Hi everyone, earlier in the week my inlaws had their jetski stolen from the Settlers Hill area. It is a 2009 Seadoo, 130 GTI. Picture is of the actual jetski. Rego EX670 and trailer rego is 1TLX 033. If you could keep an eye out, would be much appreciated.

Enjoy :-)

 Pretty sure it was a PETA boat...

So I went out fishing 2 weeks ago with a mate and my GPS died on the way out so I had to navigate with my limited knowledge of the area and the markers around Hillarys and found some decent looking ground near the south cardinal marker. By lining up some landmarks I was not only able to find the lump again but managed to anchor up and get right over the top of it after a few drifts. 

About 5 mins after we had anchored up and started to send out a berley trail of mulie cubes a huge dive boat pulled up and anchored no more than 150m away from us right where our berley trail was going and started diving.

My theory was along the lines of, oh well we were here 1st and if you decide to dive where bits of dead fish are floating past it's on you. That being said it was absent minded of me to throw a wrasse frame I had just killed and filleted in the water only to watch it float on the surface straight toward the divers.

It's a pretty big frigging ocean, surely the dive boat could have gone to another of the thousands of bits of reef in the area as there were stuff all boats around that day.

hi all.

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Gday all,

I have 90cm balloons, how would you get the right balance between weight of the bait/wire leader and the balloon? preferably want the bait to be skipping the surface in relatively light easterly winds.
Is it simply how large you fill the balloon with helium? or should you mix the balloon with regular air and helium to get the balance right?.

 i have Pe 5 daiwa boat braid spooled on my 2015 saltiga 5000. Problem is its noisy when winding under load while fishing on to the spool. Seems like it's not a round braid, more flat. Only thing I could think. Anyone else have this issue? Cheers 

 Heading out from Two Rocks tomorrow trolling for a few hours and maybe try a livie under a balloon, just wondering if anybody has any reports of pelagics in the area? 

 Just wondering weather any one would like to sit down over a few beers and go over the finner points of servicing reels 

The reson I ask is basic maintence fine but when it gets to pulling it apart and giving it a proper clean out i get a bit lost aspecialy with diawas 

I refuse to ever take my reels back to a tackle shop after the amount of stuffing around and bad workmanship i've had the last time my 2 reels come back worse with no line or washes I'd ask for and when i took them to another bloke he said "I dont no what they down bar pull it apart and put it back together wrong" (this was supposedly a great tackle shop ha wankers) so thats it time to learn properly

cheers Cal 

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As if the pathetic effort of the Aussies today isnt bad enough. Im going fishing with a Kiwi tomorrow. Life can be ugly on occasion.

 Hi guys can anyone tell me there best way of keeping crabs alive overnight for bait? You know the type that run along the beach at night and burrow into the sand.  They dont spend much time under water so im thinking an aerated bucket is NO GOOD?

I have called fisheries to make sure im able to collect them.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

 Hi guys can anyone tell me there best way of keeping crabs alive overnight for bait? You know the type that run along the beach at night and burrow into the sand.  They dont spend much time under water so im thinking an aerated bucket is NO GOOD?

I have called fisheries to make sure im able to collect them.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

Planning on being in Exxy in 4 weeks fishing out of Tantabiddi. Has anybody on here had much luck with lobster out that way? Just wondering if should take the pots with us and drop them on the way out cheers

 Looking at a new sounder , old boat had the foruno 585  with tm260 transducer and was a gem.

So with new (second hand) boat can't afford the 295 but was wondering 

about the 587 or 588 is the $500 difference justified?

And what transducer a 1kw obviously would be the go?

Thanks for adding me to this forum, so far everyone sounds like a great group of people. I just relocated to Perth from Victoria 6 months ago and bought my first boat Yesterday very exited to go out. I read in a fishing magazine and here that Perth have "FADS" deployed behind Rottnest somewhere.
My Google search took me to Jurien Bay to far for me want to explore Perth a bit. If anyone is able to direct me into the right direction where to find their positions/detail or maybe who to contact anywhere I will appreciate your help. All the Best.

does anybody know where I can find a replacement dash for a Stacer 525? Iv searched and can't find anything.

Cheers 

Hi people,

With another Exmouth trip a very close I need some advice.

Im chasing a rod 8'5" - 9' around pe 4/5 max using 6000 reel to cast crabs at Bluebone so needs a fast taper I suppose

Also, Im looking for an 8', 16lb rod to suit casting stickbaits, using maybe 4000 reel.

