hey guys i am heading out for a troll of rocko tomorrow chacing these mackies i am hearing so much about can anyone help me with the depth to start looking in also inside or out side the 5 fathom bank any help would be great also if you see the bright green boat driving about aimlessly come and say gday

cheers ethan

Weather  and water conditions not looking to promising for international billfish comp and gamex

Who's heading out tomorrow for a billie bash , IM
Going out solo tomorrow myself , got the big gear on board , looks like a top day for it

6 Marlin hooked, 2 tagged, 40kg Black and 70kg black, 60m, 25.5c temp, SEASPORT CHARTERS. Also landed a 15kg Yellow fin, 6kg yellow and several 6-9kg Stripe Tunas

by the look of the weather, its going to be a bad weekend for the fish!!!!

so who's doing what and when?

thanks

senior detective ron

i know theres a place on the river where you can fuel up, does anyone know the name of the place and is it a 24hour fueling station?

Also is rotto a 24 hour fueling or does it close at a certain time?

 Can anyone help with this, is it just local fish markets?

Hi guys

Ive got a set of the carbontex washers for my dogfight... was wondering if anyone knew where a good step by step guide or video would bee hiding online about how to change them?

or could anyone give me a run down of how its done? Ive got some good grease etc...

Ive had a bit of a search on the site and cant find what im after

thanks in advance!

Hey guys and gals,

I was just wondering what peoples preferences are to the screen scrolling speed of there sounders and why? The reason i ask is because ive had a lowrance sounder for the last few years and it has always been set to the slowest scroll speed, but i have just upgraded to a furuno and i remember seeing the settings on another fishwrecked post set to almost the fastest scrolling speed. So im just wondering what speeds people have their sounder screen scrolling speed set to and why?

Cheers Paul

I need to buy one of these tonight for my Lowrance Sounder.

Want the Australia wide card.

Anyone bought one recently from a local store (Perth).  Would be interested to know where from and how much.

Thanks

PG

Well got the 37, 24, 15kg, Black barts, Ricthers, tiagras, teasers, ready to go for tomorrow.

Headin out to the CL of Nato. Start at the 50m mark and see what happens. Hopefully wil;l have some photos for you all to see tomorrow.

Wish me Luck. Water is around 26c +/-

Stoinka

Anyone keen to make a prediction on whether the next low is going to develop into cyclonic proportions ?

Heading off middle of next week up to Exmouth & the troops are keen to know if we take fishing rods or drinking shoes...

Hey all.

Just wondering who NOR sells sunline super PE in 6lb 150m and also 30lb in 300m?

Cheers Danno

well fri night is looking good for a nigh session on the 3 mile from hilliarys anyone else headingout?

hi guys looking for a quality bream rod probably 2-4kg can anybody recommend one without cork grips and were has a good selection.cheers brg

guys,

its looking at 9-15 south winds tomorrow afternoon,evening...looks pretty calm to me.is it too calm for tailor?..am going to give it a try id say..hopefully plenty herring around....going north shore,,any reports up there lately.im just back in town after been evacuated from mines...want to wet the line before i head back up

cheers guys

Looking at being in the river friday night in preperation for the rotto swim on saturday morning and was thinking of maybe doing a bit of crabbing while on the water, what locations are producing and what areas arent, and what depths?

thanks

On feedback from members I decided to purchase some 'Stren Gold' line from Oceanside tackle.

Oceanside is a site sponsor and never really using them before, (primarily because I am based in Bunbury) I have never thought to purchase from them in the past.

However, after dealing with Hon-Su and getting all the info on said product I was chasing, Oceanside delivered on time, a great product and without any fuss, and at a great price.

I often look off shore for products and am guilty of forgetting we have good suppliers on our doorstep.

I think members should consider contacting Oceanside for all their tackle needs, an NO!! I have not been put up to this as a advertising speal. This is praise off my own back.

hey all anyone know which fads are firing cheers craig

pontoon 21 crackjack close up

big bream on pontoon 21 crack jack

early morning bream on pontoon

Hey guys, i was thinking about going squidding on sunday, i got the rod & reel and i got the jigs, is there anywhere where theres good squidding off shore? thanks lots

hey guys, Heading to esperance for work.. never been down there was hoping to get out an about for a bit of land based fishing. any tips or spots would be cool? cheers

can anyone tell me where in mandurah i can find crabs this arvo? heading up  from bunbury so was thinking off herrron point road... has anyone been there ? will just be scooping.

 cheers

well, it has come time to leave karratha. house is packed. boat is sold. reels are seperated from rods and ready for transport. eyes are getting watery...

just thought i'd chuck in a highlights package of a couple of photos from the last year and a half that i've had a boat in k-town. has been sensational fun and i don't regret anything (apart from not getting the boat sooner). in all, put 300 hours on the boat in about 18 months, and enjoyed almost every hour.

anyway, below are a few photos with brief explanation as to what's going on. lots of photos...but only a snapshot and not necessarily the best ones i have, just what i have on my work computer.

biggest haul we ever got. had mates visiting and ended up with this haul. think we got another mackie on the way back in after this photo as well. ate like kings and fed the neighbours. think we only chucked a couple of fillets in the freezer

more of a typical day. just enough for us, my mate and the neighbours. advantage to fishing was that my neighbour would mow my lawn every time the boat went out. the bartering system at its finest.

