Not fishing related, but worth the post.

Dad played and I did guitar work, so got a AAA pass to see the legendary band themselves, ZZ Top

Hey guys,

Recently i have purchased a furuno 620 and have been testing it out mainly in shallow water. Yesterday i headed out to have a fish in some deeper water for the first time with this sounder, i have been out this far before but only with the old black and white job that came with the boat and never had much luck. All im trying to find out is what have i got on the photos i have uploaded? is this what structure looks like in the 40's?? i had a few drifts over these patches with not much to show except for a charlie court and some colourful looking reef fish. Any help would be much appreciated, Cheers  

Haven't heard many reports up that way lately .

Will be heading up on Monday (25/4/11), armed with jigs/plastics.

i put braid on my reel, fireline crystal 10lb and i think the line is twisted or somthing causes evertime i cast my lure or softplastic, the line is goin loose on the ree,l and somtimes doesnt wrap onto the reel propaly it misses the spool and goes under i need help with this asap is there a way i fix this or do i need to take the line of and buy new stuff cause i leave for my holiday tommorow ???

any help much appreciated

cheers danny

hey chasing dhuie's in dongara. does anyone know of some good ground ! dont laugh at me ! 

 did anyone else head out today.

 I was checking Seabreeze all week and it looked sweet untill last night when they changed the prediction.  We headed out from Woodies at about 6ish anyway with 3 newbies on board, heading for the West End to troll up some Mackies.   Got to just before Carnac and hit a crazy washing machine chop that only got worse and worse.  Ended up busting through it and put some lures out, trolled for about 3 hours all around the West End, conditions got worse, I got more annoyed.    We ended having a bottom bash out that way and picked up some Skippy, then turned for home with a big following sea.

All in all a pretty frustrating day and lousy conditions.  I ended up rigging lines for everyone all day, tying knots and doing all usuall fishing lessons to help people that haven't fished much which was fine, just tough out there.  The highlight of our day was a Mutton Bird picking up a small Tuna skirt that I had shotgun and then getting it hooked through the beak.  I was flying a kite for a while there.

Did anyone do any good??  Any Mackies around

hi all

i have a 7 to 10kg road takes a bait cast reel

i would like some advice on a cheaper alterative to use on it

as im a pensioner and can't spend $100s on a reel

I am looking to buy some squid jigs, could any of you recommend what good?  Types, colour and sizes.

Cheers

Guys... For the last 4 days in a row i am after tailor. Been to 3-4 different spots with no luck. I wanna some for some bbbq tommorow arvo. Been to North Mole yesterday and surprised to see mole dead as 

heyy alll,

Chasing one or 2 squid jigs in 1.8..
Looking for sometheing decnt but around 10 bucks

Cheers

hi guys

was out prawning on friday night and scooped this up thinking it was a prawn, looks like a prawn cross mortan bay bug!!!

can someone enlighten me?

thanks ron

Hey guy's I am chasing a second hand, or spare stainless prop to suit a Honda 4 stroke, 90 hp 2010 model,

I assume it is a 13 inch, will check.

Anyone has one, and is prepared to part compny for a reasonable price, please let me know

Much appreciated  

Who's heading out :)

Hey all.

I went down to busselton to try and get some of these squid that everyone was talking about. so on thursday i headed down. I got to the jetty in the day at 12ish and only stayed for a few hours, i caught around 30 squd all wayy to small so i released all of them much to some peoples discust. It was quite amazing how many small squid were around i had 10 chasing my jig at one time pretty cool. Im thinking this winter will be massive for the guys down at busso for big squid and lots of them good signs. Finished up down at the jetty and went home and prepared for a night squid. I got there and there was heaps of small squid around again. i released heaps again then i started getting into some that were big enough to eat. We had about 10 or so between me and a mate and i was just messing around when i hooked a big squid, my mate recons it could of gone the kilo mark but it was only lightly hooked and dropped of. I dropped the jig again and hooked it this time i gave it some time to take the jig in to the firmer bit of the tenticles, someone that was squidding up the jetty sore me hooked up big and thought that we would try and hook it aswell. Im not shore if he was trying to help or to take my squid but any way he hooked my jig and not the squid and pulled my jig out of the squid in which the squid bolted off. My mate then got a 25cm hooded squid and was quite happy about that. We finished keeping squid because we got our limit around 11.30. We then had a few casts for herring and catching and releasing some more squid. Got to the cleaning station and cleaned the squid which took ages because we were messing around with the guts and taking photos. Got home at 2.30 and ate some squid and went to sleep.

A Couple of small ones that were released

Average size squid. Haha

My mates squid and mine. ( mine was smaller :( )

The haul. 29 squid and an occie.

The plan was to get up at 5.30 and have another squid and try get some crabs, but we slept through both of our alarms so we got to the jetty around 9.00. started having a few casts of the squid jigs and got quite a few follows and a couple of small ones which i released. I got 10 or so average ones but nothing to big. i walked up to a couple of younger guys using cheap jigs and mono casting in to a weed bed in close becasue they couldnt cast any further. i asked caught anything? they said nar nothing not even a follow, i said oh ok. So i put a cast into the further back weed beds a few meters down from them and hooked up solid, it took drag and was the best fight ive had on a squid. I got it to the jetty and started pulling it up when all these people out of no were started watching. I had the squid to the top of the railing and the bugger grabbed on to the out side of it and started swinging and shot ink and slime ALL over me haha. i pulled in in and it measured around the 27cm hooded mark so i was happy. Nailed another smaller one after that and thought that will do for lunch. Walked back to were my mater was crabbing and he had 10 crabs so lunch was awsome!

