Spent the day floating around the sound in search of pinkies..

No pinkies, a good feed of squid and free entertainment to top off the day, courtesy of the resident sound dolphin !

chasing someone to give me a quote after a fender bender in the rain on friday.If anyone is or knows a panel man send me a pm i may be able to keep them i business if people keep trying to hit me like the last few days.It is like i have a target on meThe repair is for the front end of a standard 100 series white cruser i was chasing a few other little bit to get fixed as well.

I'm going to be getting out in the new boat scout around 5 fathom bank and the like. Its a new style of fishing for me so I'm still learning,

i've heard of people talking about unweigthed baits.

I was wondering how people attach their leaders to the main line? Swivel, or a favorite knot?

And how long would you make a leader for this application?

Any Other tips for this style of fishing would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Adam 

hey

me and the missus went out from mindarie this morning

slow start but got onto some good ground in the end

not before getting stung on the foot by a bluey

bugger me. the pain ended up going to my bollox. ouch

after finding the ground , we set a drift and both got a dhuey on same drop so left em biting for next time. 2's enough

interestingly , she caught the better fish on drift bait where as i got smaller fish on paternoster with lumo squid.

got into a shark and a harlequin amongst other things

and to top it all off , figured something out about sounder.

happy days

any body have any luck landbased this weekend went to north mole twice and didnt get anything.

As I promissed myself I headed up to Flatrock yesterday arvo for a fish. I met up with Sid and his dog and we toughed it out overnight. The conditions were somewhat unusual with a fair bit of loose weed hanging around the break. That made it an early break for the evening. One decent Tailor and a couple of herring was about all we could do. The morning saw pefect conditions but again, weed at the break and certainly no action as we would have expected. I did have one break-off on the big rig but nothing else to brag about I am afraid.

Thanks for the company Sid. I am sure both out dogs will sleep for a couple of days now.

anyone going beach fishing this morning.

i think heading down to trigg or city beach near the drain and have a go :) 

anyone is welcome to join :P

hey all

has any1 been getting squid of hilaries marnia l8ly?

has any1 got them at all?

and where is the best place to fish for them at hillaries in the day time?

cheers

hey fishos. been fishing for 7 years hunting a pinkie off the rocks after i accidentally cought a 6 kilo on a mulie at asi in 2002. getting fed up with the amount of money and effort that i put in with no resaults after 7 years. can someone please let me know some goot tips like when and how or even better i would like to go with if i could. thanks!

G'day All,

after getting the run around from a charter company down Freo which is affiliated with another site I was sick of being treated like a limbless leper. Fortunately this coincided with me joining FW and finding Southern Cross Charters, subsequently we have a charter on tomorrow (after getting the lads to commit!!) So far I have nothing but praise in dealing with Kim from Southern Cross he has been the consummate professional and has been very patient with my requests and inability to organise a piss up in a brewery so to speak. Can't wait to get on board and from my lot there should be a few sore and sorry heads early on following a big night on the sauce with the rugby, shouldn't be a problem berleying up!!

Anyway I will post pics if we get on to the good stuff and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank the fishwrecked site for igniting my passion for fishing again and also Kim for putting up with my sh!t. Have a good one and lets go the wallabies...

Cheers,

Liam 

Hey guys,

Taking the boat out tommorrow from hillarys.

Looking for some company, any takers.

Most probably bottom bouncing....

I a over all of this! It's time for a serious fish LB.  I'm going to sleep in the car as the Missus is on a corporte deal ths weekend. LB men..what are you thinking?

hey guys,im really curious if u can fish at the south perth yacht club land based,that is...it looks so convincing for bream...would love to try it out one day if im allowed to

I've started making some fishing movies, nothing to serious yet. does anyone know what the copyright laws are for music on movies for posting on sites such as this one or you tube?

I'm looking for a cheap spin reel in the 2500/3000 size, to match with a light 7'3 graphite rod. I'm looking at only spending roughly $150. Will be used as my squid reel metro and light beach work in exmouth. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Cheers

Hey guys,

Im heading up to jurien for the week next week and i was wondering whats the best site to get a weather report from for jurien as Sea breeze doesn't have jurien on it only has lancelin.

