on which direction to head, don't want any secret spots (or you can PM me any secrets ;) , just a good general guide. He is a part time fisherman and usually just drives to the closest body of water. I told him I'd ask the good folks on fishwrecked for some advice - always found the fishwrecked community to help a brother out when needed. We have all the appropriate beach/rock fishing gear.

We both have FWD's if they are required.

Cheers boys and girls,

Alex

 Hi guys 

please can i have some help on catching swan flathead, the fishing report says they are in the river and being caught but i cant seem to find any please can i get some info on the best spots. Yesterday at jojos jetty i found one sitting in the sand behind the restuarant so i jigged a zman grub right in front of its mouth and it completly ignored it. Also at jojos there are schools of massive 40cm plus brem swimming around but they are super shy and dart away as soon as i cast the grub should i use bait and if so which bait

thanks

TomN

Short notice but thought I would throw it out there.

Not sure on the plan yet - it may be a day exploring the 3mile and then finding a spot for an afternoon snapper fish or start wide (40m) and work out there. I have no spots out there and it would be exploratory so you take the gamble of what you expect for the day.

I'll be leaving Hillarys around 9:30am and probably return an hour or 2 after dark if the weather is as predicted.

PM me your number and we'll go from there.

Boat is 6.4m shown below.

Peeps,

I have looked back through the post history for charters and it appears that none of them are still in business. I am working out of Karratha and will have Sundays off starting this coming Sunday, I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction of a decent fishing charter operator. 

Alteneratively next swing I am bringing up some of my travel gear in hope of getting my first queeny, I think I am going to be heading to Cossak. However I am open to surgestions... 

And as a hail merry I would be more than happy to pay for fuel and bring beers if a local wanted to take me out, Land based or boat based. 

Cheers

Chris 

 Hi, I'm after some knowledge and advice. 

August im heading to Kalbarri for few nights then up to Exmouth stopping along the way

at shark bay. I've only got a sedan and no boat l. I'm looking for places to get into some 

decent land based fishing. Places like quobba and steep point are obviously out of the 

question cause I won't be able to get out there. 

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks 

Hi Guys

i want to get out one more time before returning to work on wedneday,  i think Friday looks better but 60% chance of rain.

with the rain comes the squally winds.

saturday still has 30% chance of rain as well.

how much rain you guys reckon where gunna get??

what to do????

 With my plan of steep point turning to shit going to head over to the islands with the mint weather for a few days anyone else heading to the southern group fri/sun

 Went out and got a few good Skippy, KG, Squid, and ended up with several undersize Pinks and Sambos the other day in the tinny about 1KM off Coogee. Found some structure and the fish were on the bite. Question is, will we pick up legal size fish there of those 2 species or are we wasting time and should find a deeper location ? Any info appreciated. Also rigging / bait ideas are encouraged as we want to try some new things too. Cheers.

Is there a general rule for making an offer for a boat? I've had a look at a few forums and the 66% rule seems to be the go for making a lowball offer and whilst I am interested in making a fair offer, the current financial environment in WA and it being winter swings the pendulum in my favour somewhat.

Been keeing an eye on a few since March and they've dropped around 15-25% and just aren't moving. There's a couple that are recent to the market and my thought is I should be making an offer in line with where I've seen the others fall to.

So making the most of forced early retirement (redundancy) I headed out for a fish today with the old man.

Launching at Woodmans point at a very gentlemanly hour of 0915, we headed out to the north western end of Garden Island to try for some of those fake pink snapper. I tried an old waypoint directly west of Herring Bay which wasn't showing any fish, so I proceeded north for half a mile to some broken ground. There were fish around though they didn't seem like our assortment of plastics. A few more waypoints were picked up over the next two hours before we headed north without anything to show for our efforts.

From Garden Island, we bashed into the 10 or so knots of NNE breeze to a waypoint I was given west of Stragglers. It was at this point my Raymarine Dragonfly decided to shit itself, lose GPS and the bottom, for around 20 minutes. Lucky for me, I have C-Map on my phone so I was able to get close to the point, though without seeing bottom, it was a bit tough.

Plastics once again did nothing for us here, and by now, last weeks squid had defrosted enough so chunks of that went down for an almost skippy (got to the boat before it got away. That and a wrasse was all we got out there, so time to head in for some squid.

Once thing that amazed me today was how filthy the water was. Once the sounder was working again, going over 4m lumps, you couldn't see the bottom. Even a 2.8m lump, you could see that it was shallow, though couldn't actually see the rock. (South of Champion rock)

We continued in to where I had previously had some luck with some nice squid, at the Windmills. Our waypoint proved initially unsuccessful though due to losing patience with squidding, I threw down a piece of squid and straight away I had a nice sixed sand whiting.

What followed was around an hour of fish after fish after fish, including small flathead, herring and even a large squid (left a jig in as we drifted). I had landed four whiting, on the same piece of bait, in the time that it took Dad to cut off his squid jig and tie on a hook.

After we figured we had enough for a feed, we headed south towards Mewstone and found another patch of weed to drift over, again landing another squid whilst ignoring my rod.

Mewstone was next for a cast in for some tailor. I lost my second, brand new stick bait on the reef (two in two days), though without catching any tailor, identified that there are still plenty of very active salmon there (casting a white Ricter plug).

Final stop was some weed just inside Mewstone which proved to be unsuccessful, so we continued home.

