A couple of big Mackies filleted in the fish bins at Point Peron today, pretty suprising 18c surface temp. Anybody on here the lucky angler?

 Hey all.

Got myself a Stradic Ci4 2500 and now i just need a rod to match. Looking for a 7ft rod and planing on using 10lb braid. I really would preffer a longer butt section.

Ill be using it for squidding, whiting fishing, throwing small lures around and so on.

Im looking to spend no more then 150. Bit cheap but dont want to spend a lot.

Cheers danno.

Does anyone have any experience with fin-nor Marqesa's??

How durable are they??

Does water and salt get into the bearings quickly and easily??

Mine hasn't been used that much and the bearings have rusted pretty badly. I generally take good care of it the only bad thing i have done is lightly rinse the reel with fresh water after each use, inox then oil it. whats the deal??

Anyones input is much appreciated.

 hi guys 

i have a navionics gold card here and i am tring to veiw the map on my computer but when ever i try to open it, it tells me windows cannot open this because it needs to know what program created it does anybody know what i need to open this?

any help would be great 

cheers ethan willox

Just wondering if anyone knows of any sites which offer any reef maps/charts. Just to have a look at sea levels, wrecks, reef. cheers

Hey guys, looking at getting a new filleting knive. Just wondering what are some of the better brands and better value knives. Not looking at spending a fortune, probably not to much more that $50.

Thanks in advance

P

I was down at a local spot in shelley a little while back with a few mates when I saw a bloke tryna haul something out of the water onto the bank. I wandered over to have a look and realised it was a MASSIVE set net with relatively small mesh. It had been set pretty much across the entire opening of the little bay I was fishing..
It was chockers with fish (tailor, undersize bream, bony herring)  and blue manna crabs. The bloke that hauled it in swore, said something about oversea's visitors taking all our fish, put all the crabs into his bag, then dragged the net over to the nearest bin in the park (it was a massive net bear in mind) and threw it away fish and all..
Just wonderin if anybody else has had experiences like this? And whether this is a common occurence in the river.. I probably wouldve called fisheries rather than put the net in the bin, would this be the right sorta thing to do?

Just checking the dates for the Cockburn sound closure and the demersal ban for this year,don't want to get caught out

Hi guys,

A weird question and I wasnt even sure what category to put it in, but has anyone ever melted the flesh off a fishes head in order to preserve the fishes skull and jaws.

A mate of mine has a collection of jack, barra, snapper and mackeral jaws on his desk at work and they look awesome. He told me he lopped the head off and put the head in an air tight container with napi-san and hot water and it reacts and eats away the flesh. Other people put the head on an ants nest

Has anyone ever done this and what method have you used. I think it would be a neat little hobby to catch a descent fish and keep its jaws as a trophy. Im testing this with a coral trout head i caught the other day. I have it in a container with a heap of napisan and hot water but it doesnt seem to be doing much. Do you think the water needs to be changed regularly to ensure it stays hot or will it still react when the water is normal temp?

Sorry for the weird question but can anyone help

Now I love trying to help and know a little about ocean critters, but what could this be. Taken through water, but with the colouration not going to tackle it!!!

Everyone will go BRO, but way to big for this one, about the size in circumference as holding your hands together forming a loop roughly.

It flashed these colours when it was hunting, or being hunted. Not to worried overall but thought why not see if some guru can for fun help.

Neels

 Favourite stickbaits?

In what colours?

Sinking or non sinking?

This one is not holding ice for as long as I was expecting it to Dave. Might have to get a bigger one.

Went 23.3kg on 8.

Hi all,

Does anybody out there know how to convert GPS coords that only have a 2 digit value for the seconds to the regular 3 digit value?

 which ones do you guys reccomend?? Would like to hold upto 6 rods minimum, any comments?

Marko

on fridays nights on abc2, what a great show,I've only watched the last 2 but its great, check it out, some weird fish on here

Hi Guys

After some advice for boat fishing out of Shark Bay. Going up in Oct holidays with 5.3m Plate Ally boat. Any advice would be great as i have never been there. Cheers

 going up to exxy for the first time on friday night, going to be doing alot of shore bases plastic flicking, told the national park is the best place, but what about the fees ? i was told if you show them your fishing licesene you dont have to pay, this true ?

cheers pom 

hey guys n gals,

I managed to get a little bit of footage, not the best but shows you a couple of fish landed,

just click the image guys, they follow on from each other,

quality has somewhat dropped since adding it to photobucket, i wasnt sure the best way to add video, enjoy!

So guys (and gals), what is your preference for dropper rigs (paternoster), for landbased fishing.

I usually do the standard dropper loops. I try to get them around 15 – 30 cm long and occasionally use a twisted dropper. I like being able to change hooks easily. Just loop them on.

I often wonder if the double line in the dropper loop will scare fish away. Would it be better to do a dropper knot with single dropper line instead of a loop? I think some sort of blood dropper knot is used???

Or even use 3 way swivels and tie the droppers directly to the swivel (which I do use for larger rigs for tailor, salmon etc).

