Looking at heading to Warra Station in May ?? (undecided, plenty of time yet), just my brother and myself, camping gear and my 4.3 tinny. Would like to see the area before it all changes and gets restricted. I'm pretty much aware of the restrictions and necessities. (water, fuel, toilet, power, recovery gear)

Looking at the maps, Warra station has a marine reserve ( Pelican ) pretty much in the middle of the station on the coast and extending 5-6km offshore ( I think, roughly google mapped it)

So my options are to camp north (14 mile) or head south of the marine park and camp down that way still on Warra Station (Nolans Nook ?? or close to it within the boundary)

For the guys who may have fished north or south before and camped, what in your opinion was the best or is the best ? Now i assume north would be more fished being closer to Coral Bay but that is just an assumption. I prefer to pretty much use lures only, so my style suits shallow water then heading out a bit to chase pelagics and drop jigs on anything interesting.

I chose May as I am hoping to miss the April crowd (kids) and arrive before the June crowd (nomads), again just assuming, there are bound to be plenty of nomads at 14 mile.

Also would be nice but not necessary to be able to have a small fire at night, hence May - October I believe fires are allowed.

Now if you have an area that you think is better (camping, fishing, access) then please share your opinion. Not really looking to head further than Coral Bay at this stage.

Just looking to get back to basics with the bro, beach camping, fishing and a beer as he is coming from over east.

Cheers

Scotty

hi

can anyone who has been to walpole tell me if there is a tackle shop in town.

 There are some crazy amounts of sharks around at the moment which can make catching kingfish near impossible!

Hello all

this was a discussion 8 years back I have seen in the site.

But I’m in the same situation. Moved down from up north and now running out of the cut, hitting spots out 35 m , behind the five and all over.

managed 1 x due but not much else.

any clues as to moon phase or tides for these fish is it any time of day or dawn and dusk better?

anchor and burley, or drift?

any information appreciated 

 Has anyone fished around White island and got any advice to share?

Went to Bunnings in Cairns and bought every one of their jerry cans, loaded them into a maxi taxi and on the way back to the boat I bought 2 x 44's as well. I aint running out of fuel on this trip. Strapped 1 of the 44's to the bow, 1 on the marlin board and the rest went inside, I made it to another country.

Just watched a Robson Green Extreme fishing episode from Oman, if I was a younger man, that place would be on my bucket list. GTs and OS Mackies. 

 Hi guys I am looking at Tea Tree west at Tamala for a trip away and looking for any info about the area in regards to fishing at boat launching....we have a 4.2m tinnie 

 Anyone else heading out tomorrow. We normally do ok around a full moon, got a super moon tonight so hoping the fish are super hungry tomorrow morning. We'll be heading out off Mandurah tomorrow around 5:30am out to around the 40's. Fingers crossed 

 My oldest boy Jarrad is down from Geraldton at the moment and had some free time yesterday so we headed out in my little boat to chase some KGW. I took him to a spot I have that produces consistantly from September through to about March. I have been fishing this spot on and off for over 40 years, initially with dad when I was a little tackler.

We got to the spot about 9am and started drifting with 2 hookpaternoster rigs and strips off squid. It wasnt long into the drift when Jarrad boated a mid 30s kgw and from then on it was pretty constant action with 3 hours of fishing producing 19 keepers from 32 to 40cm with quite a few fish from 28 to 32 cm thrown back.

Was heaps of fun especially as I only get to fish with him once or twice a year due to both our work commitments.

https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/parks/management-plans/draft-plans-open-for-public-comment

Not sure if this has already been shared but got sent this today. Calls for public comment so get in quick. 

 Nick

 Hi iam after the boating navagation of the swan/canning river

Took the mrs out for a crack inclose Started out well

with 4 nice pike on shore catch cals little rapala he

left with me from last weekend !! Defo gonna get my

hands on a few more of them when the bank allows..

manage too get our limit of herring and 4 shy of

bagging out on pike !! Few burbs with Cuzy bro

back at home in the smoker !! With 4 nights on

the beach with the left overs happy days !!

Off mindarie boys get in there ! Cheers pirate  

 Youngest daughter got her arms stretched just before the wind set in.

 Anyone handy with marine electronics care to comment..

Just got a new lowrance live sounder and put the 3 in 1 tranny on it and now onto fitting the other cord.

There is two separate cable one is power red earth black and acc yellow.... can you just hooke the yellow and red up together to the fuse board?

Also the other cable is like 5 diffenert colour wired yelow , green brown etc books says nmea i assume I dont need to hook these up. But what arevthey for as there isba nmea plu in the back of the sounder.

