Chasing 4 timber cray pots (ours grew legs last week).

If anyone has any used or new reasonably priced rigged pots for sale please let me know. 

Just came across it. Looks like a fairly new thing? Interested in peoples experiences with it.

Cheers,

Mark

I havent fished there in a long time since getting a boat, we used to catch heaps of good size tailor there early mornings and the occasional small mulloway anybody fish there recently? is it still worth the long walk to get there?

 Hey, few pics of the poly live live bait I had fabricated for bream fishing. I just have to plum up the pump and she is ready to go!!   

Fabricated by AMH Plastic fabrication and repairs, did an amazing job!!

Hi all, I'm a long time reader first post. Reason for first post is that we found a cray pot washed up on the beach at Quinns yesterday. It's in very good condition and had fresh bait so hasn't been out long. It still has rope and float with ID so if any one is missing a pot let me know and if your details match up I will get it back to you.

 Hey guys I know its a long shot but does anyone have the dash mount for the raymarine c97. Different models in the same size will have the same mount too. In desperate need!!

 Hey Fellas,

Went for a flatty session last week. Things started out very slowly but after a couple of hours, got into a few nice flatties that put up a decent fight (sizes ranging between 30 and 44cm). Normally take a couple home for dinner (if there between 37-50cm) but all were released as I had a steak waiting for me at home.

Heading to busso for 2 weeks next week, taking the dinghy and couple 3/4 pots! 

Anyone getting anything at Peppi beach? 

Also any King George around! Just cleaned up at esperance, there everywhere! 

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 Anyone heading out on Tuesday if the wind drops. Fishing gear can be polished no more and the Dhu bangers await!!! I'll be out there at the crack of dawn if it's fishable.

 Hay guys just wondering if anyone knows any hot spots noth for tailer /mullaway keen to go tomorrow arvo 

hi everyone. Today I went to the canning system next to the old shelly bridge and managed my first ever bream on plastics!

i saw a nice drop off, then a gutter sort of thing near the bridge and thought "this is good for tarwhine in the beach, so it would have to work for black bream". So I had a couple casts, feeling nothing. Third cast I went to do a little twitch and BANG, I had hooked the bream. It was a nice bream, and fought well, more than what it should have for its size and I was sooo happy with it but I couldn't take a pic of me holding it because I was on my own. It went 27cm

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then I had another cast into the same spot, with the lure fully intact and had a huge hit. I let the lure sit there, n another twitch and more bights came. Then I twitched again and nothing. I thought that they would come back but they didn't. When I got the lure in I had a look and the tail was gone. Bitten off clean, which I thought was very wierd because firstly zman grubz are really strong, I can stretch the tails about 30cm and also I didn't think that blowies came that far up river. Never catching one on bait anywhere near there before. So I think that it was either a big bream, with sharp front teeth which can get like tailors teeth or it was a soapie? Could someone please tell me your thoughts because I really don't have any idea.

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i had a few more casts in the area, but I think that I had spooked the school, because the next plastic that I put on didn't produce any bights or anything. I stayed for a few more hours trying a few different spots but didn't end up getting anything else and decided that the fish had gone off the night.

all in all is was a great day that I will always remember!

Can anyone tell me why these are so much cheaper than everything else advertised ?

not sure I can justify $270ish from shops.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/east-cannington/miscellaneous-goods/craypots-for-sale/1060652214

Only pulled 2 pots today

17 crays returned to the water, to walk another night

Hi all ,

Any suggestions on where is a good place to get my reels serviced NOR . After some decent punishment up Carnarvon way me Talica doesn't sound to good . Anyone know the approx cost? Years ago I sent a torium in to get serviced and it cost a fortune.

 Checkout my new pockets for 385 Quinny explorer, finally somewhere to stack my lure boxes other than all over the floor!!

I am looking at doing some light (small sharks/macks) landbased game over the summer.

I have a 750SSV Spinfisher not ideal for landbased game but it has reasonable line capacity.

I am looking for around 500m of 30LB braid just interested looking to spend around the 100$ Mark.

Interested in hearing peoples favourite ultra thin braids.

