Hey,

Just wondering if anyone knows any good spots/co-ords for sambos down at augusta, accessable in a 4.5m ali.

Cheers

Hi guys looking at getting a new surf rod, now the one ive been using is the 1 piece 13' Snyder Glass now the lil bugger snapped at the tip over the weekend as I was attaching a light to it... Dont ask me how lol Now I was looking at getting a 3 piece surf rod any tips? or should I stick to 1 piece?

So....is anyone or has anyone been for a dive around Rotto lately or are people just staying away. With the start of cray season tommorow would anyone be in the water if it wasn't for the weather.

D9 shark video

http://s1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd493/Matt_McCarthy/Fishing/?action=view&current=GWattackingD9camera.mp4

Anybody know anything about these early abu reels .I was given it a couple of months ago by an old timer that was moving house and was going to chuck it out.

hi guys, went for a troll in the river yesterday with my two boys Dylan and Jesse (4 and 10 yrs) and as couple of mates and the tailor are absolutely everywhere from the narrows to fremantle we caught and released at least 50 tailor on scorpion 35"s and  little 40mm stickbaits with most of the fish on patches of bait out in melville water, all in all a ggod day with my 4 yr old son Jesse catching his first tailor and following up with about 20 more!! all fish on the 4lb bream outfits, we had several triple hookups and a couple of quadruples  all the tailor were between 28 and 40cm.so if your looking for a bit of fun in the river with the family thats nice and easy i highly recommend it at the moment.   cheers 

Will start at the beginning.

I have been looking to upgrade my boat and had jumped on the importing bandwagon.

8 months had passed and I had got no closer to a purchase than when I started.

I was looking at the Walkarounds (Seaswirls, Trophy’s, Proline, Grady Whites & Whalers)

I had my heart set on a 2301 or a 2601 Seaswirl Striper.

Anyway after countless hours on the net and dealing with Brokers over there It all seemed to be a waste of time and I was getting nowhere. (Nearly 1 year later)

Getting p*ssed of with the dealings over there I started to look around in the local classifieds and Boatsonline etc etc etc.

I did a search on this site’s “For Sale Section” and spotted something I liked.

I ended going around and having a look (and a few beers with the previous owner Rick)

Liked what I saw and organised a seatrial. All went well and 2 weeks later I was the proud owner of my new “Leeder 240 Tomcat”.

So firstly I would like to thank Rick (Great guy and loves a beer) for selling me the boat and also “This site” for finding the boat.

In the end the boat was about 15kms from where I live so I guess it pay’s to look in your own backyard first (Would of saved me 100’s of hours of searching and a few headaches as well.

Can’t wait to get some blood on the deck and some hours on the motor.

Hopefully see some of you out there soon.

Cheers……………….

Gents. I'm off to Steep Point in the next few months and was interested to know if there have been any reports of scalies been caught at the ammo dump jetty? Thanks

does anyone know where I can buy one of these power cables from,

cheers

Hi people

Can anybody please help me, I'm trying to log onto EVOCAM which is a camers locatea at the bottom of the navy pier at Exmouth

http://ilqtss.curtin.edu.au.8088/webcam.html

It was alowing me to log on fine last monday and all I get when trying to get on line is the message"error 503"

what the hell does that mean.

I'm the first to admit that my knowledge of computers, if you turn on the power switch they go (sometimes) and when you turn off the power they allways turn off.

If anyone can help me get back on the site it would be most appreciated

Thanks

Hi people

Can anybody please help me, I'm trying to log onto EVOCAM which is a camers locatea at the bottom of the navy pier at Exmouth

http://ilqtss.curtin.edu.au.8088/webcam.html

It was alowing me to log on fine last monday and all I get when trying to get on line is the message"error 503"

what the hell does that mean.

I'm the first to admit that my knowledge of computers, if you turn on the power switch they go (sometimes) and when you turn off the power they allways turn off.

If anyone can help me get back on the site it would be most appreciated

Thanks

 Hey guys, anyone would know a decent rod to go with an accurate Boss Extreme 400NX (narrow spool). I've got it on a Finnor 30lb, but I feel its a bit bulky! Ill use it for jigging, and general bottom demersals. loaded it with 25lb (light but I like it that way), around 350yrds.

