just got a new tinny and wondering hows the squiding going around that area (boatwise) and also the best jigs to use

hey guys and girls,

anyone out there recommend any spots in the Swan to wade and flick hardbodys(sx40's and the likes) that are pretty reliable with bream.

I am thinking around Belmont Race course or around Burswood any opinions greatly appreciated.

Cheers

OK have seen so many good fish caught on Soft Plastics lately, have to admit to not trying fishing with SP's yet..........Would like to add something new to the tackle box.

So what would be peoples choice for bottom fishing in 30 to 50m of water in the Metro ?

What weight jig heads would be suitable for a slow drift or fishing from anchor in  a berley trail. Would be grateful for a few pointers. I know people will prefer one brand or another is there that much difference between brands or is it a Holden V Ford type arguement ?

Cheers

Rick

Hi all Im chasing some info/ advice on which baitcaster to buy...

It will be used mainly for shallowish water tasks ranging from pinks/norries etc, stopping jacks in the creeks and also the heavier duty task of stopping the odd barra or two. It will be loaded with 20-30lb line and put on a Nitro Dominator 6-8kg stick Im looking for something slim profile, the Calcutta etc is a bit too heavy and don’t think I really need the line capacity for what Ill be using it for

Have had a look at

-Curado CU00E (the green meanie): a good workhorse, but was looking for something a bit smoother. Has the biggest line capacity

-Calais ASV: Ive heard from the barra boys that while these are really smooth, they tend to get the creeks and grinds after a few decent fish, even if theyre maintained well, so this might be an issue?

-Abu toro winch: still pretty new i think, but have heard a few good things about the this and the other abus...?

anyone used them? Anyone got any advice for me or could recommend/review anything theyve used before?

thanks in advance!

just curiouse as to whats your favourite lures for chasing small metro tuna? goping to be looking to chase them soon out of the tinny and looking for some advise

cheers brenz

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7653559/abbott-promises-drastic-fisheries-overhaul/ quote:

"The Federal Opposition has made a pitch to commercial and recreational fishermen promising to suspend the current process that decides what parts of Australia's coastlines should be given environmental protection.

Speaking at a fish market in the central Queensland town of Mackay, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott promised that if the coalition won power it would suspend the marine bioregional planning process. Mr Abbott also promised that the Fisheries Minister under a Coalition government would have equal say as the environment minister over what areas should be given protection.

"This is a very important issue right around Australia," Mr Abbott said. "Certainly this is an issue that is deeply troubling regional Australia and it is an issue that is deeply troubling people who enjoy fishing."

Mr Abbott also promised that under a Coalition government all future decisions on marine protected areas would be considered using peer reviewed scientific evidence that would be made available to all stakeholders, including local communities and fishing industries.

The bioregional planning program, being worked on by the Federal Government for more than 12 months, is designed to provide a clearer focus on the protection, conservation and sustainable use of Australia's marine environment. It was expected that a draft network of proposed marine reserves and their zoning would be made available within the next few months. The North-West and South-West waters of WA was scheduled to fall under the draft plan with local environment groups pushing for a vast swathe of the Indian and Southern oceans to fall under the plan. Currently only one per cent of WA waters are protected by marine sanctuaries. WA conservation groups were shocked by the announcement.

Save Our Marine Life spokesman Tim Nicol said Mr Abbott was clearly out of touch with Western Australia on marine protection. "Polling last week in WA showed that 8-in-10 WA voters support high levels of marine protection and a recent independent economic study showed that marine sanctuaries would help boost our southwest tourism industries to $55 million per year," he said.

Touring the fish market earlier Mr Abbott, along with his daughter Louise, gutted a fish for the television cameras" _______________________________________________________________________________________________

So Abott now takes a stand of Fisheries, this should be interesting! this flies in the Face of Jessica and her gangs approach to fish protection!

Might be worth taking your camera down to the Dawesville Cut as the ABC is reporting that there is a whale there at the moment.

hey guys,

I Want to start setting up my jetski for fishing, and a sounder is one of the things i want to rig up. I know absolutely nothing about them! On the ski im limited to venture out 5NM. Is there a reader/sonar device thing that goes on the bottom of your boat? i ride my ski up on to the sand quite often, will this be a problem? The last thing i want to be doing is screwing holes into the ski for a bracket mount, does anybody have any ideas on how to attatch it to the ski without drilling holes into it? maybe some sought of clamp off the handle bars?

