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 Hi,

Looking at going up north for a Barra fishing trip next winter.

Will be taking my 4.2mt boat, so want to buy a new rod and reel suitable for landing the elusive Barra :)
 

Have read various retailers, fishing charter and suppliers notes on what is most suited and many appear contradictory in various ways. 


*Question*
Do we have any serious Barra fisher-persons here who are prepared to share information as to what they recommend to get Barra to the boat ?


My thoughts are a decent BAITCASTER reel with suitable baitcaster rod, to get the 'bait' out there near the bank, trees and places where the Barra live?

The choice looks like a #200 Baitcaster 

What BRAND and Model ??

 Sad that the 30 year old that went missing out on a dinghy yesterday on the Swan is deceased, body found today. Consolences to his family

Would like to know what happened

Can anyone recommend a decent mask and snorkel with a GoPro mount and good snorkel purge for some shallow water free diving? With my kids all being water confident I’m keen to give the crabs a crack by hand this year and my old set has seen better days.

Cheers

JF

 Hi all

When I was coming back into Hillarys this morning early directly into the sunlight I accidentily ran over a pot float. I couldnt reattach the float as we couldnt find the rope. I have the floats and if your float is MA 0567 please PM me. I am happy to purchase a new set of ropes for your pot. If you know of anyone who's pot this maybe, please also PM me and I can get in touch with them.

Thanks 

 Hi all,

Wondering if anyone on the forum has any info on who to make contact with in respect to repowering a srern drive to outboards. Is there someone that can manage this entire process of building the pods, reglassing the hole from the old engines and installing the new outboards?

Has anyone done this before? Would you provide some tips or heads up on what to avoid etc etc.

Cheers

Stumpie

The old Kwinana Bulk Jetty has a smouldering fire.

large timber pilons have been reported in the water posing a severe hazard to boaties......hopefully with the strong onshore breeze most of not all will be washed onto the beach reducing any hazard.

 What is the best way to tidy up some of the old unused screw holes that were used for sounder brackets and old epirb brackets on a plate alloy boat.

Chasing advise 

G'day all. It's been a while since I have visited this place. I tried pickling some Crays last session. It's oookkk but nothing to write home about. I put it in a brine over night and in the morning it was magnificent. I then did a pickle and slowly brought jars up to 85 deg. Waited till all bubbles left the jars and left to cool on the bench.
The final product was a bit flowery. Any suggestions on preserving Crays- ie Saving Private Crays

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 Hi! I am thinking of buying a Lowrance 12 live. does anyone have an oppinion on them?  Also an anchor winch for a 6M Assassin all comments welcome Thanks

 I've been considering a fridge for the back seat of the Space Cab. Obviously has to be within certain dimensions, so the search had settled on about a half-dozen candidates, one of them being the Engel MT-V45, the single zone . Looking at prices for a while now, they always run from $1199 to full retail of $1399. I was in Repco on Abernethy rd getting a small auto electrical component, and noticed they were in stock., no price displayed. So I made a casual enquiry at checkout, yep, $1399, full retail. But I know they do a discount for RAC members, so asked about that. ......$1119.00 ....so I am now the owner of another new Engel. Worth remembering if you are in the market. I'm sure someone will chip in saying that they got it/can get it cheaper, but, if your old fridge sh*ts the tin, and you need one in a hurry, one to remember. 

I can't believe the amount around ( bronzes , tigers) back of island .

Hey the council is trialing dedicated lanes for launch and retrieve. Should be a good idea for the cray run to avoid confusion with the crazy peak period early mornings. I think it would be better to have 4 of the 6 ramps for retrieving starting from 11am. Don’t see the point in having 3 launch ramps once the sea breeze has kicked in  

Hello Wise People! 