Cheers,

Hesh

hey,

just wondering how other people have been going on the squid lately. We've been out around the cockburn sound and have hardly got one. Anyone where i can find them at the moment??

cheers

 on my android phone game excite big fishing...

should i go to ammo jetty or go narrows bridge with chance of a mulla

or ammo where maybe get all sorts

will be going till just after dark

anyone is welcome to join

 Hi all,

Ive just joined the forum, and you seem like a nice bunch of keen fishermen! I'm still getting my head around the site map, and hopefully Im posting this in the right place.

Thanks, and looking forward for chats and sharing information.

Cheers,

Hesh

looking at getting a 4000 size reel for demersals, i am pretty keen on the certate hyper custom has anyone got any feed back on these or can recommend anything els? cheers James

Hello All,

Not sure where to post this on the website, but, can owners of either of the above vehicles help me out with respective (real life vs bullshit from the dealers) fuel consumption figures?

I'm currently using an F250 to tow a boat weighing just under 3.5t and getting a bit tired of driving the F250 around the City - absolutely awesome vehicle BUT just too big for a regular 'car' around town (IMO).

So looking for another option that might be easier to use as an everyday drive AND tow the boat on trips out of town - narrowed it down to the above two vehicles.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all

is there anyone out there who is using a computer based sounder. I'm using a cruzpro system on a toshiba laptop and it has been good up to now however I plan on going deep this summer and was wondering if anyone else had used one at deapths greater than 150m If anyone has any tips about using sounders to search the deeps I would be most gratfull.Just a note on the side I can't sing the praises about toshiba laptops enough.

Went to Exmouth a couple of years back went out in the gulf when it would have been smarter to say in the caravan short choppy seas (we are talking about a laptop on a 6m quinnie here wave came over the bow hit the windscreen splashed over that and dumped a lot of water on the keyboard and killed the laptop right there and then. Got back to the caravan thought what the hell, turned laptop upside down and proceeded to wash the salt water out with the hot water that was in the hose that had been in the sun.Left laptop upside down for 2 days plugged it in gave it a kick in the guts (applied power) and hey presto on it went and has not missed a beat since. It has been dropped onto the deck bumped very hard when the boat has fallen out of waves etc. I run nav programme Tsunarmi navigator (great) and cruzpro pcff80 a click of one key and it switches between programmes. So I have a sounder with a 12" screen at a fraction of the cost of the large pro sounders, how does it stand up against the big furunos lowrances etc, short answer don't know haven had the unit alongside another boat to check out what each can see.

I am looking at buying some 12 ft out -rigger poles and bases for my rig and wonder what bases most guys use , i have looked at the relax bases with the spine slot for various positions but have been told that you can catch your fingers in them whilst changing out on the water , also these dont appear to give alot of variation on pole positioning ,  the two others ,one has two sections that can be adjusted for angle out and pole position up and down similar to a radio antennae base  in stainless but dont look very strong  ,   the third only gives flat or 45 degree angle out and is abit more solid constuction, sorry no names or brands on the other two

Does anyone know what the weed is like up two rocks way at the moment?

Trying to decide if its worth driving up tonight?

Any info would be very helpfull.

 Any one hear about who's boat this one was

NEWSREADER

The Conservation Council is pushing for sanctuaries for our marine life after a baby humpback whale was fatally wounded east of Rottnest.

TIM NICOL

A vessel has collided with a... young whale calf, and it looks like it’s been fatally injured. 

This is really highlighting the threats that our marine life is facing.

NEWSREADER

Tim Nicol, from CCWA, says the whale’s mother was also wounded when the vessel hit them yesterday arvo.

Ends...

Rp

I'm planning on getting one of these to use with 50lb braid and mono topshot for medium game fishing and the occasional deep drop fishing, has anyone got one of these/used one? Would this be a good option for the fishing I plan to do?
Any feedback would be handy before I go ahead and commit to it.

