Fishing Discussion

General Fishing Chat

esky seat

 hi all, was just wondering if anyone new where I can get an esky seat.  I have a 80l esky and wanna get a seat cushion so I can fit or glue on to my esky so my boys can sit in a bit of comfort. Cheers in advance Don


Another fish ID please

 Caught this in 10m, and I got a figer spiked very lightly on its dorsal fin which hurts and swelled up the hand for a couple hours - why is that?

 

 


Cracker of a day

Gday All,

So with all the talk last week of the weather being great friday, we headed out to Two Rocks to see what we could find (with Sea kem), we landed in a spot that Sea kem knew for about half hour, watched the Apprentice pull up nice Baldy - by then my deckie was spitting the chewy and wanted to head out deeper, so to stop my ears ringing off we went - dont worry Sea kem my turn to take out next time.

We studied some countours on the way out and landed on a great patch around 35 km out, with plenty of fish on the sounder we were very excited to get down there, it seemed they were pretty finicky with plenty of interest but nothing taking a good wack at our baits, about half hour later the Decky AKA the jig king gets onto a nice 6kg Dhuie on a jig (which i told him to get) - Stoked finally had a decent fish on board.

Another half hour later the decky spots this massive bust up on the surface - shit was going everwhere, in amongst the Chaos was sharks, birds, snapper, macks rekon we seen a couple of YTK in there aswell, PUMPED was the word - you know that scared feeling you get when you throw a lure in amongst a pack and everything just jumps out of the water - its an amazing feeling to think FK me what am i going to hook onto, decky loads up a mulie and hits the spot WACK!! its on zzzzzzzzzzz, funniest thing, he lights a ciggy, gets his beer and ses " il just wait for this thing to settle down a bit" haha classic, fkn great - i had my jig on still so that went out, after about 5 casts of lobbing it right in the middel WACK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz im on - this show went on for about an hour, ive never seen a show like it, was immense fun lading Macks, hooked up about 3 Shark Macks around 10kg, and a very nice Spaniard which would have weighed 15 - 20kg, we had the inlaw onboard aswell and he landed his first nice snapper of a bout 4kg so a double bonus - we lost one freight train that i think is still heading off to the horizon, but that was to be expected.

as you can see below - my jig got belted, was orange now has not paint, the dimiki as a row of teethe marks about half way down, also the jig kings spaniard

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after all that we were buggered - sat back had a few beers and decided to go to a little spot we knew closer in. lobbed out  a floater WACK!! didnt even have time to set my drag, the mulie must have slapped him in the side of the face - first thoughts ahh he were go the token Sambo that we hadnt seen all day, mmmm hang on this feels a bit differnet, was head bangen like someone at an ACDC concert - anyway after a cracking fight in shallow water i pull it closer in FKN YESSSSSSS A MASS SNAPPER (for me anyway) pulled him onboard absolutley stoked, my first monster weighed over 10kg (thats all my scales went to). in amongst my excitement we landed 2 more nice snapper in about 10 minutes and also got the token Sambo and that was us done for the day - had no more room in the esky for the fish, tails were hanging out everwhere.

all in all what a great day and just to top it off the drive home was awesome, and a nice haul of fish.

 

thanks all for reading - sorry it was long winded again.

 

Cheers Dan


rod reccomendation. Light snapper rod for placcies and stickbait casting??

 In the market for a lighter placcy rod to suit my c14 4000 with 15lb line. I want it to be about 7 ft maybe bit longer in length, to flick light placcies in 10 to 20 metres of water and to be able to cast at least 40 gram stickbaits like bullchops etc to the reefs for tailor, small kings etc. Not mega expensve either.

Marko


Before and after

Custom Targa


Fish ID please

Caught in 90 metres. Anyone know what it is ?


Hung out to dry

Few tasty treats that me and a mate do every year ,just got to wait for them to cure now.


Bicton bath jetty lights?

 Hey guys just wondering if anyone could tell me if the bicton bath jetty has lights so ya can do a spot of fishing at night?

Cheers 


Forgot my Sinkers and needed help

Guys

I left my sinker bucket at home and only realised 20 mile off shore. I was tempted to find another boat around me and ask them if I could buy some but didn't want them thinking I was ping there spots. Would of you cared or helped us out or would you tell me to get lost? I would of help someone out if they come up to me but was not sure what anyone else would of thought?


Deposit for test run?????

G'day.

I'm chasing some advice if this is normal for boat dealers over here in WA. 

As I am nearing the purchase of my new boat I called up the dealer and asked them to give a boat (a new boat) a test run. They said this was fine, but due to the fact that they would have to get a new motor for the new boat they would require me to pay a deposit ($100) and sign a notice of intention to purchase subject to sea trial before it would go ahead.

I'm just wondering if this is normal practice over here ( it is a large dealer) or is it just a one off occurance. 

