I was just wondering, when releasing dhufish, is it better to return the male or female............ dont really know how many males to females there are out there!!!!!!!!!!!! anyone got any ideas.

kenny

Hey guys, im looking at buying a fishing Kayak in the near future, but i have no idea what brands to go for, price or what i should be looking for in a fishing yak as far as equipment ect...

I like the idea of a two man yak so im not limited to just going by myself, but im not sure how hard it is to use a two man yak by yourself??

I dont really want to go for a brand spanka and as price range, $500 is the most i would feel comfortable spending, but my arm may be twisted?

Right now im just after some info, so if you could throw me some it would be awesome!

Cheers guys!

couple of the better pics from the usual haunts

Ah yeah the joys. Ours was a big as microwave, and after a good haul in a bad sea, get to the grounsds and have to manually start the styllus after realising it was stuck. Best ever was launching and after everything getting to the "spot" seeing the pink line on the paper and remembering forgetting to get a new roll. Used to use it sparingly to save paper as it was dear, and you couldn't be guarenteed of availability.One positive feature which I wish the newer sounders offered in some form was that after a good catch, we could go back on the days soundings and establish how the different species recorded and learn what to look for next round.. Ah then theres decca, but thats another post..

Looking to buy a stainless bench for cleaning fish. Don't know if I should just get a sheet and make a timber base or just buy a commercial kitchen bench. Any info would be great.

Gday all just wondering what anchor rope to use i am sick of replacing silver rope and making new anchors also places to buy it .Its only for a dinghy but we seem to be venturing further and further out on to the reefs and losing our gear.

Cheers Carry

Crays in the swan? WTF!

Hey Guys,

Im fairly new to this site, but gday to all.

Just wondering along the beaches from like scarborough to mindarie where a good quiet jetty is n the ocean to take the little tackers down to so thy can drop a line. I took them to the hilaries boat harbour rocks on the north side on sunday, (where I got a great feed of tailor) with small sinkers they kept getting snagged every 2 seconds, and with small berley floats they both got there reels tangled! It was at this time I thought we better call it a night haha.Even better if its a good jetty to through a mullie to :P

Thankyou all

Hi again

After reading all suggestions, I went ahead and completed my light

I also used a standard cylinder (plastic jar with plastic lid) Getting flotation from a wheelbarrow inner tube fixed to some scrap plastic (ex Wheelie Bin)

I then used the standard adhesive backing of the stip light but covered this with a clear plastic heat shrink sleeve as a precaution against the adhesive letting go

Then sealed joints with copious amounts of glue lined heat shrink

Lastly tested in my pool

Here are my pics

Cheers

Eric

anyone fishing out of two rocks this saturday?

i'll be heading out about 9 - 10 mile just north of nw (maybe further upto 25nm), so if anyone thinks i'm pinging their spots, i'm not!  already have some to look at.

hope there other boats out that way, because its just nice to know someone else is around...

good luck all

windfinder.com has 8 kt easterlies in the morning, dropping to 2 kt seabreeze about 2pm and to increasing 9 whole kts for the run home!

Hahaha the guy looks like he needed to have a change of undies. fair enough too.

G'day to all

I would just like to bring to everyone's attention a petition that is going to hopefully be at most tackles shops about the fishing management paper 252, in particular to the 

* Proposed Changes in State-wide Possession Limit Reductions and the Splitting of the Possession Limit.

* Reducing the Recreational Bag Limits.

We are trying to keep them as they currently are.  If you see one in the store please sign it as we need hard copy signatures for a petition and it will effect everyone.

If you would like to help and your local tackle shop does not have one put a post on here with a contact and I will arrange something.  This is being driven through the C.P.B.C. sports fishing group. 

The changes that they are proposing have no data to back the reason for changes up.  Now we are asking the Legislative Assembly

* To vote down/amend the proposed changes and guidelines proposed by the fisheries minister Hon Norman Moore MLC, in line with the above     points of contention. 

We all need to voice our opinion or the very very loud lobby groups who want all fishing band will change the rules under our noses.

