expect to get for a 2005 Yamaha 80 4st if you sold it privately?
It has just been serviced, outboard cover, 480hrs, great motor, always garaged.

Just kickin the idea around of replacing it.

Thanks guys for any input.
Regards
Stoinka

Hi Lads

Heading to to Busso/Duns for a week and a half and just wondering if its worth having a crack for squid and crabs down there at the moment?

Would like to take the young bloke (3 year old) out in the bay to catch some.

Cheers Jayce

 hey everyone

is anyone heading up to kalbarri during the april holidays? we will be there on the second week of the school holidays  if anyone is do u wana catch up for a fish sometime? also is it worth going out on a charter boat up there?

 As i'm to illiterate to post a photo in a reply i have to start a new thread about this whale hooking.

End of last winter off Two Rocks, 30m, bottom bashing with bait.

Jock (strange name for a scotsman) got the hit of his life, with the line just peeling off. He was sure he had the biggest fish and was sure a PB was coming his way. I hauled in my line and was getting the deck prepped, gaff etc, but noticed his line, still peeling off, coming towards the surface. I ran for the camera so i could get that spectacular shot of a jumping fish. Both of us now screaming "it's going to jump".

When this whale surfaced i lost it and so did Jock.  You can imaging him in a broad scots accent "Fuucken hell i've caugh a fuucken whale"

He locked up the drag and snapped off with just his hook and leader staying with the whale.

Merv

 hello, i breed my own maggots for bait, does anyone know how long i can leave them so they can reach maximum size before they start to turn into flies? usually i leave 5 days and they are a good size and a great bait but i think they can grow even bigger....can i leave for 10 days? what do you normally do?

talking to the local tackle shop, i shared how we had - wot i perceived to be 'a great nights fishing' with a mixed bag. we caught numerous tailor, silver bream, banded sweep, herring, eightbar cod and almost something massive which turned out to be a dolphin...

when i bought up the eightbar cod he said its not good to see many of those around?? could someone shed some light on this for me please?

btw i have officially been outbreamed by the wife to be - she caught a thumper at 42cm off the rocks in the port, my pb was 38cm. the thing violently shook itself off the hook while we were trying to get some happy snaps, the next 10 mins were spent getting grazed, cramped and saturated while crawling under bone crushing sized rocks, trying to get it back into the water. i always thought bream were a river fish, i was dumbfounded when we were catching them in the port.

Hi all,

Heading to Albany next weekend to see the in - laws.

Hoping to get some land based fishing in whilst down there

Would be grateful for few tips of  places to fish in the area ( not 4 WD )

Would there be any salmon around at this time of the year. 

Cheers

Joycey

 Hi guys, just wondering if tailor are showing up around yanchep? Cheers 

Hey guys, i just retured from a week in Beautiful Coral bay. We had 7 days of 40+C . Hot Hot Hot!!!

I did lots of landbased fishing, got longtom,flathead, dart etc. Lots of BIG bust offs.
Im putting together a little video of the fishing and holiday but in the meantime i thought i would share with you the best photography i could manage with new equipment. Im in the process of working out some deals with tour companys and lots of canvas sales etc

The highlight of the trip was being in the water with a 3-4 meter Tigershark, swimming with mantas and turtles. What a trip and great weather!!!!!

_MG_8718 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Coral Bay, Western Australia by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Coral Bay, Western Australia by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Coral Bay, Western Australia by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Coral Bay, Western Australia by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

 Forgot the bung?

I was wondering, as I still get lost soemtimes when I go fishing. I went to Beach road in Freo yesterday morn to fish old traffic, an I got lost in Freo's hellspawn sidestreets getitng back to freeway to armadale. Now, I was told there are good GPS called TomTom's an I looked em up but dammed if I know whats good an whats stupidly expencive for no reason. Anyone got an idea please?

 Inspired by MKR and made some new burley as the freezer door was left open and all the various fillets had defrosted.

So took the old Burley as well combined it with the new burley to make a super burley, at least thats what i hope.

Its a Combination of Mulies, shark, herring, skippy, prawns, squid, dhufish, wrasse, rabbit pellets, pollard, fish oil, water, aniseed and the new special ingredient - 3 tins of whiskers. (geez that whiskers stinks)

Minced it the mincer, and mixed well with a paint mixer which worked well.

Just have to see if works as well as hoped.

Does anyone have a Burley special ingredient that they swear by?

 Hi,

Anyone know of a store in the cockburn area that spools line for you if u bring in your reel?

 Hi all. I have a TLD25 on a short overhead that i use for a bit of LBG ballooning and fishing from my kayak, and will do some bottom bouncing in future with it. Its spooled with 40lb braid but recently lost a bit to a boat that ran over my line so gonna put more line on so i got max capacity. Should i just add more braid so the line will float for balloons or top shot with some mono for stretch and line sink? And if mono which? Thanks

Any tips for getting to the top of his to do list?