Any info would be a huge help cheers guys Dave

G'day All

First time, so be gentle.

With an expanded family, the wife has ordered me to get a bigger boat with a bit more shelter than my 4.3m Clark. She reckoned centre consoles don't have enough protection, and I won't own a boat you can't walk around, so centre cab it is. Large enough to get 4 of us on board, not too big for tossing lures up creeks, and launching one up off the beach, so settled on a 5.5m. Looked for a couple of months for something suitable in second hand without success, so getting one custom built. The sheets are being cut today, and construction commences next week. Ordering a 115 for the back end tomorrow, having picked a Merc 4 stroke based solely on the fact they are running a special at the moment. So, my questions are:

1. What things have you seen in a boat/put in your own boat that has made you think, "Bugger me, that's tops, no boat should be without one".

2. The opposite. What irritating things have you found that could be avoided with a bit more thought during construction.

 Engine arguments have been done to death, but anybody who feels passionate enough has about 12hrs to have a crack at steering me elsewhere.

Any input appreciated. If there is any interest, I can post up a few shots as she comes together.

Cheers

Choongy

Well i want to catch a stingray, I mostly fish for the fun and land based fishing around here doesnt really offer much that will give me a good work out (without spending countless hours searching for that elusive mulloway) i dont know if anyone will be able to help me here but just wondering what rig, bait, tides and location will help me find some sting rays.

Or even better some help with landbased sharkfishing :)

Was anchored herring fishing with a mate yesterday and flicked out a squid jig, hooking up immediately. About 10m from the boat i saw it was flanked by 2 others, one of which was attacking the hooked squid.My mate was soon in on the action hooking one of them and i unhooked and recast quick smart. In 10 minutes we caught 7 good squid. Bloody good fun. Anyone else had that happen?

Haha well yesterday as i was fishing i got about halfway into my block of mulies and noticed that one was absoloutly huge i pulled it out to have a closer look and it defintly wasnt a mulie but infact a small bonito! just wondering if anyone else had anything similar

Have had many insucsessful trips to the bank and herd there was plenty of pink snapper round, ust wondering what is the best time or them this time of year.

cheers

Came across this new Daiwa Caldia while I was surfing the net.

Looks like the Sol, but in white. Could this be the new and improved version?  If so, it should be a ripper!

Price is around the $250 mark.

Chasing a good marine electrician north of the river in Perth to install new sounder, plotter plus dual batteries.

Any recommendations?

Went out for a quick dive 2 day with some luck 2 trout,  small 1 went 58cm with the big 1 putting out 71cm( new pb).Saw heaps of cool little ones around 35cm that where very friendly.  A mother of blue bone swam around me for awhile but he didnt want to play jump on my spear, not long after he swam off a cracker gt blazed past me at 100 mile an hour  with 2 cods in pursuit which later i realized that my mate just shot a trout not far behind me.Didnt see any big sharks , but who goes looking. Anyway todays for you Brad, no pussy here LOL

Heart Rise have been gaining in popularity, they've now increased the range of their already impressive rods to include 3 new rods in the range.

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New Sylphy Light Jig and Popper rods:

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for plastics and lures??

i started with the rapala knot but i find it a bit untidy although it does hold well.

just been giving the perfection loop a try out on dry land, and thats very tidy and seems to stand up well. will give this a try out next time.

what do you guys find works well??

hi guys just new to this site. been out of boating world for 16 odd years raising a family and have just purchased a 5.1 metre seacraft which due to the bad weather here in adelaide have not yet christened it. when previously owned a boat there was no such thing as a fishfinder so am at aloss as to which one to buy. have a chance of buying a lowrance X28 and just wondering if anyone is or have ever used one and how they rate in todays market and what would be a fair price to pay for a second hand one. any comments would be appriciated thanks Steve Knight

I was told (rightly or wrongly) that many Japanese fisherman have a set workout routine they do before they go on a jiggin or popping fishing trip overseas so they are fit enough to cast all day and maximise their fishing time while at the destination.

Does anybody know roughly what this workout consists of doing? Have a copy of the routine? Just curious to see what they do in regards to being "fit for fishing".

Handy chart to finally know what the hell is going on when you buy US and Japanese tackle.

does such a beast exist? If so I want it!