 Came across a large Harlequin fish while diving for Crays last week, might be better to say it was following me from ledge to ledge. I was having a look at the 2014 fishing regs and I couldn't see a min size for them so do they have a min legal size?

Something like this?

Not sure if it would be any easier or too slow? Any ideas?

Thanks

 Few redfin from a recent trip down south. Couple big boys at the front are well over 2 1/2 lb

mostly taken on lures with a few falling for livies.

This is my first post.  I have been a member for a little while now.

When my family and I first moved to Perth one of the things that persuaded me to move here was the fishing.  Growing up in Brisbane we mainly did beach fishing and only used to catch the small fish (now we call all those fish “bait”).  We mainly caught the bream, whiting, tailor and dart, although I got a big diamond trevally one day and we got quite a few big tailor.

The first memory I have of going out on the boat is when we went to try it out just out of Hillary’s, now when I think back and we didn’t really consider the wind conditions and it was probably a 20 knot day, it wasn’t the most enjoyable ride I’ve ever had.  After that ride, we decided to head out on a much nicer day and we mainly targeted the bread and butter fish like the whiting and herring, we went alright and caught a few fish but I was just happy we were catching fish.  My cousin who is around the same age as me came up from Busselton for Christmas and came out fishing with us we decided to head out to Scarborough to look for more whiting so we went down to Scarborough and drifted along the 10 meter mark on the sand hoping to find the schools of whiting.  Once we had drifted over a good patch of them we decided to anchor in about 10 metres of water with the Minn Kota (the Minn has helped me as the anchor boy in so many ways over the past year, and it has certainly helped our fishing as well).

After fishing the whiting for the 2 months I started to get bored of catching the little fish and after watching videos of the Pink Snapper, Sambo’s and dhuies being caught I decided I would like to target the sambo’s.  After a lot of hard work trying to convince my dad we finally decided to try and find the 3 mile and seeing as we were new and we didn’t know where it was we thought we found it but it was really about 700 metres past the hole in the wall.  The fishing on the reef was still enjoyable and the most valuable thing I have learnt from my dad is to go at the right times (sunrise and sunset).  I can still remember my dad reeling in the first sambo and I thought it was huge when it was actually about 65cm.  Once we dealt with that I was even more determined to catch one so I decided to put a whole mulie on a paternoster rig that we had learnt from a neighbor.  After about 5 minutes on the bottom I felt a weight on it so I decided to reel in and it felt like bottom. I then saw the line peeling off and then I realize that I had a fish on after about a 45 minute fight and we were calling it a sambo we saw a big circular figure in the water and we soon realized in disappointment that it was a ray so I went a bit harder on it and it obviously broke my 10lb line.

After a few more tries at this spot and catching lots of other undesirables the time came when we decided to take a trip down to Busselton to see the cousins and go fishing. Once we got down there we decide to head out into the ocean and we found ourselves in rough conditions again. After no luck and getting a good ocean shower we decided to go and fish the mouth of the marina. Once we got there we cleaned up on small tailor and they seemed big since we had been catching whiting for the past 2 months.  The next day was much friendlier and we got up at sunrise and went out to try and find some good ground.  We found a good lump about 4 miles out and decided to fish it. Once we got there and caught the wrasse I thought it was a bit boring and decided to have a sleep on the boat. I was soon awoken by the sound of fish being brought onto the boat and it turned out I woke up at the right time because we found a school of King George.  The King George were great fun as I still had my 10lb line and they could peel some line off the reel. While we were catching these I decided to put my new overhead combo out there with a whole mulie.  I was just bringing in my 3rd or 4th KG when I saw the rod bending over so I quickly ran over to it and wound it up and it turned out to be a nice 540mm Harlequin.

After Busselton we had finally found the 3 mile and we decided to find a good lump and fish off that for a bit. As the days went on we found ourselves catching bigger fish and just in time as my old football coach was coming over for a visit and he was hoping to get onto a big fish.  We fished our same spot day and night and caught nothing besides rays and wrasse.  My football coach seemed to be a professional at catching wrasse so we decided to give him the nickname “wrasse master”.  Once the wrasse master had been fishing with us for a few days he decided to go see an old friend and go to the casino.  While he was at the casino, dad and I decided to head out to the 3 Mile at night and I was hoping I could get a nice fish just to rub it in, what do you know, a nice 58cm dhuie and my first ever one.  After rubbing it in it was finally time for the wrasse master to head home.  After he had left we decided to stay on this lump and hope to get into some pinkies.

