Hi Guys,

I have been dreaming to go up North one day and I really want to make it happen this year. So I thought I ask you guys what do you think is the best place and time to go?

I don’t know if there is a post already about this topic as I did try searching and nothing came up, so if there is I apologise.

how does everyone think about this thread, good way to help newbys and those chasing their first mack,don't have to give way favourite spots etc be intereasting to see what the catch rate is per hour,I'll kick it off, my secret spot is Mindarie behind the 3 mile,so far 13 hours for 5 fish which is 1 fish just under every 2 hours

hi guys

we have been hitting the camping alot lately and i am in the proccess of buying a camper trailer as well, hence things getting sold.

we are just about sick of the old boring snags and steak on the bbq, even though they are nice, some differant things to mix it up a bit dont hurt.

you are not aloud to have open fires at alot of camp sites so we looked into other options for cooking in the cast iron camp ovens using gas.

it started with me cutting a 60ltr drum up and mounting the cast iron 3 ring burner in the inside, shelf in the middle and the lid on top to create a oven.....

well this worked a treat and we have been cooking bread, pizzas, roast lamb, pork, even roast chicken and has all come out perfect.

then the other day while looking in a camping shop we spotto these smokers!!, a couple of small mods to fit the 3 ring burner and we now have a 2 shelfed oven and boy does it work a treat.

in the pics you can see you can use it as a 1 shelf or 2, or you can put a bbq plate on top and cook snags and steak, we had pizzas in it last night, 2 at a time and im sure carl (crushed) can vouch for how good they come out.

i have a roast lamb and veges in atm while typing this.

so its 5 star camping for us now with the sky the limit for whatever we want to cook and put a nice smell through the camp sites, im sure a few people are already doing simalar things but this is so simple and it works exellent.

would love to see other ideas as well.

cheers ron

Hey guys, long weekend coming up whos got fishing planned?  im still trying to think where to give a go :/

What are school sand whiting like for tailor / mulloway bait?

If I was to go down and catch a couple of dozen sand whiting from about 18cm are they good bait?...or is this frowned upon by other fishos? I have no idea, I just want to know what the ettiquette is.

here you go guys, about my 6 months effort in fishing. these are just some of the better catches, some are a bit older but couldnt not put them up. just been targeting sharks lately thats why there is so many photos of them. some of the photos are bad i know but its not always easy to get a good photo when i do 90% of my fishing alone in less than favorable weather and trying to release most of the larger stuff as fast as possible.

all the tailor where caught either on stickbaits or mulies with 4lb line and bream gear  used, the pinkie was also caught on 4lb from the rocks just after a storm.

i have about another 20-30 more that wont load because there to big so ill put them up later when i mess around with them.

cheers Chris

well i enter got 31 blowies didnt win any prizes fished at narrows got half my bait stolen from a  kid he was stealing lots of other peoples bait as well

1 malloway caught from a boat 13.4kg it was good on the guy

bream winner was 1.5kg caught from sure very nice job on the persons part

while at narrows 2 guys pulled in 3 stingrays

i ducked over to apple cross jetty at midnight and there was about 8 people there not wth swanfish they where caught bream and keeping them they had like 4 or so buckets and half full of undersize bream all of them it was shocking

i would enter again even though i didnt do good this year i just need to find some spots to fish....

biggest tailor was 460grams

Decided to have a crack at this again this year, made nearly 2500 grand for the week. Nice if it was real money.

Cheers

Dale

I met up with The Supervisor today. No.. it wasn't a sacking.. Just a really enjoyable morning where his two boys teamed up with my boy (the dog) to let off a bit of energy. It also required a bit of old fart energy as well. Tailor didn't really fire but the sharks and the rays were in full swing. A great chance for us both to show off the pulling capability of graphite rods. Rod had his new Lemax out and I was on the eupro.

Everyone hooked up. A couple of lost chances, I managed an "unstopable" and so did my friends up the beach. All good stuff to test the rod capabiliities etc. A couple of manageable rays were landed and released. Two black tip sharks landed and released also. One small and the other a good 1.3 meters at a guess. 1 Tailor and a good size Herring.

Thanks for the day Rob. Great company mate.

The picture I took turned out crap bacause of the sun position. No photo of the month chances there so they go in the bin.

