This is my first good sized fish on plastic so was pretty stoked. Got him on a Berkley Gulp Squid Vicous 6" and 15kg gear. Was a fat bugger too went just over 4lb on the old scale.

Caught this little guy in 30m off the west end of Rotto, wasn't expecting it at all this far south. Things are changing hey.

gday lads heading down freo tonight for a fish, gona target some sharks and mulloway some of the bigger metro species from the shore, anyone had any luck lately at these spots ? 
or does anyone know of good spots producing these fish lately ? if anyone down for a fish or keen to tag along let us know aswell some comapny would be good just me and a few mates headn down cheers guys!

Hey Gents,

I am relitively new to boating and I wanted to know some opinions on the smallest boat people would take out wide (40 - 50m of water) obviously it will depend on weather, swell ect.

The reason why I ask is that I have just sold my 25ft trophy and I am looking at down sizing. I have looked at boats around the 6m mark and a little smaller... but to me they look a little too small to be taking out where I was going before.

probibly a random question, but I just wanted to know others opinions.

Cheers!

 Hi,

If anyone is in need of an extra person on their boat let me know! I am always keen to get out and about and I just sold my boat. (getting married is stupidly expensive idea)

PM me on here or send me an email

Cheers!

Ryan

Anyone using Flotex carpet in their boats? Also where's the best place to buy?

thanks

is it true there are crabs just of the old swan berwry

So finally we got motivated enough to take our amateur pots out to some lumps in 15/16 fathoms and got our selves a few jumbos.. I've got plenty of idea and recipes to try with tail meat but can anyone give me any hints on best ways to cook the legs??

Cant wait to give em a try... Cheers Belly

Sherbie got a Piercing today for his birthday, he may have been trying for a Prince Albert but missed.

 Me and a few mates did a weekend trip away to a very remote south coast beach for some fishing for salmon and sharks and got a few dives in to.

We went to The far headland at the beach with a big swim around 1.5km to the deep water past the sand where the reef and the fish are. The currents where strong on the way back with a very tiring swim even with free diving fins. These 2 days dives made me realize how bad I need a go pro!!

In the time we where in the water we spotted over 100 queenies, 40-50 grouper ranging from 8kg through to some well over 30kg!!, skippy that where easily 5kg+ that could of been classed as small GT's, big harlequin fish and just reef fish in general everywhere!!! It's the sort of place you can tell very few people have ever been to!!. We shot enough for a feed and left the rest for when we come back next time. I also got my pb grouper of around 13kg on spear and some nice queenys well over 70cm.

I have some monster shark photos that we got from the weekend effort but once I've sorted through it all and finished cleaning the sand out of everything I'll throw them up to.

 Hi Everyone,

I am currently looking for work. I am a super keen fisherman so would be interested in anything from working in a tackle store to being a deckie on a charter. If anyone has anything or knows of anything please get in touch with me on here. (Private message me)

Thanks in advance!

Ryan

 Couldn'r believe it coming in on Sunday near Staggies reef. As I powered in doing roughly 25knots looking out for the occaissional cray pot to avoid, I see a little dinghy anchored right adjacent to the reef break mayne 200m away as I go to move inside between him and the reef maybe 80m to port. I suddenly see what looked like two red crayfloats and swerved to ensure I didn't hit any stray ropes. As I get level I notice its a couple of blokes in the water at least 80m from their dinghy with no dive flag and nobody onboard. 

Compassion was the overriding emotion as I enquired if they were OK (seeing as they were miles away from their boat.) They waved me on, but then the further away I got from them the more it made me realise just how lucky they were not to have been run down. I sincerely hope they made it back to their boat, otherwise they would have been making an entry into the Darwin Awards for 2013.

Honestly the stupidest place to park and snorkel with no dive flag and be so frigging far from the boat.

Rant over....

Does anyone know what the story is behind the cat that capsized half way to Rotto on weekend? It's on Fremantle Sea Rescue Face Book page.

Anyone here using any of the Penn Slammers Reels.

Tell us of what you think of the reel.

 just reading ryans post about the drag upgrade in the daiwa seaborg megatwin

where can you get this done and whats the rough price of the job?

thanks

jess

Having a couple of days at Margret River this weekend, thinking of casting a few soft plastics and hardbodies around at the river mouth anyone have any better sggestions - also thinking of stopping of at canal rocks or busso jetty for a few hours on the way back again anyone have any suggestions ??