Cheers

 Ok so this came up as a Barramundi on a FB quiz lol

What is it? Looks like it's an Emporer to me of some sort?

Hey I’m curious to know the length of line from the last hook to the sinker when bottom bashing using paternoster on coral ground about 100m deep.  

Cheers 

 Did anyone crabbing at Canning River? Especially from Mount Henry Bridge upwards? Want to try scooping as I live nearby

 Hi Guys,

I have had a Furuno 587 teamed up with a TM260 1k transducer for around 2 years. 

I have found the unit is very hit and miss with its showing in 50m plus. 

I have changed through the TGV settings, gone between 1k to 600, ensured the bottom lock is small and played with the gain manual and auto. Its getting to the point where im thing of swapping the display to ensure the transducer is working correctly. I have also had an experienced Furuno 585 operator onboard checking the settings and also has him scratching his head. 

Does anyone have any ideas or maybe even know of a business who help me out around the Perth area?

Cheers in advance guys. 

 Been awhile since I uploaded a fishing video but i'm back into them now :) Here is the first fishing trip on my new jetski

Enjoy

Hi, I am just posting this to say hi and make sure everything works.  I only fish bremer bay these days, shore based for herring and the like and bream in the inlet from a small dingy.  Anyhow, cheers - Bill

 Hi,

Is Jack Erskine still in business?  Email them about to order some catbontex but no reply from them for 3 days?  Is there any other place that I can order?  Thank you.

I'm all set for this year's event, but boy according to Seabreeze it might be a bit boisterous on Saturday :-)

Anyone else going?

 Hi all for those who have fished sharks bay for snapper what types of rigs are fishos using?

I was going to use the standard paternoster rig. 

After a week in rotto with my cray pots I had my first floats cut off by a boat since the new weighted rope rule. What I realised, theres no chance of finding you pot unless you dive the area... the weights sink the rope. Never really thought about it before until it happened.

I also noticed the number of boats blasting through heavily potted areas at a pace where there's no chance of changing course to miss the odd rope an float on the surface. Over the week I saw at least 9 cut ropes sitting on the surface. (In depths needing less than 20m rope so the weights don't apply) most had so much sludge on the rope, clearly no one was there to look for them.

Lastly, I snorkeled out to the back of the barrier reefs at Longreach and saw that about 60% of the floats our there were attached to pots that were so rotted some were barely even a frame, another 20% were simply tangled in the reef with no pot at all. 

My first impulse was to want to clean up these rouge ropes, floats but you can't tamper with anyone else's gear. I think there should be some sort of 'clean up WA water day' where divers can get some sort of amnesty to drag all this crap to shore so fisheries can dispose of it. Particularly at rotto where there is so much gear rotting in the water it's only going to get worse and worse.

 How do you guys secure your awnings and cages etc to the roof racks so no one can knock them off? was thinking lock tight would be the go for a awning?

I have rhino roof racks with arb fitting and a oztrail awning 

thanks everyone

 Not much cloth left on the Jigs- very aggressive Squid today.

Great fun on light gear,pulling line off:

 Tagged along with the old boy for the maiden fishing voyage of his new Polycraft Brumby 4.8

Took it pretty casual didn't jump in the boat til 7:00, headed out through the cut and headed to the 30's to look for some birds.

Action plan for the day was to get the old boy onto some tuna to get the boat blooded.

We spotted a patch of birds around the 28m mark, set my rod out with a skirt, just finished setting the old boys and about to put it in the holder ZIIIIIIING, thing was screaming in my hand.

Passed it over to the old boy, ZIIIING my rod starts screaming.

Double header couple of Southern Blueys.

Bleed them and into the bucket, set my line again, winding the old boys drag off getting ready to set it, ZIIIING mine goes again, sorry old boy but duty calls :P

The school took off and was about 8:00 now and the Southerly was just starting, decided to head North and plan to make our way back in through the Mandurah mouth.

Little bit of a plod along, no real signs of anything happening, still had the skirts out the back, ZIIIING mine goes again, Old boy starts bringing his line in and gets smashed within a few seconds, two more Blueys these two better size than the last.

Spot another pack of birds so make our way slowly, aproach the birds and cirle them, trying to round up the school and then it was on.

Landed another 3 which took us to 8 onboard, thought the limit was 4 each, double checked to find out it was 3 so 2 went back in and we made out way home :P

Back at the jetty in the marina by 10:00.

Old boy was over the moon, first trip on the new Poly and he's been wanting to target the tuna for a while, had 3 double hook ups, cant buy days like that.

Clean up at home and 1 fish becomes fresh sashimi lunch :)