27cm hooded squid.

Me and the squid ( bending over becasue the line was tangled and a random was taking the photo so wanted it done quickly)

Lunch.

The new busso jetty is a massive improvement from the old. And the lights on are really nice one down side is the graffiti already on the jetty if it keeps up the jetty will be closed at night. All in all a great fun and tasty trip down to busso. Thanks for reading.

Cheers Danno

 Does anyone know how to catch these little baitfish for bream?

Locations would be greatfully appreciated aswell,

Thanks, Andew

Would just like to pass on my thanks to all the gents and ladies who give up their time over the easter break (and anytime for that matter) to make sure help is available for all us boaties when things don't go to plan and need assistance on the open water.

Headed down to woodmans point this morning and launched just before sun was up with the anticipation of an awesome days fishing.excitement was building and all geared up ready for some bottom bouncing just south of rotto.Started the motor fine let it warm up for a few minutes and headed out of the groins got just outside the groins started to open it up with the fresh easterly behind us and within 1km motor decided to shut down as if it had run out of fuel (which was not the case because put 100l in on the way to ramp) tried starting again and had a fiddle with the spark plugs etc. but to no avail.20 mins went by and decided to let Cockburn sea rescue know i would need a tow back in and thankfully they arrived within 1 hour to take us back to the boat ramp.

As annoying and frustrating as this was I will be grateful that it didn't happen further out to were we were headed.

The next time i post a report it will be of a more productive day"with a bit of luck"

p.s thanks to the boys at cockburn sea rescue.

Who needs a rod when then they jump in the boat!!!http://www.exploroz.com/Forum/Topic/84892/Fishing_at_its_best.aspx?ky=&p

 This little guy down eshed while tring to get livies, let him go and it swam off like a rocket...

IMG_9402 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Enjoy Happy Easter

hi guy

was just wondering (and I know this is an obvious question): but what is the difference between the different models of tiarga: A, WA, LRSA, WLSRA etc... im guessing that means single speed, 2 speed, left hander etc.. but which is which and surely there must be more to it than that?

Also, looking at doing the ebay thing- can usually find them for a couple of hundred cheaper than anywhere else... anything I should keep an eye out for in terms of different recent years models etc (besides the handle?)

thanks guys for any help!

hi guys

anyone had a go at prawning this year yet?

i am gunna give it a good shove this year, try to get out a few nights through the week as well in the next few months!

cheers ron

looking out heading out from hillaries tomrrow just want to know ppls thought on weather the dhueys are in deep water 50 + meters or they around in the 42 meter mark i havent seem to be able to get any with the warmer water 

G'day all, My 1986 80hp Force Outboard is in need of a service - where is a good place to get it done? Cheap as possible too....

what is the gurus plan this long weekend?

hey mate every time i look on the site your name is the only one in bold? What does this mean? If you wanna go for a fish just ask

Just bought a nice TN16 Trinidad from Wooden Fish.

Took it down to Bluewater to get the drag upgraded to carbontex.

They put it in and now it has less drag than before.  I would expect to be able to lock the thing up so I couldn't pull line off it but that wasn't the case.  I have left it there for them to scratch their heads over.

Anyone have any exeperience with this? 

Am I right about thinking I should be able to lock it up or am I expecting too much?

Cam

Hi all, sorry to be a pest!!!

Im flying up to darwin and my mate n i are driving to broome to chase some sails on fly. Ive been looking around the net and there really isnt a great deal of info about the place. We are towing up a 5m boat.

Has anyone else fished Broome in May and if so what have you had success on? I hope we can find trevs, macks and tuna. Im just trying to nut out what to bring, Im not just a fly fisho. We will chase sails until we get a few and then we can target other species. We have 7 days there from May 22nd. Cheers guys

P.s we would love a few Gps marks for some tasty reef species. Please? we will take them too the grave, promise

I'm a bit stuck.

Got no boat - don't really want one.  Go fishing sometimes from Woodman's point - for herring and small tailor - but right now there is NOTHING except scaly mack.  

I'm not real experienced with Australian fishing.  Just looking for some tasty, easy to catch fish - they don't need to be too big (the Mrs loves herring!).  

I'd like to catch some salmon (if and when they get here)....

I've got a couple of beach-casters, 5ft, 6ft and an 8ft.  I live in Northbridge and don't really wanna drive too far.

So - suggestions anyone about what I should be targeting over the next month and how to catch it.

Cheers

Tim

Wharts everyone up to ???

We have a pretty good weekend planned cruising around some of the islands further across the gulf , trout, bluebone and a cray or two on the menu. Had a bit of a look last weekend and loved it so with 2 nights up our sleeves before Bec has to work again its off again for us.

The brother is taking his family to Augusta and a my best mate is off to Denmark with his crowd so its lookig like a water based weekend for us all.

Saw a fair few local boats fuelling up today ( busted adz) and the weather looks awsum.

Tight lines, straight spears and calm waters to you all . . .

Hi Everyone,

I am looking at dusting of the rods and getting out tomorrow, wanted to know if anyone was able to let us know what is running around Cockburn and Rockingham area's from the shore,

Good locations and type of fish, if anyone has any info that would be awesome.

Thanks everyone