Done solo run Tuesday mid 30s. Couple of kgs, good dhue best of all big black ass 510mm . Stocked hard to beat for eating. Then went decky for the day with little Andy. Started in 50s . Andy found 1 spot straight away had good number of fish on it. Andy got nice double header and I got nice one . Let one go (swam from top) left area then got nice baldie( very green male) and Andy got a huge red. Hopefully get out later next week depending on weather. Not long left of good weather . Then it will just be squid

Just a bit of info for anyone planing a trip tp Tamala in the near future.......

Tamala station will remain closed for camping until further notice.

Tamala now has an Indigenous Land Use Agreement over the whole of the Station which has impacted most of the camping areas.

We are required to now submit an application for a new camping licence.

Unfortunately, we are unable to take any bookings until the application has been approved by the DPLH.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience this causes our customers.

18th May 2020

Hung around for ages . Cracker

 Just about to send our epirb away to gme for a battery replacement 

will be 4-5 weeks without one 

just curious if the 2nm exemption zone still exists from the coast 

last poster I can see is 2014 and was wondering if this is still current?

plan on staying close chasing squid so no big deal not having one for a while 

Was 3 big ones until they got smashed by something then they broke into 9 schools. Some heading nrth some heading south.

Been a big topic before . Seen some pictures today of just how many hooks and leads accumulated on pro lines within last 2 days. Dangerous thing is no floats tied in knot/no rags rapped around floats .or no fisheries danger tags . Even though you don’t have to do any of this .but gives the guys a warning to be careful . Fair few guys on here have seen what happens when they come flying up friggin dangerous. Only takes 2 secs and may stop a serious injury . Anyway just a reminder

Enjoy

 Hi all,

Going to give Mindarie a go on weekend for some squid.  Something I haven't really tried much but know the areas as it is close to the herring spots I fish.

Is it a case of casting and retrieving while the boat is drifting? Or cast and let the jigs drift with the boat?  Thanks in advance.

 Heading up and of this month first time there...we have a 4.75m Stacer...how far out to get a feed and is there any dangerous areas to steer clear off...cheers

Hi All,

Heading down to Denmark at the end of the month and was wondering if it is worth towing the boat down to fish the Wilson Inlet? I've never fished the inlet before and I've read a few times on here about fish from the inlet having mushy flesh and tasting muddy. Is this most of the time or just on occasions?

If people don't think it is worth it, I will save the fuel and just stick to fishing the coast :)

Cheers,

 G'day all, just wondering if anyone has fished Cervantes much? Any info heading out safety wise and good depths etc. Cheers

 Hey guys, is anyone cluey on navman 2100 fuel flow meters, i have one that works but only sometimes, like yesterday i did bout 10ks round trip with nothing registered on the gauge only for it to start working when i was putting round the marina b4 putting her on the trailer.

yo boat technicians,

I went for a spin a few weeks ago, and coming in at 22knots after approx an hour of running, the 2010 140hp suzuki started slowing down, losing power. it would hold approx 8 knots OK, but would sputter and pulse rev if I tried increasing revs. a quick inspection of the water seperator/in-line filter was the bulb was full, approx 120ml of brown shitty sludge/water, which was removed from the seperator. furthermore, when I got home, I inspected the motors fuel filter, and found a bit more water, and some brown flakey shit, which was empited out, and rinsed with good fuel. I ran the motor at home, and increased revs, its all good..

saturday it did the same thing. I went for a river cruise, and when I got to open water and powered her up, after a few minutes it started losing power, but would hold low revs/speed. parked up for a few hours, and checked the seperator, which was clean as. I returned home with no major issues though, holding 20 knots for approx 10 minutes across Melville waters. 

I've ordered a new filter, which should get here this week. boat was serviced in August (I bought it in November).  I'm just wondering what else I should be checking? 

We’ve just received some of the popular Dr Hook School bully shallow divers in a range of colours and in both sinking and floating types! 

Hey guys, I was thinking about checking out the fads before they bring them in. I am having trouble finding the coordinates, the link below seems to only be for the new ones. Any idea where to find coordinates for the others?

https://recfishwest.org.au/news/new-metro-fads-are-a-go/

Hi guys, was down White Hills beach this morning for a flick, and I gotta say, that beach is looking a lot worse for wear. Got down about 7am, not to many people on the beach, but there were cars parked on the entrance going in (just before it turns into the white road), and an hour or so later, half of Perth came streaming from the beach to exit. So many people camping in the dunes, and to make matters worse, half of them were speeding along the narrow passage, drifting sideways, saw one fuckhead in a Patrol doing donuts. Another car of late teens on green P in a beat up Forester was screaming along ripping up the track.

