Hey folks just curious to is whether there are any sambo action at the gemini still any info would be greatly appreciated

cheers

 hey guys, just bought myself a new shimano stradic Ci4 1000 and i need some help with selecting the right rod. its gonna be primarily a bream set up.

cheers

howdy all 

when we get some decent weather i am  endeavering to take my boat out around carnac for the first time. i have a 14.5 ft runabout with a 30 hp motor. just wondering if any one has any tips for for fishing the area or dangers i should look out for. i know its not that far out but it will be the furtherest i have been out. usually just fish around the sound, but i think its time to go a bit further out so any advice would be most grateful.

                                                                            cheers

                                                                           darryl

Hey planning on doing an allnighter at eshed tomoro night with a mate anyone know if theres been anything decent landed there lately cheers

Hi everyone, we are new to Karratha and are wanting to get out and do some crabbing. Have only used traps that you can use on the east coast. We bought some hooks and tried down around back beach and only found a couple of small ones. At the moment we dont have a boat to get out and up creeks with drop nets. Can anyone tell us a good spot to go and any tips in doing it. Have watched a clip on youtube but proved harder in reality. Thanks.

 Hi there fellow fishers, hope you had a great weekend and have a prosperous new year.... I finally upgraded my old gp 31  gps unit.. With a HDS 5, combo unit. I have been out on the water once so far and have noticed that the screen is very grainy and not showing fish arcs but red and yellow balls in some places. I have set my sounder type, shallow water setting and a few other settings. Can you guys please assist me in setting this unit so I get the best out of it? Any input would be greatly welcomed.. Regards Don

Hi all                                                                                           I recently purchased a PC Planner which is surposed to:                                                                                

The PC-Planner is designed to turn your home computer

into a navigation planning tool. Using the same C-MAP Max/NT+

electronic chart cartridges that you use on your boat, you can

display all of your electronic charts in full colour on your PC screen.

PC-Planner can be used for viewing charts, zooming, panning, entering

user points, creating routes, and entering A-B functions. In fact, every

planning function of your charting system is now easy to do on your PC.

Anyway after placing the C-map card in the C-Card slot and the SD-card

in the other slot I managed to enter a 100 odd spots onto the sd card and

view all of the maps and charts as stated (Was pretty impressed).

The problem is now when I place my C Map back in the GPS it shuts down

the unit. (Won't load or do anything)

If anyone has any idea of how to check / recover / reload or anything

I could do to the C-Map would be much apprieciated.

Or if anyone has any previous experience with the PC Planner / C Map's

and could have a chat would be a life saver.

Hey All

I am lucky enough to be heading up to Port Gregory in March for a fish and unwind. I have heard you can get flatties on plastics north of the jetty.

Now all I need to know is what type of plastics flatties take and get a bit of technique going.....cast and slow wind?

Does anyone else have a tailor spot you can bag out on if you like
Or have I just got lucky on a good spot? Been down every second night
All weather conditions and fires every time for 50cm plus fish in metro area.
Is this just a good year and everyone is into fish?
Keep 1-2 for dinner sometimes, release because I want the fun to last forever!

 hey guys and gals heres a site that ive been using to help understand my sounder a bit more

i know its about catching walleye but did find sound interesting facts on it

http://www.hightechfishing.com/sonar.html

hopefully it helps someone to catch the big one

 I heard this on the radio down south. Kinda spewin im here, as i would have launched and gone looking for this. They said on the radio it was 6 metres.

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/perth-beaches-reopened-after-whale-shark-sighting-20120103-1pj3q.html

 Hey everyone. Am heading up to Moore River early Saturday morning. Does anyone know if this is a good idea and if so what bait and what could I hope to catch.....Any good tips or advise appreiciated,

Thanks. Dean

Hi i'm Looking at a lowrance DSI Sounder for a 4.2m Tinny.

Are Black & White or colour best out in the spray and sun?

Thanks in advance!

