hey guys, i decided to update my tired looking interior. 

After trying to find seat boxes on the net that were very bloody expensive & small-ish for what i wanted, i decided to make my own from marine ply. Inside & base of seat boxes has been sealed with a water proof membrane. Built in the 2 x compartments, 1 holds 4 x table trays & the smaller on is for keys, phone, camera's ect. Made a more " safety friendly " location in the passenger seat for my "Life Bouy" which will now just float out in case of an emergency

then, it was time to takle the floor, so down went new carpet as well.

Just need to have the tired old uphosltery on side panels done to match the new seats & we are done.

All up, it has cost me about $800.00, which is what 1 fibreglass seat box would have cost me

Doing some major maintenance on my trailer and decided to share some of my experiences so far

First, further to a recent post about removing stuck pistons, a picture showing my setup in action

Next, my reasons for never buyong anything galvanised if stainless is available. I have had the slides that stuck that only an oxy torch could remove them resulting in their destruction anyway

This picture shows the stainless slide completely clean and ready to be re-inserted wheras the non stainless was rusted and partly stuck. Was difficult to remove and will have to be sanded clean and the bore will have to be cleaned and honed

Lastly the moving part of the slide

This picture shows the moving arm and the seal grove which will have to be completelycleaned and sanded to make it servicable.

After the last few years of trailer maintenance I would strongly recommend anyone buying a new trailer to spend the extra $$$ and go stainless.

Hope article not too long and boring

Cheers

Eric

Chasing a little info from the forum on  keeping ice whilst on extended fishing trips where Ice is hard to come by or make.

I've done a bit of reading on the use of dry ice, and how this can be used to extend the life of normal ice. From what I've read this is done by covering the bottom of the esky with dry ice sheets, then putting a thin insulating barrier of alfoil over the dry ice and placing block ice on top. The key is apparently you cannot have any real areas of 'air' inside the esky, so if you remove a block of ice it needs to be replaced with scrunched up news paper or somethnig of the like. Also cover the esky with a insulation blacket of some sort. The main esky is purely ice storage only

Has anyone tried this process? Did a trip for a few days last year, and really struggled with ice up the north, even with fairly large blocks.

Interested to hear what other do

Cheers

Made the most of reasonable mornings this week,on the water at 4:am both Wednesday and Friday.got my mates onto monster dhuies on wed and both had tackle failure after being hooked up for 10 minutes,they were both pretty sad,I made sure it didn’t happen to me and got this 91cm beauty,Friday was tough getting out to the bank and took nearly 2 hours, bite was on and off but Eric was on fire and caught a couple of nice bangers early.was good to be out there,home both days by lunch as the southerlies were cranking.

after a 17hr + fight, language alert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_rmsZ0TKs&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1gzgY-_ZkIGuHeJ_yJlbRy1H9c-2muoYU1NIfpay6OTmd7efKsLpwdGSs+

 Oldman strikes again with another nice

hammer . Ganged mulie was the offering 

tonight night fished well til we packed it 

up round 11.30pm being too the top of 

the tide .. he ended up with 5 nice tailor 

to top his bag ! Me herring and a tailor and

to get pinged again.. hah 3 times in last

2 fishes ?? Useless ¥#nt .. cheers fellas

pirate .. 

in light of an incident near Busselton today, police are chasing information.

“If you were on the Bussell Highway and can assist with this appeal regarding a white four wheel drive towing a large boat, please call Police on 131 444.”

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/flying-debris-injures-driver-on-bussell-highway-ng-b881071713z

Enjoy

Just wondering if anyone knows somebody in Bunbury area that can adjust roller setup on new Papas multi-roller trailer for aluminium boat 6.1m long. Battling to do it myself.
Cheers

Anyone been able to chase Marron yet? We are heading down tonight for an over night trip, hopefully theres still some left haha

Saturday the 12th has been closed to Ab fishing due to predicted dangerous sea conditions??

im confused I had it at 1–1.5m swell with no wind whatsoever until after lunch....don’t care about the boot rubber closure, but was planning for wide bottom bash early.  Am I losing my shit or have they closed for bugger all reason and it’s going to be fine...?

hi guys , had my boat for sale for the last 6 weeks with thoughts of upgrading, got tired of waiting so picked it up from All Boats yesterday and headed out this morning off Mindarie, got the bag by 9 then chased tuna for a couple of hours - very flighty but managed 3 blues and a striped before heading in , good conditions considering the forecast.  

Gday guys,

Im soon to be travelling around Australia and hoping to update my kit with a couple of combos specifically for northern land based species - anything from tailor to Barra etc.

Ive already got a heap of el cheapo combos that I want to leave behind but I’m already sorted for a big beach combo for baits and I’ve got a small 7’ combo that I use with bait for whiting, herring etc ..

But I would like maybe one or two (my missus loves fishing too) combos that I can use with lures at the beach, rocks and creeks.

Any advice guys? I’m hoping to keep it around the $300mark for each combo - not sure if one should be slightly heavier than the other or two somewhere in the middle would be best.

I do like the look of the Shimano raider rods but not sure if they have one that’ll be a good fit for the purpose. 

Thanks for any help guys!

