Found this pic on Facebook.  No one knows where it was taken.

Do you think they get this big in WA?

 What places are producing bream at this time of year? Might flick around some lures but let me know if bait is preferred in the area. Going to test out my new 2500 reel on bream for the first time! Tips for the area would be helpful

spent the day looking for some new ground north of Mindarie yesterday

lots of small baldies & the horrid north west blowie & 3 keepers

But it was a good day to be out on the water

 Hey guys, I'm thinking about going up to jurien bay on the weekend to troll for some mackerel or maybe try for some dhus.

give me some tips as I haven't headed out there this year yet so any info would be good :)

cheers guys 

 Hey all

Just wondering who Bunbury guys are going to for their Yamaha services.

Any advice appreciated,

Altim

I know what tides you will catch flathead on but what times? Middle of the day, dusk, dawn or at night. Some advice would be great. 

Lachie

 Got 3 bream this morning, the biggest only 26cm. Missed to monsters (40+) as they swiped at the cranka crab, awesome visual! Saw a huge amount of 40+ xl bream today, frustrating when they won't look at your offering but a good sign for the future.

 Gday, me fat mate beno said it was impossible to get a bream thats legal size in the swan, so thort id show him how its done!!!

A couple of weeks back during an unsuccessful troll I came across this in the 20's:

After pulling the lures in I went back to the spot and tried jigging....nothing. I then sent down some large bites, lots of pickers but no hook-ups. Down sized the hooks and tried again, after two consecutive double headers of king wrasse I was very much discouraged so decided to move on.

Like others on this forum it left me wandering what it was I was actually looking at on the sounder. I decided I had to find out so the next day I set about building a frame to send my GoPro to the depths to see what was actually down there. Tested my frame in the pool and thought it would do the job so next time I took the boat out I took my frame and GoPro with me, went back to the spot and did a couple of drifts with the GoPro and frame on a heavy hand line. When I got home I viewed the GoPro footage on my laptop and this is what I saw:

Wow! I had been looking for a KG spot for so long and finally I found one, courtesy of the GoPro.

Other residents that showed up on the GoPro footage:

I'm not 100% sure what that last fish is, I'm thinking either a nice pinky or a sweet lip of some sort. Also saw a number of gold spot sweet lip and foxies.

Next time out on the water I went back on a KG hunt, again I started with a double header of king wrasse but then came the KGs and this was the final result:

Gold! Also caught some nice Skippy, all released, and undersize pinkys.

While the frame did a reasonable job in the pool there were some definite problems on the water. The whole thing spun quite a bit and I could never tell whether the frame was on the seabed or off it - bit of a problem when you have a $500 camera attached to it! Also the GoPro 3+ housing is only rated to 40m. I've since made some mods to the frame and bought the GoPro 3 housing rated to 60m, can't wait to try it out on some of my lumps in the 40's. Looks like the laptop will now become standard "fishing" equipment on the boat!

Couple of things I found very interesting. It was obvious that all the fish are naturally very curious, they all came up to the frame to check it out. Makes me wander how much truth there is in fish being spooked by swivels, sinkers and the like. Also the king wrasse appear essentially colour less, some people swear by red colour on jigs, hooks etc when the red all but disappears at depth.

Still working on the GoPro footage, will post a You Tube link once I've got it uploaded.

 Hey guys,,

Picked up the boat on Saturday and brought it back from Mandurah to Mindarie. The trip took 3hrs  @ 22 knots in almost glass off conditions. We took her out yesterday for a big day of marlin fishing in the trench. The wind came in early and the swell was up to 2.5m by noon. The girl lived up to all my expectations,  she handled the seas very well regardless of which direction we ran. This Black Watch really does live up to her reputation as a serious sea boat. Not a great fishing day, one small yft and a strike on one of the big lures. At 4pm we pulled in the lures and headed for Mindarie. The trip took 1.5hrs @ 22 knots in a 2.5m following sea the ride was so comfortable that I almost fell asleep with the autopilot taking us home. If anyone wants to go marlin fishing in the next month or 2 send me a pm. I have taken the boat out of survey to due some recreational fishing while I get use to her. I will be running some trips at cost while getting use to the boat. A great opportunity to get in on some cheap marlin fishing. 

Hey guys. Just wondering what has been caught off the busso jetty lately. I'm taking the boys away next weekend and all they want to do is fish which is fine by me.

Hi all,

As a school teacher I usually have a short trip up to Exmouth with my son during the April school holidays.  We find the seas are great and the weather OK for camping at that time - apart from the place full of tourists like us.

This year I have to burn up some long service so will be going up in mid May (12th).  Having never visited in May before, can anyone give me the heads up on general boating conditions during that time? 

Thanks in advance

Chris

G'day all...