Thank you

Hey All,

Got myself one of these Super Tanacom S 500 for the shallower deep drops (200-300m) .... YouTube

Tried it last weekend, and the digi line counter won't go beyond 250.00m ... not sure if that's the reel capability or is there an option I've got to change. Everything being in Japanese, and no manual, I've got limited understanding of the setup, yet!

Seen some of the Daiwas that you've got to do a certain setup before you spool it up, i.e. identify the line class (PE), and it has a set equivalent length! Not sure if that's applicable on these older model or not!

Any ideas?

Pulled this one from the deep on sat. Angry little critter. check out the spurs! Went back fine.

its a species of dogshark. Any know its proper name.

FW crew...

Am looking at buying a tablet style whizbang thing to use for a few reasons but the one thing that I have heard that i like the sound of is being able to use them off the satelites as opposed to phone towers providing navigation pretty well anywhere anytime...

I`m yet to have this confirmed but i figured guys here would have done some research?

It seems you can download anything nowadays so if it is the case you can use them as a gps off the Satelites then I guess you can d/load the maps & charts.... Whats your thoughts guys anyone onto it?

Tim

Was gutting and scaling my catch with my gf next to a jetty behind The Boat Shed restaurant (at the end of Coode St, along Canning Highway) when two boats pulled up in front of me.

Think one of the blokes from boat 1 need to relieve himself or get something from the car park and went towards the direction of the carpark. One of the  boats (boat 2) beached right in front of me, causing massive wake and nearly got me soaked. Boat 1 just went on doing circles and revving the engine. In fact I think he must have seen me and my gf moving behind the waterline to keep ourselves dry and thought it was funny so he kept on doing it!

As I was with my gf, I was concerned about her safety and hence all I did was said nothing and continued to scale the catch I had. I heard them utter something about me getting my catch from a charter or something. Shortly after that, the bloke returned from the dark parking area and jumped onto Boat 1. Boat 2 purposely moved his boat closer to me with the engine facing right at me, tilted the engine and commencing reving the engine so that the propeller was churning and splashing water right at me!

At that stage, I just stood back again and looked straight at the Boat 2. I was very tempted to jump onboard and stab the bastard but for my gf's sake, I kept quiet and went back to what I was doing.

Then the bastard from Boat 2 chucked a filletted fish carcass at me before both of the boats took off.

Some f@ckwits have no respect for others and all this time I kept quiet because I didn't want any trouble with my gf around. It was dark and apart from a person taking photos near the carpark, there wasn't anyone else around. There were many people in the restaurant but I am sure they couldn't hear a thing or aware of what's going on.

I stood little or no chance fighting off 4 young blokes but I was pretty sure the 6 inch and 9 inch fillet knives I had with me would do some damage.

I should have snapped a photo of the 2 boats and put 'em up in FW to name and shame these f@ckers. Unfortunately, I was too upset to think rationally at that time.

If you are reading this you pieces of shit you should be ashamed of yourself. That's a clear act of bullying and you were picking on us because we were outnumbered and the place was secluded. I recognise your f@ckface and please don't let me run into you again. I can assure you it wouldn't be pleasant.

There's no place in our society for such low and despicable act.

Hi guys

I'm looking at booking out Blue Lightning for a 5 day trip to the Abrolhos in April.

Their web site is here http://www.bluelightning.com.au/

They are a good crew and its a good boat (I've been with them to the Abrolhos and Montes over the last couple of years).

I've got some mates and regular deckies of mine who are likely to come, but should have some spots available for a couple more people. All the guys that I'd be bringing would be into jigging, soft plastics, surface casting for pelagics etc and looking for people into that sort of stuff (not bait fishing) to join. No offence to bait fishos just a lot easier if everyone on the boat is doing the same thing! Targets will be all the usual suspects, baldies, coral trout, pinkies, dhufish, mackerel and yellowfin etc.

Dates I am locking in are below:

Arrive (late afternoon): Saturday 27th April 2013
Day 1:                        Sunday 28th April 2013
Day 5:                        Thursday 2nd May 2013
 

Cost is $1995 for the 5 days including all food etc, you BYO alcohol. Tackle is supplied by the company if you need it.

Please PM if keen. Serious people only please as we need to take deposits soon.