I'm planning on getting one of these to use with 50lb braid and mono topshot for medium game fishing and the occasional deep drop fishing, has anyone got one of these/used one? Would this be a good option for the fishing I plan to do?
Any feedback would be handy before I go ahead and commit to it.

Well I've had my boat for a year or so now and I was getting annoyed with have to remove the Pacemaker 23L tanks from the boat every time I had to fuel them back up after a day out. Plus the tanks were getting on and there were some pin holes and cracking happening on the tops of the tanks. I've started going out deeper now and it's also a shit fight with all the tanks cluttering the deck near my bait board.

To start off, I made a timber dummy fuel tank but it resembled a rabbit hutch more than a fuel tank so I made it smaller and out of cardboard as it was easier and cheaper to work with. It wasn't a straight forward rectangle tank as the outboard well on the Fraser comes down to where the tank sits so that is why there is some funny angles in the cardboard tank.

I'm lucky where I work as there are welders. I went and saw one of the guys to see if he would do the tank for me. He agreed to do it in his spare time and I went off and bought a sheet of 1.6mm stainless. I had to wait a little as there was a shut down on but in the end he came through with the goods. I hydro'ed the tank to make sure it didn't leak and also to see how much it took. It was about 60L.

I went down and bought all the pipe and fittings to make it a fix in the boat and got stuck into it at home. I hate cutting holes in the fibreglass so I made sure the hole was in the correct spot so that I wasn't going to have to do a fill in job later. I put in new fuel lines and an inline fuel filter while I was at it too. There's also a 3 way valve so that I can change the fuel tank to a reserve Pacemaker fuel tank on the run. The vent pipe runs up under the gunnel with another fuel filter to stop the water ingress in to the tank.

Now for the filling of the tank. I went down to the servo to fill the tank. It'll have to be a slow fill from now on. I had a fuel geyser out of the fill pipe. Even with a 38mm internal diameter fuel hose, back pressure was present and I just about got showered with fuel. Stupid boat. It took 65L litres with the fuel bowser nossel at a quater open to stop washing my boat with the fuel spilling back out but I'd still say a tad over 60 as there was a little bit spilt.

I cut a strip of stainless to make a band to hold the tank into place but it was a custom job and movement will be minimal. Now for a test run. I'll probably leave on of the Pacemaker fuel tanks on the boat as a reserve tank for those long trips. Now the tank is the only shiney thing on the boat and everthing else looks a bit ratty but it still does the job until the minister of finance gives me the go ahead for a new boat.

If anyone is interested in a welder for their jobs on boats, the bloke at work said that he was interested in pursuing this kind of work at home. I'm pretty stoked with the job he did for me. PM if you want his contact details.

Ken

Anyone from Exmouth want to keep us updated on how the Tantabiddi boat ramp is coming along and when she might be finished? A few photos every now and then wouldn't be too bad either :)

Cheers

Mine is simple. I used to race rally cars and the cost per rally was about $1000+, and at 6-7 per year it adds up.

Now I dont, and its very easy to say that whatever I get is cheaper than a set of tyres etc etc. No arguments then.

Neels

Anyone heard any feedback regarding Hollywood Charters on Christmas Island?

Heard plenty about Shorefire so don't need any updates on them thanks.

so some of you may have seen that im chasing a sounder for my 14 footer.

i am looking for something just entry level - not too expensive, trying to stay under, say, $200..

anyway im looking at the humminbird piranhamax. from what i have read they are ok for the money you pay. 

i gather that dual beam is better than single beam? is tri beam better again? and 8 level grey scale is better than 4 level?

the stats for the two units i am looking at are:

http://www.humminbird.com.au/products/sonargpscombos/piranhamax/piranhamax170x.html

http://www.humminbird.com.au/products/sonargpscombos/piranhamax/piranhamax180x.html

i have managed to find the 170 for $92 (normally $230ish) and the 180 for $149 (normally $280ish)

is the 180 much better than the 170? is one of them going to be easier to learn to read than the other?

thanks fellas!

jo

No mulloway tonight but got this bream not a monster but still fought hard measured 37cm