Heading to the Monte Bello Islands this Friday these are my weapons of choice for the trip... I think I've got every situation covered..

Hey guys I am heading up to Broome next week for a mates wedding & cant resist wetting a line so I thought Id ask for a bit of help where to fish from shore up there. I know there are huge tides & obviosly the neap tide will be the best but havent got a clue where to fish.

I have been told there should be threadfin running out front of cable beach this time of year & maybe try the wharf for mulloway etc any other help would be appreciated cheers.

p.s Im only throwing metals, jigs & soft plastics & hardbodies 

If anyone up there needs a deckie or a fishing buddy I will be there from the 4th to the 9th August 2010

Cheers Steve Hart 0419929116

Is he away filming or on the pro boat?I am getting sick of repeats of old showsTell him i dont want to see any cuts involving his legs in shorts unless he has a tan or has been running to tone up.lol At least Lisa has some better pins.Oops did i say that out loud.

Brand new to the whole game fishing game plan to do some trolling for mackies and sailfish on next years abroholis charter was wondering what knots and how you all attach leaders for this type of fishing? ive just gone out and purchased a book on fishing knots so will learn from that :)

hey all, can anyone give me some advice on fishing for mullas and sharks from shore, mainly rigs that are able to keep the bait of the bottom away from the  annoying rays and  such, i know there are a few different ones, but wht would be the best??  and also wht moons and tides to fish on, ive heard around a full moon and couple of hours either side of a high tide can be productive.

any helpful advice is much appreciated cheers. :D

Just wondering how many of you guys would be interested in paying for a guide if you came to Exmouth?

Giving people a bit of local knowledge, where to target certain types of fish, sneaky breaks through the reef, general areas where to fish (what your looking for) etc.  Also showing people how to catch marlin, bottomies, in side the reef spanglies, areas in the gulf for sails/longies and bottomies, the murions, peak, tips and techniques for the different ground/ledges, areas etc etc for a price that is reasonable along with having semi professional photography to capture the moment.

Having lived here for 4 years and working in fisheries research and now in aquaculture, I'm pretty sure I know where to find the fish and whats where at what point in time.  I'm thinking it might be time to utilise some of that knowledge, just wondering if people would be interested if I got it setup?

Cheers,

Adam

Hi folks,

Would love to target some slimy macks as I like them as bait, but am also considering buying a smoker. Anyone tell me when they typically run through the freo area?

Cheers,

Buschy

hey guys,

just wondering if anyone can recomend a good mechanic to have a look at/fix my clutch? prefer a mobile mechanic, but will consider one in the malaga area. hopefully someone that wont charge a fortune haha

Thanks

Muldys first trip to fish northern warers,PBs today for mack tuna, cornation trout, coral trout and baldy and has caught his first spainish mackerel

I had to do this , It seems very quite tonight in Dorker land. What's up guys getting an early night. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHEEHE. Seems like old times.

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Just a question regarding attaching richter lures to the main line. I'm going to sound like a novice here but have never used these attachments with the blue coil spring. Can I just snap on a swivel or do I need to tie a loop in the main line and attach that way. Any help appreciated.

Went out a couple of weeks ago to test out the wifes new rod & reel on a mates boat. We left Joondalup about six & got to Two Rocks about twelve. After near loosing a wheel on the boat trailer due to loose wheel nuts on his new rims he had just fitted, we had to get a new hub as it was completely flogged out. So, by time we did the the repairs it was 11:40 & we looked at each other and said f@!k it, it can't get any worse.

We headed out to few spots with little success & then we went to a spot that he had not fished for some time & rest is history, got these two nice dhuies one 11kgs & 12kgs.

Considering the day it turned out to be a good one.

Heading down to esperance tomorrow for about 4 days , anyone fished there recently that can give a few tips ,

Cheers.

mike

is mindarie marina any good for land based for like herring garfish? and throwing a herring out wat could we expect

does anyone know how its fishing?

Did the yearly trek to Townsville to visit family, friends & a spot of fishing. Normally head up there in october (as it's not so windy) but thought we would tie the trip in with the V8's.