Cheers

Dan

OK, Just thought I would start a thread on dropping fish. Think we have all lost fish at one time or another, due to doing something wrong ( Known as the Dumb Ass Factor   )

Over the weekend we managed to drop 2 thumpers, one was on a spot known for dig Dhu's ( 20+kg ).

Saturday - I got snagged up about 20 min earlier, and had tightened the drag to full to try and free the rig.... snapped the braid ( 80lb ). re rigged and started fishing again..... time passes and get the Dhu bite, set the hooks and it runs... but pulls the hooks as the drag was still on full lock and it could not take line. I hate that feeling you have once you loose a fish that should be on the boat. It stays with you all day as the others on the boat will keep reminding you of it  for the next week!

NOTE- Check you drag settings after a snag

Sunday - We get a couple of good size KG's ( 58cm ) while fishing for Dhu's, and skipper drops a whiting rod over the side, and put the Dhu rod in the holder while holding the whiting rod, misses the first bites on the dhu rod, as he puts the whiting rod in the holder, and picks up the dhu rod, sets the hooks but ends up pulling them after a bit of a fight... Not the first time this has happened.

NOTE- If fishing 2 rods, 1 for smaller fish and one for Dhu's, place the smaller rod in the holder and focus on the dhu rod.

No one likes to lose a fish, but it does happen. Its when you have done everything right and still drop a fish... THATS FISHING

No one likes to lose a fish, but it does happen. Its when you stuffed up and drop a fish, its a... DUMB ASS FACTOR

If you have lost a good fish due to DAF why not fess up, it would be good for the people just starting. Some tips on what not to do.

Tight Lines but not too tight!

 Hi all

Ive bought penn 30 Vsw second hand but it didn't have any rod clamps. I was wondering if it's ok to run 50lbs line on this reel without any clamps. It is mounted on a t-curve tiagra 24 kg rod will any damage occur to the rod or the reel. I've got a rod clamp on order but it seems that they are more rare than a winning lotto ticket and I estimate I won't have a rod clamp with in 6 months so does anyone know where I can get one quicker.

Thanks

Trevor

I want to see who is willing  to commit to this now...

If the Dockers beat North Melbourne at Etihad on Sunday, who out there in "docker knocker land" will acknowledge some respect for the Dockers and say this year we are the real deal, a competitive team and a chance of getting past week one of the finals.  North are one of the form sides right at this minute, and any team who can beat them can consider themselves a very capable unit.

For my end, if we lose, I'll say we're not good enough and shouldn't play finals this year and we should start planning for next year.  If we can't beat a top eight team in Melbourne then we won't get far into September.

It's elimination final time for us from here on in!

 Just wondering where abouts (generally) to go in the Cockburn Sound if I wanted to go for a fish.

Would be interested in most species but especially KG Whiting, Squid, Skippy and anything else :P 

Cheers! Jase

Hey guys, im off to hervey bay in october for a weeks fishing. Ill be spending atleast 4 days on the jetty there live baiting and spinning for trevs, mackies, tuna, queenies, and whatever else.

Last time I was there was really my first experience with live baiting (easy to jig up the bait from around the jetty). Anyway, we were just putting the hook through the back of the bait and chucking it out. This had a few negatives, the bait didnt last long, and the mackies kept biting off the tails and missing the hook.

So getting to my point, what live bait rig to you guys suggest. I'm thinking i might try a bridle rig, with a stinger hook connected by 80lb BM tough trace.

Look forward to hearing some suggestions

Can anyone tell me what the almanac said for last saturday the 18th. Hit a hot bite for a little while and was just wondering.

Hello All,

Im in Sydney for the next two weeks attending a wedding and am staying north of Sydney in Dee Why.  I have my rods and some gear here and am wondering if there are any places people can recommend for landbased fishing.  I went past Mosman and the Spit yesterday which looked pretty promising.  I dont mind fishing the harbour, or the ocean if there are some nice groynes or jetties. I may even look into a road trip to have a crack for some freshwater fishing also.

What kind of species are out there, and what rigs, baits or lures are worth a crack?

Going to get my licence today and have a read through, thank in advance for any advice !

