Fremantle this friday

Hello All,

Can anyone please advise what I should be paying for 2 stroke outboard motor oil (in both 5 litre and 20 litre containers)?

 Hi people I'm off to coral bay in 2 weeks towing my 7.2m boat up for only the 3rd time and was hoping for some advise. Fishing there before found it easy to catch all the pelagics, but could never find the quality table fish , tried all over from 120m down and never really found good ground past 40 m. Does anyone have any advise or spots their willing to share?

Cheers Chris 

Hi all,

I am new to WA, and new to Australia, I love the idea of having so much prestine coastline and harbours to fish from.

I used to do alot of Fly fishing and bait fishing in my streams/rivers back home, but have not had much chance to get any lines wet here.

Only last Sunday A friend and I got a charter boat off Hilarys, (Not naming names), but found the service quiet poor, no selection of bait, not many fish caught in the 8 hours, and the deck hand and skipper was spending most of the trip telling us to reel up within minutes of us getting to a new drift.

Looked like and felt like there was no preperation or organisation put into the trip.. We felt ripped off and disapointed. (I know fishing is fishing, so rant over)

So back onto topic, I am currently living in North Perth near joondalup, and am wanting to get some tight lines in or around the Hilarys or other areas close by.

Have any of you regular bloggers/fishermen of the area, got any good tips for the newbie me please.

I would like to hit into some tailor, snapper, or even a few skippy on light gear..? What types of bait etc would you suggest.?

Also what type of rod/reels or any info would be much appricated people.

Thanks in advance.

Tight lines and Fat nets.

Wayne.

Gday guys,

just wondering if anyone knew how to upload photo's onto here using an Iphone?

got a monster Blue Groper off two rocks yesterday and would love to show it off ;) and get some feed back to if many people have caught them around there?

cheers

http://youtu.be/MfpZeS6zNtA

 Hey guys 

We are looking at putting a sounder and plotter/gps on my mates tinny

Wouldnt mind some advice from someone who's done it for a tinny on what unit they used and battery location etc.. 

Its a quintrex 420 busta

Cheers guys

has anyone caught any bream in the oldfeild estuary/river before?

hey guys anyone know were the best place to go looking for these would be

Well the time has come....

For those who know me you will know I have been struggling for a while now and it's almost impossible for me to fish without severe pain. I've been hobbling around now for over a year. So it's time to bite the bullet and get something done to improve my quality of life. I was wondering if any of the older farts here have had the same procedure and whether they would like to share the experience following the operation. Although it's a major operation the reports I am getting are that it's pretty straight forward these days and I should be up and about in no time at all. I'd be interested in any comments here.

Checkout the attitude on this long-tom. caught him at Shark Bay, bloody thing came at me when i was trying to release him. sorry no sound. I probably squealed a little bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2430nWG7_l8&feature=youtu.be

 Ok, so you may have read I had a little bit of a loss yesterday with my Daiwa Monster Mesh PE 3-6 matched with my Stella 8. Basically the situation was, hooked up a good fish, got sharked, fought the shark for some time, then pop, rod breaks at butt joint, fall back and over the side goes the lot, all caught on video (will post vid soon) The setup was 50lb mainline (braid) with an 80lb fluorocarbon leader on a rod rated PE 3-6.

All seated correctly, at time of break, no more than a 45 degree angle between butt and tip.

Do I just cringe and bear it, or do I have a case to get something done about it?

I know it's not the worst thing in the world, but pretty disappointing watching your hard earnt stuff disappear due to normal use.

Suggestions please!

Thanks

Wazza

Oil giant BP was today unable to say how much oil had spilled into Fremantle Harbour following a “regrettable” accident at its North Quay terminal operations.

A spokesman for the group initially said between 90 and 100 litres of a diesel and oil mixture had escaped from a “pin-hole” leak in one of its pipelines into Fremantle Harbour.

However, the spokesman later suggested the initial estimate had been “optimistic” and the true amount of leaked oil would not be known until the clean-up was finished

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13703519/oil-spill-at-fremantle-harbour/

Hi all

Just after some advice please. Ive always used Quicksilver Premium Plus in my Optimax 115 2 stroke. When I recently had it serviced, I was told by the mechanic that I should be using Quicksilver DFI in it. I bought a couple of bottles and have now run out of the Premium Plus, but am pretty hesitant to start running the DFI in it. I obviously asked the mechanic if changing it over would be OK, and he seemed pretty positive it wouldnt, but also a bit non-commital about it...

