I have a Jigwrex s5103 pe3 which needs a reel matched to it. Will be Mainly used for jigging. What do you guys recommend?

Thanks
Justin

hello all.im hoping that someone might be able to give me a bit of help or advice. im looking at buying a lowrance HDS8 with the side and structure scan upgrade. I was wondering if anyone has one or has used one? are they any good? what depth does the side and structure scan work too? maybe someone has some real time scans they have recordered that they would be willing to share. any advice or experiance that anyone would like to share would be greatly apreciated. thanks.

$25million boat harbour to be built in Augusta

Howdy! im wondering if you knowlegable folks could point me in the right direction. Im heading up to Karratha to visit the old man next weekend to do some landbased fishing for a few days and was after some advice on where to go and what i may encounter. Im planning on getting dropped somewhere in the morning while my dad goes to work and exploring on foot i just need a starting point the second day ill have a car,i will be taking my Braid Concept with a saltist 4500 and 9kg line a heap of luers ect. Ive never been north of Kalbarri so i was hoping of maybe a few small GTs ,queenies ,mangrove jack ect or am i pushing my luck?

All help is appreciated

Cheers Matt

 Hey all.

Im heading down to busso again in a few weeks and i plan on trying to catch a mulloway off the jetty. I have two combos that i might use they are a TLD 20 with 30lb mono and a Stradic 8000fi with 10kg mono on a jigwrex PE4. They are a bit on the light side but do you think that they will be able to stop a mulloway? And what lb leader do you use? i've got 40,60,80,120lb leaders im thinking of using the heavier one tho.

Also how do you guys land them on the jetty? Which would be a better option for solo night fishing a Flying gaff or a long gaff?

Cheers danno

Who went out and how did you go? Just came back in on the glass off... Beautiful day!!!! Little sloppy to start tho.

Hey Guys and Gals,
 

Goin to head out of hillarys to 3 mile soon one morning, Chasing pinkies primarily
Any one been out lately and been getting much?

Cheers, Duffman

 we left the boat park at 6 an got back by 7:45 got 3 good pinkys just as the sun came up

Diners in Japan looking for a moving experience over dinner can now order a squid that dances off their plate.

A restaurant has created a dish, named Odori don - literally meaning dancing squid rice bowl -  by adding soy sauce to a fresh squid.

The high salt content in the sauce reacts with ions in cells of the squids' tentacles creating voltage differences, and making the squid move. 

To prepare the dish, chefs at Ikkatei Tabiji, in Hakodate, Japan,  first remove the head of the squid before serving the body, with tentacles intact, over a bowl of sushi rice.

Seasoned soy sauce is then poured over it.

As the squid is served so fresh, when the sauce is added, signals across nerve cell membranes are re-activated temporarily, making it 'come back to life'

 

Dancing juice: The squid is placed on a bed of rice before soy sauce is added

 

Itchy feet: The squid appears to get up and start moving out of the bowl

The body is then removed and prepared by the chef to be served as a side accompaniment.

The meal, which is proving popular with diners, costs around $25 per person

Staying alive: The squid is now in full swing and looks as if it's dancing

The dish is such a success that the restaurant have patented the name of the creation.

Now other restaurants in the area have begun making their own versions of the Hakodate dish, under different names.

Edit: There's a (rather unappealing) video at the end of this link if you feel so inclined.

i had canned it due to weather but the forecast has improved slightly so i am gunna give it a crack.

me and troy will be heading out from woodys early and as deep as i can go (weather permiting)

anyone else heading out?????

Hey im just wondering if anyone on the site plays playstation online, i know its not fishing related but would like to no thanx?

Hi guys,

Yeah, I know it's not big news, but Anaconda has a 60% off sale on all Mojiko gear this weekend. Most of it is shite, but for those looking for a cheap graphite rod, the Mojiko Plastix 1-3kg 7' 2" is pretty good, and the Surf Cannons look pretty good too, for less than half price. Haven't used the Cannons, but I have the Plastix and it's quite nice; Fuji single foot guides and reel seat. Finish is a bit ordinary, but performance OK. 60% off would be around $20-$25 I think.