G'day all,

I've been searching for "the gravel patch" in Cockburn sound using a chart & my GPS thingy with no joy.

I have found something called "spoil ground", is this the same thing??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks all.

If your the thieving arsehole We caught filleting under size coral trout and snapper etc at the exmouth marina filleting table on wednesday, I have reported you to fisheries and given them all your details, your description, your car etc.  you give yourself away with your attitude when we arrived at the table and your very hasty retreat with your frames and half filleted fish thrown into your ice box and driving away very quickly.

we didnt let on then but we knew what you were up to, I'm  sure you were over the bag limit too as you threw quite a few handfuls of frames into your ice box before running away, a lot more than 7 fish.

for everyone else I will post his details here shortly for you to keep an eye out for him. some of you exmouth locals will possibly know or know of him but I would like to hear from adam whether I should post his details first.

Adam if you want to follow this up pm me and I'll send you my number

I understand your a fisheries officer am I right?

I've noticed quite a few threads lately about behaviour on the forum & I see some of the regulars posting about how they are sick of seeing abuse & negativity being posted. I find that quite amusing seeing as it is those exact same regulars that put me off this site in the first place with all thier negative comments, that's why I havn't posted for a couple of months & why I'll go back to not posting again right after this. I'm not lumping all the regulars in this heap so please don't misunderstand me, it's only 6 or so of them that seem to think they can post whatever they like but that they also have the right to tell others off for posting similar or less offensive things. Maybe Adam should take a closer look at past posts when (if) he gets the time & get rid of these regulars that think thier way is the only way & get stuck into anyone that has a different opinion to thier own. Just because you have been on here for a long time does not give you the right to talk down to other members & if Adam is aware of who you are perhaps he should stop cutting you slack just because you are a regular.

& for anyone that doesn't know once your kicked off the forum it is your IP address that is blocked so unless you change that, your gone for good. There's none of this joining under another user name crap.

I'll see you again if those few regulars that think they are better than everyone else get booted or pull thier heads in.

That the upper reaches of the river are not worth fishing for at least 2 weeks after Swanfish? I've been fishing the upper reaches for over 10yrs & have them sussed out to the point where I can almost guarantee getting into plenty of good fish but for 2-4 weeks after Swanfish the fishing in the upper reaches is terrible. I'm not a butthurt Swanfish competitor, I've never been in it & I don't plan to go in it at any stage but I am wondering if the benefits to the community are outweighed by the obvious negative effect that it has on the upper sections of the river. I can't comment on the lower sections (Maylands to Freo) as I don't fish them often enough to an opinion about Swanfishes effects on those sections.

Right. SO I've heard a bit about hartail (if you dunno what they are google it lol) and my question is, did they ever exist in WA or do they still?
In an ID book I have it says they are widespread along the southern coast from southern NSW to SW WA. I searched fishwrecked for any info but there didn't seem to be much.
Any thoughts?

Cheers, Sam.

my nephew got his first ever dhu today out with his dad and a mate behind ffb, he knows i am on f/w and asked me to put up a pic for him.

not to keen on holding the live ones by the looks of things. returned no probs

well done brandon and there will be many more to come buddy.

also while out there today dad and jamie done some trolling and picked up this tuna, im not sure what type so if someone can id by this pick would be great.

it the first tuna for the boys on the recent rebuilt boat so they were stoked as well.

i woosed out today and stayed home making my bench and some sinkers, sooking cause the wether was shity...apparantly

they called past my house on the way home to show off....pricks!!

cheers ron

 Went down to the river today with the kids, while down there this chap turns up with a bucket, and in that bucket was a cast net. I sat back and watched, then walked down on his 1st cast to ask " Is it legal to use cast nets in the river these days ?" knowing it isn't.

And this was the reply to justify useing a cast net. " I've been fishing in the river since I was a kid, and I put back all the undersize black bream, when all those asians keep everything."

He was after live bait for mullaway ie small mullett.

Wow, I was thinking, he's clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed, and dissapointed at his comments

This chap was mid 20's at a guess, but could clearly see him shaking and getting flustered as I was standing next to him. There were no abusive comments passed between each other, stabbings or shootings etc on this occassion 

He was in and out within 10 mins, thankfully with an empty bucket.

