Hi All

This is a fantastic site and the people seem great. I was wondering if anyone can help me, with a question:

I have a Furuno GP31 and have all these waypoints setup in there when i boat the gps, but am unable even with the assistance of the manual, to use the waypoint menu.

When i select a waypoint, i cant set it up, so i can go and the gps little ship to move around towards the target. I cant get my head around it all....Am i missing something? Please help????

i am goin to kalbarri in 2-3 weeks for a few days of fishing probably goin to go out on the boat 1 day but for the rest i will only be able to do landbased fishing so just a few questions.

in the river what species am i most likely to catch?

what strength line would be the best for lures up there or am i better off using a certain type of braid?

what are the best lures i should get before i go?

are soft plastics good to use? cause i have never used them so i will need to practice when i get up there aswell

and are lures or bait best to use

any help and tips would be much appreciated

thanks danny.

Fellow Anglers,

New member to the site. Have been a long time reader, and thought I should get in on the action here on FW.
Just though I'd say hi and hopefully get to know a few of you guys and share some awesome storys. Cheers

Knappy

When is the best time of year for lb snapper metro and times/ rigs/ baits would be great!!

I always thought the swan river was all fished out and there was nothing besides undersized bream. But I went to causeway the other night and caught a 37cm bream with mulie and gang hooks. 

So I wanted to start a topic on who has caught big bream THIS YEAR 2011 in the Swan river to prove that there still is big bream in there.

Please post your photos and location and how you caught it.

Just bought a stella 5000sw just wondering what would the best rod to suit for shallow jigging and plastics. ive already got a 10000sw thought i might try a bit lighter

Sorry for the double post guys, but I am running out of time.

I use my boat nearly every weekend, but the trailer has a fair bit of rust in it in two places.

Have never done long distance (past two rocks) towing it, but am off to Exxy next weekend.

Have had the trailer looked at, and they advised against me taking it up there. Have been given a quote to repair it, but they cant do it before Exxy.

Has anyone got, or know of a trailer that I could buy (or rent) that would suit? It is a 17.5ft glass boat. If I was going to buy it, I would want something in pretty good nick.

Alternatively if you know of one that isn't getting any use that you would rent me for 8 days, that would be excellent. Happy to leave my trailer with whomever I rent the other one off.

Might be a long shot but worth a try!

Cheers

Dan

hi all.

i have just recently joined this site, and i was wondering if you could help me out.

im wanting to go fishing tonight or maybe even this weekend, im look at going to the ammo jetty, do you guys have any suggestions on where else to go? or what to target there?

OK punters

Have both Stella SW10,00 and SW20,000.........both sweet reels, the SW10,000 was perfect for Fiji GT popping and handled  everything I threw at it on PE8 with a SOM 16,000 spool, and tne high speed was great for popping.

The SW20,000 really is a big beast only suited to the very biggest of fish. Put it to good use ona  big YFT in Fiji, glad I had it, any other spin reel would have been pain after the tuna went deep (well, it was pain even with the 20k). 

The 20k has been put to pasture until the next big OS trip as it is too big for anything metro (although it may get a gernsey this Friday out at the FADS/Derwent.....). 

The 10k is much lighter and more comfortable and I (unlike many others) quite enjoy the higher speed for jigging, but the high speed makes life a bit hard  retrieving deep divers when trolling and bullocking big fish when jigging.......so................my question, can I  run the SW20k handle (which is 1 cm longer) on the SW10k reel to give it more cranking power.

Just tried it and it all looks and feels sweet..............is there any dramas and has  anyone tried it (apart from putting extra stress on the 10k reel)?.

For me, this would be a very cheap alternative to a SOM handle.......

Me and my mate want to start wetting our line around point peron, Rockingham.

What fish can we actually catch there, and what part of point peron should we try for that fish?

I heard theres a few waves there, so are tailor a option??

Also let us know what rigs/reels/lures you usually use, that would be great.

If you dont want to let anyone else know just pm me id appreciate that alot :)

My missus has organised a trip to Pardoo this weekend with her workmates.  Sounds great, but I am the only dedicated fisherman.  I beleive there is a creek with barra / jacks and beach fishing also.  Can anyone please give a bit of advice, being neapish tides, should I take my tinnie and forget the beach fishing?  I have all of the gear required, but a bit reluctant to take everything if it is not going to be used.