About mid-morning, the place where they were all camping, a RAC Ambulance Helicopter had to land on the beach, but no idea what happened. Took off an hour later.

The entrance to the beach is now so narrow there was a queue of about 20 cars going head to head as no one could move. Saw a couple of cars try and go down closer to the water to get round, and get bogged, slowing things down even more.

I reckon it wont be long till the place is closed off, as everyone is using that entrance to get down to Preston (or as close as they can if it is blocked).

On a brighter note, got a fair few Herring, Skippy, Wrasse (bastards), Banded Sweep, and a black Western Scallyfish.

went out with 2 old mates yesterday arfo for a pinkie bash, just on sunset my small jig got hammered on the bottom, huge run then we got down to business, 2 laps around the boat, nearly fell off at one stage, then had to get him back to the boat. we cound'nt believe the size of the sambo,took 3 of us to lift the net in,caught on a big johns jig, the same one we have beem catching skippy and dollies on, few pics and released. heaps of skips,herring and a nice tailor. fun night out.

 Plan was on for some skippy for the smoker

as a added Mother's Day gift as she loves it! 
skippy took a bit too arouse but eventually 

turned up . Ended 9 in the box which was 

plenty with some size . Switched over too 

the jigs with finding pods rather quickly 

darker jigs doin the damage . Total for 

the day 9 skippy few herring and 20 

squid ! Cheers pirate . 

 Was bored with lockdown so made a couple of scalers out of a spoon as my SIL wanted one. Tested and works well for small fish which is what I intended

 Owners of Commodore 6.7 allrounder, have you installed a thru hull transducer, if so, where did you install it please ?. TIA

 Checking the weather for next week on willy weather. Some strange swell predictions Wednesday, Thursday?

after the storm. We are thinking of hitting up the HYC Fad (the one 50km W-SW of Hillarys) then head south through the other two west of rotto. ?have they moved or still in around about their original spots cheers Dave

Looking like a cracker tomorrow and my 10y old has been begging for an ocean fish so we must go.

I just had a FB memory pop up from two years ago today where we caught a bunch of SBT along the 30m line so pretty keen to give that a crack. Has anyone been getting into them?

Heading to the FAD's tomorrow from Hillarys. We normally stay at Rotto and catch herring there but we can't do that at the moment obviously. As the FAD's are west of Hillarys we don't want to detour to Rotto on the way. Should we just jig bait that we spot on the sounder or are there others suggestions for livies?

Thanks for any advice!

 I gave my Stradic an oil and grease and must not have screwed the handle cap back on as tightly as i should have

 After returning from a fishing session on Sunday, I noticed that the cap  and an o ring were missing. So looked at the parts list that comes in the box (lucky i keep these things),

 Monday morning I called shimano, gave the guy the part numbers and my CC numbers and ordered them

 I got the parts Wednesday - and I have re-fitted them to the reel 

 Bloody Impressive I say - Thank You Shimano 

Enjoy

 Just wondering if anyone knows any of the history on gage roads boats , build quality etc or have been out in one ?

Just curious as they look like a decent hull , cheers ..

Havent been out of two rocks for a while and was thinking of heading out over the weekend, weather lookin good so just wondering has anybody got a report on demersals out there, or do you think things will still be stirred up and crap for fishing after the storm - we usually hit up the 30 -45m line W-NW of two rocks cheers Dave

 Just watched the Rob Kirby Naiad video on The Captain Youtube channel. Ok, much of it is around Rotto, but there is some beautiful drone footage of the boats running around in a big breaking swell. Appears to be a shallow patch with deeper water inside. Not intimately familiar with the area. Would this be west end somewhere, or 5 fathom bank north of GI in a big swell? The Stragglers? Just curious. Link to video below, first shot is just 0.17 in, then 0.47, then keeps recurring. 

www.youtube.com/watch

 Hey all, have been looking at the abrolhos tackle reels, not badly priced with the 19% discount at the moment. Just wondering if anyone on here has purchased one and what they reckon of it or have heard much about them. Would be using it for a bit of everything jigging, floating baits and throwing stickbaits around.

cheers