Just a heads up for those who can't afford big brands. I have nothing to do with Anaconda.

Cheers

Stu

Curious to know if anyone is using their jigging rod to livebait with? 

I know people use 50lb jigging rods such as the 6ft 3" Hiramasa's for livebaits but im curious to know if a shorter 80lb jig stick such as the 5ft 6" Monster Mesh Max or Catalinas could double as a livie stick?

Ive seen a few shows lately where people are using short Shimano Jigwrex's on bluefin tuna... so wondering if the same theory could apply to livebaiting kings.

Ive got a heavy overhead combo as my go-to livie setup, but considering doubling a jigging combo as a backup.

The reel will likely be a Saragosa 18,000 running 80lb.

Any thoughts?


 

This is well overdue, but i guess better late than never! haha

I flew up to broome at the end of may with three full weeks ahead of me solely dedicated to fishing from sunrise to sunset!  Well at least i thought so, then.......      My parents who are up there half the year needed help fixing their boat, wanted to spend time doing a few other things and so on, fair enough  and then my partner wanted to come up for 5 days and then my brother and then me scaily mates haha so was cut a bit shorter but was stoked to have them all up with us.... My parents are grey nomads that are fortunate enough to live up there for 5 months of every year, and a massive thankyou should be extended to them for letting me crash on their site use their boat and their 4wd.

Well the plan was to grab the new 19ft centre console and bang out to disaster reef to chase some Gts.... but as plans so often dont work out after 12months of "planning" the motor was playing up so i spent a few days fixing eletrics and just generally tidying up the boat for my parents while we were trying to fix the engine.
I was stuck to landbased for the first week, which was fine!

Hit the jetty a few times during different tides (low, high, the change etc) with smaller reefies half way up juvenille blue lined, coral trout, potato cod and heaps more was great to see so many fish! at the end of the jetty we targeted golden trevs and queenies which were great fun on light gear!! but then there were the unstoppables which bricked me in an instant, i can only assume big trevally or resident cod!  Being stubborn i went back the next day armed with heavier gear to catch the infamous unknown that bricked me twice.  Gathered some livies and sent my line out... first hook up was a couta pulled him to the surface and cut him off... then it happened, big hookup again... bricked in the pylons and again and again! i excepted defeat.

Me and my dad went out to a local creek on low tide to try our luck at mud crabbing with the sheperds hooks within an hour we had two muddies, stoked! my first mud crabs... that will do us for dinner!

While my girlfriend was up we headed to willie creek on the start of the incoming tide with our light gear and initially it was quiet just the usual juvenilles and then bang! girlfriend had a big bite with a blistering run that pulled the hook... unfortanately i think it mite have been the threadie i had so badly been hoping for. Then a school of big diamond trevally came through with both of hooking up and landing multiple fish which are so much fun in shallow water and i personally like on the tooth when fresh!

with the boat still not working and desperate to get her onto some reefies we hired a small boat from boab boat hire and headed no more than 2kms out bashing some reef in about 30mt of water, was very quiet with only a couple of undersize snapper and a couple of trevally and a heap of bloody monkey fish and cod! but was beautiful out none the less. Couple of hours before we had to head in we moved right in close and got a heap of spanish flag and golden trevally.

Had a few days relaxing by the beach, dinners and a bit of diving and my partner left.  I hit the jetty a few more times chasing the golden trevally which was a ball!

A few days later i caught up with a friend of a mate that lives up in Broome, Gary Shrugg who was an absolute legend who invited me over, taught me how to throw a throw net which i later found out i wasnt the first and probably
wont be the last, he and his partner aslo offered me use of their dingy and really sent me in right direction even with a few points! i really cant thank him enough!

Finally got our boat running but unfortunately just not reliable enough to go out wide so we were limited to only bout 5kms... the next few days were spent catching Bluebone, snapper, trevally and cod.

