The link below is a summarised report of a study conducted back in 2003 on the effects the Garden Island causeway has on Cockburn Sound. Its a pdf document. In short if the causeway was removed 300ha of seaweed would potentially grow back due to better water quality in the southern reaches of the Sound. Interestingly, the increasing of openings of the Causeway was also research with little improvement or even adverse affects predicted.

Therefore, the only true workable solution is to replace the complete causeway with a bridge. Considering its a Federal government asset, they should be responsible to allocate the funds.

http://portal.appealsconvenor.wa.gov.au/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADMIN_CSMC/CSMC_REPORTS/MB_SUMMARY.PDF

 Pretty much sums it up for me. 

Hey guys,
I'm sure there is plenty of people out there with a Gopro so seeking for advice as looking to purchase one.

What is the general opinion on them? Is the top of the range required for the extra features if use is only for surface activities/ shallow water?

A big factor is battery life. If its in a waterproof housing what life will you expect to get with the maximum size that fits?

My boat buddy has the very first one that came out and seems poor in battery life and software failure. I know this is consistent with the first model in anything but is anyone experiencing this in the newer products?

Any advice would be much appreciated, including where the best deals may be locally.

Cheers,

Sparrow

 Anybody seen any shops selling crays for a decent price? Looking to go around the place tomorrow to see what's available.

 Guys, 

The wife and I are off to Walpole for a week over xmas break, and taking the boat down.

Plan is to launch at Rest point and leave the boat moored overnight, just off the bank, and kayak back to shore, or swim if the weathers good.

Any nice areas for Bream/Flathead out there, or any tips on what fish are around the river and estuary areas near Walpole?

Have made an agreement with the missus not to attemp a river mouth launch to the sea, as she wants it to be a chilled week of resting and calm boating for a change.

Any cool pubs or restaurants that are accesable by boat?

Any other members down there over that time that may be doing a sea trip out of Walpole, or want get together for a beer one evening?

Cheres for any advice.

 Gotta laugh don't ya, wind and swell increasing from the 15th onwards. Hopefully drops a little byt the 20th when I'm on hols and hope to be out every day 

Will be down with the hordes at Busso for the week after Christmas and the kids are keen to do an evening session out of Busso itself.

Not having night fished at all down that way, has anyone any advice as to species or in general etc?

Cheers

Hebbs

 Saw this post on another site anyone know this boat or the owner,wouldnt want to be in their shoes

Attended this at All Boats tonight and it was brilliant for someone just getting used to looking at the ground as well as for fish whereas previously in the dinghy I used it as a depth tool and for finding bait balls to chase tailor in the river.

I feel way more confident now to go out and find some structure and (hopefully) some fish and just to generally sound around and try to determine what I am seeing.

Great stuff!

 Just want to know if any experienced anglers would still eat the fish caught in fremantle off of the south and north mole?

To me it seems a little risky 

 Cooked Feed up for few blokes at work.t/bone .salad.cray.&the good old Mandurah crab.:):):)

 Hi everyone, yes its me kingfisha1. I would just like to say i am extremley sorry for the trouble i have caused on this forum. I am sick of having a bad rep in the fishing community so i am asking for one more chance or u can just delete me again Adam. So i apoligise for everything and basicly asking for a fresh start. Its been a year since i've been kicked out of this group and over the months i have became much more mature.

Thanks.

10yrs ago i scored a heap of celophane-like, pierce resistent plastic wrap from one of the cray processors. Amazing stuff - wrap em tight, like how they wrap your fish and chips, snap a lacky around it and youre done. No spikes and pack beautifully in the freezer. Was good while it lasted but finally ran out.

Ive done the cursory run around / phone calls to the processors but its pretty much all live export these days (vs. All the wrapped tails of yesteryear) and nobody knows the stuff im talking about.

Does anyone know what it was called? Bloody marvellous invention it was too.

 Crays still on fellas !! Not many whites though !! Anyway 

15m of water out from Mindarie !! Starting to get a bit 

in the freezer so will be pulling Tha pin soon !! Cheers 

lads !!! Da pirate

Big thanks to those kind people who helped me get my boat on the trailer a couple of times over the last few weeks when its been pretty blowy. Generally not a problem by myself but on occasion the arse of the boat can have a mind of its own on a windy day.
A big negative to the truck driver, white prime mover, who was following the funeral procession down Stock road today with his hi beam on. Hope it was a mistake but looked suspiciously like he was trying to hurry them up.

Well I headed out early and was on the water at 4:45 with the Girlfriend as my deckie and 40 litres of fuel in the boat. Well that's what the digital gauges said anyway. Got out from Point Peron ramp and was just going through the channel between GI and Point Peron and the engine dies. WTF i'm saying in a loud and disturbed manner to the GF. I dropped the anchor and tried and tried to get her started again and then the GF pumps the fuel bulb and it kicks over.
No bloody fuel!!!!
So we sat there until 6am (when Sea Rescue opens) with the GF leaning over the side turning all shades of green and periodically cursing me in language that shouldn't come out of a lady. I gave Sea Rescue a call and out they came and towed us back to the ramp. Thanks fellas..
I got the boat home and thought bugger it, i'll get some fuel and test the boat and go and pull the cray pots. I put a 100 litres in, adjusted the gauges and off we went again giving the Sea Rescue guys a shout not to go home just yet..