Thanks

Hope the threadies are going!!

Righto, mate is looking for his first PE3 spin outfit. He picked  up a PE3 Phlueger rod at a tackle shopw in Brissy (up to 150 g jigs) for good or bad, now needs a reel, up to $250 (cheapscate).

Options I think:

- Stradic 5000

- Sustain 5000

- Saragosa 5000

- Sol 4000

Happy to hear opinionsor alternatives. Mainly for demersal jigging up to 150 g jigs.

 Well Honsu showed me the GT knot the other day in the shop and hell if i can remember how to do it! I know alot of members use this knot for there bimini to leader connections, so i was just hoping someone could take the time to film themselves tying the knot and upload it to youtube or something. I cant find any videos on the net at all on how to do it, so maybe somebody knows where i can find it?? If there is one out there then it must be pretty hard to find because the same question is asked on alot of other forums, "How do i tie the GT knot."

Ive tried following Kasey L's image that he posted a couple years but found it difficult to follow.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEEE

Heyy everyone

lastnight i was fishin down at city beach (fruitless)

I was walking to different rock casting my line, then I stepped on a BIG bit of glass that took a liking to my foot, some IDIOT fisherman has smashed a bottle down there!

I just thought that I would let you know of What some IDIOTS do down there

cheers

lano fly fisherman

Rumour has it that at least one forum member tagged their first marlin today. They also dropped a sail 5 mins later. Hopefully he got plenty of picks.

Hi there! Just kitting up the electronics for the new boat, just wondering if anyone has bought..or had any dealings with Fusion Marine stereos, speakers ect Look like a good option compared to the GMe stuff on the market. Thanks

Went out fishing yesterday for the Pirtek Challenge with the girlfriend, but with Salmon being the target didnt have much luck. Took my new inflatable boat out for a drive and went fishing in Cockburn Sound. Was a pretty wavey and windy day but we still managed to get a few small fish for the first time. Caught a few nice Tailor, Herring and some small snapper. There was two fish i caught but i dont exactly know what they were. I was thinking a Slimey Mackeral and maybe a Yellowtail?? 

Check out the pics below...

A little bait fish... that took a hook with no bait....

Overall was a nice little day of fishing. All fish released.

Crew,

Planning a trip out to DHI in Julyish, I`ll be towing my 4.2 quinni dingi up to try and sample some of the goodness that i`ve heard is on offer out from the island.

As far as the camping goes i want access to the western side of the island to hunt baldies etc on the nicer days, I was thinking Withnel point or Dampiers Landing as I want to either moore or launch and retrieve the Dingi as easily as possible.

If the weather isnt so good then the likes of off Turtle bay or anywhere in the lee off the island protected from the south westerly could be good plan b`s.

Any advice on the camping aspect and also the fishing hows and the wheres would be great.

Cheers - Timboon....

 Saw a post here [mybe last week] on sea sickness tabs that WORK ! Can someone help me pls as Missus is coming away with me for eastrer weekend. love to share the fishing with her, but need some HELP.. [tried , calms, quells, the usual average gear. anyone  got  aother ideas? saw a post prev, but cant find it..

G'dy Fishos,

Left Perth on friday for my first salmon run down south.

Stopped in Bussleton for a quick squid session, caught 14 and a cuttle fish in less than 2 hours.

Fished friday evening at Hamelin bay, didnt see a school but a local fisho said there was a small school in the morning.

Went back early morning yesterday and had a cracking start to the season. Caught 4 and lost 2 behind the reef in less than an hour.

Commercial fisherman came from no where and netted half the school and the rest stopped biting and slowly moved towards north.

Nothing happened for rest of the day. Went back this morning and not even a small patch was seen. Easterly was blowing so decided to packup.

Back in Perth having salmon curry with steam rice.

Cheers

Well, me and Daz had another Metro troll session......trying to top the previous METRO GOLD session of maccies and YFT......Hotdogs bailed, some feeble excuse of being a sensible husband and father or something............

