Hi Guy's ,

              Going to have a go at using soft plastics for snapper and want to know the best way to tie the jig to the leader .

  Also can you use a snap swivel for joining jigs.

           Cheers Ray

 Hey guys heading down to dunsbrough with the boat, looking to hopefully pick up some demersals whilst there have heard that the 4 and 8 mile reef are great spots which produce, just cant seem to find where the location of these reefs are if anyone has the co-ords and is willing to share that would be great

 Hey everyone. Just trying to decide on whether to go deep off Mandurah or go hunting spaniards off rotto tommorow. Can anyone tell me if it's worth the trip to rotto for Macks?

cheers

 Finally got into the crabs in Mandurah today after a few lean sessions. Conditions were awesome. Bagged out in 2 runs. 

 Departing Mt Hawthorn 7.30am launch 2 Rocks 8.30am.

Troll and jig northern part of Direction Bank.

Mike 0407880973

I usually fish around guildford/upper swan and I notice that in the afternoon during a certain time period, fish will splash on the surface every minute or so for about 1-2hrs.

I don't know why they splash, it doesn't look like there's a predator fish chasing them and it also doesn't look like they're getting food.

They will splash all over the river, middle, shallows, anywhere really. Anyone got any idea what they are and why they splash?

 Hey all heading  up to steep point  for first time in few weeks staying at the cliffs. Have fished quobba fair few times so have experience with cliff fishing. Will be Mostly ballooning when can an spin an bottom bash while ballooning. Have been doing heaps of research and heard places like the oven an furness so after info what has worked best for everyone and any info on rough areas were to start up there? Any info would be great Will be there from 10 till 14th cheers butcher

is the time of the day important for crabbing? Can you catch crabs (of the seafood variety) at lunchtime, or is it a waste of time trying? When is best - dawn or dusk? 

 For those thinking about going out wide unfortunately there hasn't been any improvement in water temp. Still around 21.5° near the fads. Around 22 northwest of the fads as you can see....good luck. 

 With the weather looking almost too good I've decided to take the day off and head out wide. Anyone else doing the same? 

haha this is a bloody good reason people have crapped themselves for hundreds of years

entering the water. Its 9 minutes long but pure entertainment!

http://youtu.be/ARHDLQ5BcNk

Hi folks, just wondering if anyone is heading up to Wilbinga on sunday & willing to have a "plus one" lol
We have never been there & the family is keen to try it out. We have a Colorado 3lt diesel with snatch straps & Trax but realy don't want to test them out haha.
So if youre heading that way for a nice sunday drive & you don't mind showing an old guy the good way in with the Do's & Dont's, please let me know.
cheers Rob

Went out to check the pots today and got a nice bag of good sized male reds, including a jumbo, and a small female white.

I write this post to set out a couple of observations of our cray season, which is voluntarily going to come to an end (you can only eat so many crayfish) once we have the quota vacuum packed in the freezer (which is hopefully after this weekend).  We have set deep, ignoring the whites run on the nearshore reefs (perhaps incorrectly and a week or two there during the next December run is planned) and have generally got large models.  The disadvantage has been the number of berried and/or tar spot and/or setose crays we have thrown back – which would probably be 200kg or more.  No complaining though, as we have got lots and lots of quality.  It also helps when you catch all of your own bait so there is no need to pay for that.

We have generally set in 2 different areas on the old coral 6-7 mile out.  After much observation, these spots are quite different in the crays they produce.  We have named one area “the brot%&l” as it constantly produces pregnant females.  Yes, the odd male (punter) or juvenile female keeper is there but it has brought many tears with the number of throw backs.  The other area we call the “sports bar”, given the ratio of males to females and the big aggressive bucks we have got.  This is not just a random thing, we have been potting for quite a while and the trend is consistent.  I don’t know if anyone else has experienced a difference in areas where one produces predominantly females and the other males?  No need to guess where the pots are now.

