Just got back from a week at steep point.   Boat based.  Weather was crap.  Windy and big swells kept us away from the cliff face of dhi.  But when my lure was hit the knot on the leader / swivel - wire trace gave way. :((

Last year I was running 24kg braid to 100lb rover leader (fg knot) to a swivel, then the wire trace.

This year I was running the same braid to 60lb fluorocarbon leader to the swivel.  The knot to the swivel was the one giving way.

I am now thinking I should give the leader a miss and go straight from the braid  to the swivel with a double palomar knot.  And then straight to the wire trace. Effectively eliminating the leader all together.

Thoughts?

How does everyone else run their trolling rigs?

 Hey guys, 

Just wondering if anyone has been getting many prawns in the swan after the recent rains? Thinking of giving it a crack tomorrow night. Have any particular locations been doing well?

Cheers. 

Went out Friday Arvo to get a few Herring for fresh Dhuie bait come Saturday.

Got 14 herring and ate 3 that night.. yummo. but while there chucked out the squid jig and nailed 11 squid.. Double yummo..

As for Saturday Dhuie fishing, it was the worst day I can ever remember. Got 2 undersize Dhuies and about 10 friggin bolt cutters.. Some of them friggin huge.. 

Shifetd a dozen times but couldnt shake the pricks of things..

Just before we decided to head in we picked up a nice size YTK. 

Stopped off at North Tail in 10mtrs of water for some sand whiting on the way home and ended up getting 14 before the bloody Bolt cutters arrived and smashed us yet again..

Cant get over the amount of these friggin things around ATM.. Anyone else seeing these in numbers??

 Heading up this arvo and was wondering if there was any info/ gossip bout conditions? 

Thanks all!

 Jumped in late yesterday looking for a feed of squid, Cockburn sound produced a few small squid relative to the time spend targeting them. 

Any feedback as to where the larger squad are bing taken?

Over the weekend with the herring running in the cut decided to go for a fish. Tempted to take the boat, anchor up in the cut and have a go, but realised that I loved landbased just as much. So went away from the mad crowd at the Marina site and had a cool time C&Ring hezza's. It made me realise I loved LB as much as boat based fishing, and since returning from Karratha where landbased isnt a fantastic option, it was a nice change to go back to grass roots fishing from shore.

Made me wonder whther others also share the duel passion about both, or surely love one above the other. Obviously based on fisho's with boats.

 Been getting heaps of questions about my fcv295 and tranies in an ali lately so heres a few sounder pics from the weekend. There's a lot of bait but also a lot of 8 bar cod and big pinks

the last pic is my 2kw 38hz on a drop down pole for when it's a bit rough and 2kw 200hz 

Hey guys if anyone/charter is ever looking for a deckhand im available 24/7. Ive worked as a deckhand for mills for a while also been a boat builder. 

Thanks guys 

Hi all,

Has anyone heard if there are any plans yet to move any sand from Tantabiddie ramps.We are heading over at the end of June.

Regards Jim

 hi guys, i am going to busselton in two weeks. could i catch salmon on that jetty since ther heading back to albany. also what type of gear do you need to land a sambo of the jetty. thanks

Looking at Gary Howard rods and their is a section that deals with Surf and Rock rods for WA.

I am using Alvey reels currently on a Snyder Glas  12 ft Surf/Rock rod without any difficulty.

So what is different about  Western Australia's conditions?

Cheers

Russell

Hi Guys,

Just wondering what the weather conditions are like in Cervantes in June. looking at dragging my 5.5m cc, along with another 3 boats similar sizes.
Also an idea as to what water depths I should be looking at. Not looking for gps cords, just general info would be appreciated.
Cheers,

Just been going over my collection of reels and was wondering how other persons look after their "Lower end "reels.
One of my reels has some corrosion and dents (small) on the spool. I have removed the line and am dressing the damage so that the surface is smooth. Am wondering what others do to prevent corrosion down in the spool area covered with line. Do you wipe a corrosion preventative over the spool rim that the line travels over.
Looking at second hand reels both on here and on Gum tree and noticed the reels also had damage to this surface, surely this surface would damage the line on every cast. What's you say on this.

 I don't know how many times I have been asked if fish have eyebrows - probably none if I think about it. But anyway, here is conclusive proof that some of them do. 