One day the law will catch up with him

Hey guys,

After a few tries I finally got my first metro tailor today. Not huge by anyones standards (went 42cm) but kept him for a feed anyhow along with a few good size herring we got as well.
All caught in the middle of the day, on pieces of prawn, on 4lb bream gear from a parked boat in a fremantle marina. Great fun and no fuel used.
Additionally we got dozens of pink snapper which would have gone about 20cm, was pretty surprised to see them in the harbour at midday.
Also got a black bream but he was a little under and they're not my favourite fish to eat anyhow.

Cheers for reading guys..

Crazy 4 way hook-up on Bonito today with only  me and Daz in the boat........lines going everywhere, got 3 in the boat, the 4th was dropped right a the edge of the boat. Pretty frantic time with trebbles flying about everywhere, crap picture but we were still rolling around laughing!

What is the fish exactly? I presume Watsons Leapin Bonito, any good to eat? Flesh is quite white and firm.

Picture taken by Vic Hislop (shark hunter).

Going out on a charter and guess everyone will be using the same bait thought I might take these along although have caught nothing on them so far what do you guys think?

G'day All!

I am new to the forums and just wanted to say hello!

I owned boats most of my life, dabbling mostly in trailcrafts. I just recently purchased a 660 Off Shore Quintrex with a 200hp suzi with all the fruit. So I am getting back into my central & north west jaunts and over night off shore adventures of rotto.

I look forward to uploading some reports and good photo's for everyone!

Look forward to meeting you guys out on the water!

Shaun Clark

Quintrex 660 Offshore - 200hp Suzuki c/w 15hp Suzuki Ancillary.

looks like there was an oppurtunity for the weekend warriors this morning,looks better then predicted

Hey guys, how things going.

Just wondering what everyone tricks when fishing around rocks like, ( north/south mole, woodies, cotts, and other groins. If you want to cast out and fish the bottom, all I seem to do is lose lots of gear,

Advise would be much appreciated

Rails

Hey guys/girls how are we all, Just a quickie, what would be the best bait for shark fishing in Perth area ( land based) . Ideas would be great. Thanks Rails8291

for those who know, i get around the metro/country areas a bit in my truck.

on one particular day while on a job i spoted this s/s bench....mmmmm....... the eyes lit up!!

so i had to ask...how much for that?

well to my amazement the bloke says to me...its yours, take it.

before he said take it, it was on the back off my truck on its way to a new home.

so on the long drive home i had to come up with a way of getting it under the patio, ok'd by the wife, because there was no way a fillet table was guna be there??

so, i come up with the family bbq theroy and how good it would be for entertaining, but i had to fit a front to it because we get alot of dust out my way with the easterlys.

a cople of weeks later i made some hinged door frames, plumb the sink in and were off.

now i have a 3mtr fillet table under my patio, next to the bbq and the beer fridge, what more can a man want???

today i got the front panels and started to glue them on and just had to share.

the writting on the front panels is just a protective cover and will be removed to show a brushed ally look.

edit;

finished it off this morning.

might put a tea towel holder in the midle mabe???

also note the added scale catcher in the sink!!!

cheers ron

p.s, my cousin got a nice  1mtr tuna out at the bank this morning, so it will get a work out today already

hi guys

due to some unforseen circumstances team freo fish and team such is life will not be making it up for the comp....

but i will still need someone to take one of the sponsored prizes with them if possible, it is only small and about the size of half a carton of beer or smaller.

you would have to get this to adam before the comp starts.

if someone can help please drop me a pm and we can sort something out, the item should be ready by the end of next week (2/3/12) or the week after (still to be confirmed)

good luck to all going

ron

Hey guys, i'm chasing some broken rods that people dont want anymore to strip and reuse the guides and reel seat. If theres anyone out there with some they dont want could you pm me and so long as its not to far away i'll come and get them. Cheers Gav.

 What are the best ways to catch yft do they smash laser pros and rapla deep divers.....or are skirts better... Also do SBT's hit hard bodies??

Cheers

Hey guys,

Heading up there this april, and i'm desperate to get into the Tailor the place is famous for.

Can I get some pointers like lures of choice, best areas. I have a kayak aswell for the river, maybe get into

some bream and if i'm lucky a jack. 

Thanks guys, Andrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDbXVsBEzE&feature=related

I just thought i might share this :)