We were pulling the pots from the “sports bar” today and surprisingly got a tar spot.  I thought it looked a bit strange so instead of throwing is straight back I had a bit better look.  WTF, it was a male – I don’t know if anyone else has had that experience?  I think our “sports bar” has another little different type of bar nearby!

I was wondering what fisheries would have said if we brought it back and got checked at the ramp?  “You have in your possession and illegal western rock lobster”, “no we don’t it is a male”, “yes you do it has a tar spot”, “how could it produce more crays?”.  The guide refers to “tar spot females”, but I guess it is an argument that I didn’t want to have over 1 cray.

hi Guys son is looking at buying new razorline boat just wondering on what they like ,in all conditions ,any advice would be appreciated  

hey everyone, need some assistance, going to Busso Tomoz for five days was gonna just surf yalls way but changed plans the plans, needed shar baits but funny thing its one of the only places i havent fished down south hoping for some bonito if there in someing tailor would be good anything large please.

also have a dinghy so can go out ocean any like ground or area i should be looking for na serects just location

cheers Tom

 I am trying to import waypoints from a raymarine rc435 unit which uses .mrk file type to a new HDS7 gen2 which uses .usr

I have used GPSbabel to convert files but still cannot get HDS unit to take the waypoints. 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can do this or another software package?

I am sure there are plenty of people who will help out if i send them the files but i might pass on that one!!!!!

Just been looking at the BOM sea temp/current map and it shows some nice warm water moving down our way. Has anybody got a marlin yet? Have any even been seen?  

Enjoy

 I recently bought a new 100 L fish box for my boat. Have been inquiring about having a cushion made for it  so I can use it as a seat. Spoke to a couple of people in Mandurah, one said yeah about 200 bucks Mate - which probably means more than $200. The other quoted $260. The idea was to have some press studs to hold it down so I guess there's a bit of work. Even so thats a bit more than I expected for one 800 x 400 mm cushion. Made a phone call to a place in Carlisle who promised to call back but didnt. So followed up with an email - No reply.

Has any one had a seat cushion made for a fish box / esky?

If so, can you tell me where & whether you got a better deal than I was quoted   

Maybe press studs are a bad idea anyway.

 Anyone had any luck on tuna or Mack's out in geo bay off dunsborough ?

 Lastnight I took the kids down to woodmans point for a fish and chucked some crab nets in .as soon as dark came we had around 20 divers swimming under the jetty and on the sides where people throw nets and drop there lines . Got into a few arguements with them as they were diving down to my pots 2 of them got tangled up in my ropes . Is it wrong for me to throw 32 oz sinkers at them haha  ? I was very pissed off thats for sure . Ended up getting 2 sized crabs usally get my 10 down at woodies 

 My fiancée and i are moving to broome. 

We are driving up on saturday and are taking the coast. She has landed a job at the highschool and we have housing provided i have never fished Broome but have fished Darwin. 

Is there any fishwreckwd members who used to live there or still do that would be keen on sharing information.  

I will be landbased and we do not have a 4wd but we are planning on getting one as soon as we can. 

I will have a lot of time on my hands as there doesn't look like there is much work available atm. 

We should be there on the 22nd of January. 

I have tried to look through all the old content but can only find stuff on the town jetty or boat fishing. 

Regards josh meeuwissen

Hey guys got the day off tomorrow, looking to head out with someone. Forecast looks like a typical summer day, fresh early and easing late morning. Have all my own gear and licenses and can provide lunch and drinks. Willing to travel anywhere from Mandurah to Mindarie at any time of the morning. Skipper is welcome to take my share of fish if he/she wishes. My specialty is bird spotting.

Cheers.
Beau

Click here for the answer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6x4dfTP8RU&feature=youtu.be

also was stoked to land a 10kg Harpuka as well.

Skipper outstanding, and a great day out with some great blokes.

Love it when a plan comes together.

