Hi I'm looking at getting a new light reel I'm looking at the Stradic 1000 but have see the quantum smokes and they look nice was wondering if any one has used them both and which one you would pick 

 Gday everyone,

I just received this photo from a mate. Seems like some kind of worm of some sort has come out of the crayfish. He said the cray looked normal before he dropped it in the pot, boiled it whole for 8 mins, strained the hot water out of the pot, filled it back up with ice water and left to cool down. Come back 5 minutes later and all that crap was floating on top of the water. 

Any ideas?

He said the flesh looked fine and presumed it has come out of the head of the cray. I've done some googling myself but couldn't come up with anything 

 Hi guys,

Does anyone know how to keep the boats current position in the centre of the Lawrence Elite 5 chart when riding around without a waypoint destination?

I have to zoom out, find my location and put the crosshairs on the position of the boat and then zoom back in - there must be a centre boat position function available?

Looked at the manual, and only reference I can see that may change this is the COG or North Up Option?

Appreciate any help on this..

Thanks,

 My 27 meg radio is out of action - can't figure out whats wrong

So may need to get a new one - again (the boat has had two already) 

I think one of the reasons the radios keep failing is because the little 4.5 mtr tinnie get bashed about in all but the calmest of seas. The radio gets shaken up.

So its a general question - grateful for any info 

What are the differences between VHF & 27 meg?

Is a VHF more likely to be damaged by the shuddering?  

Is a hand held any use or is the range too little? 

as the subject saids...

Have garmin plotter.

cheers

brett 

Just a heads up to those who don't follow Alan Hawks website, a corrosion issue has arisen with some high end Diawa reels that may affect some Fishwrecked members.

Linky: www.alanhawk.com/reviews/news.html

Hi Guys

Question is, how hairy does the crayfish endopodite need to be before it is classed as setose?

Every female I have caught this year has some sort of hair on the claws, very very minimal though. Do you throw these ones back?

I have caught one other which had slightly longer hair, so this was easily different.

I rang fisheries to ask, and they said as soon as there is any hair, throw them back. He said it needs to be bare bare. Is this true?

Anyone have any photos to show?

Thanks

Taking my boat up to Exmouth for the last 2 weeks in December to fish the flats and also deeper water pelagics on fly. Any one up there during that time with similar interests and keen to catch up for a fish send me a pm.

I am wondering whether anyone knows who is looking for an additional angler for an international tour eg: Vanuatu sports fishing package.

Dat tother one is getting too big!

LOL

Neels

 My sister took this today . Hundreds of blowies washed up. Stinks apparently. Old ones no dought. On the bright side seen no new dead fish last few days.( unless all gone). All old stinky ones still about.:):) 

 Does anyone know much about tattoo boats in particular the abalone series?

thanks

Even though its a full moon on thursday night do most of you crayfishos put your pots out for the weekend or is it not worth it - thought i heard a few days after the full moon is bad for crayfishing.

was just wondering does anyone pot for crays at binningup/myalup. looking for some different ground to try a bit closer to home.hopefully its not the same as peppy beach lots of crays but wont go in your pots for some reason.
thanks

Fish Wrecked People,

Myself & a Mate are planning on going on our first dive for crayfish this coming Saturday.

With no pre-determined marks or experience, our rough plan is to head out towards the FFB and spot an area worth diving using our sounder and the presence of others cray pots. 

The question I wanted to pose is how close should I dive to other people's pots? is there any other unwritten rules I should know about. 

Cheers

In todays land of poor service I thought I should share a good story.

I bought the 5.6" 100lb fin-nor OH rod (yea that long ago it's successor has been discontinued). I paired it up with the Talica 16II. figure it would be a beast to chase those big sambos and the odd shark.

spooled the reel with 80lb braid and then, due to work commitments (FIFO) never got the chance to use it.  So I packed it away.

Anyway I uppacked it last month pending a sambo  session and decided to replace the leader. holding the rod at 90 degrees I peeled the line off and the rod splintered between the 3rd and 4th eyes and then broke.

Now it gets good

I sent the pictures to Fin nor with an explantation and stated that I knew it was out of warranty and wasn't expecting a replacement, but rather, I was looking for reasons that the rod failed. (in the advent that it was how I stored it,etc. so I could ensure it didn't happen to my other rods)

After 3 weeks of "techncical review" Fin-nor concluded that it was a manufacture default and even though it was "way out" of its warrantly period they are replacing the Rod.

Go figure

Nice one FIN NOR, take a bow.

hi guys

looking at going to Exmouth for 10 days can any of use give some advise of best months for weather.

cheers

 Crays are on boats everwhere.few bad days coming up by the look of it

ive been tasked with buying an outfit for a mate who is coming to sharkbay with me later this year.

im looking for a 5000/6000 size shimano and really impressed with the new stradics. but how would go for casting lures and retreiving bibbed lures?

the other option is the biomaster sw.

the only reason i ask is one year i brought a 4000 twinpower for this occassion and teh reel did not have enough power when working the lures - not mentioning when an angry mackie is on the other end

Just out of curiosity is anyone using metal / steel cray pots? There are some on Gumtree for $130. Not looking at buying them just wondering if anyone is using them and what the catch rate is like? Cheers

 A big thank you to the piece of sh1t that has taken my pots. Co-ords have been dived on and they are gone. Yet when I put them in the spot there was not 1 pot within 300mtrs of them. Yesterday and today there would be atleast 50 pots within 200 meter area.

