hi guys , we went to mandurah for the weekend and went out saturday and sunday we caught some smallish pinks and heaps of small Dhu"s (released) a few sambo"s on plastics and generally had a few cans and didn"t get too serious but most interestingly at one spot 21 mile off mandurah we anchored on a lump that came from 36 to 25m and while two of us fished plastics and floaters my brother and brother in law and another mate fished the bottom at anchor and within 1/2 an hour had 2 biteoffs then 2 ,70/80 cm queenies (released) then a double hookup that resulted in 2 grey nurse sharks arond 2.2m long , five minutes after this my other mate hooked up on my 20,000 stella and gets his ass handed to him for about 10 minutes by a grey nurse about the size of the ones at aqua aquarium LOL!  anyway all were released and we moved so we didn't hook any more of them. now the limited amount i know about grey nurse sharks tells me that we must have anchored over a cave? and if any divers or someone with an interest in these sharks (protected species?) would like the co ords  i would be happy to give them to you.

cheers

well with a mate who has been doing more than well on the pinks an   ofer      was accepted so quik he almost had a nose bleed when he said "hey brenz let go to the snapper spot on sunday". so we hit the ramp at 430 to be greeted with a not to bad se wind . we hit the water with 2 tinnys  and of we went. as soon as we got out of the marina it was sloppy as so tyson proceded my self and nell decided there was no need to break our backs so we just cruised out there. we arived fairly early set up the boat and berly and away we went . first on board was a smallish skippy of round the 30 cm mark followed by a 44 cm snapper on the next both on plastics . by this time the sounder had bigger arks than maccas and it was nellys turn to step up . after 5 mins of solid runs he boated this sambo on 15lb in 8 m of water fair effort i recon. after that the fish shut down but were still showing on the sounder . it was roughly 8 am now so we decided to hit some of the local hillarys herring up ready for our next mulloway assult. the herring were definatly not playing hard to het with many fish comming aboard with the small blues code stick bait being the stand out favourite even hooking into some nice skippy aswell. was a great day on the water with a bit of gear being nicely stretched .

brenz

Hi Everyone on fishwrecked......im new to the website,i need help taking my two-piece rod apart,it stuck..........has anyone have a good way to dot it without physicaly damage the rod....by the way my rod is 10ft ugly stick platimun.........any information is appreciate.

Cheers

Hi guys

The mrs wants to go on a charter for my bday on the 9th or 10th of October. Wanna go on Jurien Sea Sport but i heard that would be booked out, any other good ones that u know of??

Cheers

I've booked Seasport charters this Wednesday and I need 2 more fishos...

http://www.fishingjurienbay.com.au/

BYO gear, though the boat does have some bottom bashing gear.

BYO lunch, the boat provides water and soft drinks. Boat leaves at 6am sharp, best to be there by 5:45am, be back at the marina by around 3pm.

Please PM me if interested/more details.

any stores carrying these sizes?

Can anyone tell me if there is going to be a fishing ban again this year & any idea of the dates. As of yet i havnt heard or read anything about it.  Confirmation would be great.  Cheers Rob

I am booked for a trip to the S-Bend next weekend and I am looking for someone who may be interested in joining me. I travel up on the Saturday morning this week and will be returning next Monday.

I have a van booked at the S-Bend caravan park for the Sat/Sunday.

Interested people can PM me. Some expense sharing is involved for fuel and the van.

If you are unsure then please don't bother to enquire. I am only interested in people who can come without backing out and are able to share expenses.

This is a prime opportunity for someone who hasn't fished that area or someone who knows it and wants to get back there. Key targets are greenback Tailor and Mulloway.

Hey guys,

This may be a very dumb question but been noticing lately that everytime i see alot of jellyfish in the water i always go home empty handed. This morning for instance. Went to Birchgrove and first thing i saw was a school of jellyfish. cu the story short. from 3 am to 11am not even 1 bite. i have 5 rods out and also spinning. Biat: live yakka, Squid and pillie. and everytime i check the bait.. not touch!!! No joke when i say that i start and left with the same bait on the line.

I been looking at the web but i dont see any article about it.. Any comment?

hey fellas lookin to buy one of th new overhead saltiga 2 speed lever drag reels

have lookd a bit on the internet but can find any one selling them yet

i have found the new Saltiga Z spin reels for sale but not the over heads

and my tackle shop here in SA doesnt get them till december

so was wondering are they avaliable to buy any where at the moment

in shops or online cheers

Hi everyone,
Does anyone have any coordinates for mandurah, me and my son Need some help catching some fish:(

Submitted by seaswirl on Sun, 2010-09-26 07:41.

went out today from woodys with a mate and my oldest son,

it was a iery morning out there with the fog, at one stage we could only see 50mtrs in front of us.

the whales were also going nuts today, with full breaching, awsome to watch.

quiet day on the fish front, with not many landed, but my son got his pb jewy to date.