After fishing for a few sessions we had almost given up one night and after losing size pinkies the hopes were low.  I finally decided to reel in my dad’s floater and the line suddenly started to peel off. After a good fight it turned out I had landed our first sized pinkie.  Once that pinkie was landed we had so much more confidence about catching them and we were soon getting our bag limits.  One morning I can remember was a very good but very bad day the reason it was good is we landed 4 size pinkies and we had our bag limit the bad part was almost getting run over by a charter boat.  Once we identified the charter business that almost killed us we sent them an email hoping to snag a free charter but unfortunately we still haven’t got a reply.

As the countless days went by fishing the 3 mile I again started to get bored and wanted to chase the bigger fish out deep, after getting a few spots from pro cray pots we were hoping to go and check them out but we were noticing more water than usual in the boat so we decided to take a look and it turned out there were some cracks in the bottom of the boat.  After talking to another fishwrecked member about the cracks he mentioned a marine fabricator (basically meaning he could fix things that went in the water) that could help us.  After talking to him for a while the main thing he wanted to do was catch a snapper.  We decided to take him out to a spot that we had not tried before and first drop down we got smashed by King George then soon after that the floater starter to peel and the repairer got his first pinkie.

We soon started to have a good friendship with him and we still go fishing all the time together except times have changed now because I have found many ways to sledge him as much as I can.  We decide to take Dean (the repairer) out on one of the MAAC monthly fishing comps. This comp was the last comp before the demersal ban so we decided to head out deep first to see if we could get some of the larger fish.  Once we got out there I had prepared a rig just for a dhuie that was down there and had bricked both my dad and Dean before.  As soon as my snelled paternoster got down there it was smashed by what fought like a thumping dhuie after about ten minutes of sticking to the bottom it decided to do what it always did and ran into a hole.  All hopes were down but I was still determined to get this fish out of its hole so I decided to let the line go slack and see if it would swim out of the hole. After letting the line out I closed the bail arm and gave it a good yank and the fight was back on. I decided to put a bit more hurt on the fish knowing this time I could because I had 30lb line this time I finally got it off the bottom and it turned into a big dead weight.  After another minute we could see the big silver flash and too my luck it wasn’t a ray this time it was a 10 kg dhuie.  It was the best start to a comp I had ever had and the best fish I had caught so far.  After a few more hours at this spot I pulled up a wobbygong and that was it, so we decided to move onto another spot close by and burleyed it up and in the next hour we had sambos swimming around the boat. The sambos were going off and Dean had just hooked one that looked quite large so I went to reel in his other rod and BANG! I was on about 5 minutes into the fight Dean lost his fish but my fish kept on holding on. After what seemed like an hour  we finally started to see colour and it turned out to be a 27kg sambo.  We then headed to other spots during the comp and I picked up a KG and some other fish then it was finally time to weigh in.  At the weigh in it turned out that I had won the biggest dhufish, biggest sambo, won the juniors and won the seniors.  It also turned out that my dad and I got runners up in the doubles prize. That was probably a comp that I will never forget. After the comp we decided to not go fishing as much since the demersal ban was on but mainly because the weather wouldn’t allow it.

After the days went by it was finally time to go to the AAA state estuary comp in Walpole. After the 5 hour drive we finally got there and decided to take the boat out it was still very windy but since the mountains protected us it was still like glass.  We went off in search of ground to fish in the actual comp which was the next day and we found some good holes.  The next day we could start fishing at 12:30pm once the briefing was over we decided to go out and fish the spots that we found the day before.  I decided to fish right up against the bank and even though it was risky and I did lose some gear I produced a KG and a bream.  We decided to fish the night but it turned out the mozzies were out and I will admit that I whined about it but before they came out as the sun was going down I cast my line onto a bank and hooked a nice sized flathead that turned out to be the heaviest flathead of the comp. Once the weigh in was finished me and another junior from the MAAC had won the juniors team, I had won the biggest flathead and I got runner up in the singles for juniors.