Not overly worried about price.

 Hi Crew..

heading down to Perth in the next couple of weeks...what charters are actively chasing  the samsons?

cheers Syd 

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 Just Pre-Ordered one of these suckers due to Deliver End Feb/March. Gonna chuck some 1.5 Saltiga 12 on her.

Now to Find me a Decent Stick to go with it!

Got this for Pinkies, Dhu, Mulla or whatevers out there! 

Looking at a Daiwa Commander http://daiwafishing.com.au/products/td-commander-spin-rods/

Either of these:

3-6kg  Or

Anyone care to chime in for With any other recomendations? 

Cheers

Tom

 Hi guys have lost the tube part of my pr bobbin where you thread the braid through. Any ideas what I could use as a replacement ??

apart from the swan/ mandurah where are they locally??????

Hi folks, just like to know if you enter your waypoints directly into the plotter or via the laptop/PC.
If you do it via laptop/PC, is there a program you use with the SD card in or plot them on a chart & download them to the card.
Any advice to a newby is greatly appreciated.

In a previous “update” post (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/shore-catch-update), I showed an image of the newly installed graphics on our shop front.  I think most people liked them but there were very valid comments about the appearance of the general building and the need to improve what was there.  Luckily I had written some special clauses into our lease regarding the building façade.

The Members' input enabled me to stress the importance of the works in a letter of demand where I could actually quote some comments directly.  To his credit, the landlord has taken it all on board and the Strata management company will rectify.  The image below is of initial painting works but there is still building works to fix damaged soffits, tree removal and/or pruning, pylon sign repair and refurbishment and general garden maintenance.  All of this is being done at the moment too!  A lot has been achieved due to some well-founded comments from Members, thanks all.

Whilst on Members comments, I really appreciated the knowledgeable stuff that came out of the knife post (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/knife-range-members-input-requested).  I got so much value out what was said I could finalise our initial order and it will arrive soon.  We can’t hold all stock types, but we can order what anyone really wants.

We will open soon.  It has been a large undertaking but set-up is close to completion.  Members input has really helped us with the “journey”, and the investment in FW sponsorship (Adam doesn’t delete my commercial type request for information posts) has been money very well spent. 

 Does anyone know where you can buy mussels that are grown from the guys in Cockburn Sound?

can anyone recommend someone that can repair fishing nets in Bunbury? Name and number would be appreciated!  

I have 10 weeks of LSL left to use up in the next 18 months but with my Wife at work 3 days/week I am basically a stay at home dad for most of it so going to work in a fishing trip and head away for a week for some serious fishing.

My tow vehicle is a work vehicle and I can only go as far as Kalbarri or Esperance so I am looking at spots to do a ‘poor man’s’ Exxy trip. My boat is a 5m Seafarer and the vehicle is a 2WD so I need access to concrete boat ramps and preferably one with a jetty.

The three places I am looking at are Jurien, Leeman and Greenhead. I’ve been to Jurien so I know what to expect there town wise but no idea when it comes to fishing. Looking at the map Jurien looks like it offers the most protected area and Greenhead offers some protection and it is only a short drive by boat to the ground off Leeman and has a long jetty so I’d probably be leaning more to one of those two towns.

Please feel free to hit me up with your experiences fishing each of those towns and offer me any other suggestions I haven’t thought of as this trip is an open book at the moment.

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 Hi all

Does anyone use a 44 gal drum on the boat for extended trips?

Im planning for the monties trip in a few months and trying to sort out how to carry all the extra fuel i was going to get another fuel tank built under the floor but i very much doubt i would use it again so not keen on outlaying the cash for it. And 25 jerries will be ugly on the boat.

So im thinking of taking 1x 44 gal drum as i recon we will use 200l getting over there so empty it as soon as we are there and then the rest in jerries.

Whats your thoughts??

Cheers

Rod

 Where I like to fish their have been some tight schools of  good sized Tailor. Some Pro fisherman came along a while ago and threw a net around a whole school of fish

and dragged them in I was devestated thinking that it was  a big school of Tailor !!!! But thank god!!!! LOL ing They were Buff bream which they released unharmed.

                                                  Would they have just let Tailor go too

                                                   Are they allowed to take and sell Tailor commercially.

                                                   Should they be able to do so.

                                                   Is it even financially worth doing so.

My thinking is that commercially they are of such low value that they are worthless to sell. Yet recreationally they are one of our highly valuable species.

If anyone knows the answers I would love to know.....

What are your opinions on them taking Tailor.