Thinking about gettin away for a night or two and looking at the dams we can use a boat on.

We are fresh water novices so are looking for any info on wether we'd be better off going to Waroona or Logue brook.

Mike

 Does anyone know if theirs a charter that operates out of Rotto.

im heading over on the 5th of November for 4 days and would like to give the reefs a go of the island.

im bringing my land based gear too for a bit of shore bashin early mornings and late evenings.

cheers,

Quite some time ago but only just found the vid and pics.

Released it strait after a couple pics. Pretty sure its a cat shark...

http://youtu.be/thhjDz9aZ4s

Some really nice reef as you can see from the video...

With the change of season, it was time to modify my fishing methods and start to get back out there in the early morning.  I think I was probably being soft and only fishing dusk on suitable days and preferring to stay in bed on those cold winter mornings.  Based on my limited experience, I think this is going to have to be the norm from now on as the sea breeze starts to happen in the warmer months given my little boat is not a rough weather craft.

With the forecast yesterday being for light winds, it was time to get out and see the sun come up over the land.  Hit the ramp about 5.10am and there were already a number of boats in the water and a steady stream of activity (no doubt this was nothing on what it was going to be like a bit later on).  The “expert repairer” came along as if you recall, my part of the deal was to show him how to catch pinks in Perth Metro waters.  Unfortunately, YPM pulled the pin at the last minute due to sickness (even though there was a reported late night play station marathon by the young one!).

I have picked up a number of marks off Hillarys by in effect stalking a pro cray fisherman – better watch out for that restraining order.  Anyway, yesterday we decided to head to a spot where the pro had put down multiple pots over a very small area as I figured this had to be a good sign.  We were greeted by excellent conditions and made our way through the hole and the 3 Mile at good speed in first light conditions with the trip to the spot taking less that 15 minutes.

On arrival at the spot, the Minn Kota was set to hover over it and we proceeded to set up.  I reached for the burley to go through the few minutes that it takes to get it ready and in the water but when handed my rod it was “oh well, let’s throw a floater first”.  In the short time it took the mulie to get into the “zone” the baitrunner was squealing.  Needless to say, the burley was neglected as I proceeded to “expertly lose” a medium sized pink.  No matter, as they were really thick as the sun was starting to just break the horizon and the fishing could only be described as bedlam.  We landed quite a number of pinks with a couple being truly over size that we kept – a few were close or at the mark but we only tend to keep those that are clearly over.

Along with the pinks, we were visited by schools of quite large sambos – you know they are fairly big when they are chasing your size pinks to the boat.  During that session, Dean hooked a horse of a sambo on the bottom bashing light gear and there was the good old sound of the drag screaming as this thing steamed away.  In these times, the real qualities of the Hornet become apparent as you can walk anywhere on the boat and there is no anchor line in the water for the sambo to run you around.  Just after hookup his floater went off with another large model and whilst I grabbed that and got smashed, my floater went off as well – 3 fish on, 2 people, hmmmm.  After 20+ minutes, Dean got his to the boat and what a horse it was – quality capture with what could be called bream gear.

Not long after the photo and release, my floater went off again.  This one had all the hallmarks of a solid pink so the drag was lightened from the sambo setting (best to bring them up slow if you need to release and its size suggested it wasn’t going to become a sambo meal) and it fought nicely.    Was keen to see color and when we did it was quite a surprise.  No lip grips to land this model as we netted my first ever baldie.  I think it was a super-sized model as it went 720mm and showed a weight of 6.2kg on my manual scales – took it to the MAAC to get it weighed properly though as the fisheries length to weight ratio suggests a maximum size of 650mm to 6.3kg, and it was a fair bit over 650mm – ultimately went 6.38kg, not the Club record but still a nice fish.

Over the next hour or more, we proceeded to get absolutely smashed by big angry fish.  The number of bust offs got to the point that we were fast running out of gear and bait, and stamina, but there was certainly no reason to complain.  We boated a few more but none like the horse Dean got earlier.  We were sure there were a few sharks in the mix too.  More than once we hooked a wrasse or parrot and on the way up it was upgraded.  Nice to get a new name for these undesirables – “potential upgrade”.  We also picked up a nice bonito (my favorite pink bait) and let’s just say he was “pleased” to get to the boat and away from the horde of sambos that were chasing him.

