Enjoy

Off to Bali for a couple of weeks Friday Funnys is having a holiday 

 hi im new to boating/fishing 

im looking to join a club as im hooked

can anybody sugest any,

all the ones ivebeen toldabout i need to be nominated to join and being new 

im finding it hard

 Hey fellas was just in at my local tackle shop looking for bream line and I saw some Berkly nanofill just wondering if it's any good for bream fishing with lures? 

Regards parry

need to put my boat somewhere for a day while i change the springs on the trailer, any ideas??

needs to be somewhere in mandurah/rockingham.

 I have my trinidad 16a and the side plate has gotten pretty banged up from people acidentaly kicking in over, and was wandering if anyone has got a side plate replaced for this reel or any other expensive reel amd what the price to replace it was.

Cheers.

oes anyone else get into this? i have just purchased a 250 quad after being very impressed with how good my mates went in the soft sand and im thinking this may make a good surf fishing option for when the beach is just to soft for a 4wd. if there is anyone else who uses a quad , is there any suggestions or tips you have to make the bike more practical and usefull?

cheers brenz

Im going over to Rotto next month for 5 days the wifes doing the marathon over there and im doing the pub and fishing just trying to find some good spots on the island to fish with the kids .Is the main jetty there any good for squid any help would be great .Cheers Shag

Has anyone here caught these marlin lollies consistently, or just as a by catch.

Just would love to wave a wand at these speedsters.

Neels

G'Day Guys

Looking for some current feedback on tranducer types.

I am going to acquire a 1kw transducer to suit my HDS8 - the aim is to be able to get a deeper read with better detail. I currently have the bog standard 50/200 skimmer type and whilst this can provide me with a fairly clear reading down to 300m+ the weather needs to be kind and my speed needs to be 5 kts or less otherwise it breaks up. In shallower water, say less than 100m  this tranny can read up to 20kts and provide a solid read but I think I am lacking the detail.

When I speak to the sellers all I get is the "sales speak" and it can be very difficult to filter out the BS in the sales pitch - more important to get personal experience and feedback at to the best setup for me. Transducer needs to go into a 686 Cruise Craft which has a designated space in the bilge to locate a "shoot through the hull" tranny.

As I see it I have 2 choices with a 1 kw, the "shoot through the hull" type or the skimmer type hanging off the back. I'm not interested in cutting a dirty great hole in the hull for a through hull tranny. Appreciate feedback from members as to their personal experience, type of transducer and what sounder it was hooked up to, depth, detail etc etc.

cheers

       Looking to get some halco rooster poppers not cheap in shops.

       Can you buy them from halco factory in Freo in person ?

       If not any other suggestions, on lures or poppers to get .

       Main target is GTs land based Exmouth up there November.

       Queenies are my other ones to get.

hey guys,

i have been catching heaps of pike the last week or so. has any one been using them for bait or are they rubbish?

hey all has any one used the      Owner Super Mutu hooks

looking at using some this season for balloong live baits and

chunk baits for Sharks

any one have experience with these hooks

as i am unfamiliar with the size to match certain live baits becuase no one here in my state

has them so i cant compare then to my baits i want to you

what size would be best to use say for a salmon 30-40cm

etc

thanks all

This is such a tragic event and as the information comes to hand I wonder about the ability of clubs to manage the lifestyles of their assets (human beings). I don't want to pre-empt any forthcoming official findings but it is looking blatantly obvious the this poor guy was on a bender and lost track of what was going on. He left a spot with mates and walked 4 kms to another place and it seems plain to me that he had no idea where he was or what he was doing.

Why these big trips? Why not just go away from the club for a while and spend time with the family or the g/friend and do some fishing? Why do we see the need to expose these young guys to all that is on offer???? Double standards in my opinion.

Has anyone seen one of the new Calcutta D's in the flesh?  How does it compare/differ to the B series?

Thanks

how much per kg would you pay for clean ingot lead

i might have some for sale maybe, like the round ones you see in the pic

Just heard on the radio the opposition won't support the banning of the super trawler,

BRING ON A DOUBLE DISSALUTION and get rid of all the muppets in parlament now.

Vever in all my life have I ever seen a group of people (all parties) behave so poorly like school yard kids spiting each other.

and to think the prime of our young men and women bleed and die for this bunch of bastards

Hi All I have a Lowrance HDS5 in my tinny I had a sonic hub but it got destroyed bye water so I removed it not the HDS5 says initializing sonic hub awhen I turn it on to use and the message stays on the whole time i am trying to use it it does not affect the preformance (well I dont think it does anyways but you never know) Is there anyone familer with this unit who could possibly advise me on what I need to do to turn it off , or if it affects preformance ect .I looked at the online user manual and can not find the info I am looking for .

