So I've had my jet ski for a little over a month now and I think its time to tackle some spaniards. I'm planning to take a drive a bit further north maybe lancelin or Jurien to try help my chances since I have no sounder as yet. I'm still contemplating whether to run one or two rods but what lures would you guys recommend I buy?

Any help would be good since I'm new to trolling (only caught some tuna when I had my boat).

Thanks
Sha

I have had this fibreglass boat for a few years now, its a really smooth ride becasue of the shape of the hull and just wanted to know what brand it is. im guessing it was made roughly in 81 becasue thats what year the motor was made and i baught the two together?

thanks,

welded the tube to my chassis and put a thread on the inside

screwed a rod holder on to a length of jarrah make for an easy rod holder when at the beach

hey guys i just need some help on chosing a new baitcaster.

my price range is around $200.

i need it for casting lures and baits.

i was kind of thinking about the shimano caenan.

any info would be appriciated. thanks.

Is there any ways that you guys use to get the ink out, got inked out a fair bit on the weekend. The octupus ink looks like it might be a little tougher to get out...

just rigged up some xmas trees with wire in an effort to beat the weed.   what do you think my chances are of getting any interest ??

gday all what do you use to flick lures around?

i want a spinning reel something that will handle barra queenies hopewfully on the bigger scale dont want to spend thousands but also dont mind forking out a bit of cash

already have a baitcaster diawa i love it do ppl   have preference on brands all my bait gear is penn but to heavy for ficking lures all day

 Took the old boy out to visit some new stuff i found off the cape.

Probably the best conditions that i have ever fished in. dad started the

ball rolling on the first drift with a black ass an a 8kg dhu on bait an rounded it 

off with my pb 19kg dhu on 7inch paddle tail mccarthy. sorry about the bad quality pics.

Do they think it will be ready for when we all hit town or not .will be a long trip from bundegi

I've had a go at building a witch doctor with the aim of hopefully attracting a few pelagics this season. Have christened it the Iron Duke as I think I got a bit carried away when building it. I hope I never see another peice of stainless steel for a long time as polishing the bits for this nearly drove me made

caught a stone fish today wondering if anyone has stood on one or been pricked by one while fishing thank god i had pointy nose's with me

a guy down the river wanted to keep it to eat  by that time it was already swimmin awya are they edible?

Just trying to research some p.e 2 braids to spool up on my certate 3000. I'm quite liking the Daiwa braids at the moment and during my research i've mananged to come across a Daiwa PE 1 braid which has a breaking strain of 30lb.

Its Daiwa tournament 8 accudepth. Has anyone used this stuff? Seems like its very thin for a high breaking strain, would love to see if anyone has tried using it or has officially tested it.

If not are there any other daiwa braids which are recommended?

http://www.rayannes.com.au/daiwa-shimano-reels-australia/line-braid/braid/daiwa-tournament-8-accudepth-hyper-pe-braid/

cheers

 hi

has any1 stopped a 20+ kilo sambo in around 8 meters of water in really rough ground, if so what gear is needed line reel rod, iam getting the idea its almost impossible, espesically how dirty fighters they are and losing around 5 of them in same area, i have a 8000fi stradic with 50 pound braid on a shimano tevez rod is this good enough.

help would be appreciated i really want to land one in shallow water.

A couple photos of Andy from yesterday, great conditions.....

in colorado atm seeing my little girl and been wondering around shops looking at fishing gear! man we are getting pineappled when it comes to gear over there! the variety of gear here and how cheap it is is ridiculous! shimano flueger abu garcia! why pay the money for it over there when here it is over half the price cheaper! am moving here in 6 months for a cpl years cant wait to go to walmart and buy a hunting rifle w scope for under 350 bucks and got my guides already for the fishing up in the rockies in summer! when i move here if anyone wants any gear keep in contact and i can be a go between for cheap gear

Hi Guys

Went out to 40 metres yesterday and didn't get a thing I'm not confident my Furuno 600L is working correct so posted these pic's for comments, there is a line 12 metres from the top and there appears to be fish on the bottom what do you guys think?

Sounder is set in manual mode with bottom lock and gain 3.5

sorry about quality of pics only have an iphone3 and forgot the camera .....

Forgot to post this pic as well

Anyone know where I can get these in Australia? http://www.jdmtackle.com/product_view.php?product_id=158 Sent from my iPad

 Hey all looking for a good reliable swell tide ect cgart website for perth.

Have used seabreeze but they got it wrong last time we went out.

Ta

Max

Went out yesterday for a fish in some of the best conditions I have seen in a long time. Glass from the time we left to the time we came back to the ramp. Had a mate down from Perth for the weekend and the plan was to show him what the SW has to offer in the way of fishing. As always it didn't disappoint. Bagged out by 10am with a couple of welcome surprises coming up. On the way home I decided to hit a few sambo spots. The guys on board had never jigged sambos before and it was quite a shock for them. The sambos were in a frenzy hitting anything that moved. Great fun watching them experience some red hot sambo jigging. Had one sambo follow a hooked sambo right to the top and when the hooked sambo hit the surface it to came to the surface. It wouldn't leave the hooked sambo alone so I decided to net it for a bit of fun. Once in the net it went nuts. After a bit of a laugh it was released on its way. First fish I had ever caught with just a net.

Went out very early today to beat the forescast sea breeze...it did come, just very late, so was a magic day on the water.