As conditions were still good, we decided to head to a spot off Mindarie where Dean knew the CSIRO had installed fish monitoring cameras (Dean makes the brackets for the cameras).  It stands to reason if that organization puts down cameras to monitor fish there then there are likely to be a few around.  Guess what, there were with a number of undersized pinks landed in the first few drops.  We must be sambo magnets as they started to work us over again with a few boated smaller models and more gear being dispatched to the ocean.  The bonus fish was a big fat 500mm + king george that took a whole mulie on a floater – definitely a greedy pig.  Strangely, the SSW wind came up very strongly to the point where we headed right into shore and had to motor slowly back.  On arrival back at Hillarys, the wind switched and it glassed off.  Decided to head back out but true to my experience, glass conditions don’t go that well for the bite and we only picked up a few undesirables (we kept a reasonable skippy for the cat).  Time for lunch and in we came.

I wrote a satirical piece about the personality types I had observed at the boat ramp not long after coming to WA (see: http://fishwrecked.com/forum/rampies).  I actually observed another type of Rampie yesterday,  but not really sure what to name him.  This guy seemed “oblivious” to the fact there was a flotilla to envy the start of the Sydney to Hobart waiting to get in.  Even though there are launch/retrieve lanes, he decided that it was far better to launch using this type of lane than the actual launch only lanes that would have been packed earlier but at that time of day you could see the tumbleweeds blowing across them.  Not only did he do this, he met the “dawdler” category as it took what seemed like 15 minutes to launch.  There was also a component of the “reckless” as he launched in a clearly incompetent manner, he caused the queue of boats to move back as the rope guy performed some weird deepening maneuver, and then proceeded to try and crash into all the waiting boats as he reversed out (the boat owners had to spring into life to go into protection mode an fend off his wayward vessel).  Might do an update on the Rampies to include this type and the absolute classic “Monk” written by Geoff78, plus the other good ones.

Another good day provided by near shore Perth Metro.  Nice to get my first baldie, and for it to be a big one.  Our day showed again that you don’t have to go far to get good fish but you do need to fish at the right time on reasonable ground with well-presented baits on appropriate rigs, with the burley making the fish come to you.  A tasty bag again to keep the better half happy .

 Hey there guys

my epirb has expired. Does anyone know if I can just get a new battery put in it or do I need to buy a new epirb?

if I can put new batt in do you know who does it?

cheers Roy

I couldn't resist posting up this tale from tonight. A couple of hours soaking servo prawns for bream...pretty quiet all round in the Canning but I suspect it would have been going off earlier in the day.

Anyway - there I am soaking a prawn when I get the familiar tap, tap, tap. After a few minutes, rod starts to go heavy however I went a touch too early and missed the hook up.

Retrieve my gear and got quite a surprise in the half-light to see my bait still on the hook (barely). I'd been getting knocks for a long time and expected nothing left.

Drop the hook into my hand to reset the bait and KICK! I just about sh*t myself. Sure enough there was a live prawn on the hook. Bizarre.

May have jagged it on the way back in, but there is some sort of irony in casting out a frozen prawn and reeling in a live one 10 minutes later :-) I reckon there are not too many people who can claim to have caught a prawn....on prawn.

For the record, prawn was released with a hook through the middle of it and converted into a chubby little bream that was mid 20s. Good fun.

 Had great day fishing cockburn sound.

My friend and I got a mixed bag of 6 herring, 1 nice skippy, 1 big KG, 2 big squid, a flathead and 4 wrasse.

it was nice to final get a good feed. We ate them all. 

All up a great day.

 4 Generations out on the boat today, Dad, me, son and grandson..

A good day was had by all, seeing us leave the ramp at around 6:30 n back home at 11:30 bagged out.. 

Dhuies went 8.5kg and 7.5kg.. Oh and one small squid that you can see in the photo.. small taste before fresh fish tonight.. 

 has any one eaver used wd-40 to attract fish to your lure or add scent to a soft placky? and does it work?

 Nothing massive but fun on 15 lb got yesterday. Good fun catch n realsed heaps of snapper n little dues on the jigs. Went out today and my mate managed 1 blue eye other than that was pretty quiet cheers

 Sat down at the Point Peron boat ramp for a couple of hours this morning, reading the paper and watching boats come and go. Looked an awesome day on the water, so how did those people fare who went out today?