I am really keen to take the missus and 3 kids out crabbing one evening and was thinking of dropping my nets in the mindarie marina, or a few hundred metres out offshore on some sand....Is this going to get me anythjing or can you suggest where I could go that's family friendly??

Thanks :)

 Hey guys just looking to here how your day on the water went, would love to here what you caught :)

cheers 

 hi guys, today i had a awesome crab scoping session. Caught 15 but gave 5 to my friends and all 10 weighed 2471g almost 2.5kg and biggest crab measured 15.5cm.

 Nothin special but caught me first dhuie yesterday in 14m off Binningup!! Caught at first location first drop within 10 seconds of hitting bottom using occy!! Bout 58cm!! Can only go up from here!! Nothing else exciting for day just bloody wrasse!!

trip to South West Bank , predicted glass off conditions , on the way out quite large swells , made things tough in my little boat , coming home was better , but it was worse for my mate he caught 2 black arse one went 34cm and the second one went just a touch over 30 cm they were the only decent fish caught for the day on the way back to point perron my mates rod bounces out of the rod holder and hits the deck result bail arm holder on his stradic fj 8000 snaps clean of . when we get back to pp fisheries are waiting , polite young woman asks if she can have a look at or catch told her no worries she plucks the smaller black arse out of the ice slurry are you sure this is 30 cms my mate says yes was just over when measured when first caught . Fisheries girl says I need to measure it with our ruler , turns out it is 3mm under , my mate tried to explain the fact of cold water and shrinkage ( as every man knows cold water equals shrinkage of parts of anatomy )she couldn't understand what he meant and ended up with a S200 fine, I thought it was going to me at first with the fine but my mate said although it was my boat , he had skippered it for the day, I have told him I will go halves in the fine, he asked how about the reel repairs it was your boat , he is my best mate but I told him don't push it haha

 Nice day on the water today. Out fished by my 12 year old boy who caught a small dhuie and horse of a sea sweep which was on par with the Fishwrecked record of 52 cm, gave him a good fight actually. Was hesitant in keeping it but had read that they weren't too bad on the chew and thought I'd give it a crack, cooked it up tonight (battered) and was very surprised at how good it actually was, nice flakey meet with only a slight fishy taste, all the family though it was pretty good.

Hey I'm at exmouth and hired a 4.5m tinny with a 40hp
I'm going out from tandabitty when I go through the reef how far south should I head and how deep roughly for reef fish? I think I was fishing 100m plus today and only got a ruby and heaps of tuna
Don't have a GPS or sounder just going blind, what's a good depth tho?
I'm gonna troll for maccies In the morning how far from
The reef should I be?
I really appreciate your input,
Cheers Troy

My mate with a beauty of a Mack Daddy, second cast and chomp. Got 6 tailor all over 500 aswell.

Spewen the sun was down, could have been a POTM contender.

Assassin b/master lite 12.9 With a build-in bionic finger For easy casting with the longcast spin reel on it 

And comes with two tips

You S/A know how to build a good rod

sherbie

Received this picture

was an 8 mtr Stryper (apparently)

 I need to buy a flare kit today (posting this at 12am, so Sunday) mine were stolen and I need to buy them as early as possible this morning! Any suggestions would be great, don't mind private seller I just need the flares ! 

Pm me if you don't want to comment ! Cheers :)

I have spent 90% of my live living working, fishing and diving in the north west , my best mate and me have relocated to the rocky area unfortunately we haven't been catching any thing down here (our wifes have started to abuse us ) willing to swap secret NW sweet spots for Metro sweet spots

hi all looking to buy a decent compass online  for boat any suggestions re: cost ,make & size,would be appreciated

 Hi guys just curious if any one else was out diving today, we went out from mindarie to try some new spots and found it was very surgey and visibility was terrible. Dived a few spots from 20m to some more sheltered 5m spots and was the same everywhere. I've been away for quite a while so not sure what the weather has been like leading up to today but didn't think it had been to bad. Manage a couple of crays so can't complain to much. Hoping rotto will be better tomorrow 

Hi All

Heading back to Quobba again later this year, thinking of getting new heavy rod around 10ft for spinning hopefully to be used stopping massive mackie runs like some of the posts on here.

I would like 9'6' FerariStik as my mate has one and have seen it put through a lot including at Quobba. He got his at tackle shop closing down sale but cant find anywhere to buy them? I guess they stopped making them a couple years ago?

If anyone knows where to find one or more (everyone wants one for the trip) please let me know or alternatively any rod that is similar in style of length n strength, casting distance & casting weight.

Heres a couple of memories from Quobba.

Cheers
Gee

 Hey fishos, heading out from Hilary's tomorrow for some kgw and hopefully some squid. Any suggestions on where to start?

otherwise i will just search around with the sounder :)

cheers 

Worth going?

10 bux a head and have to park miles away and cath a bus in.

Poor buggers launching will have not much luck with parking methinks.