WA’s first artificial reef to be trialled

Portfolio: Fisheries, Regional Development

 Looking for a land based spot NOR that would work during the day. I heard about YTKs at Hillary's. Any truth in it?  

Im happy to catch anything really, apart from blowies and other pest fish. 

In other news I'm all geared up for some pelagic action this summer. Can't wait!!!

Hi Guys,

Just a friendly reminder, as you would aready know, there is a Cancer Fundraiser next Sunday - 27th November.

This is a great opportunity to dig deep and show some support.

For further information contact Al Bevan or Scott Coghlan

Thanks,

 Has anyone been out to the Perth fads recently? 

Whats biting?

Guys, Heading to Busselton for a week with the family and want to do a spot of crabbing with drop nets down there for a feed. Will have a boat so could anyone lead me in the right direction at all? Thanks

Launched out from Point Walter yesterday and found a bit of structure that to my surprise held a few 50cm+ Sambo's the sight of them got me prety excited and turned my attention of my Bream lures towards these little beasts but unfortunately I could not entice one to have a go at my lure although I did get the attention of 50 blowies.

I tried a fast retieve and fairly fast twitches also the slow roll but got no atention.

Anyone got any ideas on how to hook these sambos? Perhaps a bigger lure? faster retrieve?

Does anyone know of electronics boxes for sale that I can fit my VHF, 27meg and stereo in and then mount on the underside of my T Top in my centre console, preferably made out of fibreglass.  Or do I have to go to an aluminium or fibreglass fabricator and get it custom made, which is a lot more stuffing around.  All help appreciated, thanks.

I have just been given six deep sea crabs , no idea on how to prepare them or cook them , has anyone have a simply prep and cooking recipe for them

Tackle Direct have a good deal on offer at the moment.

http://www.tackledirect.com/fin-nor-santiago-reels.html

Bought a Santiago SA30W and also received a free Marquesa MA30, for $589 + postage.

A mate wanted the Marquesa, so he bought that which means I've only outlayed just over $400 for a brand new SA30W!

purchased on Thursday, arrived today. Good service and too good to pass up!

Can anyone help me about how far the reef is out at Warroora can only legaly go out 2 kms and its a small tinny anyway. Any good fish to be had inside the reef? Any help with the info would be great boys cheers?

Had a great couple of days with 4 dives at rotto and a few beers with Lamby and another couple of mates the past couple of days. Quite a few crays about between 10-20m but most of them were berried or tar spots on them. Managed to nab a couple that weren't though so got a couple of early season keepers.

Very enjoyable couple of days on/in the water though.

 Hi People,

Sorry I have been MIA. Haven't done much fishing lately. Anyway Im going away to Coronation Beach in a few weeks and I was wondering if anyone knows of any Charter companies that operate out that way. Im guessing more like Gero direction would probably be my best bet, but want to know i anyone has used anyone that is really good.

Cheers

H

Anyone know What sort of fish to expect at Warroora at christmas, Trolling and bottom fishing? Never fished there in a boat before.

Ok. I know I'm not gonna get the best reel in the world for this price, but I'm on a strict budget.

I was thinking of the Shimano Sedona. $99. 7kg drag. Nice & strong. I have the 4000 model & it is a great reel for the cheaper end of the market.

My previous 2500 reel ($35 abu) was fine until I caught a few larger fish with it. Now it grinds away roughly.

It will primarily be used for bream, whiting, herring (small stuff). Lures & bait.

Any recomendations of good or bad reels would be appreciated.

 if anybody has any big fish frames or tuna heads that are not need, will gave a carton for some 

 Hey guys , im off to quobba next week  just wondering if anyones been up there lately or heard any reports ?    