Then my brother and mate flew up and were warned the activities will include fishing, fishing, fishing and drinking! they happily obliged.  We spent a few days about 5kms out bottom bashing on spring tides which didnt make it easy but we ended up doing really well all catching big bluebone, catfish, tuna, painted sweetlips, fingermark, bluelined emporer and school mackeral. keeping what we could eat fresh and a bit for a few of the oldy's in the park without boats.

Next mission was to try and troll for some spanish mackeral. We really wanted to go up to barred creek as the mackeral and sailies were absolutely firing but allas the dodgy motor we barely went passed cable beach. We trolled for about two hours without any luck. Running a spread of shallow, mid and deep diving minnows and a home made teaser on a small drop off i had nearly given up hope of ever getting a spanish mack and tehn my rod went off! given it was nearly in free spool
and we were drifting towards it it didnt even realize it was hooked until it got to the boat stiil green it went ballistic as i ran around the boat chasing it while bucky and my bro pulled rods out the way, and lures out of my feet! finally it was boat side, shit! no net or gaff i wasnt going to lose it so i jumped in the water and passed it up as the boys grabbed it.... cheers lads!! i was so stoked with our group effort mackie and still smile thinking bout it!

At this stage, the boys had left and i had ticked a few fish off my wish list. The wind had turned for the worse and managed to catch up with a fellow fishwrecked member Patty and his mate. The lads picked me up in their hire car and we headed up to willie creek again land based. these guys were top blokes and we spent the bext few hours spinning fishy yarns and having a laugh, catching juvies, Patt dropped a diamond trev right at the rocks on placcy and then started to catch bream, flathead and all the fish i could catch in bloody perth! so we hit the road... can i just say was brilliant to catch up with a couple of really easy going guys, complete randoms, but fellow fishos and have a cracking time! thats what this site is all about and would encourage everyone to do the same is always rewarding!

well it was coming to and end for me but i had a window of good weather on my last day so went out with mum and dad to try the creek... doesnt always produce but is always so peaceful there! spent a few hours there trolling, throwing into snags and drifting but we were there on the wrong tides. So we squirted over to the cyclone moorings to try for some triple tail... no joy! then we thought we would try a jew hole i had nearby. First couple of drifts over it nothing then i hooked up a blue nosed salmon and a grunter! neither of which i had caught before so another couple of fish ticked off and then mum hooked up on a small jewie and that was it another great day in broome and the end of my trip!

Unfortunately i couldnt go to half the spots i had hoped with the boat being unreliable but caught a heap of fish, met some great people and had an awsome time :) Ive included some of my favourite pics and different fish species caught.

Apologies for the massive report will try to keep it to the point next time :) finally a massive thanks to my parents who made it possible, Gary Shrugg for all your help, Patty for catching up for a fish and Marky from broome who gave me a heap of advice on fishing broome even offering to take me out, its people like you that really make others holidays unforgetable... Cheers all see you out there!

EXMOUTH NEXT.....

Just finished watching the Dorks.

Great 3 quarters and then died.

Will they play finals..............................

Looking at going out tomorrow , what do you think . Look at the forecast and they all say different . Looks to be a bit windy in the morning but dropping off . Thanks .

Got this light little rod. Wondering if a Stradic CI4 would be OK on it as a light plastic/light spin.

Neels

 G'day guys was wondering if anyone's been out on the swan fishing and or crabbing I've had the taste of crabs in my mouth for a while and decided to try my luck tomorrow. I was wondering if anyone knows where the monsters are hiding and more importantly are they safe to eat I've always been pretty careful with what I eat from the swan I was thinking about heading down are mosman park and drop around there. Any tips be much appreciated 

Well Sherbs and myself thought we would head a bit further north looking for some new ground. We headed up the Indian Ocean Drive from Lancelin to Jurien Bay and planned to fish any fishy looking spots on the way. I was wrong when i thought that there was lots of reefy spots close to the road, that must but further north of Jurien where the road all but meets the beach and reefs. Bugger.

The first time we got the rods out after checking out the surrounds was Grey. We drove around and along the beach and this looked the goods. We threw a few different poppers and even some baits but nothing in reply. It was about 3 to 4 m down to the water.

