Hi Guys,

got a question for those in the know, a few years back caught a horse Mulloway (have pics somewhere) but wanted to know if there was a way to get a rough weight by knowing the length of the fish, it measured 172cm, i had some trouble holding him up for a photo, so was just wondering if anyone knows what weight he/she would have gone.

Cheers.

Gday Ive had my boat for a while now and am confident about it's capabilites now it's time to push out to the Direction bank out of ocean reef.I've got a 6.2 meter cabin crusier with a 130 johnno on the back

Can anyone put me in the right direction of it?Iv'e been told its 25 km's out but not sure in which direction.I'm not gonna ask for co ords,  unless its a well known public spot.Any advise would be great on the area cause its been a while since i caught a decent fish, this Saturday i'm gonna try nail it.I just need to know how to get there then i can suss spot's out from there Cheers guys

Anyone know where i can catch my first mettro ( Murray Cod ) ?

dont mind paying a fee !  $$$$$

Can anyone tell me the rules about these??

Found 2 of these on the beach when 4wd on the weekend,

Wasnt sure so left them there.

Is it illegal to take them? or free to good home...?

 G'day,

Im not in the comp this weekend, stuck working through till midweek. Sounds like the good time of year to chase them though. I havent caught one yet. We had one come up under the boat and have a look at us when we were bottom bashing. And Ive seen some cruise under the wharf at work. Just never had the luck of hooking one. Are there any particular depths, trolling speeds, trolling ground (reefy or flat bottom), lures/skirt colours that are better to try? Ive kown a few people to hook them from floating a gardie/mulie out the back when drift fishing. Might try to get out thursday or friday while the winds not too bad. Its torture looking at the flat seas from work all day though and then getting to days off and it blowing up. Hope the calm seas hold on for a couple more days.

Cheers.

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anyone ever caught an octopus on a squid jig, guy down at aqua jetty was cleaning 2 squid and a good size ocky he said he caught on a squid jig, never heard of that before

After snagging my anchor while fishing the inshore reef systems on Friday night I had to cut the rope. The anchor I had wasn't a reef anchor by any stretch, but never had any problems holding on and always came up, except for Friday night of course. So I went and got myself a reef anchor, a 5 prong 10mm version. And here my problem begins..

Went out Sunday morning targetting the same reefy terrain and for the life of me, I couldn't get the anchor to hold. Was on the water at 5.30 am for an early start and spent more time rooting around with the anchor, pulling and setting it trying to get it to grab, than what I did fishing. While conditions weren't perfect, there was about a 10-12knot ne wind and about a 1.5-2m swell, I didn't think it was rough enough to be causing my anchor to release hold. Also my boat is a 5.5 pacemaker which I didn't think was too heavy for that size anchor but I may be wrong.

Obviously I am going wrong somewhere but have no idea where or why. Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction please?

 Hey guys. I know this question has been asked a thousand times but one more cant hurt. Im from the east so dont know the north west coast very well. A few mates and I are heading up north for a week. Been to warrowa last year and am thinking of somewhere different this time. Will be mostly fishing with some diving and spearing. Have a tinny so need somewhere we can launch(beach or ramp). Got plenty of gear.  Any suggestions???. 

I have heard stories that if you drop Snapper skin/ofal into your burley trail it can put the Snapper off the bite.....seems a bit odd to me what do you think

At mandurah there was a small jetty, this small jetty was known as dalrimple's jetty" if i remember rightly. from the jetty i used to catch quite large dark coloured flathead when i would come down at easter timesthis was way back in the late 50s perhaps early 60s. Fast forward to 2000 when i moved down to mandurah i have not seen or heard of anyone catching flathead or flounder in the estuary,yet there is plenty of small flathead to be caught within 1nm of the ocean end of the cut. can anyone tell me if they have caught flathead in the esturay in recent years,like the last 5 or so.