Im in the market for a new rod with a spin reel for boat fishing  demersals, bigger fish in general and able to do some jigging like baited jigs, out in water up to 100 mtr ish, mainly 20-80 though. Looking for a good  set up with proper  saltwater reel,  good bearings etc. I've  got 6 ft and 6.5ft rods with 4000 class reels which are great but struggle on bigger stuff. Then I've got rods with Tld15 type reels, and trolling rods. So looking to fill the gap with a more capeable spin reel outfit. Im not looking for a cheap rig  and won't say price is no object but I will spend a bit more for quality that's worth it! 
Your thoughts and ideas appreciated

 G'day,

So a couple of weeks back I was fishing in Lancelin and caught a Tarwhine, I went to grab it and it spiked me in my finger. 
I don't think any of the spike broke off in my finger, but the sore is still there after a couple of weeks and it still stings when I squeeze it, but it doesn't hurt if I'm not squeezing it.
Is this normal when you get spiked by Tarwhine? The sore is right on a joint so I'm thinking it's maybe just taking a while to heal because of that. It doesn't look infected at all. 

Read back on some old posts that say magnoplasm works for stuff like this, so tried some of that for the time being.  

Cheers

 Someone's new toy we put in the drink the other day. And another buy catch chasing whiting..

 Hi all, odd question so thought I would post here as well as other forums :-)

Enjoy 

Hi guys 

After a recommendation for my outboard service ( evinrude ), south of the river 

Cheers

Not the best photo. To the day same spot last year . All there tails where up . By the time I got phone they started to swirl down. The buggers know . Pretty cool to watch

Herring very active straight off the bat .
on holidays so gentlemen's hrs at 9.30am

start .. got our limit quite quick on metals

with the weather grand decided too check

the pots ! Blank pulled one left the other .
shot back too pick up some pike took

a bit too find them .. once we did they

were all over the little lasers .. returned

and put some of the larger models in the

smoke.. cheers pirate..  

 Planning to head out from Woodman Point ramp this weekend for a morning fish. I'm a noob so don't tend to venture beyond the islands unless its flat.

So what are the best species to target in the sound this time of year? I seem to do pretty well with squid, but anytime I drop a baited whiting rig down I get overrun with trumpeter. 

 Finally got a little window that I could make the most of and checked my pots this arvo had 3 pots out and took our 4th one out with us. Got another pot stuck I have had the worst year ever for getting pots stuck. But was able to get 3 crays in each pot and got my first ever southern, pretty stoked. Also threw back a undersized white. 

 Anyone know if they have dates for metro yet?

 As a dedicated tailor/salmon fishermen from the southwest, was very excited to travel up to exmouth for a short trip to do some land based sportsfishing. Figured i would share my success or lack thereof in solidarity with anyone else whose had a fishless trip!

Did a bunch of research before the trip including online and also at the 2 tackle shops in town when i got up there and seemed as though there is no end of options. In no particular order i fished all the following locations - Bundegi, Bundegi flats, Pilgramunna, Lighthouse bay, Oyster reef, VLF Bay, Learmonth jetty and the marina rock wall. Target species were trevally, queenfish, spangled emperor or anything else that wanted to swim by. Fished fairly hard over the course of 4 days for a total of  .... 2 long tom. Needless to say was fairly disappointed with that given all i've read about exmouth.

Fished with lures only using:

- 9ft Abu Garcia Veritas, paired with Saragosa 5000 SWA

- 24lb sunline braid with 30lb varivas leader

- Lures used were halco twisties and halco outcasts (in a variety of sizes), halco slidogs, halco roostas, soft plastics, nomad madscads and nomad riptide long casts

Trip was fantastic other than the fishing, seeing no end of wildlife inlcuding dingo's, snakes, emus, countless turtles, dugongs, blacktip sharks, stingrays and one enormous tiger shark that swam not 10m in front of the rock i was fishing on, both pubs in town are great and also had a fantastic meal at Bundegi beach shack. Only thing missing was the fish!

Would welcome any suggestions for next time i'm up (might be dragging the boat up lol), or anyone else whose had a similary fishless trip. Tight lines,

Jacko

Estimate.

 Decided to take my dad out fishing on the back of the jet ski! he loved how easy it was to catch fish with lures instead of using bait

 Just upgraded my sounder too a simrad go9 with a p66 upto 10knots its brilliant but im having trouble with it reading at speed. Mounting it on starboard side 3 different hieghts with zero effect the angle too me seems ok a couple mm below level. Thinking of trying it on port side if that helps unsure my hull may just be noisy. Ive told told too wet box it unsure on options any help at all would be be great. 17ft fibreglass. Pride cavalier 

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