Well i managed to score another friday out of the office and went for a fish with my old boy. It was basically a copy and paste day of last Friday with light/moderate north easterly's.

Out of Woodmans Point at about 9 ish and after a quick drift over some weed and play with jiggs after watching birds working, we headed to Mewstone. We came across a big school of Herring and put the pick in. After catching a feed at a fish per cast, and watching a sambo charge at one of my herring, Dad started playing on the bottom (in 4m of water), and i was flicking around for Tailer.

Two skippy, a siver bream, and a rat sambo were landed over the next 20 minutes, and that on top of 13 herring, we had our feed. We proceeded to put (at about 25 knots) over to Stragglers and went through the reef (only spots you could go in no swell and an easterly breeze) and found more and more herring.

We decided to head across to Carnac for a feed but came across a big bait ball at The Roarers, with YTK's hitting it once or twice. After not even getting a look (you could see the fish), we headed over to Carnac and sat on 29/30 knots all the way home again. Whole day out on 16l of Fuel.

On Sunday we were back out again, this time to have a dive at Rotto. Parked at Leeuwin and headed out. The swell made my usual spot (in 3m) a bit murkey, so we went to another spot. Never seen so many crays in my life, but they were very skittish. Ended up with 9 for the day with two tarred girlies which went back. Once again, my jumbo spot in Thompsons bay

Ended up with 6 keepes.

Funnily enough, it was the weekend that i christened my Xtreme cooler and picked up more produce than in the last two years combined.

Forecast 3-4m swell but ralatively light winds for the Easter weekend. 

Is it worth towing a 6m  boat up there?

This will be our first time fishing Jurien, any tips?

Cheers

Jarrod

Boys caught this 20ks north west of Mindare towing a Mulie out the back!!

 Hi guys as most of you know I got broken into in January on Aussie day wk end, all my fishing gear stolen, now I have sorted my gear out again slowly thanks to the help of a bunch of good fellas on here, anyway me missus and kids plus my father inlaw n his family decided to go for a fish last night, we went to Pinaroo point north of hillaries the weather was awesome slight breeze and yeah beautiful weather,  after a few hours of fishing for half a doz nice herring my lil bro in law started to pack up, he comes running back from car yellin my name out and what's happened the little shi$s decided to smash my quarter glass they took my handheld led spotlight which was there since my hands were full otherwise I would have taken in down in case we got a decent fish n needed light. They also stole my CDs, all this and all I can say is what is wrong with people Hillaries is by no means a lower class suburb and since we are on school holidays how the hell can we go out for family fun if every time we go something happens. The gov need to think about this and open a few more beaches up so I can park my car next to me I'm over this sh$t my car must have a invisible sign to me but visible to thieves that say this car is free for break in. 

Anyway even though I got done over they never touched my father in laws car which was right in front of me.

so yeah now that I have finished my minor rave stay tuned because little sh$ts part 3 can't be far away

Cheers cell

Im heading up to Exmouth for the easter break and have a couple of cray pots packed in the boat but cant seem to find any info?
1 Is it worth me taking them? My plan was to leave Tantabiddi in the morning and drop them just outside the reef then check/move them each day?

An advice on using pots up there would be great as I have no experience in cray fishing or Exmouth!

Thanks for your time guys

heading home from SWB I pretty much had the boat flat out when the over temp alarm came on I must admit it had been running at 4800rpm and some times more rpm for about 30 minutes when it came on , should I be worried ????????

I have seen it for years now but today I seen it all. We were fishing landbased for salmon at Eagle Bay. There were boats everywhere with keen landbased fishos at every point and every beach waiting patiently for fish to swim past. Why do so many skippers need to drive so close to shore to spoil it for the lb fishos.  I have written a post  in salmon thread with my  run in with them today(please read if interested) but this thread is about what I seen today by others. 

First of all I do not condone what your about to read. A group of Landbased fishos were so frustrated with the dickhead boaties that they were casting sinkers at the boats. If one of those sinkers hits someone in the head there will be a possible death. Nobody wants this but imagine when this happens.

Why do boaties show no consideration for lb fishos? What are the laws with driving boats near coastline?Why would you bother with salmon off your boats anyway. If you want to catch salmon why not do it landbased it's so much more satisfying. I do own a boat but am not interested in catching Salmon in it.

What's everyone else's opinion on this. I would especially like to hear from boaties who do this and what they have to say. I am not saying all boaties do this but there are a lot who do and you know who you are. I reckon I would have seen over 100 boats today within casting range of a star sinker for someone with a good cast.

looking forward to hearing people opinions on this one

 Hey guys I am looking at buying a new fishfinder and 2 caught my attention for a cheap price the garmin350c and the lowrance elite 5x HDi fishfinder. I was wondering which one is better in all ways I will be using it for only about 60 m of water tops for locating reef, caves and structure an also locating demersals and are they good and do they work for an internal transducer ? 

 Can any one advise on any good location to try the deep drop to break in the new electric reel within the perth mandurah area and advise on what structure I should be looking for while sounding in the deep water?

 thanks mike  

 Hi I am in Denmark I am just wondering are there any good beaches (not rocks) that are good for fishing like for salmon,tailor,hearing and whitting 

 Hi guys,

looking at going for a ride tomorrow from woodman point to freo fishing harbour on the jetski, is this possible any restrictions going into Fremantle?

 After a good filleting knife. Any recommendations on size or brands? To suit bigger size fish ( dhu , snapper etc )

Cheers Paul. 

 Apparently the State government has a new shark baitinv program and its deceptively simple - just give idiots skipper tickets.....