Also we want to give  the caves a shot this time , how do you get to the caves?  , whats the walk in like compared to garths?  Any info would be awsome cheers .

been to walpole and denmark a heap of times and starting to look further for the summer camping trip, so heading to fitzgerald river national park and surrounding areas for about 2 weeks just after christmas. would like to know any camping/fishing spot recomendations.being a national park im guessing we'll have to put up with being close to others and no fires :( but if anyone knows of any places outside the NP good for camping im keen to hear it.

theres a couple rivers and estuaries there that im keen to fish, same goes with the beaches. should have a tinny in tow, so can anyone can reccomend which river/estuaries are worth getting out on? keen to try and get my first bream on lure :D

think we'll stick to LB on the beach, again wouldnt mind some reccomendations on wheres good to try. have a 4wd so some slightly more remote places would be great, but probably wont drive miles down the beach as im not that experienced.

cheers

Rightio,
We have six brand new jigging outfits from Shimano, Daiwa and Fin-Nor on offer for anglers keen to attend the fishing fundraiser jigging day on Sunday, Nov 27.
This is an online auction, the top SIX bidders will each win a brand new jigging outfit worth between $400 and $700 as part of their package.
Each winning bidder will receive a jigging outfit (these will be allocated randomly among the six winners), plus the day out fishing, plus dinner at Cafe Terrazza that evening, at the function MCed by Mike Thomson. That's a great fishing package.
Make your bid by emailing me at scoghlan@westernangler.com.au
I will update how the bidding is going on here and at WAngler, and close it off at midnight next Wednesday night.
Opening bid is $400.
All funds raised are going to Cancer Research.

Happy bidding!

Cheers,

Scotty

 looking for the best braid to put on saltiga 5000 want something reallly thin about 50 - 60lb but will need about 500m to fill the spool ?? any suggestions

Hey guys,

I am looking to get my hands on some fresh tuna for shark bait so to any of the offshore fishos who manage to land a couple and don't intend on keeping them I will offer the universal currency of a carton of stubbies. If there are any takers can the fish please not be bled.
Cheers

Hi guys just wondering what you guys use for a outboard throttle extension because ive found pvc pipe to be a hassle to find the right size and ive got a taperd grip.cheers brg

hey guys

just went up to Exmouth in the school holidays and we caught hardly anything. we fished in every known spot and the biggest fish was a 2 kilo flathead at wapet creek. the only northern fish we caught were a couple of moses perch, a queenfish and a stonefish on SP. we did some night fishing at bundige and we couldn't even manage a stingray. all the beaches were dead there wasn't even any bait fish around. the only place that looked promising was at learmonth jetty, at the jetty i think we saw just one queenie but there was some bait fish around so that kind of gave the feeling that there would be fish around. probaly the most productive spot would have to be the bundige boat ramp finger jetty, at the jetty we were hammering the yellow fin bream with the biggest at around 40 cm we caught some big eye trevally there too.

i sorry if i am going on a bit but i was looking forward to the trip so much that when we didn't catch much i was just so disapointed.

Apparently a prototype from Jigging Master.....>WOAH

http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/WACabinetMinistersSearch.aspx?ItemId=146167&minister=Moore&admin=Barnett

Norman Moore
Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Fisheries; Electoral Affairs

Tue 15 November, 2011

Portfolio: Fisheries

• $2.05million over five years to establish a Shark Response Unit
• $1.98million annually for helicopter and beach patrols
• $1.7million for four shark-related research projects

The State Government will invest more than $13.65million over the next five years to help reduce the potential risk of shark attacks in response to a review of Western Australia’s shark mitigation strategies.

Fisheries Minister Norman Moore said the review was important in light of three tragic incidents this year, where sharks were known or believed to have been involved.

“The Government had already moved to increase Surf Lifesaving WA (SLWA) helicopter surveillance patrols along Perth beaches and Rottnest Island, with additional services soon to begin in the South-West, which will be particularly important during holiday periods and schoolies celebrations,” Mr Moore said.

The Minister said a dedicated Shark Response Unit would be established with capabilities to tag sharks that appear to be resident near popular swimming beaches and would also assess technologies like shark repellent devices and community alert systems such as SMS warnings and social media.

“Additional funding of $1.7million will support four related research projects, enabling the Department of Fisheries to explore correlations between shark sightings and attacks with locations, weather conditions, water temperatures and the activity of marine mammals that may attract sharks,” he said.

“The existing satellite-linked shark monitoring project would be extended by two years and additional monitoring equipment will be installed at locations in the South-West to help improve our knowledge of shark movements.  Another research project will examine the impact on shark numbers and a study to assess the effectiveness of beach netting as a potential hazard mitigation strategy.”

While the State Government did not support beach netting at this point in time, the Department of Fisheries will undertake an evaluation of the effectiveness of beach netting as is used in the Eastern States.  The department will also implement a community engagement strategy and media campaign to provide information about avoiding shark hazards.

