Hi guys,

Made this up on the weekend while wasting time. Ready for my upcoming exmouth trip.

What do you think i will catch on this baby?? if anything.

Would be a great photo for the wall if i landed a nice red.

Hey guys,

I currently have a little humminbird 150 or somethin sitting on my runabout and I'd like to upgrade to something with some more pixels and colors. I'd be willing to spend about 500$, a little more if it is a plotter combo. Any suggestions?

Also, suppose I get a US model with a chartplotter, would I be able to use it in Australia? The lowrance HDS5 looks nice enough.

Thanks!

Hey all,

i was planning on going for a night time fish at Eshed in the future and was wondering what kind of combo anyone would recommend .

Cheers Jacko

this was set up as a practice run for cold smoking and ended up using it for years. was an old kero fridge from the dump. big metal container in the ground with lid and a bit of down pipe. got coals in pit then loaded up with she-oak saw dust. finish off after with a little bit of heat under baffle plate to make the oil push out of fish then leave to go cold and that would seal up the fillets, then they would keep for ages.  the aroma would bring people from all over the place or was that the word just got out and every bugger waiting on the fillets to be ready

Thinking about heading up that way sometime in the near future, Never been to flat rocks so was just wondering if people had any tips or info that would be useful.

Judging by near maps im guessing flat rock is the place just south of the shacks along the beach?

Where is the best place to go from waneroo road, two rocks? any particular tracks that are easier the others?

And just wondering about the weed what type of winds does the weed start to come in im guessing westerlys? but if it was say south easterlys do you still have a problem?

As you can see i am quiet the rookie around that area as i have never been before so if anyone could help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jamie

 Anyone fishing eshed tonight and want to meet up?? :-)

borrowing a 13ft tinny and taking it to coral bay in a few weeks, if its calm enough to do so, trawling along the outside of the reef would ya pick up many mackies/tuna or are they a bit further out? same with your bottom dwellers would you get alot  say only 1 mile out from the reef?

any help would be great :)

trip to rotto west end leaving from hillarys wed. morning,don't care which team you support, ha ha

Hey guys

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If you're looking for something to take down south chasing salmon, winter beach bashes for tailor and mullas or to take to the Steep or Quobba cliffs then these are great for these types of fishing.

The rods are light-weight and seriously tough as testified by a number of FW members (a couple of testimonies here and here).

All the details / specs on the rods can be found here with pricing as follows:

PRS 902H2 - RRP $153 now $135

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This offer extends to interstate FW members as well, they can be freighted across the country pretty cheap.

The offer is only available through me and not through other tackle retailers, please flick me a PM / email for more information.

hi guys just a quick one

wondering why some saltiga models have different coloured handles

eg. comparing these two photos one is a greyish colour the other blue?!

any thoughts? cheers

Turts

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Hi guys,

I am looking to purchase a Seafox 257 2001 with a evinrude 250hp.

On searching the forums I noticed a few guys had talked about owning one and was hoping to answer some questions.

First is the weight. Has anyone who has owned one actually thrown it over a weighbridge? I know the manufacturers put the dry weights etc etc but my experience in the past is that when you rig a boat up its weight is a world difference. I ask this as I was hoping for a real world weight so I can work out if my vehicle can legally tow it or not.

Second any general comments on the ride or quality. I know alot of the guys on the forums in the US bash them a bit but understandly they are grady owners and BW owners and we are talking different class of boats and price ranges. Any comments on running them in WA?

and lastly if anyone has ran a boat of similar specs approx what sort of fuel usage did you guys get?

Thanks

Jd

hey guys im off to bali in a few weeks and was going to see if i can get a charter from there, can anyone recomend a company? and are there any decent tackle stores over there??

Recently purchased a tanacom bull 1000 and just about to spool it up with 100lb Daiwa braid, trouble is the only instructions I can find online are missing bits. If anyone has the link to the instructions or some advice it'd be appreciated.

Cheers

I am keen as to get into smoking fish. I have seen the steel box style smokers with the metho burner underneath used to good effect, and at around $100 it seems to be a good entry level smoker. Can anyone share their opinions on whether this style is the way to go, or should I be looking at the more expensive electric or gas style ones?

 Gday crew,

I've just got back from an awesome 3 weeks at Coral Bay.  I'll write a full report when I get all the photos back from all involved.

On the downside, I had a Stella 5000SW matched up to a Taiyro Nanospeed 10-12kg Combo stolen from the under gunwhale rod racks in the boat a week or so ago.  It was a sweet setup.  It had a 40mm Jigging Master knob on it in Gold and yellow PE 3 braid. The boat was a Boston Whaler 210 Outrage.

I've been going there for years and had no problems leaving gear in the boat, not anymore!!   If anyone sees this combo for sale on other forums or on Gumtree etc please let me know.  The low life must of known what to look for because you would have to get into the boat to see it.  I have reported it to the Resort management and Exmouth Police.