Pulled our two pots for ZERO crays, put them on the boat and headed home with my cray season done and even more cursing from my GF who was completely cheesed off about being seasick, late for work and no crays to show for her effort.

Definitely a lesson learnt for me, don't completely trust the digital gauges.

Tight lines and safe boating folks

All red today bar 1 (total 9 ) quite a few undersize and few just size

only 1 pot stolen this season but a good couple of weeks lately bagging out most days, but the whites are gone at the back of GI.

could easily move to FFB but happy with the freezer (don't need to go crazy) enough for xmas few for the rellies and friends and couple for me !

so decided to pull the pots and have a week off and get ready to head out for a jig....cant wait.

hope all got a good feed for xmas !

Woke up to a bang last night and then a car speeding down the street with both sounds coming next to my boat which is parked on a paved area on the verge outside of my house. Went out to investigate and couldn’t see anything but this morning the wheel clamp is moved from where I normally centre it over the wheel so obviously someone’s tested it to see if it will come off. I gave it a pull and the bang was similar to the sound I heard last night.

In addition to the clamp I also have a hitch helmet and overnight I also have a 2 tonne ute parked in front of it which pretty much hides the hitch helmet. Only thing I could think is that they were trying to remove the clamp overnight thinking it was the only form of security so they could come back and steal the boat during the day without looking a suss by trying to remove the clamp them.

Head’s up folks, they’re out there.

Thinking I might set the pots out deeper for the first time.

I have 3/4 full jarrah pots with 10kg's of weight at the moment - if they are still there - as I have not been able to get to them for a week.

Any thoughts on what weight I should run ? Another 10kg's ?

How much slack rope on the surface ? Don't want floats underwater in bigger sea's, which would be moving the pots I guess.

Was looking to put in around the 26mtr mark.

Cheers

Scotty

 Went to pull some pots and go for a fish this morning. Marina was chaotic

 hi guys, i got the tackle all ready but i was just wondering what is the best pound braid to use for surface whitng and maybe a little bit of bream? also what leader? thanks

 Not long now for west coast. Added some squid skirts.... Will see how they go! Doubt it will make a difference. And the result from 3 sharks having fun! Added a couple more sinkers off to the tip tomorrow to scavenge for more

 Anyone heading to Bremer during chrissy break? The family and I will be down there from 19/12 to 27/12 I am hoping to get into some rock fishing and get into me first sambo, weather permitting. We do spend a night at reef beach usually and get into some good fish. Can't wait, we will be at the caravan park that is out of town. If there is any fisho's that are keen to head out for a day, hit me up. Cheers   Rob

 Just heard on the news alge bloom is what killed the fish according to fisheries test and satellite images .. 

Looks like public opnion is turning the tide.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/30305387/wa-opposition-demands-clarity-on-fish-kill/

They must have known this for quite sometime, as they would not have declared the sound safe otherwise.

Question must be asked why?

hey all,

heading down to molloy island in a few weeks! has anyone caught or heard of catching mulloway in the blackwood just curious as will be fishing mostly for bream (bank only)?? and is anyone familiar with beach fishing down that way (no 4x4) any info would be awesome as havnt fished down there before!! cheers

 Starting to get a voice !! Posted it up for those didn't 

get today's paper !! Gotta love Alston !!

went out from Mindarie this morning and while looking for one of our pots we came across a rope floating on the surface. The pot had been run over and the floats chopped off. Thinking it might be ours we pull up and grab the rope only to discover it had some features identifying it as not being ours. So we did not pull it in but attached a spare unmarked float on so hopefully the owner would of marked his drop and would still be able to pull his pot.
Then out of know where charging in from a distance appears Fisheries they must of been hiding under a wave or something as I had no idea of a boat anywhere near us.
Anyway we found our last pot and they pulled up next to us checked our floats licenses etc and we explained the pot we found and what we did.
(I have no doubt that these guys were watching us from somewhere) everything was all good they said that what we did was exactly what we were suppose to do.
They then proceed to pull the pot we marked and threw back the half a dozen crays that were in there.
So if you are missing a pot off Mindarie, Fisheries have it and will return if your License number is on it.

Cheers.

 Washing boat down . Found this on gloves in side gunnel. Hard to see the buggers

 Went out for my first pull of the season at my old faithfull spot.

 5 Fathom out from Falcon - One pot is stuck. 

 Possibly a bigger boat could pull it off the snag but of course i dont know 

 I probably need a diver - can any one help?

 Would be a kick arse dive spot i reckon- It drops from 7 to 14 mts pretty quickly