Whens it gonna stop most people have a few days off i presume till next monday and all it does is blow its arse off  

Hi everyone,

i think its fair to say that i have been contributing big time in feeding the fishes of the ocean with my burley and bait and with no success in catching any fish in the recent weeks, where are the fish and why is it so hard to catch them from landbased? ive tried every trick in the book, burley, rigs, baits, styles, locations, you name it and nothing.

can someone tell me whats the deal before i go crazy.. is the waters too warm? the weather not right? whats the deal?

i think the fisheries and the government need to work out a deal and close some metro areas for like 5 years for fishing.. its bloody frustrating

Typical story, the new owners charge more for everything. Are rude. The size of the fish are smaller. $20 a kilo for trout are they serious? Now u get 2 fish for $20. It's been ruined. i dont mean to be running them down but they deserve it for being greedy.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/national/12477197/fisherman-washed-off-rocks-at-yallingup/

Was just  on GWN news.Some korean fella who   has  just  moved to australia and couldnt swim apparantly.  Obviously didnt  use   the  anchor points  provided down there. Apparantly  they asked  other fisherman  why they  dont  use  the  anchor  points  and  they  said  they  werent  that obvious.

I want to go squidding at Woodies (which is presume is woodman's point).

Where exactly do you go?  The last time I was there was for year 8 camp in 1984.  Is there a rock wall or jetty there or something?

Looking at heading over the Southern Group maybe wednesday or thursday night just for a night, weather permitting.

Anyone else going over?

Hi All !

I just joined today and need some advice about fishing in WA from the experts.

I moved to Perth 5 years ago from UK and haven't sea fished before but I used to love freshwater fishing but hated not being able to eat what I caught, all the good trout waters were expensive and private clubs etc etc.

Anyway, I have not seen my old man for 5 years and suprise suprise he is suddenly turning up in March for 6 weeks and wants to fish, fish, fish. Great! only I haven't got a clue about sea fishing and neither has he.

So I go to Getaway outdoors, buy a 6' combo and hope to get some practice in before he arrives. I head to Hillarys at sunset and try for a Herring off the wall with all the other hopefulls, no luck, try the next evening, no luck. So I buy some plastics and watch a you tube video on how to use them, great I can't fail, I do, I tried Fremantle near a bridge for a few hours, no bites, drove to Guildford and tried the river, waste of time.

Next day I go to North Mole? at Fremantle harbour, I see and get mauled by a plague of blow fish that gang rape my poor plastic. The only thing I caught were two lost tourists that got off the Rottnest ferry at the wrong place, so I drove them back to their hotel in the city and they in turn listened to my sob story and in turn gave me some great advice ' watch the others for a while first'.

So, today I spend all morning watching, I go to Trigg early (well 7 am) yes some older guys are walking towards me and they have caught 'something' and there are people out in the danger zone, either cathing or being caught, either way they are not letting go of their rods. I casually ask one of the old guys what he caught "plenty" was the reply and he walked off.

So I head to Hillarys again, walk the entire length of the wall, did not see anybody catch anything, but I see lots of happy people in boats coming in and out.

I drive to Fremantle again, avoid any tourists, and do my Sherlock Holmes amongst the rocks and large amounts of disgraceful garbage that depresses the hell out of me. I am starting to panick, if Dad doesn't catch anything other than a broken beer bottle in the foot he will never come to visit me again!

Luckily, I have a plan B, I arrange a private boat charter in Exmouth for April.. cost $1200, ouch. oouch. don't tell the wife. But that is just one day, the rest will be shore based fishing with the other two rods I bought.

Yes, I bought two 8ft ugly sticks, but hesitated on the reel as the guy was insisting I need a size 8000 reel, but it looked enormous so I fained a sudden appointment and just took the rods.

I looked in a book and decided I want to catch a Queenfish and a Snapper or just a Herring will do at the moment to be honest. Do I still need an 8000 reel for this? When I get back to Perth will an 8000 reel ever get used again?

I saw a beautiful Shimano Stradic 4000 in pearl white that looked perfect to me, but 'no!' said the man.

So to clarify, I need to practice in Perth, when dad arrives in March we will fish in Perth for three weeks and then head to Kalbarri, Shark bay, Exmouth for three weeks. I can only afford the one charter unless I get a mortgage. My questions are:

1. Where and how do I fish in Perth, what time, what bait and what the hell?

2. What size Stradic reel will suit my 8' Ugly stick 6 - 8.5 kg, that will catch a Queenfish in Exmouth and also be useful in Perth waters.

3. Should I give up and take up Wild flower hunting in the desert?

Thanks for reading, any advice funny or serious would be appreciated.