I never seem to catch as many fish using a dropper rig, and I wonder if it is the doubled loop that the fish can see easily. But I definitely like the idea of presenting 2 different baits.

In particular I am talking about rigs for fish like skippy, tarwhine, salmon trout, maybe whiting (when not using the typical running ball setup).

Thanks for your thoughts. What do you use?

Bought today a tinny for my WA fishing trip! A 3 meter alminium tinny with a 8 horsepower!

Me and my mate heading next month From Cairns down to Perth on a crazy road trip! It is gonna be 2 months off hardcore fishing!  We're driving a piece of the savanah highway to Normanton and down to Mount Isa and Katherine, Darwin 2 the West coast. 

So the boat is registerd and i'm gonna do a skipper/boat licens but what else do I need to organise to make the trip sweet  as possible?!?????!

I heard you need a rec fishing licens on the west coast; How and where can I get this one?

What kind of safetey gear do I need to take on the boat?

For cast netting I need a licens I can get from the Post office , correct?

Anything else what could be inportant?

And ofcourse where are the hotspots to stop from Cairns all the way up to Darwin; from barra fishing to game fishing preferd out of a tinny 

So any tip to make our trip SWEET as possible, is Welcome!

cheers!

Took 20 minutes to set up this photo just right Sammy....haha....thanks Ryan for the JF lab jig.....worked well.

Bit of a surprise when jigging for demersals on a little lump I spotted yesterday in 65m that we have never fished before...gave the Ocea Jigger 1500 and jigforce a bit of a workout....

Big FAT head...the fish..... in case your not sure.....

Chrisp, my trusty deckie and keen snakes alive consumer, followed up next drop with his PE3 XZoga indicating a nice fish...

Result, this cracker pinkie on jig.

Which was happily released to fight another day, making the capture even better seeing it swim off strongly

A few other surprises turned up.....this went hard on PE2, the Stella 4000PG getting a nice little workout.

Was a cracking day, ended up with bloody sore arms after hitting a patch of pretty nasty sambos in closer at another demersal spot, this time in 45m, that seems to have been overrun with larger models.....we needed PE5 to stop the fish....our mates in the boat in the background were running PE3 max, and while they landed a couple of absolute crackers, were rapidly running out of jigs so they called us over and then sat back and watched the fun.........both me and Chrisp ended in some very solid shallow water sambos, that always seem to go harder, while the other lads lost several more jigs  on PE3 and PE2.........cheers fellas!!!

i was scouting over garden island on google earth when a bright red colouration in the water caught my eye, zoomed in and couldnt beleive what i saw metres to the left of the cloud.

it is 700m north of the sw point of garden island about 300m offshore 32(degrees)14' 19.38"S 115(degrees)40' 37.12"E i will try to attatch the image to the post..

Gudday All,

Am looking at buying a splash cover for my 2010 115hp 4 stroke Mercury and i like the look of the OMC covers and have seen them on alot of boats. I was in the process of ordering one online from Australia's Marine Direct and paying about $250 incl postage. But i then thought is there someone local that supplies them. Or are they all made to order, i have no idea.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Hi all.

I am going away with the family in a couple of weeks down Dunsborough way. Looking for suggestions for some decent fishing spots.

I dont want anyones "secret spots" (unless they are willing to divulge...), just your recommendations for decent areas around the Dunsborough to Yallingup area.

Will only have time for 1 or 2 fishing sessions so dont want to spend hours driving around tryig to find the perfect spot.

Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have fished Yallingup beach before with little success. Low tide. Huge swell. Maybe I should try further north up the beach??

P.S. : I dont have any super heavy gear. Heaviest rod can only handle 4-5oz cast weight.

Will be on my own so dont want any dangerous spots.

Have 4wd.

Thinking about going for some decent skippy or tailor (if they around).

Thanks

 Did anyone get out early this morning before the wind picked up? absolutely awesome conditions.
I went breaming with Scottland and got SFA. only a few small scalies from eshed after a failed breaming attempt.....

just chatted with a mate that fished with whitey today....all he could say was f...n unreal and got his biggest dhuey to date,

with plenty of quality fish coming over the side....

he said it is the best charter/days fishing he has ever had!!!

hats of to ya whitey on all aspects of your charter

Hi there fairly new to the site, like most have been reading for ages. have never really fished further than the FFB and would like to venture out to the 40 m mark as we are members at the mangles bay FC. just wondering whether there was any likely ground if heading straight out from the southern end of GI. would like to get a fish before the closure.

cheers.

 i have a reel with some 50lb braid on it but i bought another 150 meters to put on top because the reel needs more line. i've been doing some research and all most forums and topics are all braid to mono leaders, but i want to know what knot is best used to join braid to braid both lines are 50lb and diameters is extremely close if not the same.

cheers

I thought these were buff bream so threw loads of them back yesterday but just did a google search and it aint a buffy.

What is it and are they good eating. If they are the deckies will kill me