Can anyone say why this is so,or is it i'm just not fishing in the right spots

. thanks in anticipation for replys

Just about to go out. Always have an emergency 20l spare fuel.

Found out by accident that the teen stepson stole the l's of fuel emergency to top up his car.

How uncool is that!!

Hi guys, bit of advice please.

Recently bought a boat and will be doing fishing around metro area out to Rotto.

Looking to buy a general boat rod to get me going that would suit a bit of everything (bottom fishing, jigging and trolling)

My main questions are :

1. PE 1-3 or 3-5 ?

2. Overhead or spin? ( I already have a 4500 and 5000 spin reel ) 

So far liked the look of the Fishing WA rods.

Cheers,

Joycey.

Hi All

I just wanted to post this link for all people interested in the artificial reef project ( Geographe Bay - 2 sites) that was shown on the ABC Landline program today.

This program can also be viewed directly by going to ABC Iview. There are a number of local anglers who are involved in the project.

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/search/landline

Enjoy the show.

 Hey all as the 4000 stradic and 5000 stradic run the same body is it possible to buy a 5000 spool and fit onto my 4000 body? Are there any other differences?

Cheers

Mat

For all of those blokes like me who have trouble with fumble fingers trying to get this knot perfect I have found the solution!!!!! My crutches make great fingers! I can firmly secure the biminie braid to the crutches. The trick is that I hold and control the leader bit and the missus holds the cructches and slowly criss-crosses them until I say STOP LOL. It would take a third person to video this unique idea but I can tell you with every degree of confidence that we have renewed wind-on leaders for 2 of my setups now and both knots are perfect. Missus winges a bit but hey, that's what they are there for. LOL

Hi guys.

Does anyone know where I can buy some fresh slimy mackeral here in Perth. Have tried catching but no luck. 

Cheers

Werner

Dumb question here on our recent trip to Gnaraloo my mate caught a 12kg chinaman what great fight it gave him he released it successfully after our other mate on board told us they no good eating and are poisonous????

Hi guys,

I have recentley re-discoverd the good times shared with a beach rod and a cold tin! however i have'nt really caught anything. any one know any good spots SOR less than an hour from freo would be good so i can go after work. cheers fellas

Hey Fellas... heading up with a mate to fish north of Two rocks around Wilbinga this arvo, just wondering if anyone has been up there this weekend and knows what the weed is like.

If you're up there this arvo and see a Grey Pajero and patrol ute come and say hello

thanks fellas!

This was caught by a mate this evening around north metro.

Not a clue to what it is..

Can anyone clarify what it is please.

i need one for summer!

gday was thinking of going for a big mulla in the sound and surrounds.

any ideas of where to start have tried live trumpeter around the back reef with little success.

has anyone got one out there before.

Hi All,

In the next couple of weeks I am going to start making an off-road boat trailer for my 1982 5m Quintrex Cerntre console.  I want to license it for 1.5T on a single axle as it is well over 1T when loaded up to go fishing / camping / spearing up north.  I also mostly launch across the beach and regularly go to Ningaloo, Lucky Bay, etc so it needs to be good across the beach and be able to survive corrugations.  So far I am thinking of the following, but would love to hear ideas and suggestions, and see pictures of other trailers built for similar use.

100 x 5 'C'section frame

75 x 5 'C' section cross beams

Full width slides going down to the rollers

100 x 100 x 4 RHS draw bar

Landcruiser hubs, wheels, bearings (15" with 235/75 or 225/70 tyres)

Mechanical Disc brakes

45mm square axle - wheels to be same width as the car track

9 leaf x 60mm x850 long double eye offroad leaf springs

Chequer plate mudguards

TREGG offroad poly-block hitch

Spare on a hub mounted to a drop down arm (on the drawbar) to turn it into a 3 wheeler

LED lights

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated before I spend the $ on buying the bits - expecting to to be around $2700 to build

Thanks heaps

Drew

Not going to name and shame but took my shimano reel into a tackle store north of the river to get a service in may for our annual may Gnaraloo fishing trip and also dropped another $1700 on fishing gear while I was there.