We all know how something like this ends.........................trolled for nearly 4 hours with a good spread of 4, over all our previously successful ground, and not a single touch....................I thought it was only fair to put up a post of the hard luck day to even out some of the previous posts we have  put up where it all seemed peaches and cream..........it sure aint like that every session, thats for sure........ 

Fair bit of weed around and a distinct lack of bait balls compared with every other session we did last week......something has changed.

Is that the end of the Metro pelagics phenomenon.....I doubt it, but they sure weren't there this arvo.Anyone else have a go? We only saw two other boats out having a troll....in failry poor conditions.

Off to cook up some more chilli a dgarlic crusted yellowfin tuna on the BBQ.........it aint all bad.

John

This is what happens when we gofishing in shitty conditions and catch nothing

had a quick flick down the river yesterday afternoon.

flicked some minnows arround on the flats and worked some vibes and softplastics in the deeper water.

good results. nothing huge.

ended up with 5 bream, lots of herring, some trumpeter, two whiting and a nice flattie arround 50cm.

also got some rare southern blue nose bream... lol ;)

most the fish were coming from the flats.

got a couple of pics mucking arround with the camera.

for those who don't know, the bream turn a florescent blue colour arround the mouth and tail when they eat the mussels off he hull of a boat that is painted blue!!!!

the mussels absorb the blue and when the bream eat the mussels, they turn a cool blue colour....  so what i heard!! :)

cheers,

tom

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a new medium sized reel for some jigging, bottom bashing and something that could still cast well. Having a look around and being as a i almost always buy shimano gear i wanted to give the daiwa side of things another go.

The new Saltiga that Daiwa have just released caught my eye but wanted some opinions if anyone has used one or on similar reels in that range, before i splash over a grand on a new reel. i already have a Stella SW and i know they are great reels, but kind of wanted something different from my norm.

The link below is from a website where someone has ripped a saltiga apart and really given it a proper review, and it looks as tho some things in this reel don't quite cut the mustard.

http://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?t=768370

Any opinions or suggestions would be great!

Cheers

Hi All

Just had to share my good news. After months of looking have finally found a great boat to get out amongst some good fish (hopefully)and great relaxation on the water. It is a 2006 7 mtr Whittley Sea Legend with a 225 Suzuki on the back which pushes her along very nicely. The missus is happy (believe it or not) as well with the toilet, so hopefully will have some good times ahead. Hope to see some of you out on the water.Below are a couple of photos hopefully plenty more fishing photos to follow in the future.

Cheers

watched this on Catalyst last Thursday night regarding shark 'finning' and its impact.  The video is 6 minutes long and the transcript below is from the video.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3185178.htm

TRANSCRIPT

Narration:  Something very disturbing is happening in our oceans...the world's sharks are under threat..and it's all because of their big, beautiful fins.

Dr Vic Peddemors:  Sharks are quite unique in the fish world because they are long lived but they are slow growing and age very slowly to sexual maturity.  These are the issues that make it very susceptible for them to be overfished.

Narration:  Since the early 1990s we've been removing more than 700 million kilograms of shark from the world's oceans every year.

Dr Vic Peddemors:  It's an awful, massive number of fish.  And the large percentage of that would be primarily for the fin.

Ruben Meerman:  Shark fin is a delicacy in East Asia where it's used for consumption mainly in shark fin shoup.

Narration:  But here's the really shocking part:  shark fins are pure cartilage, so they have no flavour and virtually no nutritional value.

Dr Vic Peddemors:   Historically only the wealthy could afford to have shark fin.  That's obviously now changed with the burgeoning middle classes in china and the ability to now afford shark fin has actually driven a lot of this increase that we've seen.

Ruben Meerman:  The main market for shark fins is Hong Kong but it's also widely available here in restaurants and on the shelf.

Narration:  And it's the astronomical price tag that's driving this frenzy.

Ruben Meerman:  I've just bought some shark fins.  This packet of little ones, $4.20, this large single fin $118 and I was assured, it's a product of Australia but there were even bigger ones in the shop that were $400 a kilo.  So the message is clear; the bigger the fin the higher the price and that's a recipe for disaster. 

Dr Vic Peddemors:  Sharks are critical in the marine ecosystem as the apex marine predator.  So removing sharks actually has a massive domino knock-on effect on the whole ecosystem.