Cheers Jake_P

Anyone else slightly excited about the potential NO WIND for Sunday? Thinking with this amount of wind lots of fish will die this weekend!!!!!

For jigging and bb, same price, what would be the best choice?

Gday Sory if ive posted this in the wrong section ,as i cant see a section on electronics.

well ive had my HDS for a year or so now but still having trouble depicting the colour of the bottom ,i know theres a brief description about it in the manual but only basic info is given weak and strong.I live in Darwin and as i can workout most of the bottom round here well in the harbour,is mud with rock underneath .i use pallete 1 or 13 most of the time .Ineed to know please what you guys think ,what colour is weed and does it look like weed on the sounder ,i know that if a colour is thick it means a strong signal ,so indicating rock .Any info on this topic will be awesome .

Thanks Rob   

I was on a training course this week and learnt more about the operation system of the 406 MZ Epirbs and found out that there are two models of the standard EPIRBs currently available , one unit non GPS  chip which sends out the signal and may take several hours for the sattelites to pin point the distress signal location, and is only accurate to 5 sq KMs  , The second unit which is only  approx another $ 100 has a built in mini GPS and sends the exact cordinates of the distres location and would take only several minutes to assess your distress position and is accurate to about 125 sq MTS

I think if my rig was in trouble after dark in rough conditions i would want the rescue guys to be looking in 125 mt grid pattern rather than  5  sq KMs . for those who dont know might be worth checking your EPIRB which should be labelled which model it is  

 Does any one know any good spots for big snapper and dhuies

If so what bait and tackle ect

 just wondering where you guys get your honda outboards serviced and how much they usually sting ya??? i live in craigie so closer the better. cheers 

Hey Everyone,

Quick question on Saturday night my mate and I went out for a fish on 5 Fathom and my mate kept catching wobbegong sharks.  He must have caught at least 5 of them and a couple were pretty big one of them went at least 4 1/2 - 5 foot.  We got some cool photos and then relesed them all but my question is can you keep them and if so are they worth keeping ?  To be honest i don't think i ever would cause they are just so docile !!!

On another note had a awesome night fishing caught my PB Dhui going to 60cm ( I'm only a beginer ) and a couple of snapper the sharks some western Whirrah stingrays and some KG's.  All were released btw we figured we got the Dhui so early in the night we would get another one but lesson learned cause we didnt get another one lol.  Im gonna try and upload some photos so everyone can have a look at my Dhui. 

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has made a homemade downrigger? if so do you have any photos?

I am going to start chasing Sails with rigged bait and want to get them down so the birds dont smash them, any tips on rigging baits for this

and what are the better baits to use eg flying fish, slimey`s etc?

I know you need to troll pretty slow 3-4 knots and by going slow the weight will stay at the depth you are targeting. 

Cheers

Sunday sesh

After a week of rather average weather the decision was made to head down to hillarys in search of a few different species.

We launched the boat at 230pm and squis was first on the hit list. We started our drifts around little island in 2-4 mt of water to not much success wich the desicion was then made to hit some deeper water in the 7-9 mt depth of water. This didnt take long before the squid were on . They were hitting a few different jigs with the standout being the berkley power bait jigs in both purple and pink/olive in the 3.5 size. The squid were not all huge but we did manage one that went just over 36cm hood length. The trick was definatly to work all water columns and not just rely on the usual "fish deep" technique.

Next we were off to find some skippy in the shallows . We pulled up on a nice lump that rises from 13 mt up to 6 on the top and set the burley trail. I was throwing the powerbait t-tail minnow in pink glow whilst my mate was throwing an assortment of other plastics . The skippy came on straight away which provided many moments of holding your breath as they tried exceptionally hard to bust you off on any bit of structure they could find. With both of us on 6lb and many of the fish comming up at around the 40-45cm mark you sure knew they were hooked. Another 10 minutes later saw my mate hooked up solid , Absolutely no line was gettin gained before "PING" the fish was set free. after a few laughs and both discussing what it could have been i had a short whack before getting bricked in seconds and this was the last we saw of the unstopables for the evening . Another thing to mention would be the abundance of small pinkies up to 47cm hanging around which shows how healthy the inshore reefs are..

I would like to say a big thanks to jules who took me out for a run in his tub and it was an enjoyable afternoon out.