 Not sure if anyone here has used this trace, but I got a roll the other day and I think it's absolute crap. One of the hardest traces to tie rigs with. Won't be using this stuff again

 What a beautiful morning on the water. Three Dhuies - two were under size. Biggest one only 55 CM but caught on a 6 KG outfit on a size 1 hook.  The light rig was there to catch some wrasse to use as bait for a Dhuie. Thats fishing for you. Gave me a bloody good fight. The little hook had loged firmly in the fish's lip & took some manouvering to get it out. You wonder some times why you spend so much money on quality specialised gear.          

Hi all, Just wondering what online tackle site do use and recommend. I have only used Mo Tackle and Alpine Angler in the past with no issues. Are there better ones, not just looking for the cheapest, as reliability is security is also important. thanks

 Hey guys, I have been Demersal jigging outright for two years now, ( no bait on the boat ) have had a lot of ups and down with some amazing captures including 2 x 20kg dhuies in 2 drifts , best day ever, I seem to of had a bit of a dry spell of late with not a lot of fish being caught from our last few trips, yesterday I covered about 110 mile and fished nearly all my regular dhuie spots south of mandurah . Lots of them had really good signs of fish , better than normal but nothing biting, couldn't believe it. Starting to doubt myself and thinking I'm doing something wrong even though I'm still doing it the same way as I always have. First time in two years I thought to myself maybe I should take out one bait rod to improve my catch rate,I want to avoid this as I'm really enjoying just heading out with one light pe3 outfit and a wallet full of jigs but burning a lot of fuel and not putting any fish in the freezer is getting a bit frustrating. Let me quickly say that I don't fish to fill the freezer but a couple of nice fish every couple of trips makes it that much more rewarding, Anyone having the same issues or have discovered any new tips they want to share I would appreciate you letting me know 

G'day all, this is my first post. I'm planning a trip to Exmouth in June, but I've never been there at that particular time. What is the prevailing opinion on billfish and pelagic availability during that month. In addition when we've fished there in May, we've picked up a few decent sailfish on marlin lures. I've often wondered if they are bit of a "by-catch" as I think you'd get more sails on garfish than lures. Does anyone run more baits than lures for billfish generally up there, and if so do you get more sails, as opposed to the odd one on a lure.
Thanks in advance, John

 what's your opinions on the banax kaigen and the daiwa tanacom 1000?

 I am looking at buying a 4.5 to 5m tinny for the pilbara waters.  What would people recommend?  Looking at it being an all round boat for creeks and a little island work

Cheers

 I ordered stuff from "Star tackle" in singapore on feb 25th and march 3rd.........the parcel was not sent until march 27th.....one item was not available..........i had no contact from them...they put it in one parcel.......they owe me postage....when it came they sent me the wrong hooks which were cheaper and weaker......After repeated e mails to 

oh boy the mighty demons have their first win of the year , and just to make it sweeter its against caaaarrrrrlllton and mick malthouse , yes we will have a long hard season but this 1 is sweet

the big fisheries rib had a steering malfunction after launching at point peron this morning (they hadn't left the ramp before it failed) , so what do they do pull there boat into the shallow end of the ramp , which meant that nobody could use that ramp they blocked it up for a good 30 minutes , I suggested they move out deeper on the ramp so it could be used and they said "nope not doing it " as you could imagine it was as busy as could be down there this morning fisheries should not have been so selfish and hogging a whole ramp to themselves I have seen 4 boats tied up on a single ramp there every one being patient, its when things like what the fisheries did this morning tempers fray

 How did everyone go with today's great weather? I got a little dhu and had some problems with my outboard so headed back. :)

 Headed out today in absolute mint conditions, Did the usual and anchored up on a huge lump I found in the mid 20's. The deckie dropped his bait on the head of a 18kg Sambo that nearly tore the old boys arms off lol. Lots of Undersize Dhuies put no Pink which was disapointing. So headed out to the mid 30's and a good cray pot line Using my PE 2-4 Demon blood with has a Stella 500 paired to it it loaded up and took off. I could'nt get it off the bottom for about 5 mins and started to think it was a Shark. Slowly started to gain some ground when finally we saw the silver flash down below and the grin on my face grew. She was shot when she hit the surface but glad to get the net under her 11.8 kg oh caught on a Mulie. As we were doing this my other rod loaded up and another Banger at 5 kg. After that I managed two Pinkies at  10mm under grrr. But it we all had fun and some other big fish lost so frustration plus.

 I know that I have been posting a lot of threads lately but I am very keen on catching my first tailor and because its the school holidays I have all the time in the world to do it. I live very close to the mt Henry bridge and do have some 10g halco twisty's and will go whenever I need to.

Have heard that the best time for tailor fishing is at dusk, but will try to pick a change of tide close to dusk as well. Have a rod with a 15-30lb mono mainline I think (not sure) and am probably going put a 30lb leader on (this is the poundage that I have heard works best). Any suggestions on land based locations in the river?

lachie

 hi guys, there have been a cuple metro landbased tuna cought of woodies. i am going tommorow to rockingham jetty. is it good weather tommorow, tides ect. and i am going from 4:30 to 6:30. is that a good time? also it is hard to catch scalys at rockingham so could a live herring catch a tuna. thankyou

Just after suggestions for kids combos for an extremely excited 4 and 6 year old..

was looking at the tackleratz ugly stick combos but thought 4' might be too small for 6 yo???

thoughts guys??

 catching fish aNd getting paid to do it. A few photos from the last two trips