Just saw this ad come up, not using it enough.

http://www.boatsonline.com.au/boats-for-sale/used/power-boats/2001-trophy-150hp-mercury/109745

HGi can anyone help me out with a bit of info on two models of furuno being, fcv 581 & fcv 582. There are two advertise on Ebay without transducers and as I have never heard of these models I seeking info on how good they are rated as and can you buy transducers for these models, whiuch I believe are quite old. They arwe at a very attractive price and have a good size screen for old farts like me. Any and all info or directions on where to look up non biased reports on them would be appreciated

Thanks

Hey everyone !!   My dad did just go out and brought a boat   yay !!  But before we go out i need a outfit to catch some fish :) 
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas or good rods that will get the job done  im only 16 so i have a bit of a budget aha

any suggestions would be awsome

Cheers

Hi all,  just posting to see if anyone can give me the heads up on where I can catch some small sand whiting for bait in Jurien using a boat.  In other words, I am chasing some large areas of sandy bottom to catch about half a dozen.  Just general areas will suffice and preferably in depths less than 10m and closer to the marina.

Thanks in anticipation

where's the best place to get a hold of a swan mulloway? Looking to get into the mulloway fishing and need a place to start thanks for the help

hey all, caught this little fish of ammo jetty few years ago, was very suprised when brought up, it was only tiny 12cm at best, colours were very bright, looks like a baby sambo but hasnt been comfirmed, any thoughts,

cheers,

Just wondering if anyone was Keen on getting few people together and heading somewhere north or south from perth for a mulla and shark overnight session.

Head there early arvo find ourselves a nice gutter and get all set up before the night comes!

If anyone has any suggestions on where to go or who else is keen, just comment! be nice to meet a few keen FW members!

Hopefully few people have got the fishing bug like i do.

Cheers Jamie!

 Hey Guys,

Just wondering if any of you have a Nissan Pathfinder and how they go off-road on beaches and stuff?

Thanks

Mitch

Hey guy how are we all, I have a question I'm not sure on, I'm running a big game land based rod, looking at getting a diawa saltist, not sure which one to get, do I go the 40 or 50. I'll be targeting sharks from shore, any ideas and reasons would be very much appreaciated, Thanks Rails

Hi Guys

I have a 2008 nissan navara i love this car to bits as it does what i want..But i have had a ew problems with it in stalling after starting.

Now its a manual 2.5ltr turbo desiel..... Now the issue is sometimes when u start the car it just turns it self of then takes couple times to re start it again even tho the clutch is flat to floor. I am just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem and got it fixed or are in the same boat as me i wanna get this sorted before i go on holiday as i dont want this happening when i am towing the boat

so if anyone has this problem and can help it will be much greatful

Cheers

Hayden

anyone got a terez 7'2 15-30lb spin that they'd like offload?

Just seeing if anyone can help me with a question. A old bloke earlier in the year told me if you want to catch sharks to use cat food. Just wondering if anyone knows if this works and if its legal for starters? It wont be on a metro beach but south. Be happy to get 1 to freeze all others will be thrown back. Any help would be gre3at boys. Cheers

Howdy,

thinking of getting a long range fuel tank for my Navara (D40)

anyone got one ? - which brand ? - any recommendations, pros/cons ?

cheers

Dan

Just looking through the range of sizes in Dave's Xtreme Coolers and trying to work out what's going to be the best size in terms of portability & realistic sizes without taking up excessive deck space.

I have a big under-floor area with an uninsulated rectangular tub in it at the moment, plus a run-of-the-mill multi-purpose eski on the deck, but want to get something dedicated for the boat.

Was wondering what you metro guys are using and find the best for size vs portability .............. vs reality.

I'm thinking the XT120 model at the moment (1360 x 400 x 430) - volume not huge, but optimistic enough for some big macks etc !

(PS : Dave, it says 100L -  but doesn't the model number reflect the volume : i.e. XT120 is 120L ?)

 hey there, iam 17 looking for a job or an apprenticeship.

dont really know what i want to do at the moment, so if anybody could help me out i would appreciate it 

cheers pom 

Anyone had any wild, unusual, or reoccuring fishing dream?
please share with me. I have had a few, but the one that stands out the most is last night, when i had a dream that my swimming pool from my old house filled with big fish, and i spent hours there catching them :) DID NOT WANT TO WAKE UP. Forced myself back to sleep 2 or 3 times. ahaha

hey guys can u please give me some advice on how to connect leader to a btwist ive heard cats paw is the go and if that was to a swivel im set but how do you connect a leader? cheers

Hi Guys,

I have been dreaming to go up North one day and I really want to make it happen this year. So I thought I ask you guys what do you think is the best place and time to go?

I don’t know if there is a post already about this topic as I did try searching and nothing came up, so if there is I apologise.

how does everyone think about this thread, good way to help newbys and those chasing their first mack,don't have to give way favourite spots etc be intereasting to see what the catch rate is per hour,I'll kick it off, my secret spot is Mindarie behind the 3 mile,so far 13 hours for 5 fish which is 1 fish just under every 2 hours

hi guys

we have been hitting the camping alot lately and i am in the proccess of buying a camper trailer as well, hence things getting sold.

we are just about sick of the old boring snags and steak on the bbq, even though they are nice, some differant things to mix it up a bit dont hurt.

you are not aloud to have open fires at alot of camp sites so we looked into other options for cooking in the cast iron camp ovens using gas.

it started with me cutting a 60ltr drum up and mounting the cast iron 3 ring burner in the inside, shelf in the middle and the lid on top to create a oven.....

well this worked a treat and we have been cooking bread, pizzas, roast lamb, pork, even roast chicken and has all come out perfect.

then the other day while looking in a camping shop we spotto these smokers!!, a couple of small mods to fit the 3 ring burner and we now have a 2 shelfed oven and boy does it work a treat.

in the pics you can see you can use it as a 1 shelf or 2, or you can put a bbq plate on top and cook snags and steak, we had pizzas in it last night, 2 at a time and im sure carl (crushed) can vouch for how good they come out.

i have a roast lamb and veges in atm while typing this.

so its 5 star camping for us now with the sky the limit for whatever we want to cook and put a nice smell through the camp sites, im sure a few people are already doing simalar things but this is so simple and it works exellent.

would love to see other ideas as well.

cheers ron

Hey guys, long weekend coming up whos got fishing planned?  im still trying to think where to give a go :/

What are school sand whiting like for tailor / mulloway bait?