Narration:  The very high prices that fins fetch can lead to the practice called "finning".  At its most extreme, the fins are cut off while the shark is still alive.  It's then dumped overboard...and left to drown.  But the less cruel method of killing the shark first, then removing the fins and discarding the carcass is still horrendously wasteful.

Ruben Meerman:  Taking the fins and not the carcass is illegal in Australia but it does happen.  It's up to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and state bodies like NSW Fisheries to stop this activity.

Narration:  Tony Chen is a fisheries officer who works for both organisations.

Ruben Meerman:  So what's your direct experience with illegal shark fishing?

Tony Chen:  Well, I had one matter where we seized 87 fins from a tuna long lining vessel.  It had been fishing for a couple of days between Sydney and the south coast of NSW and we found the fins concealed in a bait freezer on board.

Narration:  Tony's search of the boat revealed only the shark fins, not the bodies.

Tony Chen:  Shark fins are worth a lot of money, and the actual bodies of the shark, the meat, is very low value and it's just not worth their while to retain the body when you can easily take the valuable part of the shark off.  We took the 87 shark fins to the Australian Museum for DNA analysis.

Narration:  Hidden behind the prehistoric dinosaur skeletons there's a state of the art DNA laboratory run by Dr Rebecca Johnson.

Dr Rebecca Johnson:  DNA was really important in this case because once the fins have been removed from the body, to make an identification on morphology, the external characters, is very difficult with shark fins.

Narration:  Since the fins were found without the carcasses, in order to prosecute the case the AFMA needed to prove that the fins did indeed come from sharks.

Dr Rebecca Johnson:  Once I got the DNA sequences from the specimens, I went looking for the closest match from a known reference sample. And this is where our fish collection is invaluable. It's, it's kind of analogous to matching fingerprints and we were able to find specimens and take DNA from them, and then make a definitive identification using our known fish collection. In the 87 shark fins case we found they actually were equivalent to coming from 22 individuals. They included spinner shark, dusky whaler, tiger shark, short fin mako and blue shark. It's very important to establish if you're dealing with a protected species or not. So the DNA evidence can not only be used to establish that it's a shark, it then may be able to establish that it's from a protected species and this obviously can draw much higher fines and penalties.

Tony Chen:  The outcome was that there was two people convicted, ah they were both first-time offenders, and they got a total then of $23,000 in fines. Ah, it was a really excellent result

Narration:  It's good to know that the laws protecting sharks are being enforced. But is this enough?

Dr Vic Peddemors:  It's all very well trying to stop the end where it's the fishers but if we don't stop the users from using the product, we're probably not going to be very successful.

 anyone kno if the fish are biting atm? thinking of going there tonight to wet the line!

Hey all.

I've been fishing the river for squid quite a few times in the last week or two and only getting one every 2 sessions so not to bad but not great. Any way went down to the river last night to have another go and was casting around and got one within half an hour of being there it was a 21cm hood and i was happy thinking i would get more. Around 11ish i cast out and got my evergreen jig the one that ive got my squid on snagged and lost it.. Not to happy any way tie on a yamashita naory range hunter 2.2 on and have a few casts got snagged again damm.. Lost that jig to and i was gonna call it a night and started windig in my line. The end of the leader was on the stiper guide when i looked over the end of the jetty and sore a decent squid floating around i was no i dont have a jig ready. pulled the line through all the quides ( not easy in the wind) look back down and theres a BIG one sitting right behind it. I finally got my jig on but lost sight of them :( called it a night not long after.

On a side note ive seen quite a few people keeping little tailor say 15cm and use them for bait not a good sight.

went squidding again last night (10/4/11) i got a squid around the 18cm hooded squid and not much else, nice night out a little bit cold and wet but all good fun wind died and the water was so flat. missed another squid i was teaching my sister to squid and she pulled the jig out of the way of it lol.

Hi all,

Second time at trying to post this question, I will be picking my new boat up in a week or two and was wanting a few ideas on good fishing spots and places to try, I will be launching mainly south of the river Rockingham Woodmans pnt ect, any help would be great.

 So what are the target fish for WA this year? Any members going to give it a crack tomorrow? Unfortunately i only heard about it the other day, so missed out on registering.

Good luck to any members competing this year!