I will be fishing with my light gear - soft plastics and hardbodies

Cheers

Paul

With all this talk or metro marlin, jurien marlin, and personally pulling out the marlin gear yesterday and went wide for the first time in a while. Im curious to know everyones favourite skirts/ Heads....

Basically my collection consists for around 8 Soft Grassy's/ and numerious jets heads and jelly babes, and im possibly looking to open the spread a little more, with some different kind of bubble trails etc etc.......

look forward to hearing everyones favs...

Photo was taken at the most southern fad yesterday morning at roughly 5-530am....had the fad to our selves tiill roughly 730 8ish went all the gentlemens hours people rock up..headed wide after the spearos runied everything like usual (and before all you spearos say something, these guys didnt wait for the que in the drift, nor did the captain of the boat moove his boat (40 + foot flybridge), but he just idled right next to the fad while 5 guys attempted spearing dollies (for over 30 mins) and shtting everything down).  Sharing is caring spearos, I didnt go off at the boats rocking up after us, we just shared and made sure everyone had fun.

Free jumping 3-5kg fish on the chew while we were there, till it shut down.

Can anyone help me find a handle for a spheros 18000, broke mine off on the weekend.

PM me if you have or know where to get one.

Cheers

Paid my boat rego in December for January and haven't received a sticker. Has it changed to be like a car rego?

 Anyone know what the fishing has been like Cervantes way lately?? I'm heading up with a few mates this weekend.. Lb no boat.. Any croakers?? Might try n better the one I got July last yr haha ;) tight lines guys

could not believe the way the skipper of the tanya hall drove today.

i was trolling about 8 ks out when i saw a bloody big boat bearing down on me i slowed right down to let him get past me and he actually changed direction to go behind me we started waving to them and pointing at our rods and he turned to go closer as he cut behind our stern .

needlless to say 80 bucks of lures lost and he abused us when we started swearing at him he then pulled up to a launch which must have broken down as they were arranging a tow.

we couldnt believe that people who should know better would behave like that

Back a few months ago we noticed a Fish very similar to the one below..

My wife decided to do this for our grandson who turned 5 today...

He loves fishing and was suprised as when we brought the cake out...

Best peice of fish I have ever tasted and even ate the Scales... LOL

So after much discussion we think it might be a "West Coast Yellow Faced blue finned freckled back cod" and Babies.. LOL

Ryan (6 yr) caught this out of Canal Rocks yesterday on his 1-3kg Ugly stick.  Yes dad had to help a little at the end as he was getting too tired.

Was 57cm and around 3-4kg - my scales are not that accurate.

Very happy boy and very jelous dad.

JW 

Caught off Dunsborough, Fish ID pls.

Any good eating?

Size limit?

And YES, we did put it back.

Cheers,

JW

Can you please assist in identifying these species caught in local waters.  I am on a quest to catch 500 different species.

See http://fisheagle.homestead.com/species.html

 Im just wandering if anyone could give me some advice on beach spots where i can get into some decemt tiger sharks, i have access to a 4x4 and kayak to take out balloon/bottom baits.

Cheers.

a troll out of mindarie and maybe a burly session

am looking into how to avoid the dreaded pingers.. especially with our local fishing comp in a few months and the usual influx of rich kid boats stealing hard earned spots and a few of the local boy also sporting big white domes on top of their cats etc

have done a quick bit of reading, and apparently glass boats dont show up as readliy as ali, but as guessing a decent radar will still pick up the metal on board...

anyone had any experience with any of this?

HI GUYS SEEN THIS ON GUMTREE AND KNOW IF I LOST MY DOG I WOULD ALSO BE DEVASTATED . AS LOTS OF US ARE ON THE ROAD HEADING OFF FISHING LETS KEEP OUR EYES OUT AND HOPEFULLY SOMEONE SEES "FUDGE"

1200.00 REWARD for missing kelpie "Fudge"

 Hi,    Just wondering if anyone can recommend somewhere I can get some bow rail spray dodgers made up for my 4.75m centre console?

Thanks, Mitch