Can anyone tell me if changing the oil types (they both seem very similar, both ae the same brand, both and TC-W3 and if I am correct, both are synthetic?) will do any damage?

What is the actual difference between the two oils?  (besides the colour- the Premium is green and the DFI is bronze).

Will changing over have any bad effect on the motor?

Ive mixed a bit of each of the oils in a container and let them sit for a couple of hours= there doesnt seem to be any seperation/ gelling, but Im still unsure...

Any help would be greatly appreciated- Ive very paranoid about this and  just dont want to make an expensive mistake. Ive got a big trip planned on friday and dont want things to go wrong!
 

Thanks as always!

Hi guys

I am purchasing a 585 for my boat but after hours of phone calls and using the search button i am still unsure of what transducer to get.

I need help from anyone that has a fibreglass boat with twin engines.

The way i am steering is  - using a matching box, running a 1kw 50B-6b and a 200B-8B 2kw wet faced thru hull. so 2 transducers.

this is also gonna send me bak 2.5k to get them installed.  Still not sure how any one has gone with using a transome mount or a wet box transducer.

I need help asap so i can get this sorted and start fishing.

Any info would be great.. in the mean time ill keep reading forums

Cheers

JC85

I would have been 9-10 years old. My mother worked on a sheep station in NZ. The station was divided into two farms one each side of the river. we had two row boats to travel in between farms. I used to steal one and disappear for the day. I had 5 miles of this pristine river all to my self.

Perch (Red fin) trout Flounders & Kawai. I would moor in between the willows, and watch the redfin come up to my line, the water was crystal clear. We would string a gill net in the river and then had huge flounder every day for breakfast. well that was 50 years ago. Now its a commercialised fishing tour adventure park.

How wonderful was that, and I didn't appreciate it at athe time. How many redfin did I catch?  lost count.

 What a day not to remember. Fishing a 30m hole out from the west side of North West Cape, and shark after shark we were finally undone. The good old Daiwa Monster Mesh PE 3-6 gave way and off went the Stella and rod. All caught on gopro. Very disappointed. May post up vid sometime soon.

 as the title states.

Going for a troll for mackies.

Who is avaliable and willing?

6.4 mtr cabincruiser.

launch from Ocean reef

left hillarys with f/w Jeffree and his mate Zac this morning headed to parkers point,no bait etc,caught a small shark mack at westend,put the pick down at parkers onle 1 sambo and odds and sods caught,shifted and caught a sambo,gto a hit on my small rod,missed, off  goes the stella,nice macko caught on a single hook on mono after going around the anckor 3 times, the other rod had the bottom hook removed[razor gang] rebaited the stella goes off again and Zacs got the rod, 150 metres of briad gone in a few seconds and the crews calling it fot a marlin,any way it snapped the briad so that was that,trolled around foe a while a few small hits and came home,had a great day with a couple of nice young guys,who even cleaned the fish

probably wrong time of year but anyone know of any were in the swan that might still have some tailor lerking about if not any other good spots to fish for something other than bream

cheers

can someone give me some info on bream rods

whats are the good brands and prices

cheers

 Does anyone know how much braid + mono a Trinidad dc 30 can hold  , I want to put as much 40 or 50lb braid backing plus 180m 0.5 mono on top.

 Hi everyone. I'm new to the site, been trolling for ages but finally signed up. Just wondering what people think about tomorrows weather worth going out for a fish. I've got a 5.4 m bow rider and am planning to go to about 50m of water.

Cheers for any advise!

Clarence

Guys,

A few mates and myself have booked a day out with Seasport in Jurien Bay for Saturday the 26th May, but as usual, when it comes time to finalise arrangements, we are left with a few spare spots. We have enough to get the charter out, but have seen a few blokes on here looking to get out with Seasports.

If you are keen to get out on a charter, book with Seasports in Jurien - the day is $250 all included for the fishing.

We are going up in a group of 6 on Friday arvo, staying over at Jurien Tourist Park, eating at the pub and going on the charter the next day 5 am, then back to Perth for a Saturday evening Fish BBQ.

