Hi everyone,

I'm going up to Karratha for a week next week, and hope to squeeze some fishing time in :)

just wondering if anyone can give me any general pointers on the fishing up there?

I know the tides are pretty full on, I'll have a 4x4, just wondering what species will be around at this time of year..

Cheers guys

Jo :)

Anyone know of where I could find a spool of braided dacron?  Need some in 50lb for making up some wind ons for exmouth.  Can get a little bit from a mate, but would prefer to have a full spool as we go through leaders up there quite a bit when chasing spanglies and trout around coral.

Just confirming...

Im heading out with two others tomorrow in the boat off margs. 

I know we can only take 2 dhuies for the day (boat limit)- thats fine by me.

But say we get them, what else can we take before we limit out.  Im under the impression that if I get a dhuie, I can get one pinky or one BA then im pretty much done with taking fish for the day.  Where do the individual limits change over to boat limits?

Am I correct to say the max bag for the day would be 2 dhuies and 4 pinkies/other fish for the 3 anglers?

Ive never had to worry about it before as its only my third time out under these rules and the two previous trips resulted in 1 keeper dhuie each time.  Just thought it best to confirm in case everything aligns and we get a decent day.

Hi

I am wanting to catch some mulloway, but dont really know the setup for it. If someone could explain it to be or have a pic that be much appreciated.

Thanks

just wondering if theres still scalies at E-shed, want to catch some bait in anticipation of trip to kalbarri in july

Went out from mandurah yesterday, and saw the biggest turtle i have ever seen, was about 1.7m longx1m wide it was huge, saw another baby one but it was dead, i have never seen a turle down this way only up north, does anyone know if their frequent?

Wish i got a photo if it, it was bloody huuuuuge!

Hey guys trying to decide between  going to hillarys for a fish of the groynes or to port coogee for a fish of the beach any suggections please ???. Wanted to try target some tailor I'm in the middle so bout the same travel for me

Enjoy

Heading off tommorow midday to the Carnarfin for 7 days, then spending a week up at Coral Bay..

Hope you all fish hard while im gone, I will post up a full report when I get back.

Looking forward to fishing with a few fellow FW members, Pricey10 and Dkonig82 Aka Dan are both hopefully making the trip to Carnarvon to join me and dad out on the Seafox 257 for the last few days of the trip...

LIVING THE DREAM, well in 2 more hours when i finish nightshift

Cyaz!

hey guys!

Just wondering if there's anything BIG to be caught from shore at mindari ??? like around the marina :)

thinking of going down there tomoz for the day, fishing the incoming tide :) yeh any suggestions!!!

 Has anyone been on a charter in Phuket, if so was it any good on not worth it.

cheers,

Hey everyone.

Just thorowing it out there, and I applogise for the very late notice. But has anyone got 2 oversize signs I can borrow?

I placed an order weeks ago to a sign writter, they stuffed up the order today big time, wrong signs completly...bit of a let down...

I tow an oversize seafox, and I am leaving on a trip to Carnarvon saturday morning.

Has anyone got 2 I could borrow for 13 days? I would sort you out with beer, cash, fish even!

Whats the chances of risking it and being done?

Dont want to start a thread bagging fish shops, i just wanted to understand how they can sell under-size fish -i am assuming imported fish ?

Was just in a fish shop that had quite a few species that were well under "WA" size limits, red-emperor (whole) some would have been 20cm long -i just had to walk out

Hey Everyone,

Went up to Exmouth a couple weeks ago, had 2 days land based and planned for 3 days on a boat.

We arrived in Exmouth went to the Carnavan Park and setup our tents then it was off to Oysters for some popper casting, after a fair few hours casting and retrieving with no result and the sun starting to going down we decided to go to Beach not too far away and do some shark fishing as we heard they are abundant up north and it entertains us in Perth when we want something big from land.