So we did the V8's on the saturday as they had Inxs playing that night as a part of the entry, not a bad day all in all.

Sunday we headed up north to a mates beach house at Lucinda via Ingham to pick the boat up. Well thats where it all turned to sh!t, one of the trim motors on the outboard was catus, so straight on the phone monday morning to see if we could get on up from Townsville, many calls later we had one that arvo & guess what the wrong one, back on the phone and we had one the next arvo from Sydney.

Well ready to go now but the wind has picked but was coming down in the arvo's. So headed out to the reefs in the morning to get a bit of cover from the wind & see if we could manage a few trout & do a bit of trolling in the arvo. Got a few nice trout & a stinking big Barracuda guestamate 25-30 kgs.

Good trip but will stick with the October run next year as we tend to get better weather

Got a text yesterday arvo from a mate who wanted to get out for a night fish after dinner so got my heavy jig gear together and we hit up some epic landbased jigging at a secret metro hot spot.

Heres the catch and the jig that did the damage.

:) Man those gardies go hard on PE20!

We actually fished some live herring out for 3 hours without a touch but atleast managed a few tastey gardies for my lunch today! Mmmm they were good. Does anyone else actually fillet them?

Tedious work but can't go past some nice crispy gardie strips!

I have been fishing Garrett Road bridge for the past 5 months
Getting Black Bream consistently most trips with 0 blowies

This weekend there has been a huge influx of Blowies ( for teh first time ever)
This means all i caught was blowies as they kept beating the bream to the bait

Why are blowies moving up stream?
Shouldnt they be pushed downstream with these rains as i presume they cant survive in freshwater???

Also are there any good downstream spots were there are bream     but the blowies are less prolific?/


Also one old guy at a tackle shop told me to try further upstream (of ascot) - - is he right should i go upstream, because i though tthe bream should also move downstream.

Thanks

Media Release

Recreational fishers from the Metropolitan area will have the opportunity to be briefed and provide feedback, on the allocation of catch shares for West Coast demersal scalefish, at meetings this week.

Meetings will be held in Fremantle and Mandurah to discuss how it is proposed to allocate species, such as dhufish, pink snapper and baldchin groper, between the commercial and recreational fishing sectors.

The Integrated Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) has been given the task of developing recommendations on sharing these valuable community resources.

Recfishwest is facilitating the IFAAC’s meeting for recreational fishers.

The Fremantle meeting will be held at the Fremantle Sailing Club, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday (28 July 2010).

Mandurah’s meeting will be held at RAAFA Estate Meadow Springs, 41 Portrush Parade, Meadow Springs from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on Thursday (29 July 2010).

The issues are complex and all interested parties are urged to attend and there will be plenty of time for questions to be answered.

IFAAC has proposed two-thirds of the resource be allocated to the commercial sector and one third to recreational fishers. There are additional recommendations to ensure the dhufish take does not increase beyond historical proportions for the sectors.

The independent advisory committee is seeking feedback on its draft recommendations and inviting interested parties to submit their formal responses by 30 September 2010.

West Coast demersal scalefish covers about 200 species, including some of WA’s most iconic finfish, which are subject to a range of management rules to ensure sustainability of the stocks.

The WA Fishing Industry Council is conducting separate meetings for the commercial sector, to seek their input on the proposed allocation.

Copies of the consultation paper (Integrated Fisheries Management Draft Allocation Report – West Coast Demersal Scalefish) will be available at the meeting, or it can be downloaded from the Department of Fisheries’ website at www.fish.wa.gov.au. Look for the Integrated Fisheries Management tab on the home page menu.

A list of all the public meetings is also available online.

in the paper today under fishing massive cuts to catches

they want people with RFBL to be alowed no more than 4kg of demersal fish per year

hey crew

what are the best soft plastics for herring and what size jig heads are the best

 just wondering if anybody have/used/seen the side scan in action out wide.

i have been told it is only good for lakes and rivers that dont have waves and swell, because this effects the way it reads.

i have just purchased/installed the hds10 with 600w tranny and was impressed with the side scan feature you see on you tube, which can be added later.

somebody in the west must be using this already. 

any feedback  appreciated

cheers ron