The house is being packed in 5 days for the move back up to the city

seems to a be a bit of a recurring theme last few years

anyway managed to sneak out this morning with great hope of the wind dropping

certainly didn’t do that was 17-22 offshore

thankfully first two drops resulted in 2 nice dhuis

they will be saved for quick weekend dashes down from now on

it’s been fun  

My Kiwi nephew has renewed his interest in coming to Oz primarily on a barramundi fishing holiday. He has in mind a blokey style trip without wives, maybe for a week or two for probably around four guys including myself. He and two others would fly in from NZ and I would fly in from WA. I have very little knowledge of when and what is available in the NT or Qld and was looking for feedback from those who may either have done similar trips or know of what is available. Due to our inexperience in barra fishing I was thinking more along the lines of a guided charter, at least to start with? My nephew is a diehard fisho who has fished many locations around the world so we would be looking for a more full on experience than the average tourist. All advice and recommendations welcome.

 4 gentlemen with 98 undersize crabs and a fellow in jurian fined 30k for selling 29 crays, from sometime ago.

 Morning crew,

off next weekend down to dunsborough for the week can not wait.

taking a 5.2m westerberg down there any advice of fishing locations or reports of whats been happening?

Tia Bryan

Just having a discussion about pros and cons of having a boat verse hiring a big one between a few blokes once or twice a year when heading north 

we all currently own boats and have all our marks but as life gets busier the boat doesn’t get used anywhere near as much as yesteryear

curiosity has me thinking  that it could perhaps be better value between a few boys for the use we get out of the boats currently 

does anyone know the cost to hire one for a week or two from murchison or exmouth boat hire

cheers

jess

 A few pics of the Xmas break.

Took the new project boat out for a spin on the river and a yummo feed of crabs, it'd been a while since I'd had a feast of these.

We were late with the pots this year due to beach erosion and ramp repairs but made up for it, very bloody happy. 

First run out found them on the bite big time, the Baldies were a nice round up for a good bag. 

Most the fish were caught on Mulies with a light single leader ganged paternoster.

Hi

Replacing my bearings on my trailer and wanted to ask if anyone has recommendations on the grease seal. I have had these pop out so have done some checking on the net and I find that some people recommend putting a little sikaflex on the seal or stub axle and then putting the seal in a little way (2mm) then putting on the the hub with inner bearing and seal ring letting them push the seal back into its actual position then finish by putting in the outer bearing, washer and nut and adjusting. Sika will then go off and the seal should adhere more succesfully to the stub axle

Thoughts on this please

Cheers

Eric

 Anyone been up to Monkey mia recently fishing? We are going in July with a 4.2m Quintrex and was wondering how far out you have to go to get a feed of fish up there.Not chasing GPS co-ords just info to get us in the general area.

went out with BJ to product test bucktail jigs on sbt, we released about 10 that were caught trolling. we couldn't find any to cast too. it was a bit of a fun session. Tried dropping jigs for demersals but no luck.

 Hi guys went out on reel force charters today. First time on this charter and would highly recommend anyone looking for a charter to definitely give them a call decky did a great job skipper jumps in and helps out when fish are coming over the side at all ends of the boat. The skipper had us on fish from the very first drop the bloke next to me had a fat 70 cm snapper on deck in a minute or 2 from us being told to drop. I lost a big dhue completely my fault just went to hard but it was on a second steaming run and i thought i had him beat but no way was quite pleased with how I handled it, I think I only swore once. Still had a good day did catch plenty of just under fish but still came home with fish. 

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/perth/mcgowan-government-to-introduce-005-blood-alcohol-limit-for-skippers-ng-b881063331z

G’day All

Looking for recommendations on cryo vac machines from experience. Mainly for fillets, cheers  

Anyone got any tips for fishing Jurien Bay? From what I've read and heard about looks like taylor dawn and dusk, and looks like the jetty is a good starting spot. Heading there on the 18th Jan, and any advice would be great. Just beach fishing, no boat. 

After the coverage on a number of pages in todays "west" about the penalties and fisheries activities with regards to the taking of under size crabs you would have to be a bloody idiot to engage in such activities.
Still I'll bet penny to a pound we will see a few people get done for it before the Christmas break period has run it's course, these people are doing nothing short of stealing my grand kids future with regards to crabbing and I hope fisheries catch as many as they can and do them with the biggest fines they can, they are nothing short of selfish stealing bastards as far as I'm concerned.
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I think the year 2019 is filled with danger for us fishos, why' well in my view when a government starts playing with the amount of catch that may be taken based on nothing other than a social experiment then it is indeed entering very dangerous waters {excuse the pun} IMO.
The idea of making crayfish cheaper for the citizen of our great country is a noble and great idea, just like I can't see why we should be paying so much for LPG when we have truck loads of the stuff on our door step, and IMO it belongs to WA even though it was/is developed by foreign investors. With crays I think there are better way of making a certain amount of the resource if I may use that word available to WA citizens without increasing the total catch based on nothing more than wanting to be the father Christmas government.
And, I would like to see the price cheaper so that people can buy a couple of crays for chrissy lunch, I just don't think this is the best way of doing it and I won't even comment on the other proposal that the paper has raised about the increase in catch held by the government.

Hi all, does anyone have to contact details for Azusa fishing rods or their distributor? I can’t seem to find any information on them so I wonder if they’re even still in business. I’ve had non stop problems with the reel seat and butt connection and need it sorted. Cheers!  

 Hi All,

Chasing rod recommendation for off shore bottom bouncing. I regularly fish up to 100 metres which sometimes means that 2 pound sinkers are needed to hold bottom. Will be paired with aTalica 12 spooled with 50 pound braid. What do recommend ?

Cheers