Has any one fished the Bunno artificial reef?
Thinking of giving it a crack to see if any sambos are about...Is it worth it?

Cheers.

 just asking for a friend who wants to use a boat for 3 days in albany.

he will tow from perth if he has to but would prefer albany area.

does anyone know have any suggestions?

he has tried google but all the companies that came up seem to have stopped trading.

he needs at least 5 m cos he wants to dive off it and theres 3 of them going

Does anyone on here find a certain style of music gets the fish on the bite.............. and if so what takes their fancy?????????

hi guys

on the off chance has anyone got a big box of squid?? they would like to sell me

going fishing and didnt make it to the shop in time due to work.

local shop that normally carrys them is sold out.......shhhhiiiittttttt!!!

somewhere close to forrestfeild would be good.

thanks in advance

Ron

 With the season approaching, just wondering if anyone has started catching whiting in the Mandurah estuary

thanks for any reports

cant wait to get back into them

Hey all

Been waiting for the new 4 to come out and looks like the days finally here.

Ill be down in Perth in a few weeks and was wondering which place/ places stock the biggest range or add ons? going to go the whole hog and get a complete set of gadgets to go with it so a one stop shop would be prefered... Just hope theyre still in stock/ got all the 4 gadgets around by then

cheers in advance

 To fish in either the swan or canning with mussels not after secret spots but a general idea cheers

 I'll be heading down to Augusta next weekend for 4 days and got permission to pack the fishing rods. Will have our 2 year old and a friend and her 2 year old so it'll be just quick estuary flicks I think. Whats biting in the river at the moment? A feed of yellowfin whiting would be great or maybe some herring.

We're staying at Riverside Cottages so a short walk to a couple of jetties near Molloy St or les than a kilometre to Ellis St Jetty. Last fished there April 2 years ago and caught over 20 10-15cm black bream.

Would be good to have my son catch his first fish

Cheers

Adrian

Enjoy

I know this is nearly a couple of years old but I came across this last night

http://video.news.com.au/v/84650/Protected-shark-tortured

Sigh.................what I would do to have a beer with this sad excuse for a human

I maybe moving over there with my missus for awhile just wondering what's the fishing like and what kind of combos I should take with me  

 Hey Guys, 

i want to buy a medium soft plastic set up for pinkies et I will be taking it to steep point for medium spin/ soft plastic fishing! 

Now I was thinking about the 4000 reel size but there is that many on the market I don't know which one to choose! Was just wondering what people think?  Price around 300! 

Also if people want to sell anything I'm up for all options 

feather 

 If so have you done any good with them?? Any feed back would be good.. Cheers

 hey guys, me and lachieH(fishwrecked member) went again to our secret spot with lots of succsss. We got there and we started dropping prawns down, we dident hook up strait away but after a few drops i caught a small bream, i started getting a few more small bream. Lachie caught his first bream for the day. after ahwile we started running out of prawns so lachi whent to get some small crabs for bait. i lost a massive bream on the live crab. when we ran out i went to get some more crabs, i ended up getting 20 small crabs. we kept geting our livies taken until lachie hoked up to a moster bream at 26cm, he was happy.he got it on the live crab. Then i was waiting to get a pb for myself so i dropped a piece of prawn down and bang!!! hooked up, it sarted taking big runs and almost busting me, lachie got the net and skuped it up. i was stoked at my new pb at 28cm!!! it was relesed succses fully. i also found a dead scaly about to beach untill i picked it up. is rare for scalys to be in the canning? also while crabbing i got a yabbie looking thing, is it a yabbie or shrimp? after all it was a really good day, all was relesed.

if u know this spot can u please not metion it as this is our secret spot.

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone on here make snapper leads that would be willing to sell me some at a reasonable price. Would rather give someone on here a bit of my cash rather than get ripped off by BCF and the likes for them.

Chasing 12, 16, 24, 32 oz sinkers.

Cheers

Another shark attack in Esperance.

 Just looking at a nice combo for the young bloke for Xmas and chasing opinions on the Shimano Stradic Ci4+ versus the  Daiwa Saltist.

Looking at pairing it up with a Gomoku Kaiten or similar.

Both seen like really good reels.

mike

 Surfer in esperance has just aparantly had both arms bitten, and one arm bitten off by a shark. 

 Surfer in esperance has just aparantly had both arms bitten, and one arm bitten off by a shark.