That pretty much sums up how the fishing experience has been for me over the past year and I have people telling me on numerous occasions how lucky I am to have the experience I’m getting right now and I believe they are telling the truth.  I was inspired by my dad (some of you may know him as Mick C) to write this post and I’m not sure if I have matched his writing skills or not.  I hope you enjoy reading this post about my fishing experience in WA and I have loved every little bit about it.

 Hi everyone,

went for for a light lines flick yesterday and all of my reels are right hand wind as that is what me and the boys have always used. It got me wondering though how many of the other fishwrecked members are also right hand wind? 

Is is the whole light tackle left hand wind thing more of an East Coast thing? U seem to see a lot of the East Coast based magazines or even tv shows wth left hand wind reels (in particular light duty reels)

is is there any real main advantage to either other than what you are normally comfortable with?

scano

Hi all,

Were heading to Busselton over the xmas hols staying near Abbey Beach and have fished/crabbed in the area for a number of years, was just wondering if it is worth taking the cray pots down for some crays. Dont know the ground down that way very well and just wondering if it is worth it or not. 

Any advise would be appreciated,

cheers

Gaz

 Hi guys,

Dropping the pots tomorrow launching at woodmans point. Read heaps of reports, what depth are the crays hanging around at the moment? Also which side of FFB?

Cheers

Shaun

 The big boy is 123 mm a lot of unhappy muppets at o/reel parking tickets for all who parked down below

its been a while since I posted on here been flat out... I just got myself a new Prado and I want to head out and do some beach fishing. im not to familiar with beach fishing spots around here where you are aloud to access by 4x4. are there nay suggestions? thanks in advance.

 Hey guys, just looking to get any info any of you have on your deep dropping success off Mandurah. Just to get an idea of whether or not it's worth the extra miles. Any words of wisdom would be magic. Cheers

 hey guys just seeing if there is anyother fishing family near us with kids. We have 4 kid 8 year old girl 6 year old boy 4 year old boy and a 18 month old girl and yes we are both 25 lol. would be good to get to no more people in the same situation and maybe organise family fishing trip together. Also boys bday party is this weekend with bouncy castles that are big enough for the adults if u wanna go on it plus a bbq a bit later if anyone wants to come meet some more fishos or let the kids have a play. Just message me :) WARNING there will be a fair few beer consumed 

 Further to my previous posting a few weeks back the site has been inundated with people experiencing the same issues with crays being removed from their pots. Over the last few weeks we have been successful with crays but have pots broken due to mechanical winches lifting them and repositioned anything upto 100m away. As we all know the fisheries are limited with resources but have shown a strong presence on the water, in particulate between Rockingham and Dawesville.

THE SOLUTION

I have been told by a few angry potters that they have now started this due to poaching from pots.

Clearly mark a crayfish and inject "opening medicine into the flesh of the crayfish (does not harm him).  

The idea being is this crays will be stolen and added to what we suspect a stock pile. Hopefully this message circulates to the correct people. They will not be able to identify these crays and their entire stock pile will be unless or WELCOME to the squerts! ENJOY XMAS DAY ON THE DUNNY!!!!!!!!!

Went out early to check the pots now that there was bait in them!  After using all of the fish we caught at Walpole (minus the flathead fillets of course), plus some tuna heads, expectations were fairly high given we got some yesterday, even though the pots hadn’t been baited for a couple of weeks.

Ahh yes, lots of crays and quite a few non berried females.  Even got our first jumbo of the season, and he was an absolute horse.  Had to check it was a male as it was clearly greater than 105mm carapace length – good thing I read FishWrecked so knew about the “fine print” rule.

He’s Christmas dinner.

Hi all fellow anglers!

A group of us are planning a trip up north in the first week of May and we are debating between staying at Coral Bay or Exmouth. I've been to Coral Bay previously and enjoyed it but if the wind blows then you don't have too many other options of places to fish. In my opinion I would think that Exmouth gives you loads more opportunities depending on which way the wind is blowing. Would like to hear what opinions others have on the 2 places whether it be fishing in general or any other pros and cons for both locations.

Cheers in adavnce! Kuzi.