Bryan

Have had a few rods built lately and would like to have written on the blanks some specs ie lure weight ect

Is there a procedure for this?

 With the boat loaded on thursday night, we were ready for a early start to head up to jurien and get a good days fishing in, my 2 boys Troy & Blake and myself on my boat and my cousin Gav and Matt(fishing94) on Gavs boat.

we headed out of the marina at about 10am, little bit lumpy, but with the forecast saying it was going to drop, we continued on, we hit the wreck first up to have a play with the sambos and they did not dissapoint, not huge like last time but good enough for some fun.

all sorts coming over the side, sambos, amberjacks,mullas,pinkys and a suprise for me on a fanky was this little cobia, went 70cm and was the first cobia ever for me so its a new pb!

the winds started to play the game and drop off, so we headed out deeper to the 50's, from the first drop it was on, with fish coming over the side on every drop, more sambos, baldys,pinkys,dhuys,redthroats and proberly some i have forgotton.

just on my boat alone we got 18+ dhuys, being we have a 60cm+ to keep they all went back bar one, but half were size.

by now its getting quite late and i said to the boys...last drop and were going!!  thankgod for that last drop because troy hooks up big time on the pe3 monster mesh with the 5000 stradic, this thing was making huge,long,powerfull runs and we are all calling it for a big sambo.

5 mins in troy is winning the fight and getting some line back on the nearly spooled 5000, then to our supprize this fat, 1mtr dhuy pops up and its yelling and screaming times allround

stoked!! new pb for troy at what we were calling 18-20kg and just over the 1mtr mark..

we went back in happy chappys with a good haul of fish for our bag to meet up with Karl(crushed) and his crew who had arrived for a late bash.

Saturday was going to be the big day with some more fellow members showing up, Luke(fishon570) in his new 680 bar crusher(weapon of a boat and bloody quick too) Jeffery and there mate, we will call him chucky for now!!...lol

Gav and myself headed out to the 50's, the other boys went there own way and by 10am we had bagged out on dhu's,pinks and baldys(i forgot the camera so no pics for sat) but again plenty of dhu's,pinks and baldys coming up.

to early to call it a day, so it was catch and release for the rest of the day for us.

back at the camp with all the boys and some of us took a liking to the bourbons, especially Lukes deckie!!

sunday morn it was a early start with us all going the same way to have a play with the sambos again, i had more fun listening to Lukes deckie throwing his ring up from the word go...sounded like a dirt bike at full noise (thanks for the laugh guys)

it was very quiet on sunday compaired to friday/saturday and taking jefferys advice we all put the bait away for about 30mins and persited with the jigs.

Troy hooks up a couple of sambos and blake and I were at 0, so to jeffs dissapointment we were back on the bait... first drop for Blake and he gets his PB pinky 70cm

second drop for Blake results in his new PB sambo at just over a mtr and give him a bit of a work out.

then i get a nice 1mtr sambo as well

there was a few more sambos and ambers pulled up until the boltcutters moved in, so it was time to try somewhere else.

we tried a few spots on the way back in with nothing but boltcutters everywhere, Blake even got a double header, so that was it and we called it a day, back at the ramp by 11am ready to pack up and head home.

all in all a great weekend for our boat, bagging out friday and saturday with many more fish released.

great to meet Luke, Jeffery(get some bait out jeff and put them jigs away mate) and there mate chucky, made it for a enjoyable time guys and we will have to do it again.

i hope chuckys felling a bit better now, 80%turkey-20%coke will do it to anyone!!

didnt get alot of pics as it was allways busy with fish coming over the side on every drop, we come home with plenty of kilos of fillets and makes the frezzer look good.

cheers

ron

Got a mate chasing a sidescan sounder and transdeucer.  Can anyone recommend options and websites up to $1500 and the pro's and con's.  Also because of being in Karratha and postage associated with buying in Perth, he said he may as well look to the O/S option.

Me and TimVB headed out for a late arvo fish after work on Friday. Had good fun with some small sambos on soft plastic before I picked up a surprise KG on softy (a bi sambo tried to eat it at the boat....) and Tim pikced up a cracker 53cm KG.

Tim took them home for dinner......still have not heard what they were like..........