Cheers


not a freo fan but

I am not a freo fan ( I still love Melbourne) but they look the goods love him or hate him Hayden Balyntine must run a marathon every game and the only reason young Nat Fyfe wont win a brownlow is a bloke called G Ablett is playing in the same era


whats a good fish finder

hey guys looking at buying a new fish finder because the one I have now isn't coloured I don't want to spend to much money maybe around $300 I want one that can reed thee reef and coral really good and will mainly be using of rotto for dhuies and stuff any info would be good


whats a good fish finder

hey guys looking at buying a new fish finder because the one I have now isn't coloured I don't want to spend to much money maybe around $300


bait in the feezer

hey guys I am just wondering because I have a lot of bait in my freezer from about 2 months ago because I never get to use it sometimes. When your fishing for dhuies and stuff does it always have to be fresh bait and does bait go off after a while and loose its scent ? if so could you guys please give me your opinion's.


Great white shark cockburn sound

 Hey fellow fishwreckers jst in cockburn sound right now jst letting people know that are fishing there is a great white shark about 3to4 metres hanging around  just to be a bit careful specially people fishing smAll dinghys an kayaks  , he cruised past my boat twice an unfortunately havent been able to take a photo , heart pumping stuff !! 


Broome muddies

 Hey all, just wondering if Broome is like hedland for crabs, ie find a beach find some mangroves and start looking. Just got here and I'm not too sure how to tackle it 

Cheers


jurein bay

hey guys I think I am going up on a fishing trip to Jurien bay in October on lucky last cast charters or maybe someone else and I was wondering if there's being may fish caught there a the moment like dhuies and snapper and stuff also wondering if luck last cast charters are good if so thanks for the feedback


Coral Bay vid

My first edit of some of the video I have.

hope the link works. enjoy. and play it with sound !

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAiiqoY3uB8


OCEANSIDE TACKLE

Popped into Oceanside today great bargains, huge amount of excellent priced goodies, staff as helpful as ever, do your self a favour and stock up, prices better than bluewaters re location sale and tons of good helpful advice from people who have real fishing experience. A most pleasurable experience , wish I could spend more but the wife has other ideas. Thanks guys.


New tinnie deck

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Mindarie

 Gday guys, I've never fished in Mindarie and was just wondering rouhhly where a good spot is there, chasing tailor and whatever else I can.  Any info would be greatly appreciated. 


AFL in termoil

what a joke the comp is this year we have a certain team that has been using drugs(allegedly) two years ago it was a team tanking (my team and they were) and the CEO of the afl goes on a junket overseas just when the enquiry is about to be handed down if it turns out a certain team is guilty of taking drugs they need every premiership point strip from them and if a certain CEO of the AFL actually did tip that team they were being ivestigated then of he needs to hang his head in disgrace and immediately resign


Maybe PW will come to Busso

Hi all, Earlier today I saw the post on Facebook saying how much Paul and his family loved a small Jetty over east and I thought if he liked that he will love the Busso Jetty. I sent him a PM saying that he should come over and experience the Jetty. I was amazed when he replied within 3 hours that he would speak to his producers about it. I know there will be a lot of you that think this was a bad move and any more fisherman at the Jetty will be really bad but it should be showed off for its amazing sites, photography and especially the observatory so before you get really upset it would be presenting all of the other features more than anything and not the fishing aspect as much. Salmonwanter


talking about luck

 Just wondering if any of you fellow members have ever dropped your rod and reel overboard. I only ask because today i almost lost me z40 and samaki jig stick to davey jones. I had the butt of the rod tangled in my jacket and got a big strike due to the force and being tangled in my jacket with possibly a bit of uncoordination thrown in the mix the rod pulled straight out of my hands and into the drink. Fortunately i was able to dive over the side of the boat submerging half my body and catch the rod about a metre or more down saving me combo. Bought a lotto ticket tonight after luck like that. cheers guys and girls


Enough rope.

Was very surprised to come across this today. Question is. Why?



Friday Funnys

Enjoy


weather tomorow

just been for a look at the ocean of the bent street ramp rocky its a glass of hope it holds 4 tomorrow


Not a bad day

Recently becoming aware of egi clips for easy squid jig change overs I headed to oceanside tackle to grab a pack and a few other bits and pieces, and after geting top notch service from blake and ryan who showed me some new knots and helpful advice, I was off to south mole to try my luck and bang first cast first squid. Hooked a couple more but one got off and the other released due to size so only one for the day but good enough to put a smile on my face. Only bad thing of the day was losing my breaden 3.5 deep jig so gonna have to get a few more i think.

 


coral bay to exmouth

Hey. Im doing a trip up to exmouth in a couple of months with my girlfriend and her cousin from germany. I have been to exmouth quite a few times now and have always wanted to drive the track from coral bay to yardie creek but have never got around to it. Im taking my 4.3 tinny up and was wondering what it would be like towing it on this track. Ive heard its pretty tame but just wanted to hear from anyone else that has done it before. I have a 100 series landcruiser with a lift.

Cheers

Heres a queeny i got on new years day couple of years ago, way better than a hangover!