If I was to go down and catch a couple of dozen sand whiting from about 18cm are they good bait?...or is this frowned upon by other fishos? I have no idea, I just want to know what the ettiquette is.

here you go guys, about my 6 months effort in fishing. these are just some of the better catches, some are a bit older but couldnt not put them up. just been targeting sharks lately thats why there is so many photos of them. some of the photos are bad i know but its not always easy to get a good photo when i do 90% of my fishing alone in less than favorable weather and trying to release most of the larger stuff as fast as possible.

all the tailor where caught either on stickbaits or mulies with 4lb line and bream gear  used, the pinkie was also caught on 4lb from the rocks just after a storm.

i have about another 20-30 more that wont load because there to big so ill put them up later when i mess around with them.

cheers Chris

well i enter got 31 blowies didnt win any prizes fished at narrows got half my bait stolen from a  kid he was stealing lots of other peoples bait as well

1 malloway caught from a boat 13.4kg it was good on the guy

bream winner was 1.5kg caught from sure very nice job on the persons part

while at narrows 2 guys pulled in 3 stingrays

i ducked over to apple cross jetty at midnight and there was about 8 people there not wth swanfish they where caught bream and keeping them they had like 4 or so buckets and half full of undersize bream all of them it was shocking

i would enter again even though i didnt do good this year i just need to find some spots to fish....

biggest tailor was 460grams

Decided to have a crack at this again this year, made nearly 2500 grand for the week. Nice if it was real money.

Cheers

Dale

I met up with The Supervisor today. No.. it wasn't a sacking.. Just a really enjoyable morning where his two boys teamed up with my boy (the dog) to let off a bit of energy. It also required a bit of old fart energy as well. Tailor didn't really fire but the sharks and the rays were in full swing. A great chance for us both to show off the pulling capability of graphite rods. Rod had his new Lemax out and I was on the eupro.

Everyone hooked up. A couple of lost chances, I managed an "unstopable" and so did my friends up the beach. All good stuff to test the rod capabiliities etc. A couple of manageable rays were landed and released. Two black tip sharks landed and released also. One small and the other a good 1.3 meters at a guess. 1 Tailor and a good size Herring.

Thanks for the day Rob. Great company mate.

The picture I took turned out crap bacause of the sun position. No photo of the month chances there so they go in the bin.

G'day all,

I've been searching for "the gravel patch" in Cockburn sound using a chart & my GPS thingy with no joy.

I have found something called "spoil ground", is this the same thing??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks all.

If your the thieving arsehole We caught filleting under size coral trout and snapper etc at the exmouth marina filleting table on wednesday, I have reported you to fisheries and given them all your details, your description, your car etc.  you give yourself away with your attitude when we arrived at the table and your very hasty retreat with your frames and half filleted fish thrown into your ice box and driving away very quickly.

we didnt let on then but we knew what you were up to, I'm  sure you were over the bag limit too as you threw quite a few handfuls of frames into your ice box before running away, a lot more than 7 fish.

for everyone else I will post his details here shortly for you to keep an eye out for him. some of you exmouth locals will possibly know or know of him but I would like to hear from adam whether I should post his details first.

Adam if you want to follow this up pm me and I'll send you my number

I understand your a fisheries officer am I right?

I've noticed quite a few threads lately about behaviour on the forum & I see some of the regulars posting about how they are sick of seeing abuse & negativity being posted. I find that quite amusing seeing as it is those exact same regulars that put me off this site in the first place with all thier negative comments, that's why I havn't posted for a couple of months & why I'll go back to not posting again right after this. I'm not lumping all the regulars in this heap so please don't misunderstand me, it's only 6 or so of them that seem to think they can post whatever they like but that they also have the right to tell others off for posting similar or less offensive things. Maybe Adam should take a closer look at past posts when (if) he gets the time & get rid of these regulars that think thier way is the only way & get stuck into anyone that has a different opinion to thier own. Just because you have been on here for a long time does not give you the right to talk down to other members & if Adam is aware of who you are perhaps he should stop cutting you slack just because you are a regular.

& for anyone that doesn't know once your kicked off the forum it is your IP address that is blocked so unless you change that, your gone for good. There's none of this joining under another user name crap.

I'll see you again if those few regulars that think they are better than everyone else get booted or pull thier heads in.

That the upper reaches of the river are not worth fishing for at least 2 weeks after Swanfish? I've been fishing the upper reaches for over 10yrs & have them sussed out to the point where I can almost guarantee getting into plenty of good fish but for 2-4 weeks after Swanfish the fishing in the upper reaches is terrible. I'm not a butthurt Swanfish competitor, I've never been in it & I don't plan to go in it at any stage but I am wondering if the benefits to the community are outweighed by the obvious negative effect that it has on the upper sections of the river. I can't comment on the lower sections (Maylands to Freo) as I don't fish them often enough to an opinion about Swanfishes effects on those sections.