The night over will cost about $50 a head, and we are just clubbing in for fuel and sharing cars - pay your own way at the pub for dinner and drinks.

PM me if you are keen to come along for the details.

Davo

Leaving for quobba in afew days time, everythings packed besides the fishing gear which im packing soon with the old man just adding 1 or 2 more things to our weapons before we go. just wanting to know what its like up there at the moments, swell winds and most importantly how the fishing is, last year i used sea breeze to tell me the swells ,tides and what not and for once it was completely out of wack so if you could clarify how it is would be good:)

cheers guys:)

HI Guys,

I am down in Safety Bay and need to find someone that can supply and fit some new boat windows to my Stacer 395 Tinnie - The old perspex has had to much sun, and has a cool cracked effect, but I cannot see through it any more. Any done this recently and have an idea of what this costs?

Anyone know a place who can do this SOR, or if need be NOR, as it seems harder everyday to get service or spares SOR?

Thanks,

Davo

Hey There,

I've recently taken up Lure Fishing for Bream in the Swan River and I need some advice to help me get some runs on the board. I've been fishing with RMG Scorpion 35 Lures on a 4lb leader and have yet to have much luck.

I find it hard to get much distance at all when casting the lure and i'm wondering if I put a small weight above a sinker then allow from some Leader between the sinker and lure will this affect the action of my lure or impact my chances of a strike? I've also tried a bit with Grubz Soft Plastics and have the same problem i.e lack of casting distance and minimal action so far.

Can anyone out there give some advice or helpful tips on how i can get amongst a few bream? Are there any good spots that I should give a go?

Thanks in advance.

Ok so im going to throw this out there, ive noticed quite a few of you fish together well and have a good time.

Myself after a bit of hesitation have started inviting again, the first bad exeperience from a fw member and i vowed to never bother again  (who doesnt seem to frequant the site anymore).So after a while i tryed again and the trip out was fine took a member out in the swan and we cleaned up on choppers at almost a fish a cast and trolling for no longer than 1o mins a time before a hit, good times. Recently i took another member out and i managed a nice macky off south side of rotto after a lengthy time on the water but didnt manage to produce one for my fellow fisher, to be honest i was quite disappointeted especially since we did have a double hook up and i put it down to my slight driver error the secound fish was lost. Tomorrow the plan is for another fw member fish and im kind of giving him free reign ( well atleast for half the days fish and obviously disccusions and plans will be plotted to produce something memorable along the way hopefully) Wish me luck ppl im going to keep trying, im no fishing guru but i do produce good fish on regular occasions and am hoping to share it with a few less fortunate as long as they are willing to chuck in for fuel and can handle a boat well enough.

jmo and any thoughts on theses matters are appreciated, i can tolerate so much and dont want to give up on trying to get more people out deep/to the fads/deep dropping (when i figure it out myself), chasing salmon/tailor offshore, sambos and kings deep or shallow, kg's, squid big skippy, trying to get into demersal jigging and the list goes on.

Cheers

New Carpenters mmmm.

Thought I would finally sign up and introduce myself, been lurking around for a while picking up advice and info from the site!

Moved here from the UK about 2 years ago and pretty new to fishing, started that just over a year ago, slowly learning and improving a little but with mixed results. None of my mates in Perth fish. so working things out mainly from the info on this website and through trial and error.

Started with the usual herring from the rocks and have had some success there, also managed a few flathead from the river (plenty of blowies along the way of course). Also caught a few other small species from the rocks but nothing that exciting. Most notable catch so far was a snook which will tell you something about my skill level :)

I have a small boat (although not much good as a fishing boat), and have had a go out near Carnac trying to catch whiting a couple of times, but seemed to just pick up Trumpeter and Wrasse. Should also mention my boat driving is about as good as my fishing.

Recently been attempting some beach fishing for tailor but have failed to catch anything on a number of occasions, partly due to large amounts of seaweed (excuses, excuses), but also not sure I am even casting into the right places (dark coloured gutters?). Even tried to catch some whiting from the beach this weekend and failed at that as well, so have been getting a bit frustrated, but will persevere until I figure it out!

Sorry, bit of a ramble, hopefully meet some of you out and about fishing at some point!

Cheers,

Rob