I had landed a 2m+ Sailfish on Jig with this combo days before, which was quite memorable, (I'll get some pics up soon) so it has sentimental value for that.

thanks all

Jared

Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone has used or knows about the brand YAD, they look nice but never judge a reel by it cover, come across them while searching for overseas shops. Thanks in advance

Gday im a Long time reader first time writer,

Headed North of Perth for a good fish on thursday after work got canned early, was stoked!

Was keen for some herring and tailor action but was set on getting my first decent mulloway. Fishing around the guilderton area i got plenty of herring and tailor but no sign of a mulloway yet.

Saturday night and i was joined by a few mates.  Caught a heap of herring and Tailor right on sunset. Was happy with a decent feed but still keen on catching something bigger. Hooked onto a ray that had some powerful runs but got him onto shore in about 20 mins.

The other two fellas hooked onto 3 mulloway around 30-45 cm between them. I was happy to see some mulla action even though they were small.

Not long later i was burleying up when my rod started zinging. This thing was big! Had huge powerful runs (almost to the mono backing) and i thought i may not have a chance of stopping it.  

After some pretty intense runs and some hardocre arm pumping we managed to see it 20m from shore. This was a ray just playing with us. He gave us a wave with his wing and then took off towards Africa again.

More and more powerful long runs and then suddenly he turned into a rock. Just wouldnt budge at all. The other boys had had a few by now and were keen to call it a night but i wanted to get this big boy in. 

After trying to get him to move for ages and some serious winching we finally saw him come though the wash. 3 hrs of sore arms back and legs was now worth it as i got to see such a beast up close. A few happy snaps (On the phone sorry about the quality and in the excitement i left me headlamp on) and some high fives we sent him on his way. An awesome feeling after a long workout!

Was using a Mako 12ft Heavy Action Spin Rod

Penn 950ssm with 50lb Fireline

10/0 hook with half a herring

Wondering if anyone knows how to get right to the point via 4wd which entry point do they take? i had to go through a gate on the weekend which wasnt too keen on getting seen doing that if anyone knows any other ways that may be a little more discret?

Hi guys

Can anyone give me some advice on where the squid are in jurien bay as we are heading up there Tuesday till Saturday can be land or boat as we will be taking the boat up not that i think we will get out much as it looks like the swell will be up

 cheers

rod

Gday all, heading to Kalbarri at the end of July (just after school holidays), gona be camping on Murchison Station as close to the mouth as possible.

Just wondering how accessable the beach (fishing) is running north from the mouth? hard to tell just looking at google maps. Also if anyone has camped there before, is there much vehicle access further up?

any tips or advice much appreciated, might hire a boat for a day but generally gona be landbased. Cheers!

Hi all,

Im just tossing up between Seablaze3's or OceanLed for some underwater LED's for the boat. The Seablaze3's are cheaper but as we all know, sometimes spending a little more is better. Howver, this is also not always true.

Does anyone here have these actual lights or know someone who does? Which are brighter/less probmatic and if it was your boat, would you choose?

I'll be going into the larger size 1/2 and 1/2 with blue and white.

Thanks

http://lumiteclighting.com/seablaze3dualcolor.html

http://www.oceanled.com/

 Any one no how to upload pics from iPhone got a few fish Identification species to upload 

hey guys, im keen to start chasing some salmon, just wondering wat outfits are best for casting lures ?

any information would be awesome

thanks

had my first chance to get out in the new tinny. pretty windy and didnt  have alot of time so just staged in close and had a crack at some squid. ended up with about 5 and a few cuttlefish. boat went mint, next stop exmouth in a weeks time!

Hi guys ive just moved up this way and wondering if theres still crabs and squid getting around in cockburn sound. Any general areas worth looking at. I have a 4m boat

Thanks

Hi can anyone give me a bit of advise on how to catch a freash feed of squid? Me and my friend have had a go around the whittnel bay area off the bank and in the the tinny we were using squid jigs but got nothing. I was thinking about parking the boat up in a bay or something this weekend and staying the night with the spotties on the water and a few beers and seeing how that went. any advice would be appreciated thank you.

Hi all, im heading up to exmouth in 12 days and counting with the missus and rug rats and just wondering if some one could give any updates on fishing in the gulf at the moment.Im leavin the big boat at home this time and bringing up a tinny, and was hoping to chuck soft plastics around and  drag some divers for some palagics.Only coming up for a week so only going to hang around the gulf.Any info would be great. Cheers

Hi , does anyone know if any of the tackle shops have the gold colour shimano trinidad 30 reels in stock.

 How's the weather during the week ,always the way.Anyone want to make a call on tomorrows weather, seabreeze says it will be fairly ordinary but bouyweather and willy aren't to bad, keen as to go for a fish

 Was filletting the Grey Band and found this throughout the flesh. Looks like some kind of fine sea grass. Any idea's anyone ? 

I have sent a speciman off to the lab at Hillarys