So far they have cost over $700 without a result.

Whoever does better not let me witness them because the outcome will not be good!  

Anyone got a pot stuck that needs to be dived on? Area from Hillarys through to Two Rocks. $50 per pot. (Two rocks need minimum 3 at a time, so if you only have one i''ll put your name with the others until we reach 3 and then will go) SMS or Call me to organise, Michael 0499 281 430

 Went out of Mindarie yesterday for first attempt crayfishing and dropped first pot in 16m NW of staggie reef then dropped the next one straight out out deeper in 22m. Went out this morning pulled  first pot from 16m and it  had 4 whites in it was bloody wrapped!!!!! pulled the deeper pot but it was empty - didnt matter was happy with my 4 whites ive got the crayfishing bug now so looking forward to doing it again next weekend cheers Dave 

 As we can't add pix to an existing thread we didn't start, I'll start another one, but this for for a glass boat. Glass boats,particularly older ones in the 5-6metre range, can be really difficult to do a good job on due to the shapes of the narrow gunwhales and coamings--by comparison, any ali boat is a piece of cake. I have seen some really horrible instals on glass boats--gunwhales hacked, or bloody great brackets over the gunwhales to mount them inside, so you are banging into them all the time. 

I looked at the Dommi for a long time, and had the advantage of having a fellow Dommi owner just up the road with one mounted. His, frankly, is horrible, involving cutting big holes in the glass and lifting it up to clear the top coaming on a big wooden block. My original plan involved fabbing up a ply box, heavily glassed, then glassed to the boat permanently. problem with this is that I don't want it in the way for at least 6 months of the year, and doing a good, aesthetically pleasing glassing job to fix the box to the boat is not easy. Nor did I want to weaken the side of the boat bu cutting big holes.

So I fabbed up the box from 12mm marine ply  , and glassed it with three-four laminations . The winch is secured by 3 8mm studs--I needed to source some s/s M8 threaded rod as 2 of the original studs were too short. I could actually fit the winch inside the box with minimal clearance underneath without doing a gunwhale cutout, at perfect height to match the tipper roller, meaning I only needed four holes through the gunwhale--3 x 10mm for the winch studs, and a 20mm hole for the cable. So why the hell do I need to glass the box on? It was a neat fit around the countours of the gunwhale already, so I made it better by laying some body filler onto the edges, Inox on the hull as a release agent, then, hey presto, a perfect fit. Trimmed it up and gelcoated. The studs are actually taking the pull, particularly the 2 outer ones, and the box is really being compressed under load. The two outers run through a 6mm ali plate to spread the load.

So I ended up with a very tidy setup, held by three studs with nylocs--literally a 5 minute job with a socket and ratchet to get them off, lift the winch, disconnect the cables, plug the holes with ss bolts, and it is gone until next whites.

For controls, i couldn't see a good way of using the foot switch supplied--these are great on the foredeck of a big boat, retrieving the anchor, but I didn't want to mount it in the deck, or have to wedge myself hard against the side of the boat, against the roll, if it were mounted inside the gunwhales. That could be a very stop-start bit of winching, spitting catch out the neck each time it stopped. I wanted to use a solenoid for control, to cut down the length of cable run battery to winch. Power is supplied straight from the Aux power isolator to a 80amp waterproof breaker, then isolator, then solenoid. All this is mounted up under the outboard well, out off sight and most splashing. The solenoid is switched by one of those Narva isolators with the removal key, mounted out of the way , but right where you need it--key is removed when not in use, so it can't be snagged or turned on accidentally if the isolator is left on. Bottom picture is with the key removed. Key cannot fall out when it is in the on position.

Mattdee's tipper is mounted on the other side--too early up here yet for any real crays, which is a good thing as my gearbox upper oil seal has sprung a leak and I'm waiting on parts before I put pots in the water. Maybe end of this coming week, with any luck.

 All you blokes are fine dining on fresh crays and I have to put up with these:

Some simple banana prawns... 

 Can't seem to add a pic to a comment on a post so made a new one for the fella how was asking about this .

 Hi, A friend just gave me a kilo of fresh mussels from Blackwall Reach. The are very clean plump black mussels,

Just wondering if anyone know if they are safe to eat? 

Shall I do a chilli mussels or not?

David

 Is there anyway, other than using muscle power, to use mechanical assistance to lift craypots with a 6.7m aluminium boat?

 Gday not sure if I'm doing something wrong or the Crays are not moving out of garden island but I'm fishing around Hawleys shoal and out a mile or so from there dropping the pots in the sandy patches as I've been told ther are other pots in the vicinity but noticed a lot more in a bit closer am I too far out at the moment ? We did get one nice big red thismorning 1.5 kg from the two pots further out but no whites . Any help for a fist timer from the Kimberly would be much appreciated . Thanks guys 

 Hey everyone

I was looking for a 6000 size reel for bottom bouncing and things like that, I have done my research on the Sustain and the Saragosa, I was just wondering what you guys would choose out of these to? and if the 6000 is too big or small?

Cheers