Jigged all morning and with great demersal shows, but almost no takers bar an undersized dhu and a few odds and sods. So we hit an area in the 40's where we had been blown away a few weeks ago and yup..........a few bruisers about again.

Pretty well straight away, we had a three way hook-up on PE2, the sound of squeeling drags filling the otherwise still and humid air. After a few minutes I got toasted on PE2, the sambo was just a bit feisty and bricked me, and the other two boys were not looking that good with more line going out than in......

TimVB got his in first, whilst Troy (a jigging newcomer) was having a ball on my young blokes Salty Fighter and Daiwa Tierra 3000 light jig outfit. 

 Troy got his in, an excellent first up jig effort on light gear, but Troy has done a lot of game fishing so eqited himself well.

We moved to PE3 and knocked over a few more each for a great fun session, then decided to have a troll with some skirts as there was a bit of bait on the sounder. Within 10minutes, strike, and then the fish started jumping like crazy........MAHI MAHI........ Only a little model but my first Metro dolly and within 15 km of Perth. Tim has the photos, will post later.

We continued to troll all the way back to the Marina, and hit 6 striped tuna, that went VERY hard on light gear, landed 4, all released (photos to come). We had two doble headers, one was special where we got a surface strike on shotgun PE2 on one of the skirts which was floating on the surface while we were clearing the other rods after the short PE3 line got hit........the poor Tierra 3000 squeeled in protest, and after several good runs the little reel could not keep up and the tuna spat the hooks. GREAT fun, man do the stripeys go hard. 

Anyhow, slow day demeral jigging, saved by some shallow water sambo and Metro troll action. 

Thanks to deckies for the day Tim and Troy for a fun day. Daz, bad luck dude on missing out, next time, a little less speed n the WRX STI on the way to the marina!

where are all the crabs atm around thw swan.

  About 10 years ago while tailor fishing at Nedlands hooked and landed a 19kg mulloway on 2.7 kg stren 40lb leader   1.5 hour fight.  Big shark mackeral on 8lb off the beach at dirk hartog on a bucktail jig,  8kg mekong giant catfish in Cambodia 45 min fight on 8lb, piece of bread for bait using a square cut out of a thong for a float. 100kg shark off the beach in kalbarri. Big spanish mackeral trolling a halco redhead on a handline in a canoe in the Philippines. Catching Dhuies on 80lb is still fun but these fish are some of the standouts for me.

  Keep trying i suppose you get lucky sometimes.!!!

 looking at going fishing land based tonight but unsure where to go, looking at seabreeze the winds are pretty crap but mate in coogee said it hasnt picked up yet so who knows. anyone know whats been caught at challenger or kwinana horse beach recently? or any beaches SOR

cheers

 hey guys my next job wil be in kununurra.. was thinking on my r&r might go do some barra fishing if any good... anyone been or can reccomend a charter operator to go with?? cheers

Marko

 Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone has been to Long Point recently?

I've never been down there but heard about it a while ago and was thinking about casting a line there.

Cheers

Jo

Yesterday was looking good for a FAD run and the conditions were far better than what they predictated and it just got better (always a first)

Craig (Fishcrazy) was keen to get amongst the dollys and the Allmarine Services FAD had plenty of them. Sizes were from small to medium and some biggens cruising around. I was using my 8lb spin outfit and using Maria Blue code stickbaits and McArthy 4inch Pink/Pearl SP

I landed (catch & release) many dollys with my biggest over 5kg and on light gear........geez they're fun. Craig caught a few and kept two for the table!

The water clarity was awesome, 26.3 degrees water temp, bugger all wind, fish everywhere and Craig was saying do you see many Marlin harassing the dollys. Yep seen it a few times and 10 mins later fleeing/shit scared packs of dollys. Craig & I said .................."Marlin"...... near the FAD for sure and not long after that a boat trolled past and whamo he's onto a Marlin and it jumped out of the water next to my boat/next to the FAD and threw the hook........awesome to see in the metro!

Despite having a great time at the FADS both of us were keen on a macky troll so we headed in. The water being flat certainly made it a quick trip. With 3 lures in the water, Craig hooked up pretty quickly to a stripey tuna......... gear out again and an hour into it I said to Craig "can you tell the mackerel to bite the bloody lure"...........fair dinkum.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz my ratchet screemed and it was decent!

After a very fast first run and a second the fish got closer to my boat where Craig did a good gaff job. This was a solid metro mackerel indeed and the Halco 190XDD green/gold did the damage. After a good pic (thanks Craig) we kept on trolling and it wasnt long and whamo my other outfit goes off this time it was Craig on strike. We cleared the lines and after a short fight the mackerel spat the Rapala X-Rap 30 pilchard...........gear out again and after another hour or so it was all over so we headed in (lazy 38knots)

Yesterday was one of the best days fishing for me as everything was perfect and good to catch up again Craig

Metro Mackerel  

Hi just wondering if anybody knows what other fish besides dollies are around the fads at the momment

Beautiful sunrise and a beautiful morning on the river today... but even better with this feed :)

I cant wait for dinner tonight!!!

I do like my crabbing and I've been having a good run on the Swan Blueys. Drop netting the deeper water in the lower reaches and the crabs are decent size too!

Took my staff member Mike out last trip and went for a arvo run with a rising tide and got our bag of blueys!

They were chockers full of meat and tasted delish.........best crabs for sure!

A few coldy's and esky full of crabs just made it a great arvo!

stumbled accross this on youtube, guys eating live baby octopus. pretty amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T4c4g3iXv0

whod give this a try?