P.s. ate him last night and he was the best pinkie I have ever tasted. So look for fish with eyebrows if you want something delicious 

 Hi guys just wondering what you would expect to catch in the river at the moment and were abouts.

Headed out yesterday morning to hit up some rumoured / photographed Metro Salmon with some resident FW gurus.

Now since 2011, I have caught a few dozen herring, a big snook and a Tailor...3 years and 14 days later after my first brag worthy catch, in the metro area no less, with the city in sight, 3 x 60cm + Salmon.

The morning involved two spots, the first having one hookup, a bent hook and shattered hopes. Per my normal fishing abilities, I was able to find the herring and had a rolling mountain of them chasing a Ricter plug. The the leed boat managed to get a couple then it all went quiet.

We (three boats) then headed to the next spot, where there were already a pile of boats similar to D9 when the Snapper season is about to end.

After a few casts are managed to hook something which I was having a great play with until snap the fishing WA Xtreme line snaps.

After a few more casts and seeing the fish stalking my plug it all went quiet, but I looked up to see a group of boats casting into what looked like weed, with lots of splashing.

Quick tonk over and it was all on. 5 or so boats, more at times, with each boat having a hook up at times. A hook up per cast at times, with some flicking lures. Managed to land three, and kept two with snapper coming up to boats within 20m of me.

 does anybody know of any landbaced comps in perth fishing waters. coming up. Thanks

 I thnk ive found the uprgrade to the tinny and i would like to ask for some feedback, ive found a Cruise craft 500 2000 hull paired with a 2010 yam 115 outboard with 104 hrs on the clock. The boat is in good condition on a new trailer with Lowrance hdi 5 wide beam plotter/sounder combo and another Lowrance plotter/sounder combo (one does the wide beam scan) comes with gold maps, the outboard has new hydrolic stearing, just serviced with all recipts and log book. UHF and 27mghz radios and all the rest of equiptment you can think of.

The asking price is 28k, this is my first full size boat so im not very well clued up on them. Ive done plenty of reading and the boat sounds ideal but im yet to find a fellow fisher that has one.

i want to head out 5 miles plus to do some bottom bashing a bit of shark fishing then trailer her up the coast to exmouth etcfor holidays.

does this sound like the ideal boat for me and my requirements, ive looked at the aluminium hulls alsoa nd found the trailcraft a bit of a banger in the chop andmy friends5m plate hull chivers rolles plenty in the swell.

ive had a back problem in the past so a smooth as poss ride is importamt and obviously a bit of comfort for the wife and kids when they come out on her.

Hi All,

A member asked a question on one of my previous posts as follows:

Can I just ask about your use of burley? I have used burley when beach fishing for herring and so on, but never for demersals from a boat. I have always just drifted over the lumps and hoped a fish would be there. So how exactly do you do it? Do you have one of those burley masher things on the back of your boat? Surely that's just for fishing on the surface.   Or do you get the burley to the bottom somehow? Burley cage (herring style)? Or do you send one of those big burley things down your anchor line?

I am certainly no expert in fishing Perth Metro waters (limited local knowledge and experience), and generally fish in <15m, but replied with what I do as follows.

I make my own burley out of fish frames (whiting, herring), fillets (tuna, skippy, tailor, wrasse, parrot, snook), pilchards, squid, shells (cray, crab), chicken feed pellets and tuna oil.  I have an old style mincer that I just chuck it all in and grind to a paste.  I then add more oil to get a consistency like thick tooth paste - the ratio of the fish to pellets is important as you don’t want it too crumbly.  I then spoon it into glad bags and make logs that will fit into my burley bomb.  Into the freezer for a couple of days at minimum.  If you do it right, it produces a fine textured burley for 1-3 hours.

Where the burley bomb is placed in the water column is dependent on the conditions - I attach it to 30m of cord and tie off the front of the boat as necessary.  If there is little current I keep it near the surface as it spreads wide getting to the bottom.  If there is a lot of current, I drop it deeper so the burley is where the bait is.  I will always send a floater down to be in the burley trail.  I generally fish with pilchards so get a steady trail of heads and tails into the water as well.  It doesn't always work but we seem to be going ok with this strategy.

