Has anyone started fishing for sails of dampier yet? are there any around?

Some pics of my 10 yr old with her first salmon, and what a ripper it was. Coming in at 7 kgs after a good 10 - 15 mins battle on 10lb braid.

She ended up with 2, the other 5 kg.

 Thai fish cakes tonight and the rest was smoked and eaten yesterday.

I presently use a Lowrance LCX 37 broadband sounder and when out in 30 to 50 mt depth of water i  find the scrolling speed very slow, i have had the unit replaced twice so its not the sounder or the transducer unit and each time i have raised this issue with the supplier and been informed that it is working correctly.  My issue is when travelling along say at 12 to 15 knots the speed of the ground formation displayed on the screen is extremely small ( length) .. or so i think ..  i have set the scroll speed to maximum and the ping speed to maximum, this then activates hyper scroll speed.

when i travel along and i assess how far i have travelled across the water surface compared to how much information is displayed on the screen i must have missed alot of ground and iam  not acurately seeing the bottom  ,   ie  i could travel a 100 mts across the surface but the sounder will only have about 30mm of recording going across the screen.  iam aware  that the scroll speed is slower the deeper you sound, but i would like know if this is standard for a Lowrance units or what other sounders scroll speed display .

Hi guys,

I'm flying to Karratha with the missus in July and driving to Exmouth/Coral Bay for some r&r and plenty of fishing of course. Haven't been up that way before, and will only be fishing off the shore so was planning on taking the 7' td sol with about 6kg on it. 

Problem is, I've been advised by several people that Qantas are strict about luggage and the rod+tube will be over the 2.1m which they allow. Has anybody had experience with this?

So since the rod is a one piece, I may have to buy something else for the trip instead (2 piece) and bring a shorter tube. Does anybody have any recommendations? I love the Sol but if i cant take it.... I'm not overly rich so probably a limit of a coupla hundred tops. Would a 7 footer with about 6kg cover most areas? Will be chuckin metals mainly unless I get any other tips. The reel's an exceler 3500

Cheers for ya suggestions guys

Chris

hi all fishwrecked members,

im going to go salmon fishing soon and i wont to buy a couple of lures my line weight is 12 pound

any suggestions anyhting helps.

Morning Everyone,

Got up for an early morning walk on Saturday waiting for the wife and in-laws to get down to the boat. Walking along beside the rocks at Mandurah Marina there were a number of leather jackets (nice sizes too) tooling idly past. Stopping to watch for a bit I noticed a flash of colour in closer, within the rocks.

Positioning myself a little better there were two fish in between the rocks.

For want of a better description they both had a shape like a mangrove jack / emporers, were blueish in colour, with black vertical stripes. Taking into account the magnification of the water they would have been around 20 cm long, if not a shade longer.

Yes, I had partaken of a couple of beers the night before..... but am pretty certain I wasn't seeing things.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Went up to Quinn's Rocks on Saturday for a couple of hours with the young'un for the second time.

The first time we went we managed the usual herring and skippy, but on Saturday we landed a couple of decent tarwhine, some nice fat gardies and a couple of herring then it went dead.

The young'un breaks out the berley blob and proceeds to catch a couple of monster mullet that came off at his feet.

We ended up with two, one quite a decent size as well all caught on prawn.

Anyone else caught one on prawn, I didn't think they took prawns?

A good day overall with tarwhine and mullet being new species to tick off, sorry no photos as we forgot the camera.

Some pics i've being trying to upload for a while.

The Rig

The Skipper

Good shot by the young fella

The days catch

Lovely lovely KGW

Reagan with his first Foxy

The KGW was from another day but thought I'd include it as it looked bloody good.

who here fishes golden ponds?

i want to know if the fish housed there are seasonal...like which ones are the best to catch at what time of the year etc.

im planning to fish there a few times to get my tecnique down pat, and to make sure my lures work lol

http://www.aquateko.com/

Have put this pic up for Dan1. We both had a challege to capture a Baldie on board our boats this year from out of Bunbury or South. Well done to Garbo who got this one on my boat today while fishing off the cape.

anybody else having problems posting up pic,s?

i have been trying all arvo and every time i click upload the thing freazes.

any help taken

Hey guys, just picked up my new boat last weekend so was keen as mustard to get it out this weekend. I went out both saturday and sunday but had little to no luck either day. I went out to the mewstones for some tailor then headed out toward rotto from there and then back to the west end of garden island. I spent most of the day looking at the sounder, I have sussed out what ground looks like what but my problem is im not sure what i am meant to be looking for ground wise e.g lumps, holes, flat ground ect. Any help would be much appreciated.Thanx

Hi guys,

Just after someones experiences and/or thoughts on G Loomis DSR series rods.