Had to head out solo today as conditions were great and my deckies pulled the pin (except my pot mate who I dropped off after retrieving them early).  It was a little disappointing that our pots had been pulled as they were all “off marks”, but I guess that’s what you get when we didn’t go out and check them when conditions were really good yesterday.  At least the pullers returned them to the water and we managed to get a couple overnight because we has baited them so heavily on Sunday.  Can’t complain about a red male jumbo and a big male white.  Conditions look crappy until Saturday so hopefully that will keep the pullers away!

Found some ground and set the burley up.  Quite a few wrasse, parrot and yellow stripy fish until the burley started to work and the skippy turned up (got another big moorwong first drop too!!!).  Hopes were high that the skippy  would bring in the sambos, but no.  No Dhu either :-(.

The King George did find me for a while but it was disappointing that one ran me around the floater so when they were there, I was untangling braid.  I’m sure my KG rig hooks are getting blunt and need to be changed out as I lost more than I landed.

My floating sand whiting got a very soft hit that was called for a squid.  A slow retrieve and it came to the surface.  There was a lot of trying to get him to come within net range but he always dropped off when he could see me.  I managed to keep him at the boat and hastily rigged up a jig arrangement with a whole whiting that I could “swap out”.  Fooled him, and got him in the boat (25cm tube length).

A nice day in really good conditions, and no reason to complain about what came home.  Doesn’t get much better than KG, cray and calamari.

 One of my mates sounders died last weekend and he is looking at replacing it. He has done his research and is tossing up between the Simrad 8inch and the Raymarine 9inch. I have a Raymarine and am very satisfied with it. I have another friend who has a Simrad and he is happy with that. The Simrad unit is close to an extra grand, and the sales man that he was talking to has picthed the Simrad better than well to him because they weren't even in the equation and now it's almost brought.

Can anyone assist before my mate goes and spends his hard earned dollars?

Had an ADO up my sleeve and checked the weather report with seabreeze saying it was blowing and WW saying it was gonna be a glass off. Confired with BOM and WW had the win.

Woke my 4y old up at 5:30am, had some toast, finished getting ready and was in the river by 7am. Started out trolling with the Yo Zuri Minnow and got a few strikes (I think) with no hookups so we drifted across the flats working the SX40 with no luck at all so moved out to the drop off and started working the ZX40 and bang, a little flathead. Went back to some broken shallower ground and hooked into a 33cm yellowfin bream which gave a nice fight on the 1-3kg rod with 1000 reel. After drifting back to the drop off again I was jigging the ZX40 and the rod bent over, after a few decent runs on the 6lb line and we had a 38cm flattie on board. I noticed some baitfish jumping around and cast into them about 20 times for no strikes.

The little fella wanted to have a swim after not having any luck catching anything with his handline or rod so I started up and headed to a nice beachy area when I noticed baitfish jumping again but this time I could also see something much bigger disturbing the surface. What followed was manic fun chasing a school of choppers around and casting into them and taking turns winding the line in. The little man was stoked to catch his first fish all on his own and if I must say did an excellent job of keep tension on the line.

All in all just a brilliant day.

hey all,

bit stumped on what rod to but for my Stradic 8000 with PE3 Braid your personal/professional opinion would be great, looking at the Terez line rating 15-30lb or the 20-40lb Saltist Hyper both 7,2''

will be taking it to Ningaloo as an all rounder for snapper/Macks and Gt's

cheers!

 Over the past few nights I've noticed on the seaweed I pull in little specks about the size of a grain of sand that glow when moved... And I'm not talking just a slight shimmer I mean it actually looks like little stars in my seaweed... Has anyone else ever seen anything like this or is my never-ending hunt for 1m+ mulloway starting to send my mind down the rabbit hole?

Sorry bout my phone camera simply didn't pick up the glowing sand in my seaweed

ill take this opportunity to say I don't use or recommend the use of LSD.

 /dances a jig... It was only 10cm long but I caught my first fish in a long arse time. On my bream rod too so I know it's defiantly e lol.

Only took me 9 months to catch an 1200$

Only sad part in all this, is fact I used to get exited when we caught 5 score of lobster in a string....now it's a single little 10 cm whiting. Lol.