I'm looking at updagrading with a new reel.

I currently have a TLD15, 25 and Tiagra 16. All spooled with Braid (10kg and 2 x 15kg).

I want to setup a decent trolling outfut and was thinking about a tiagra 30WLSRA, rigged with 24kg.

This is pretty expensive, so will probaby team it wup with 24kg backbone  t-curve (cheaper than the Shimano tiagra rod).

Plan is to use this for trolling the FADs and exmouth.

Any tips for whether to use braid, mono or braid with a mono topshot?

Is it worth spending the extra $$ on a Tiagra, or should I save a bit of coin and just go for a TLD30 or similar?

(includes breaksea cod, harlequinfish, grey banded rock cod and Chinaman cod)

Family Serranidae Epinephelus sp. (such as malabar cod and estuarycod) over 1,000 mm or 30kg are protected

(except grey banded rock cod)

Breaksea – 300 mm

Just copied off fisheries we site updated in march 2011 does this mean we can take gb over 1m now ?

Cods

I thought this pic was worth posting. Its a humpback. Taken on a raymarine sounder. Pretty special image recieved on the sounder i thought.

Hey all.

With a sort of busy day i was laying on the couch and was board as so my mate walks over and says you wanna got for a fish? hell yer.

Got my squidding gear organised and though might as well tie the knots down there and get on the road as fast as. Got to woodies and started tieing the knot but it wouldnt work so i was getting quite annoyed. Finaly got the knot right put on a 3.0 yamashita glow white squid jig and got to a spot where we were going to hang for a while. I said to my mate how funny would it be if i got a squid first cast and make that three squidding session in a row, forth twitch bang on i was like mate im on he didnt believe me untill it was spraying ink in the air haha go me.

Had a few flicks around and moved up and down the rock wall every couple of casts. Got a cuttlie and a squid then went back to the spot where my mate was and asked if he got any herring he said no so i had a cast and bang got a squid then cast out again and got another squid. My mate snagged and chucked in the towel. A strom then started making its way in so he bailed to the car while i kept squidding. I got another couple on my Yamashita Naory 2.2 runge hunter.

I ended up with 7 squid not huge but big enough to eat and a cuttle fish so not bad for a 2 and a half hour flick. I have some photos but my good computer died on me so im stuck with the crap one so cant upload pics but i will be able to at my dads tomorrow night. Just ate all the squid and it was YUMMY!!! Ill never get sick of squid mmmm.

Cheers Danno.

Little cuttle fish.

didnt know they got this big!!

troy(my son) got it on a soft plastic while bottom bashing in 45mtrs, was going to keep it for bait,

but a freind took it and is going to do some curried cuttlefish....mmmm maybe!!!!!

that is a full size fishing sticker and he wasnt even strecthed out properly.

also, one this big holds a shit load of ink!!!

what else can you do with them?

cheers ron

hey guys, sorry aboutthis newbie post but were is the 3 mile reef? a map/co-ordinates would be appreciated

cheers

Hey guys,

Thought i would put up a post on how we went today out from woodies point. Firstly i would like to thank the guys who replied to my post on sounder pics i put up recently, your comments and advice proved priceless today. We headed out from woodies point boat ramp at 6am and headed for a mark in the 40's that i had marked a couple of days prior but had not much luck on. On the way out to our waypoint i came across some interesting groung in 35m of water so decided to stop and have a few drifts, on the first couple of drifts we picked up a couple of undersize black arse which went back to fight another day. A few drifts later my deckie picked up this nice queen snapper

After a pic we also sent this back hoping to uprgrade to maybe a pinkie or dhufish ( fingers crossed ). Reset the drift and dropped the lines once again and BANG my deckie was on again! This time we were pleased to see not a huge but definatelty a size dhufish! The first dhufish we have caught so pretty stoked to say the least, It went 57cm and after a quick pic it was given the lights out treatment then into the icebox for dinner tonight.

After this things went quiet, so we continued out to our original destination but had bugger all luck. Thats when the call was made to head back into the sound and have a quick squidding session, after picking up 6 nice size squid it was off home to clean up and cook our much awaited dhufish

What a great way to end the day, fresh dhufish, chips, coleslaw and some gentlmans jacks to wash it all down! Thanks again for all the help guys, hopefully the fishing gets better from here on in.

Just saw this on the West Australian web site, hope it's no one I know or know of down here.

Cheers

Dale

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/9256696/man-drowns-in-sw-boat-accident/

i have painted bow rails on my rig  that are getting badly chipped. apart from sanding back and having bare rails does anyone have any tips on what i can put on them to protect against , anchor chain or line or sinkers rubbing on them , i have seen plastic tube etc that can be wrapped around 

Hey all.