Ok got to Gnaraloo in may our first day out in the 100 meter mark first drop and I was on to a nice 9kg job fish with my fully serviced reel. yep guess what happens next drag adjusted to full and had no drag very minimal had to pull the fish up by hand shit that braid hurts using it as a hand line. No more fishing for me that day as I didn't have another reel on the boat capable of fishing the 100s. Got back to the cabin and did a strip and inspection of the reel and found that some washer were left out of the star drag so it just bottomed out.

Got back to Perth in may and dropped it off to the tackle store that did the service, it is now august and have not got it back. have been into the store seven times and have had every excuse under the sun. boss hasn't been there, guys working there can't get hold of the boss . Go in last saturday and told don't know anything about it so I got the staff to get the boss on the phone finally and promises me it will be ready the next day Sunday.

Ok so I left it to wednesday to go in surely it would be ready guess what, no boss and the guy working just drew a blank face. so he tries to ring his boss no answer again. I left him my mobile told him to call me cause I'm real pissed off now. I just want my reel back .it's now Saturday no phone call and no reel, I'm sounding a bit bitchy but this is my no 1 fishing reel I think I might just have to go and help myself to a new one off the shelf.

hi guys(table is gone aleady thanks)

i have for free, my old s/steel fillet table i made to go over a old sink, i have since aquired my big bench and this is not needed,

rather than scrap it, i am sure a member will get use out of it.

pick up is in forrestfield and the first one to get here gets it, pm me and i will give you my address, pick up anytime.

i also have these pair of size 10 axo moto cross boots, nearly new, only worn half a dozen times, dirty but like new.

$50firm

also a full gasket set for a small block chev, bought for a 350 but will suit all small blocks, unopened, in origanal package

$50 firm

give me a call on 0414064989 or pm me

cheers ron

Hi wreckers

This has been doing my head in, and hearing some stories just wondered whether I have this totally clear in my head.

It has been posted on here that certain Gray Nomad parked up in one off the caravan parks has been "trading" Mudcrabs for other stuff!!

Now I have also heard a rumour that cray trading has been going on.

Now I have this totally clear. If you catch a fish, cray etc with a Non Commercial Lic you are not allowed to sell to nobody ever.  If you do you break the law.

And I believe that is the case for "Trading". Blatantly doing it IMO is illegal. The case I have heard about with the Mudcrabs was that he would trade crabs for other foods, the rumour with crays was that it was hardware etc in exchange for them.

My understanding is that if you gain any reward out off private disposal off seafood it is illegal - stop. So both the recipient and Trader are breaking the law. And the Arrangements that the rumour revealed pisses me off no end.

But if you come over to my place, give me some nice Red emp fillets, and a week later I feel kind and buy you some Burboun in appreciation --- where does that stand.

I gave some whole Snapper to our cleaning lady when we had extra. We dont freeze fish, dont normally take more than a fresh feed or 2, but pulled up some high quality fish after thinking the snapper was going to do. Had a couple extra. She makes deliscious Tom Yum.  But a week later she brought me a carton of beer.

Now I have gained, she has gained. There was no agreement unlike to other 2 cases but how does this differ in theory from the obvious above.

It just had me thinking!!

Cheers

Neels

Hi All,

Just a quick question - want to try these plugs; got couple today, 1 and 2 Oz n White and White&Red ....

Any tips on how you work them out? Fast, Twitch, let it sink once casted ... etc

Will use them now for tailor from beach, but later will try them on Dollies and Tuna out deep.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks

Hesh

Hi,

I am thinking of heading up to Coral Bay to do some land based fishing and wondered if anyone can advise me on the best time of year to go.

Was hoping to go in the next few months but had read that it can be pretty blowy for the months that have an R in them :), dont know if this is true.

Also I generally run with 30lb line on a pretty basic set up and wondered if this is going to be enough.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.