7 hours out on the boat for a reasonably nice feed of whiting.

Still unable to crack that Pinky curse, or anything for that matter on my waypoints off Garden Island though I will keep harassing the ocean.

Cheers

 Something different today, went out squiding in Cockburn sound, 

easily bagged out with most up around the 30cm mark, now the delemer is how many do I eat??

cause they are great dhuy baits fresh!!

cheers

Since there are so many stradic lovers on this forum....just wondering if anyone has ordered one of the new FK's or is planning to buy one. Some comparing it to the twinpower in schematics (although haven't had a look myself)

this friday arvo looks like great conditions

will be heading out in the afternoon from Hillarys and thinking of anchoring and burleying up behind 3mile as the sun goes down

and hopefully getting into some snapper though i am not sure whats better behind 3 mile or in front of 3 mile or moving around ?

any better suggestions would be appreciated to get the snapper hook up 

cheers steve

 Thinking of heading out from Woodies. Weather looks good. I've got a 5m runabout. Any ideas or suggestions?

 What's everyones thoughts on this?

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 I called GME to find out about replacing the battery in my MT400 Epirb and they stated the cost is $279. The guy I spoke to then went on to say that it would be better for me to go to Whitworths where I can buy a new one (MT400) for $199 which comes with a bonus 6 years battery replacement taking it to 12 years plus you get some waterproof speaker gizmo thrown in..

Looks like it is Whitworths for me then.. crazy isn't it..

Got another 3m added to the drawbar of the trailer to make beach launching @ cosy corner/peaceful bay less interesting. Also decided to make another winch for the boat. As i have taken the diawa back to the shop again to get fixed! winches cost me about $700 all up and have never let me down, no matter whats on the end it comes up! but ya get 3 fish on a daiwa and its back to poxy manual mode. but they slay the nannies! Will post pics of the build also replacing the drive shaft on my old winch for a better drag design

went out today from woodies with my mate Andy in his boat, we new it was going to be shity in the morn so we stopped of for some fresh squid before heading out.

bom,seabreaze and willy all had the winds dropping and seas easing by midday, what a load of bollocks!!!!

it did eventually ease about 3pm to a majic arvo.

anyway....

we could not get away from the dhuys today, one after another all  day, we ended up getting about 16 dhus, with at least 7 of them going 60cm+, with myself returning a nice 72cm girl, only 4 or 5 undersize for the day, every new spot we went to....up came dhuys.

also 2 nice size b/ass, 50cm+ for the bag.

but the fish of the day went to Andy...a nice fat 92cm beast, his p/b by 10cm, to say the least he was stoked!!

well done Andy, thats gunna take some beating.

Just finishing up my latest order of shark mackerel 'Quobba Candy'.

If anyone's chasing quality handmade leadhead jigs drop me a PM and I'll give you a quote. These are hard to find in tackle stores these days and to be honest, the quality of mine leave them for dead.

Cheers,

Big John

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 Hi All

Heading down to Pemberton next week and I see there is a small ramp at Donnelly River and wondering if anyone has used it? If so does the river flow into the ocean?

Or any other good fishing spots for the boat there?

Or any other tips on where to fish?

Is it even worth taking the boat at all?

Thinking about a new offshore fishing machine?? We have recently had one of our new Chivers Whitepointer 710 reviewed with the new Evinrude E-tec G2 and the results were amazing!!

Read about it in the link below,

http://boatadvice.com.au/chivers-white-pointer-710-sc-review/

Drive Away Package Price Of $101,000.00 OR Starting From $370.53 Per Week With A 9.71% Comparison Rate.

Contact Nick on 0451 651 836 for pricing!! Insurance and finance can be easily arranged over the phone with quick, competitive quotes.

Back on the starboard side now and ready to bolt it on again.

You can see my last efforts and they have progressively gotten worse soundings. (15 patchy knots, 10 knots, 6 knots)

Should I put it on the left or right hand side of the starboard bung?

my concern is if it is too far left then with the 60 degree beam on the dragonfly, I will always have an outboard motor on the screen.

Thoughts?

Cheers

 hey guys I made the mistake of deciding to get my trailer re galvanised about 12 months ago. We cut out and replaced 1 of the 3 cross members as it didn't pass the hammer tap test. Unfortunately the other two are already showing signs of rust. The main thing I'm pissed about is that the rest of the trailer looks brand new as I replaced axles and suspension parts. I wondering if anybody knows if there is somewhere I can just buy the subframe and swap over all my bits. The boat is 6.3 mths the trailer is dual axle full roller trailer. Anyone done or enquire about doing this. Any info would be great I'm just thinking that if this is doable it will prolong my trailer life considerably

thanks in advance

 I watched an episode of Merv Hughes Fishing on the weekend and they were catching squid. At the end of the fishing session when they were coming in on the boat they put the squid in a scaling bag with the heads off and threw it over the side. This cleaned the squid bodies up beautifully.. anybody done this?

 Hey fellas ,

has anyone done any gt fishing in coral bay with success. Heading there at the end of August and was thinking about having a go at them if there about. 

Cheers

 Hot water system gone the ghost if anyone knows a good plumber

cold water showers suck!! Cheers

 Would be fun to throw at a school of herring

hey guys looking at a new combo. Seeing people's opinion on bottom bouncing reels. Spin. What they like and don't like. Atm thinking saltiga on a saltiga Pe 3-5. Cheers.