When we got there we cut up the two spotted trevally we caught on the way up to Exmouth (More on that in my mates post to come)and proceeded to put the heads out on our gear we brought from GTS. My mates rod is a Shimano T curv traveler 15-24kg with a Finnor Offshore 9500 fitted with 80lb braid, mine was a Fishing WA 37kg heavy popping stick with a Finnor Offshore 9500 with a different brand 80lb braid both had a very large circle hook through the mouth. (In the photo you can see the 500lb coated wire leader to a heavy duty swivel to a 150lb clip swivel attached to 120lb supple black magic trace that I used as a wind on with a double uni knot.)
We casted out the heads and within ten minutes of sunset and our baits in the water my mate had his first run but no hook up, then the same thing happened 2 more times. Next it was my turn with a big first run I grabbed the rod held it high and tighten the drag but it just keep going, until I saw my backing then I tighten my drag as much as I was game to then the reel started to smoke or what resembled smoke. I think this was actually the braid colouring coming off as it gained tension. Soon after I was on backing and the shark had a little break from running which allowed me an opportunity to gain some line back. I was doing everything I could walking backwards then forwards reeling plus the usual dip and wind walking along the beach to gain more back slowly then came another run. This continued for about 15 minutes until I passed the rod to a mate while I got the gimble belt on then I took over again, until it surfaced reasonably close and I passed the rod back to go and try grab the leader while he brought it in by walking back.

After about a half hour fight with the rod held high to maximise its potential we landed this shark which neither of us could identify.

The next morning brought about more lure casting around oysters with no result, so we headed into town to get some brumbys and hit up the tackle shop who informed us that we needed to be fishing oysters at night, so we did until around 9pm when the tide started coming in with no result. We had fished oysters morning and night on high and low tide with no result, we had seen some queenies taken but that was it.

We picked up the boat and went out of Tanabiddi trawlling skirts mostly throughout the day in waters ranging from 40-100m. After a few hours we had picked up 4 striped tuna and 1 large unidentified run that broke my mates crimp job. With the weather picking up we decided to trawl south along the reef into the swell and eventually turn around and trawl back and head in as people were starting to feel sick. Once we had turned around after about 20 min we noticed that a sailfish was attacking the teaser that I had bought from Oceanside (Thanks Mike) and then it went after my skirt (that Mike picked, thanks again) took it for a small run before letting go. We hadn't stopped the boat yet so just keep trawling and it came back and had another go. This time it was hooked a little better and starting to show off its arial skills for a few minutes before finally throwning the hook. We circled around a few times but couldn't pick it up. We headed in quite early due to the large (under 1m) tide, weather and sea sickness, got back to camp and decided to go shark fishing with tuna head.

This night we took a german tourist who was staying in the caravan park in the next campsite. This night he was the lucky/unlucky one with more runs then the rest of us put together but no hook ups. Then we had a double hook up the tourist and one of my mates who was led down the beach so I stayed and helped the tourist land his first shark took him a while as his gear was lighter and landed a small black tip. Mean while down the beach my mates had landed a 2m unknown didn't get a photo and released it.
We put our rods out again then it was my turn after a 20 minute fight another 2m was landed. Problem is we didn't bring a camera on the second night and have to wait for the German tourist to return home and send through the photos that we did get that night.

The next day the weather was worse we tried trawlling but didn't last long, went back and the forecast was worse for the next day so we packed up returned the boat and headed back down the coast to where we got those trevally, again my mate will report that one.

So we were unfortunate with the weather but I will be back Exmouth as this was only my second trip up.

Also if anyone could let us know what the shark is it would be appreciated.

Cheers for reading
Gee

With the almanac predicting good fishing I had a flick around freo yesterday, and canning bridge today. only got one flathead, but i wasnt trying very hard.

Has anyone had good fishing these last couple days?

Does anyone know if the VHF band is monitored at Shark Bay (Denham & Monkey Mia)?

If so what is their call sign?

regards

Ken

 hey guys just wondering were the best spot is lately for sharks my parents said i can go as far as geraltdon for a trip on the long weekend so any help would be good.