Brenz

 Hey guys 

Trying to chase some yabbys to chuck into my tank 

Is there any lakes ,dams, ponds north of the river 

That I may have a chance with if I chuck in a few nets 

Cheers 

Dane 

Yes I have read the old posts and searched it quite a bit, no I don’t need the links as I honestly didn’t find the answers to this question anywhere.

I do a considerable amount of fishing with large headed plastics (6 to 8 oz) and I am looking to find a rod that will suit this. This outfit will not really be multi-purpose as the only other thing it may do with it is a little demersal metal jigging….much prefer plastics though.

I am looking for the following characteristics;

•  6’ to 7’
•  PE 3 to 4
• Capable of jigs 180 to 220g
• Still feels like a jigging rod

I have been looking around and I cannot find many rods that tick all the boxes other than the following;

• Ripple Fisher Selfish 614s
• Yamaga Blanks Galahad 62/4 (think this and the ripple are on the same blank)
• Patriot Designs Grand Oriental FK-V 60EX
• Fisherman Long jerker (8ft I know think this may be too big)
• Fisherman Ocean
• Daiwa Saltiga 64CJ

I only really want to buy this once (gonna cost a fortune), and would like to be happy with whatever I get, now most of these rods I am not going to get my hands on without paying for them first so what would everyone suggest?

Am I even looking in the right places, should I be looking at the nitros (can they handle those jig weights)? Should I be looking to snapper rods or Jerkers? Is there anywhere you know of I can put my grubby hands on some of these rods?

I am looking to put a Stella 8k with high end PE3 line on the outfit…does this sound about right?

Honestly am I missing something or is there a massive hole in the industry here? Surely I am not the only one that wants a rod to suit the bigger soft plastics?? All well and good to play with the 1 and 2 oz units but the fact is that they simply will not hold bottom with a decent current in 60m of water...

As the weather warms and river temperatures start to increase the bream, flatties and chopper tailor will all start firing up.

If you're into fishing the rivers, are getting organised for Christmas, or just for some new gear for 2012-13, here's an overview of some of the Lemax rods that you might want to have a look at in the lead up to this summer.

Pro Tiny

The Pro Tiny range of rods have incredibly thin blanks and are a great looking and well priced entry level graphite rod.  There are five sizes available between 4'6 and 6'6 suitable for lures up to 25g depending on whether you're using yaks around snags or landbased luring.

The rods have Lemax' SiC guides, cork butt and cork reel seat.

There are a couple of people on the forums who have these rods and love them, one member uses the 5'0 model for his light tackle fishing for pinkies and since buying his first has come back for three more so they've got a fair bit of rough-and-tumble built into them.

RRP for the models mentioned is between $80 and $105.

You can check out all the specs on the rods here.

Blue Mountain

The Blue Mountain is a great looking graphite rod at a reasonable price.  The four sizes between 5'0 and 6'6 are suitable for lures up to 25g.

The rods come with Lemax SiC guides, cork butt and graphite reel seat.

Blue Mountain rods are very durable and have got a load of grunt when needed.  A few guys over east who regularly use them in creeks and dams around Brisbane have been stoked with their fishability and their ability to handle knocks from snags in these sorts of waters.

RRP for the models mentioned is between $100 and $150.

You can check out all the specs on the rods here.

Black Rose

When you pick up a Black Rose rod you can feel the quality straight away.  The 5'0 and 5'6 rods, while officially rated to 17lb, are somewhat overstated and are perfect for people looking for smaller estuary rods.

The rods come with Fuji SiC guides and Fuji reel seat and have a cork butt.

There are a number of forum members who use the Black Rose rods and there is regularly good feedback on them.  The 8fter is one of the Lemax' best sellers.

RRP for the two models mentioned is between $150 and $165.

You can check out all the specs on the rods here.

Red Sword

Will fill this section in with a write-up of the Red Sword later tonight but for now you can check out all the specs on these rods here.

Please PM me if you've got any questions.

Hi,

I am heading down to Peaceful Bay at the end of September for a few days and was chasing a bit of info. I've already done a search and read a lot of good stuff but was chasing a few more specifics. Have a Prado and I will be dragging down a 4.2m tinnie with a 40hp on it (will only go ocean bound if the weather is at a decent standard). Most of the info i found was in the deep or salmon related (not sure if they are around at this time).

- What is likely to be in the nearby inlet? Have heard KG's, flatties etc.

- Is there a ramp or is it a beach launch for the inlet? Is there easy access?

- What sort of depth are you loking at in the inlet?

- Is it still beach launch for the ocean?

- Anything worth chasing from land assuming weather doesn't cooperate?

Cheers in advance.

Jarrid