I wanted to pass this on for anyone else that has similar questions, and also see if members could add to my response with any burley tricks and tips of their own.

Mick

Was a good few hours ended up with 1 size tailor and 2 nice herring they will do for lunch i wasn't catching as much as others i did have a live bait out 1 small run 2 other baits clean bitten of just the tails remained i was down at challenger beach low tide to

a group of 4 people had 42 herring i only caught 2

 Hi everyone. Anyone know any early morning tackle shops that I can by burley at? Gotta be near fremantle. When I say early I'm talking about 6am.

lachie

 I'm in Coral Bay atm. Anyone else here?

I was at a local store today and they had some run out specials with Penn 24KG boat rods coupled with large Fin-Nor offshore egg beater reels. 9500's I think from memory. Good looking and sturdy reel.It looked like a good deal all round.
I picked one combo up and the thing that hit me was how heavy the setup was and cant imagine spending a full day hanging onto one, so there must be a couple of saving graces to make up for such a heavy unit.
Does anyone have an outfit like this and can you please give me an idea wether its worth the effort or am I better off looking elsewhere.
Advertised at $350
cheers
Lurch

Afternoon all,

After seeing everyone's recent shark catches, I've decided to get in on the action.

Taking advantage of Motackle's 20% off of all rods this weekend, I'm ordering a Daiwa Sensor Surf 10-20 kg overhead rod...... figure you can't go wrong with that rod for a $199.

I already have a Daiwa Saltist 50 2 speed lever drag, has anyone had any experience in trying to cast these lever drags on the beach? I would love to get a second use out if this particular reel if possible, although I am a newby to casting overheads.

Advice I have received so far is that a star drag reel like the Shimano Torium or Daiwa Saltist Black Gold would be a far better option. Can anyone add anything to that?

Also looking for some advice in terms of which mono line to use. Was going to put a 300M of 50lb braid backing on first, then topshot with a 24kg mono. Any suggestions? Was looking at the Berkley Trilene big game 24kg.

Thanks in advance for any opinions.

Simmo

Some of you may have already seen some of these photos on the Zambezi Safaris website, but for those who haven't here are a few very special moments from previous clients at Sidinda Lodge.

 Nabbed a few ripper pinks on an overnighter last night, with the biggest one measuring in at 91cm and sporting two fisheries tags. Anyone know/recognise tag numbers PE 05257/PE 05258? Keen to find out whose tag it is :)

I have to sell my boat guys,stone broke gotta feed the family and pay bills,18ft Penguin Phantom on brand new Dunbier tandem trailer,anyone interested?

Hit the ramp at Hillarys at 7pm and headed to 3 mile out from Ob City. Pretty nice conditions and heaps happening on the sounder... Kept the bait n burley in the esky and sent down Mr Gulp on the 1 ounce lumo elevator to make some enquiries. 2nd drop connects with a 53cm Dhubanger. Nice. Not long after up comes an elbow slappin' KG, my pb at 48cm. Chuffed with that I shot off a quick brag message to Tim-o (who had to stay at home to look after his kiddies) and reloaded with a non-mangled plastic. Next up was the distinctive woop woop woop head shakes of a protesting Snapper. After a bit of to-and-fro on the little Jigging Master combo I had a nice 68cm Pinky on board. Once again fired off a final brag message and started heading in. On my way back in I was thinking how lucky we are to be able to catch fish like these right on our door step. Love it.

Received a “barrage” of texts from my young fella at work this afternoon – the wind is light, I will prep the boat, checked out the swell from the balcony and it is low, there are heaps of boats out there our size and it is all good, I will go to the bait shop and pick us up some ocky, etc, etc.  A check of the wind status and it is ok, not great but fishable.  Relented and came home early even though tomorrow morning looks the goods and a mate from work is on a “promise”.  All a bit late and rushed but we got “out there” to the 3 Mile just as the sun was going down.

As soon as it was dark, the young fella hooked up and after 10 minutes of a good fight had the 68 cm Pink in the boat.  He was back down there and a 45cm skippy was on board.  As we have an early start in the morning, called it a night and came in to make our burly for tomorrow.  Out at 5.30pm, in by 7.15pm with a few kilos of fresh fillets.  It doesn’t get much better, especially when it is instigated by the kid and he gets the results.