Cheers Anthony.

have been getting a few good bream quite far up the river but was just thinking how far up the river do you have to go before you stop catching fish this time of the year? does anyone know where the bream stop?

can any one give me some tips for fishing in the collie river like were to go any good spots wanted to chase some mullaway or black bream

 evening all

 Boats all filled up and had a fresh service, looking at heading out wid and asking the uncle out and get Hm onto a few fish.

ive heard about the south west bank out from rockingham, but on my gps it's not marked/named as that? m presuming its the  bank whee I comes up to aaprox  32.18.231 115.21.657 ?  comes up to roughly 20-30m?

I just threw a dart amongst the lumps in that general area, so it's not a spot by any means for anyone snooping out there!

  just wanting to know if I'm describing the right area, or am I describing somewhere further out?

Pm if you want, like. Said m not chasing bps marks or a. Spot....just an idea of where I'm fishing!

Cheers

Carl

Just a few brag shots from the 2nd day trip...

I'll spare you the dead fish pile pics this time and just stick to the highlighs of the day...

I would have put the red pic in for the monthly comp (she went 12.1kg) but didnt realise it was covered in blood until reveiwing them just now... :(

and no, not exmouth... :)

 Hey guys,

In exmouth ATM,thinking about going on a fishing charter...just wondering if anyone can recommend a good deep sea fishing charter??

Cheers

 G'day guys great site firstly! I have just moved to yunderup from the pilbara and was just wondering what you guys would be targeting this time of year, leading into winter. I have a 6 meter boat and am more than happy to fish the murray as well. Cheers

hey all first time poster on here! usually fish for buckets of whiting and herring in ledge point but this long weekend going further north to cervantes and have heard that I may be able to expand my range of seafood by chasing some squid and crabs off the jetty in town! is anyone able to confirm or deny this or have some other hints as to what i need to rig up for off the jetty or beach! thanks guys any help is much appreciated! 

Hey Guys,

i know this is a little cheeky to ask but is anyone willing to give up some coordinates for Broome deep sea fishing in return for a couple of my better spots off either ocean reef, mindarie or two rocks?

as i am hiring a boat up there i dont wanna waste my time searching all day for no rewards,

would much appreciate your help fella's,

cheers Kristian

been using a tt 1/4 vibe to pretty good effect on flatties and even whiting, with the snap on second hole from front. have found that it tends to hook itself alot, i.e the hooks (middle or back) often end up catching on the clip/line. sometimes it happens during cast, other times mid-retrieve.

Anyone else had similar problems and found any solutions? on such a small lure I wonder if changing hooks would ruin the action.

Hi all, i am looking at getting a boat and before the missis gives the full green light i need to do some research on running costs.

I am looking at a max of 6m long, Outboard min 50 on the back, and max buget of $15k. Ideally i want something with a small v berth and the majority of boats for sale are older models there.

What kind coin am i roughly looking at coughing up insurance and rego wise?

Also any tips on what to look for (especially engine wise) and what to stay away from would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Hi all,

Have been reading plenty of posts and have noticed that the plastics seem to be more productive than the bait. I have never used plastics before and am looking at giving them a go (hopefully they will help me out fish the missus) so was wondering if anyone can give me some ideas on best way to fish with them, we will be fishing from the boat so when drifting do you just give them a twitch now and then or does this need to be done constantly, also if at anchor do you just lightly retreive etc etc.

Any help would be great, thanks in advance.

Have got a slight vibration in the starboard motor that is worse at low revs. Also can't get the same revs into that motor as the port side. It is a Yamaha 115 four stroke. Prop looks unmarked,unbent. Have taken the props off and it looks good underneath. Any suggestions? I am presuming that the shaft might be bent so is it easy to check that and also if that is the problem how would it have occured?

G’day over the next month or so when we get some good weather and I am off work, we are planning to target some of these deep sea fish off the shelf can you guys give us some tips please so we have a fighting chance of pulling in a fish or 2 deep sea metro.

Targets

 Ruby Snapper

Blue Eye Trevalla

Bass Groper

Hapuku

Grey Band

 Tips

Depth:

Bait:

Season:

Rig Setup:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Any help would be much appreciated Cheers

Regards,

Morgs