I was just wondering if anyone knows the exact height of the busso jetty or knows where i can find the height of it? I would like to know the height from the water to the concrete but also the height from the water to the rails?

I forgot to measure it when i was down there the other day. If no one knows the height could some one that lives down there please measure it for me with a tape measure? Im willing to pay 10 bucks for the first person to have the exact height.

Cheers Danno

Anyone have any idea where the new IGFA length records are hiding on the net? Ive been through the official website- only found the rules and regs on there

anyone know where they are?

Cheers

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone knew of a free website that gives the water temp, current lines etc..?

Have found ones like seasurface.com etc… that charge an arm and a leg for the service!  

Anyone know of any free or otherwise cheaper alternatives?

Thanks in Advance!

Hey all

anyone one know anywhere that isn't affected that much by swell

for landbased around the north metro region just for bread and butter species

hoping to get out but weather looks bad all week

thanks alex

Well i went out to my usual big blackie location armed with a block of mulies. Couldnt belive my eyes when i could see monster bream swiming around. Hardest part was getting through the millions of blowies. Finally i hookd this big guy. Was around the same size as my biggest i caught a few yrs back that went 48cm. This may have been bigger? . What a thumper!!!!

Still hanging to crack 50cm!!!! Wont be long i hope.

Felt great to get a coupe shots and let it go. Swam off really well.

anyone heading downtoday for a fish if so were

Good Morning all,

Im heading up to jurien Bay later this week with the family, I was wanting to know where the good fishing spots are up there and what sort of bait i will need. I also have a 4wd so will be able to go on the sand, but i dont have a boat.

We ended up with a nice red bass on the weekend and are wondering if they are much of a ciguatera risk . He was caught out from Exmouth. Have eaten Chinamen from around the same area with no problems so hoping the Bass will be ok.

Cheers Ben

Gday,

I'm looking at heading to Exmouth in mid May hoping to tag my first marlin, and hopefully try some bottom fishing. Would appreciate any hints as to lure types, locations, baits, target species etc that anyone can provide.

Thanks

 After being directed here by Till, I felt it only right to drop a quick line to say g'day.

There are quite a few familiar names here, and it looks like HEAPS of good info, very interesting site!

Im currently fishing and diving out of a 4.8M Ally Savage runabout.

Hope to see a few of you out on the water.

Cheers

Dave Manning

Hey guys is it still worth towing some luers if the weather persists or have the billfish left our waters for good

  Hey seeing the topic of soft plastics today i wanna get a set up cranking purely for fishing plastics , I dunno what type of reel or rod to use , atm i have a few reels on the side maybe to get me started , although i might need heavier. I have a plueger contender and a dawai regal 4000, would these reels be fine or would an upgrade be needed ? Also any suggestions on rods as i have no clue what tpye of rod to use for soft plastics ?  not anything to expensive , good quality but not over priced. Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

hey all,

Purchased 2 Yamishitima* squid jigs in1.8; in Pink and a Brown with a green tint.

5 squid in half an hour, wasnt to bad saying that i was still using the old ones for a little bit, but all 5 squid were caught on the pink one.

Cheers all!

hey guys,

sorry to put up another "need help post", but weve got our 11 year old cousin over from sydney, and after we bought him a cheap k-mart combo over as a present a couple of years ago, hes had a ball catching all types of small fish off the beach.

Me and dad are gonna take him out for a fish tomorrow after the dawn service, but being informed by his mum that she dosent want him on a boat, where stumped on a good land based spot we can take him, as anytime weve got time to fish, its usually outa the tub.

I dont mind what were catching (as long as it isnt blowies) and can go anywhere from 2 rocks to down around rockingham.

any advise would be awsome,

cheers rob

Hi guys just wanted to know whats bitting down mandurah way land based any help would great thanks

hey guys

going out tomorow and i normaly dont use ocky, but i got some local stuff and want to know the easiest way to skin it,

as we all know what happens if you dont skin ocky when bottom bashing.

we got a nice mix happening tomorow.....ocky,squid,fish fillets and plastic, one should be good??????????

thanks in advance

ron

hi guys

does anyone know where i can get some 3oz jig heads today(sunday)

thanks in advance

ron

Hey guys, can anyone tell me if there is anywhere open to get bait today for a early start tomorrow? South of the river if possible. Or even places open early tomorrow morning? Cheers guys.

hey i was jst windring if any one knows any good spots for shaks up near lano or do you just have to find a decent hole and buley up. we gi 40 kg of berly so should be right for that but any one got any advoce.... cheers

Happy Easter all!!!

Hope the weather stays good for monday!

Cheers!

Not fishing related, but worth the post.

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