I am looking at either a DSR820-S GL2 but am wondering if the extra $150 is worth spending on the GLX? I've read the GLX is made from a higher modulus carbon (bit more return) but i'm not sure i'd notice the difference in the real world, having just got into light spin stuff.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

hi there every one sorry to make another post bout salmon but its the most talked about atm so me and my brothers and ol' man heading down bout 4 weeks just wondering if the large skools up yet and will it be worth hitting south metro beaches round then.

 cheer all for any info

I was just wondering if anyone takes any interest in following the almanac.ive been using it for nearly 2 years now and have found it really helpfull in some circumstances such as trout fishing.i found on the black days(best)there will be fish rising everywhere and alot of activity and on the white day(poor)you would be lucky to get a redfin.i take note of what fish i catch and what time and by doing this i have found 1 day of the month(got 2 do with moon phases)that the black bream really go on the bite. its a well kept secret of mine:):)i dont let this tiny yellow book tell me when or not to go fishing but i just like to see if it really has an impact on fishes feeding.whats your thoughts about it??

Well Twelve months ago on the exi flats i decided that the fwd console tinny needed some serious mods to suit the style of fishing im getting into now and this is how it turned out.

90liter live well/ eski inder the cushion seat.

Hyd steering

watersnake electric

dry underfloor storage

Cost $4000

Anyways looking fwd to may in exmouth!!!

After havin more a less a domestic with my wife ( due to her drinkn to much at tha pub and me inocently trying to sleep caus I was getn up early to go fishn).  I met up with Matt T and Matt O at hillaries this morning.   Getn their bayliner out is always welcome.   After a under size skippy and a wras we pulled anchor and moved on to another spot.   Tha beer was finally startin to calm my nerves and Matt T pulled in a monster flathead no net, no gaf equaled no flathead on board!!!!What a loss that was his dinner no doubt!!!  We put out some more berley and waited for tha herring to start doing their thing.  Bang one bucket = 40 herring boat limit and we were stoked.   So glad to have got out today.  Thanks Matt's.  Plus a special shout out to Cascade for brewing beer!!!!

Spent the 1st week of my school hols at Coral Bay with a mate and his family/family friends. the wind was blowing it's guts out almost every day so didn't really get as much fishing as i would normally have done in and the water was murky, but was still a great trip with some good fishing, snorkeling and 4wd.
Trip started with a missing wheel on arrival in CB late avo followed by chill sesh.

4wd the second day.

3rd day took the boats out for a snorkel.

We were greeted back at the boat ramp by the local QLD Grouper.

4th day took the boats to the north passage followed by a change in plan to stay on the inside of the reef, Caught heaps of red throat, small spangles and chinamen.

5th day went fishing on my mate's, uncle's boat as my mate was sic the last 3 times. One of the most exciting fishing sessions of all time. Headed out the north passage and decided to troll, 5min's later we found a large bait ball being dive bombed by birds with tuna launching I rigged my starlo with a tristie and casted into the middle of the school. after seconds of the lure hitting the water fish of all species were all over it. hooked up to which was found out to be a yft that launched out of the water cutting through my 20lb leader with ease. I was gutted but quickly rigged a soft plastic and re-casted, hooked up and held on. After multiple runs I got colour and was faced with a gold spot. by the time it was landed we had drifted off the school. We drove back on to the school, I casted the SP out again was on, but this time it was bigger after some solid runs the hook pulled. Confused with how this could of happened I reeled the lure back in to find a straightened jig head. After this i moved to heavier gear. I tied a 200g sea rock onto my v-system and dropped down after a few lifts of the rod the water turned white under the boat. i watched as fish hit the jig and felt weight. i pulled up another large goldspot. happy with the catch we went in. unfortunately I didn’t have my camera on that boat so no photos whilst on the water.(normally I wouldn't keep goldspot but there were thousands and I wasn't the skipper but all fish that were kept were eaten.)