Next we drove towards Jurien and looked at all the tracks we could along the way even Kangaroo point but still not what we were looking for for a fish. We drove around at Cervantes and it looked like a big bay and nothing exciting.

We kept going to Jurien and checked out a couple of spots we had been told about but the directions sucked and we couldnt find either spot off the directions we were given.

So again we drove around looking for somewhere to fish and ended up driving south of Jurien along a track and the beach where some reef met the beach so this will do and we (I, Sherbs caught nothing Haha ) caught 2 little fish ( they are sitting on an upside down Bucket ) a Flatty and a reef fish that was it.  It was now dark so we decided to head home.

Next time i think i will head north of Jurien and look at the spots you can see from the HWY (not like i thought they are north of Jurien and NOT just north of Lancelin my bad sorry) and try again but in the near future i think i will stick to the tried and proven spots alot closer to home. All in all it was a nice day driving with a bit of fishing thrown in and bugger all fish for the 500ks covered but at least we werent working.  thanks Sherbs for the company.

Not that fishie but thought I might seeks some advice/opinions.

I have a very nice pool in the back yard but it hardly gets used and I spend way too much time keeping it maintained. A large batch of surrounding palms continually pollute the pool so we are thinking that maybe we should fill it in. The palms are too big for an old bloke like me to tackle and the cost of clearing them is quite high.

Has anyone done this? Does anyone know of a good designer who can sketch out a plan? Basically, my idea is to leave the pool in the ground and turn it into a landscape with a water feature or something like that.

Cheers,

Enjoy

So what do you do when the cray season opens and you're copping 20 knot winds and 6 foot seas? Well option one is stay at home, but here is how the other option looks if you have a 25 foot Imemsa Mexican Panga powered by 65 HP Tiller commercial ETEC.

Anyone had a problem with Richter soft heads melting? Just pulled out a lure roll and had one soft Grassy out of about 10 that was disintegrating. Head going all soft and sticky. My first thought was fuel or similar but no other signs on the others. Mono leader and heatshrink over hook rig was fine. Any thoughts?

Hey guys been thinking about buying an over jigging reel (pe3) never owned overhead jigging reel so just asking what ones should I have a look at. Would like it to be light and well balanced. Cheers, marko.

 Hey all.

After all these stormy wheather what do you think the water will be like? Muddy, green or just dirty? Im keen to go for a fish but im not shore what the water will be like?

Has anyone gone fishing today if so what was the water like?

Cheers danno

Anyone else considering thinking of taking their boat out tomorrow or is it going to be a waste of time? Seabreeze isn't the best but it certainly isn't the worst. Thinking of sticking close, within a couple of K's to the West side of Garden Island.

Ken.

anyone no were to get good sized squid or cuttle fish on land in perth region?

I need a freezer mechanic, just wondering if anyone on the site does this SOR.

cheers

Frank

Hi all,  we have made a last minute decision to go on a camping holiday up North in a weeks time, for 3 weeks.  I won't be towing the boat, but taking a camping trailer.  I have never been higher than Kalbarri so this trip will be all new to me.  We hope to go from Perth, thru to Newman, Karijini, Millstream, Point Samson, Exmouth, Canarvon, and stops along the way back to Perth.  I hope to do some fishing landbased, nothing to serious, just some light gear fun.  What would I need to buy and take in regards to lures and tackle. I have a couple of 6 ft light gear rods with aprox 15 pound braid.  Also where could I try to do some fishing in the areas along the coast from Point samson down back to perth, places where I can park the car with the camper trailer, let the kids have some fun in the sand/dirt, missus can read a book in a chair while I can flick some lures around?  And if anyone has any advice for the trip, whatever it may be, maybe awesome places to see, or not to see, don't hesitate to let me know, as I have never been up there before.  Thanks in advance.

after one or two new bream rods, something with a short but preferably with cork handle in the 1-3kg class to match with some 1000 size reels, advice? budget is sliding, under $100 that ticks most of the boxes would do.