Mr Moore said Cabinet’s consideration of other strategies had ruled out a major cull of white sharks to reduce numbers; any seal culling or relocation program; the creation of beach pools as a shark mitigation strategy; and drum line programs to control white shark numbers.

Fisheries regulation amendments have also extended an existing ban on the disposal of offal and blood at popular swimming and surfing beaches in Perth and selected regional locations.  Fines for such illegal disposal would increase from $2,000 to $10,000.

“There will also be new provisions drawn up to implement a licensing regime for shark feeding and shark cage tourism operations,” the Minister said.

“No such operations currently exist in this State (unlike South Australia and South Africa) but the Department of Fisheries has received inquiries from charter operators interested in commencing this activity.  It often can attract white sharks to a certain area which could pose a risk to public safety and should be more closely regulated.”

Mr Moore said the State Government was taking important steps to improve safety around potential shark hazards and people who used the marine environment should also consider their own safety and be aware of potential risks.

      Fact File

• All shark sightings should be reported to WA Water Police on 9442 8600
• Shark safety tips available from Department of Fisheries at http://www.fish.wa.gov.au
• Information on helicopter patrols available from http://www.mybeach.com.au 

Minister's office - 9422 3000

 went out on saltwater charters on sunday to jig for some sambos and YTK, got to hillarys at 6 with bacon and eggs waiting to be eating, shame i had already had my bloody weetbix! headed out, was a little choppy in the way out but did phase any of us, first we trolled for some mackies/tuna but no luck so we stop to see if we could get some YTK or skippy, my first drop my placcy got smashed then the fish spat it so i dropped it again and on the drop i hooked up with a nice little YTK, was very happy considering it was my first drop, then we started getting more YTKs biggest one ending up being around 7kg. After that we headed out to come wrecks with only some smaller sambos hanging around so we decided to move again on the way back we found a nice school of fish on the sounder so we dropped down and within the first 2 minutes matt had a solid hook up on his little pe3 outfit, ending up with a 30-35kg sambo! once we got it back thats when it all happened, about 6-8 sambos where landed over 30kg biigest one being around 40kg, i was lucky enough to hook a nice one too but fish of the day would of had to gone to andy h, was litterly a horse!. 

had a great day out on the water with saltwater charters and will be heading out with them again with out a doubt!

hi all

where do  you get sinkers from best places for cheap prices

i need some for fishing from the beach and jetties

star sinker

spoon

snappa sinkers

or if anyone makes them how much for around 10 of each

need 2 weights 1 for beach road and ones for 6 foot roads

What sort of VHF range are you guys getting West of Rotto - out as far as the FADs ?

My oldish 27Mhz is the only thing I haven't upgraded (works OK, just intermittently got a dodgy volume knob) but from what I've read, 27mhz monitoring may be phased out ?

Even with a flash new VHF with a long aerial mounted up high, I'm thinking due to the possible line-of-sight VHF limitations I'd better invest in renewing the 27Mhz too before we christen the boat out that far ....... or beyond.

But might be a bit pointless if 27mhz is getting phased out and everyone just running VHF these days ?

hey all,

heading up north (shark bay and then coral bay) early january 2012 and dead keen to hook a shark or 20 ;) just want a few pointers on bait and burley, have caught myself a dozen herring and will try do the same for tailor bit closer to the date we leave..

should i fillet the fish and put them on a 7/0 hook? or should i just put the hook though the hole fish does anyone tink one way would work better than the other? my other option is to catch some live bait and give that a shot, and as for burley tuna oil? i have a hand mincer so ill put a few fish though that and feed it into the water, and other tips or things i should know? thanks heaps :)

gday fellow fisherman and ladies...

pulled the pots for donuts this morning and was speaking to the fisheries officers when we got back to the ramp and they said this year and next year their will be no whites caught due to some pattern with cray fish...... i dont under stand it myself so it will be good see how everybody esle goes,..... any one have info about this pattern or know abit about the crays and why this is so.......

cheers Andy

p.s was lovely on the water this morning and was sad putting the boat back on the trailer and leaving this morning :(

 been heard that there are lots of sharks being caught out at long point and round the rockingham area, is this true ?