Day 6 got some flat water and went for some bottom fish.

It was hard work getting past the sharks but we still managed some respectable fish.

And some not so respectable.

happy with the feed we headed in for breaky. that afternoon we drove down to the beach for some oysters and beach cricket.
(sorry about the sideways pic)

Last day in CB we decided to relax and went out on the coral breeze.

And a vid of it all that I will post later.
Thanks for reading or just looking .

hi guys



i am organising a trip this year out to the remote coral sea reefs. some of the reefs we are going to are Fredrick reef, saumarez reef, taiwan reef and we will also be fishing the calder bank a remote sea mount that rises from 2200 meters to within 40 meters of the surface, which is where we caught a lot of wahoo up to 37 kg last trip.



the trip is for 2 weeks from the 1-15 november 2010. the boat departs from Gladstone in qld.

The fishing will be done from the mother ship and 5, 4.4m dorys, what type of fishing you do is totaly up to you.

There are 7 x 2 birth cabins and 2 x 4 birth cabins all air conditioned. All meals are cooked for you, you are fully catered for.

The price for the trip is $4015.You need your own fishing gear, you will also have to bring your own alcohol. Bait will be an extra $50-$80 i am still working out how much we need.





Any one interested will have to be easy going and be able to get along with other people.





you will also need to bring,

Hat & sunglasses, fishing gear, sunscreen lotion, towel for the tenders/beaches, snorkelling/diving gear, sand shoes for reef walking, Your favourite CDs & DVDs



A $500 deposit will need to be payed to me or the charter company to book your spot.



So if you or a few of mates are interested send me a pm.



cheers jim

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hey all fishwrecked members,

im thinking of buying some plastics and a hardbodie lure for salt water and fresh i want a lure that isnt exspencive ad works well also i was think for a hardbodie a rooster popper 80 ive got enough minows  and the plastics squidgies or gulp and what type i was thinking 3inch powerminows what flavour work well in them?

hey all fishwrecked members,

im thinking of buying some plastics and a hardbody lure for salt water and fresh. i want a lure that isnt expensive and works well. also i was thinking for a hardbody a rooster popper 80. ive got enough minnows  and the plastic squidgies or gulp and what type i was thinking is 3 inch powerminnows. what flavour works well in them?

Decided to go bream fishing last night since that weve had a bit of rain lately.pulled up to my usuall spot and within 10 minutes i had my first fish.only 25cm but still a bream:)ended up getting 7 bream from the 1 spot..all around the 25cm mark but managed to get a decent 1 at 31cm.had me on my feet racing through all the snags..good fight..all were caught on prawns had a hit and run with a softplastic but no hookups...good night fishing, you gotta love the bream

OK so this is not a fish topic.... But who gives a toss?

On the board... Just need to believe as I do.... Go guys!

Hey guys, I got myself a newer boat last weekend, its a 4.8m trailcraft and have been waiting all week to get her out. Just curious and not asking for any spots but is there much to be caught out the back of garden island?? I dont mind going a few k out the back of the island but not ready to head out around rotto yet. Im hoping to break a few pb's with the new rig and havent caught a local snapper, salmon or dhufish yet coz my previous boat was a old dinghy and spent most of my time fishing in and around the cockburn sound. Thanx for any advice

who is heading out saturday for a go at salmon or bottom bashing?

i am gunna head for a go at both and then try for some prawns sat night, plus a drink or 6.

also get to try my new sounder out!!!!!!!!

cheers

hey all.

just thought i would see who like to eat what types of fish.

mine is:

1. king george whiting.

2. black bum (arse) snapper.

3. dhuie

4. tailor

5. herring

so what urs????

cheers danno

heading down to prevelly for a few days next weekend, looking to do abit of fishing while am there... landbased!

what can i expect to catch, hoping i could maybe hook a few tailor off the beaches or even salmon if i'm lucky?

is there any good spots i should try etc :) thanks.

hey all. sorry bout pic quality is from a mag. the first ones not thats the one i brought.

i was wondering who out there uses scents on there squid jigs?

i picked up this one to day after reading a bit about it and it looks alright.its sort of like a high lighter pen but you put a bit one it and cast away.

i dont no how it will go. ill try it on my cheap jigs next to a good one and see how i got and if that fail ill try it  one of my good ones next to identical jig with out and see how i go.

cheers danno