I know he is really busy but 6 weeks ago he said our new motor had arrive in Perth, we dropped off the boat and he took off the old motor. 

As you can guess I am getting pretty frustrated with the same story... "Busy..next week" or "busy...don't know" or "didn't actually get your motor...don't know". So another couple of weekends of chores around the house, fun times. 

Rant over

 Hey all, new member here. 

Im looking for a new fishing partner, my missus doesnt like me going alone all the time and sick of taking my other mate thats a keen fisho because he always wants to go home early. So im looking for someone that can sit there all night without catching anythibg and still not crack the shits.

Lately i have been doing alot of live bait fishing / ballooning, i dont have a boat but i do have a kayak which is handy to row baits out. I also have a 4wd. When i fish, i fish til sunrise, everytime. 

Im a 23 year old pretty laid back keen fishermen, just moved back to Perth, usually fish around Rocko / Freo so if anyone wants to go have a bash for some Noahs while the weather is still warm let me know.

Hi all

I have a Panasonic Pana M5 electric reel which I cant find a manual for.

I have worked out most of the button however am stuck on items 4, 5 & 6 on the image below. Anyone know or can translate Japanese??

Thanks in advance
Bob

 hi fellas!

long time listener thought i'd join in

 a great site .anyways after moving back down to my old haunts around hillarys we've been doing a bit of night fishing 

and managed a feed on wednesday night.

was in nine metres  inside the reef so wasnt expecting much

but the skippy were on the chew early and got the pinky and tailor after they shut down

hope this comes out right all new to me !

Hi all, can anyone tell me where I can buy fresh or frozen whole squid for bait SOR. Not the boxes of squid from the tackle stores

Enjoy

Been a few threads of bad/lack of service at a few chain stores so I thought I'd write a postitve one and give the guys at Compleat Angler Nedlands a big thumbs up!

Went into the shop a few days ago to buy a new Daiwa Seajigger rod plus some braid and as always greeted with friendly & knowledgeable staff that were genuinely happy to help. Was initially going by the specs of the diameter of the braid to fill a spool but took the advice of the staff there which proved to be spot on. Did me a very competitive price on top as well :)

Cheers fellas will be seeing you regularly!

Can anyone on the forum advise me the best place to purchase a new 40lb thrust unit. Given up on Google.

Thanks in anticipation

 I'm in the market for a new cryovac machine

ive been through a few brands and continually they seem to burn out after several months

we do a fair bit of fishing and diving but always use my machines and they cop a floggin

does anyone else have this same drama? 

The household type machines just dont seem to cut it

whats your opinion on a low end commercial type machine that wont burn out and die in 6 months

may cost a fair bit more but I'm sick of replacing them constantly.

cheers

 hey everyone

going fishing on saturday night. thinking of going to ammo jetty. wanting a fishing buddy to fish with. is anyone keen? (we dont have to go to ammo jetty its just a suggestion)

 hey guys

im just wondering if theyre going to open up kwinana jetty again? im hoping they do because ive had some good catches of herring, tailor small sharks and even a snapper.

 Hey goes just wondering what the rules are on drop netting in the ski zone (canning bridge to Mt Henry ) yesterday had about 6 plus boats so well over 60 drop nets/floats bobbing arpund. Pretty fookin stupid I thought         (could barely see the floats in the sun's glare)... is it allowed? What are the rules?  Need to know before I start goin off at them next time

Up north one of these is probably the most un interesting catch possible, however my mate caught this on a plastic at Pt Peron the other day. Has anyone else caught a Charlie this far south?

Today in Busselton there was a meeting between the commercial fishing sector and Govt. officials discussing possible compensation for loss of fishing spots because of the sanctuary zones and it raises the question whether or not the rec-fishing sector should get compensation for the same reasons. I believe they should especially for the loss on the end of the Busso. jetty which will become a sanctuary zone because a lot of us have poured considerable ammount of funds into maintaining the jetty.

www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/river-derwent-artificial-reef-to-test-lobster-nursery-design/6141928

floating artificial reef to be tested in Hobart.

SO I had to slum it today an go into BCF for bait, an decided to just window shop on what sort of gear I would need for boat fishing.. STUPID!!!... this big guy with a huge beard says to me. "heres the catalog, this is might be ok...."

I said to him "Does it matter if I use differnt rod size, hand lines,reels , etc etc where you go fishing. Any info is good at this point or you dont know ?"

an that was end of his customer service. I put the bait back an walked out LOL... Oceanside I'm a comin for yo tomorrow :D

BCF if you read this, you need some major sackings an hiring of people who actually know something...Ones you have, couldnt organise a egg an spoon race :(

fixed now...