64cm and 4.8kg, so he was stoked.

we managed a few other good fish and also a nor west blowie for me being a first.

quiet day on the water but still better than sittin at home

cheers ron

hey blokes, has anyone caught/seen any choppers in the canning/narrows bridge area lately any info appreciated

Thought some of you might get pissed off so I thought I better post it. :)

Was out squidding today, Grand Final day with a mate out from the Exmouth Marina. We put the boat in at McLeod Beach, and went out a few hundred metres. After seeing quite a few Humpback Whales, I said to the mate, check that out, it looks like a Manta Ray. So I ran over to where it was and couldnt believe what we saw. It was a WhaleShark of around 6 metres in probably 2 metres of water at the back of the reef. I got to pat the Shark on 2 occasions as it swam up to the back of the boat.

The weather got better and glassed off for the rest of the afternoon......another day in paradise. This was the second time I have come across WhaleSharks while fishing in Exmouth out of my tinnie.

whats your ideas on this draw?? best final i have watched since westcoast/swans but feel slightly ripped off, imagine flying there for it, maybe another quarter may have been the key?? whats your opinion????

i am going to head down to woodies near the boat club boat ramps ill be fishing up from the little jetty on the right side on the connor

ill be there between 6 and 7 am will 9 or 10

if anyone wants to come say hello please do

Hey guys,

Am heading out to Kalbarri on Monday and heading out on the boat on Tues with Laurie. Was wondering how we should keep our fish that we caught fresh so the trip back to Perth on Wed. I've been told that keeping a gutted/bled fish in a slushie of ice and water kills the meat and that freezing absolutely destroys the fish ( metaphorically speaking). Anyone could help in the matter?

with all the people doing well on the s/p lately, looks like i am gunna have to give it a bash.

i always said there was no chance of me trying this on the serious no bait day out......but the evidence speaks for itself....just not tomorrow..

how hard is it to hit the water with no bait...be like a friday night with no bourboun?

Havnt been fishing for almost a week busy with school. Now im free and would love to head to any landbased spot that i can think of ( which isnt many, been in perth 2 months ) . Anyone wanna tag along ? im a complete newbie at fishing and prefer to catch and release, or if anyone wants to come u can have whatever i pull up in exchange for some basic tips etc . I stay around cockburn and dont mind picking anyone up who lives around south of the river . just hit me up here or 0457358801 cheers

looks like i just dobbed myself in for a family day out on the swan(sunday),

 with the wife,mother inlaw and sisters in law.

got to be the skipper with the good looking ladys on board,(i am the man) what more could i want on a sunday?

great to see the girls getting into the boat.(they do not fish) 4-5 drunk ladys on board.....going to be a fun day.

cheers ron

so whos heading out tommorow,

where,when,how,why.........

What an up and down day it was for me.

1am i woke up had shower/breakfast packed my car and left to go pick up johnny boii. Got to his house about 2 am. He had directions printed out from google maps and off we went. Google maps NEVER WILL TRUST AGAIN. We went wayyy past the road we were meant to turn at "jurien east rd" and ended up goin past the next as we now didnt have any idea where to go or anyone to ask or reception to call some one. So we pulled over and found a truckie sleeping in his truck, knocked on his door and asked where to go haha, poor guy.

So then we sort of had an idea where to go but not really. Driving along this time really speedng about 1*0 and there were two dead kangaroos on road and in a quick decision i had to go over the roo. My xr6 copped it and now my car was smellin like burnt roo meat. We took indian ocean road only to realize there is about 95 kms to go and we had 45 min until 6 am boat leaving time but i only had 50 kms of fuel left :s. So traveling at a steady speed so i didnt burn fuel until about 10 kms away clnk clnk clnk car cut out after ridin 0 kms for about 35 kms.

Luckily some one was drivin the opposite way at that exact second so i beeped/flashed them down. They stopped and took me to jurien servo and by this time could finally get reception to call honsu. I called him and it was just after 6 am and they were waiting for us. Honsu came and picked me up with a jerry can and fuel in it. So we raced to my car to give it a bit of juice to get to the port when half way to my car we realized i left it at the servo rushing so much. So back we went, picked it up then back to my car. Filled it up and raced to the boat. It was was then 6:45 and thanks to honsu and crew for waiting we got to board the boat.There was more little bits in the story but too much to explain :) Some great fish were caught and i caught my first fish on plastics and a jig.