pic of the boat at whalers bay. sold it on monday and miss it already

another of boat at east lewis on a rough day

first GT. smashed me...

one of my first mackies. have caught heaps of them but never any monsters, biggest i ever got would be 15kgs (not this one obviously)

missus with one

when i had some mates up we went out up past legendre and found three mantas cruising around. we were stationary and they did bog laps around us. they were massive and at least a few metres across. unfortunately cameraman couldn't zoom out any more. i was trying to catch the resident cobia at the time but he wouldn't hook up no matter what i chucked at him

one of the more interesting catches.

missus with a decent queeny

my first legal red. ended up with a few, but like the macs, never got anything truly special

livin the dream

leaving dampier

flying foam passage

big big shark. got a big mackie near the boat before he saw it and took off. 45 minutes and a snapped rod later this came in to the boat. was bigger than my mate and he is 6ft, was also the fattest shark i've seen first hand

smaller one but still a decent set of chompers

and what happens when the bigger chompers get your mackie. still fed three people from the steaks...

my mates trout. biggest one i've ever seen.

from a solo session. got heaps of queenies and lost of undersized trout as well as these two keepers in teh most exciting fishing i've ever had. double hookups, only one fisherman and trying to keep boat away from reefs too.

yellowfin. only one i ever saw. ran into heaps of mac tuna but not many of these around.

and then there were the whales. in plague proportions.

would often scare the bejesus out of you as you're drifting along having a fish and one pops up next to you...

anyway, that's it. will still fish in perth but am setting myself for disappointment after what i've experienced. if anyone gets the opportunity to move there for a bit i can't recommend it highly enough. one of the best decisions i've ever made.

Hi Everyone,

a mate of mine and i are going to try and catch some bream this saturday. Being complete novices targeting this fish species i was wondering if anyone could lead us in the right direction as far as spots/conditions etc to look for when fishing for bream. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Ash

I just commented on an old post of mine that I got my ass handed to me tonight by a 200kg plus ray. After one hour and 45 mins I f----d up and lost it. Lack of patience and experience.... As I said in the post, a very humbling experience.

It made me wonder though, what are your best stories of the ones that got away? be it human error, bad luck, or just being seriously undergunned.... Getting spooled, bitten off, massive fights only to have a knot pull?

Theres gotta be some great stories out there lets hear em!

hey guys never been a plastic man but i have seen a lot of nice fish been caught with them. so thinking i might have to try some. which ones are the best to buy. I do my fishing around the cape in busselton in about 40-50m of water chassing all the prize winning fish. hope to try them out on friday. any help would be great

thanks rocky

just wondering why bunbury doesnt have any artificial reef off the coast, they know how much marine life it attracts eg. Carnarvon tyres simple yet effective??

just wondering why bunbury doesnt have any artificial reef off the coast, they know how much marine life it attracts eg. Carnarvon tyres simple yet effective??

OK so it's not about fishing but it is about the vehicle I use to get there. FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To cut a very long story short my Disco has developed over-heating problems for a while now. Me being me I have stressed about this and done some credible reasearch and had some paid professional opinion. The advice I got was that the radiator was blocked. OK so now I have to spend some bucks. I call in a radiator specialist to look at the problem and it quickly turns out without even so much of an effort that my radiator was fucked so I needed to spend $900 on a replacement. OK, so fuck it. It has to be done.

Ok so now it gets interesting. The labour charge is over $100 per hour for a guy who looks like his last shower was a week ago. I live 60kms from where I work. The cockhead drives off after taking out the radiator and rings me saying he will see me tomorrow. FFS!!!! Like I want to sleep in my warehouse???? Anyway, he comes back after a few threats and installs a new radiator. I only have 50% of the cash so he threatens to do something as his boss will not be happy. Anyway, that's another story LOL. He was paid at 7:30am next morning. A bit like a late payment on drugs albeit I haven't been in that situation but I do have Foxtell LOL.

OK so since then my Disco has been running sluggish and burning fuel. Also still overheating. The dickhead cretin radiator man suggests I need to rip off the head and get it fixed/replaced. Not a small task as it requires about $4000 if the head is fucked like he suggests. I panic and book an appointment with my favourite guys as Discovery Automotive to further diagnose the problem. On the way there my car shits itself on the Mitchell freeway with no power and black smoke pissing out of the rear. A bit like James Bond with his smoke screen up LOL.

So I limp to Wangarra at 20kms with smoke. Guys take a look and confirm that the problem is most likely turbo related (I thought this initially). Booked it in for a $400 hose replacement fix. FFS!!!!!!!!! 2 hoses and 1/2 hour of work?????? Anyway. Missus is spewing so I put on my superman cape and go in for the kill. Investigations under the bonet in my driveway taking 10 minutes and a lot of swearing reveal that the cockhead radiator man has left a hose clip off the turbo pipes! FFS!!!! 100 liters of diesel and a lot of fucking stress and embarrasment on the freeway. Intially it would seem that air was pissing out of a loose connection and then ultimatley, the hose blew off and I had fuck all turbo boost at all and an engine that needed ventoline!

Anyway, it's a good laugh for you lot but take heed. Do not trust these bastards and do not be misled. I needed a degree to charge what they charge and my trade is blue-chip so to speak. What gives the tradies to right to charge what they do now and not provide a quality of service????????

OK fuck it.. The rant is over and I am going to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!