If you ever meet my wife the charter only cost $200 ok!

Richard Birks

Hi guys,

So i've spent a bit of money getting a collection of HB lures togethor, got a couple of SX40's, a RMG Scorpian, an Atomic an some others. Also rigged a small okuma baitrunner with sunline super pe 8lb and a 6lb berkely vanish leader. Flicking all this out on a berkely dropshot 1pce 2-4kg 7,2' rod.
 

Problem is the ol man who taught me how to fish has always been a land based bait fisher so i need some help with the lure and dinghy side of things. I've been fishing long enough to know that equipment alone doesnt land fish.

My main questions with the dinghy is how do you guys approach/anchor at a spot? i was out last night and because there was some wind i pretty much lined up with a good looking set of snags, got as close as possible, then turned the outboard off and drifted along the bank casting into the snags. I think i was driftin too fast tho coz i'd be lucky to get 2 casts into the one snag. Also how long do you stay at a spot before you either change lures or move on?

Which brings me to my other question, what retrieval technique should i be using? While i was using the SX40's i was pretty much just slowly retrieving with a slight pull of the rod every few seconds. Should i be twitching or doing something fancy to get the attention of any fish?

I understand that its all just trial and error, plus judging by the amount of people on the banks last night any fish in the river would have had no shortage of food/baits to go after, but if anyone could offer any tips that helped them land their first bream on a lure it'd be appreciated

Thanks

Steve

I've just been reading through the annual report 2010-2011 of the commercial fishing industry ( WAFIC ) and on page 14 there's an article where reps from WAFIC presented a submission to the Capel Shire Council outlining the importance of the beach seine fishery to the local community. As a result of that submission the Capel shire council elected to maintain beach access to commercial fishermen. Seeing there is no mention of rec-fishers i'm wondering  if anyone knows if we have the same access rights as the pro's.

 Spend Christmas in kalbarri this year, weather was pretty ordinary,plenty of Crays and mackies though.has anyone come across any spaniads down here yet.

Hi all,

I have been catching squid for 30 years with pencil jags and prawn lures (can still remember when yo-zuri brought out the first prawn pattern) but always with handlines.

On a whim I bought a Hearty Rise Egi Force 8'3" a couple of days ago.  Didn't ask but at the price and by the feel and the weight it's graphite.  How do you lift a squid with these things without high sticking it and snapping the tip?   I can see myself at the Mole pulling a squid up and with the rod bent the thing will still be 4 1/2 feet away and low.  Surely this can't be a 2 man operation?

How's it done?

Cant take the credit for pulling these myself, but one of my deckies got these freediving in about 3m of water. Thought they would be worth a brag...

 Does anyone know anything about pink snapper in Cockburn sound? are they there, are they big, and where? anthing is helpful.

Cheers

can anyone point me in the right direction for a good metro beach  for some bread and butter species fishing and a few tips to get me started, im not asking for anyone to give up there favorite spots just a good starting point would be great cheers

Hi all,

Im going for a fish tomorrow morning out from Matilda bay.

I wanted to fish the high tide but am on a plane at 6pm

Is it still worth it going for a fish on the flats and Structures from about 830am?

Thanks James

Was down at Iluka this morning getting my abalone and my mates were talking to a couple of women who had just got their quotta of abalone and left their catch on the rocks just behind them (5ft-8ft away). During that time while they were talking their catch was stolen. I won't mention who they were but there was about 300 of them in the water. I was pretty pissed off when I found out exspecially that these ladies were in their late 30's and she only had time to get 9 more due to the weather conditions. My mate said that they are now teaching their teenagers to grab and snatch while your not looking. I hope they choke on the stolen abalone if you are reading this. All of them hover around you while you count your ab's waiting for any that you might have to throw back. If you ask me I know another good use for my abalonie knife if i catch them trying to take mine behind my back.

Hey All

Gonna replace the fish finder on my boat.  Wanna buy a colour combo unit that's gonna give nice pictures and is easy to use.  Willing to Bring Out Another Thousand.... :-)

I'm fishing around the drop-off, so it wants to work well in shallow sandy bottoms but I wanna work my way up to deeper stuff (not going to take my 17ft Baron 100nm out too often though ;-) )

From my homework it looks like Furuno vs Lowrance HDS   

Tips and pointers greatly appreciated

Cheers

Tim