First fish caught on plastic was an 84 cm dhuie with the Mcarthy baby elf paddle tail everyone talks about :)

Appreciate you boys waitin for us. Marko

Gday fello fishos,

I'm pickin up a couple of mates from mandurah on monday and headin out in the boat (18ft f/g). Just wonderin if anyone can point me in the right direction as Ive just bought the boat and havent fished the area. All I'm lookin for is a feed so herring, whiting, skippy even crabs or squid etc.. unless anyone reckons I should head out further for the big stuff.

cheers

Just wondering if anyone has been out there before?? seems mostly 'unknown' to most people. Whats the fising like if any have been?

It's 60 odd miles out.
Any info would be aprpeciated.

Thanks

Enjoy

Is anyone heading out Sunday, is the weather going to ok to fish behind the reef.

I just got a new pair of the Fujinon Stabilized Binoculares off of Ebay and spent about 1150 after shipping.  Before I bought them I couldn't find any current articles on here or anywhere else of people who had them so I thought we need to fix that!

I use them from the tower driving station while the boat is on Autopilot and they are crazy effective.  In the past where I can just see a boat on the horizon, now I can identify who it is and if they're moving.  Helps alot to know whether it is a long liner putting out line or if it is another sport-fisher on the fish.  You can pick out birds really well on the horizon where it would be impossible otherwise.  It's kind of fun, because I think my mate has the best eyes for spotting stuff of anyone I've been around and now it's no contest.  The first day out, before I even left the dock, I could see Bonito jumping at 2 miles away while I was waiting on the customers.  In addition, they don't burn batteries like I thought.  I use them off and on so it's hard to say how long the batteries last, but I make it through the full day with good batteries and just recharge them at night for good measure.  The first day out I brought 12 batteries thinking they would burn them fast and that isn't the case.

The case is freaking awesome.  They come with a pelican hard case and it's awesome.  Enough said.

I spent forever researching them before I bought them and I found these have 5 degrees of stabilization where the canons only had one degree.  Obviously 1 degree wouldn't work in the tower in even flat weather.  They take 48mm camera filters if you want a UV filter or polarized filter to save your eyes.  The polarized filter is a little dark, and if you don't give everything time to heat up they fog really bad.  i have to let the lenses heat up (after being at the house in the AC) or they instantly fog and you can't see anything.  If you don't use a filter, fogging isn't too big of an issue after you figure out to keep your eyes a little off of the eyepieces.

They do make me a little bit seasick, but it's minimal.  That says alot though as we fish 220+ days a year, and that doesn't include the days off which are usually spent in at least some part on the boat.  I hasn't gone away yet, but I haven't had many trips with these yet so hopefully that will go away.

In short, if you want to find more fish, use these.  On my last trip, they turned what could have been a 0 afternoon into a 13 Dorado and 5 Wahoo afternoon.  I pretty much can always find something each trip with them, and won't be out on the water again without them.  Two Thumbs Up!

Hi everyone,

It's not another "how to catch a mulla" thread. There is heaps of discussion on new moon vs full moon fishing for mullas from shore and I have my own theory about when the best time to fish is. I'm trying to test this theory and having only caught the one myself, I need to hear from people who have caught a mulla in the past.

So if you've ever caught a landbased mulla (not offshore) and want to share your story - I'd be really keen to hear from you. I'm chasing the date of the catch - and that's all. However, if you happen to know the approximate time and the rough size of the mulla that would be appreciated.

I've scoured the forum and pulled out 15 threads dating back to 2005 however need a heap more data to test my theory out.

Just for those who are interested in solunar theory and use the Angler's Almanac, I'm looking at other astronomical factors to predict firstly the level of aquatic activity and hopefully specifically whether mulloway should be on the prowl.

May well prove to be a junk theory...but that's where you come in. :-)

Thanks

Buschy

hey all.

just a quick question.

i bought a bario 11ft 6-15kg rod about a month ago and im about to buy a 8000 sphero reel.

now for the question, do you think 20-30lb sunline super PE braid would be better hoping to get 300m of line on it. the fish i want to be targeting is tailor, salmon, bonito when around, but also the chance of mulloway and also land the odd small shark.

what do you guys think?

cheers

danno