im going to rottnest on monday could some one tell me if there would be any salmon there atm

and any other fish i could get

any help would be greatly appreasicciat oh and im fishin LB

On my last 4 outings i have been checked while 20km offshore. They come over and ask how the fishings going see catch ,ask for skippers ticket , view flare ,epirb take it out the box ,and life jackets. Is anyone else getting checked or am i the only one. The last time i egnorded them till i had my lines baited and in the water ,they didnt like that , but as soon as i turned around i had my skippers ticket out ,and went through all the safety gear without them having to say a word ,then i said to them this is the fourth time in 6 weeks that they have checked me.They should have it on record that my safety gear is on board, then they can just come over and check catch and go let us get on with drinking ,whoops i mean fishing.

Good to see the're out there doing the're job but why follow me around.

This way north of rotto each time.

Can anyone point in the direction of a larger zip up type tackle bag with removeable trays? At the moment i have a small old 3 cantilever draw Plano Box and a larger multi pocket zip up bag off Ebay - not enough room in the Plano and the bag is too bulky - basically i'm tired of shuffling bits back and forth depending on where i am fishing. Any hints would be appreciated.

what do you do with your dhufish frames me 60% eaten 40research do we need to send more to fisheries

Guys,

Anyone have experience with these little guys, or comments on them. Appear to have a high retreival ratio and at around 600 grams could be possible a consideration for sub 100m bottom bouncing? 

Feed back appreciated!

With the wind forecaster suggesting that the conditions would be pretty good last evening I decided to head down to one of my favourite north of the river lanbased spots in the hope of landing a few nice tailor.

I was about half way through my drive to the spot when it started to rain. Only having a water proof jacket in my car I was hoping that a tackle store that I would be passing on the way would still be open.

With great relief I saw the lights were still on at the shop and was pretty stoked when I found that they actually had some water proof pants in my size and wrapped when the very guy selling me the pants told me they had been catching a few nice pinkies at my fishing destination.

With new pants in tow, I was soon back ont the road with the rain continuing to fall. 15 minutes later I was pulling my two rods, tackle back pack, gaff, bag of bait and burley out of the boot of my car and donning my nerw pants and my water proof jacket.

As I began wandering out to the rock wall the first thing I noticed was that the wind definately wasn’t as calm as was forecast - in fact it was absolutely howling.
The next thing I noticed was a few fellow anglers depating the area in rapid haste.

Extremely grateful that I had my new water proof pants - but wishing I had also brought some water proof footware - I arrived at the fishing spot to find I was the only one there - a big change for this normally busy fishing location.

With the wind still howling, I loaded up my biggest outfit (a 13 foot Red Back rod and 8000 Sustain) with a big lump of lead and threw a ganged mulie out as far as I could get it into the teeth of the wind.

With the wind blowing straight the rain straight into my face and a fair swell smashing over the rocks - it wasn’t the best of coinditions - but hey I was fishing and previous experience had shown me that fishing in weather like this often leads to good fish.

Half an hour later the rain stopped and then the wind dropped and I began to think this is pretty good - apart from my cold wet feet.

With the improvement in conditions I decided to rig up my second outfit (a 13’ 6” Moonraker and 3000 Daiwa Heartland) and toss out another mulie - this time with a much smaller piec of lead attached.

But nothing was happening. Not one good run - not even a single nibble.

I began burleying up like a mad man and switched one of my baits to a fresh fillet of yellow tail.

Nothing.

I managed to stick it out for nearly four hours without getting a single touch before deciding it was time to take my wet cold feet back home to make friends with some nice warm, dry socks.

Despite the lack of action, it was still great to get out and toss some baits into the water.

I know I willl be back there again very soon.

I am just putting this example of a petition for offroader to view.  Hope this is now to your liking. 

But i am done with you, my time is better spent than bickering with the likes of you. 

I, Joe Amato of in the State of Western Australia, am the promoter this petition which

contains 1000 signatures.

PETITION IN RELATION TO NEW RECREATONAL FISHING FEES

To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in

Parliament assembled. HON NORMAN MOORE (Mining and Pastoral. Leader of the House)

We the undersigned residents of Western Australia are opposed to into ducting the new fishing

fees in which Its 100 officers will have to oversee more than 600,000 recreational fishers and 50 commercial operations

on over 12,500km of coastline under a licensing decree issued this week, according to principal management officer Nathan

Harrison.

From mid-October, anyone fishing from a boat will need a $30 permit and those chasing demersal, or bottom-dwelling scale

fish, will need to purchase additional licences.

A demersal licence costs $20 a day or $150 a year. Keen fishers could be hit with up to $400 in extra bills each year. Demersal

fishing has also been banned from October 15 to December 15 from Kalbarri to Augusta.

Your petitioners therefore respectfully request the Legislative Council to recommend a better

alternative to this.

Examples of this are as follows:

Putting demersal fish size from 500mm to 700mm, have a closed season when it is the demersal fish breeding season.

Reduce fees as a year round one off fee, lower to be more in line with the east coast, along with the 50% discount for

pensioners.

Alternatively every couple of years have a closure all together on the demersal fish breeding stock.

Also, have a log book system to keep an eye on stocks.

If fishermen work together with the fisheries department it would work.

Also lowering the bag limit.

And your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.

NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE

Please return this Petition to Joe Amato of . This petition must not be altered and

only original signatures are permitted. Faxed copies of signatures cannot be accepted. 

hey guys, james(flangies) and myself are keen to go dhuei hunting out on a boat located sth of the river,and we are willing to chip in $150 for both of us .As long as we get onto some good fishes.we'll bring our own gear and bait,prefably on a nice day and conditions. cheers pm me = ]

We are hopefully headed up to Warroora station south of coral bay next week. We have not been there before and wonder if any one can give us some advice re fishing , bait, direction, boat ramp, tackle or any thing else you wish you'd known before you got there!!!  Also what we are likely to catch up there.

Cheers , Adam And Jo

hey guys going down trigg tonight hopefully get into some talior maby even a shark

if any one wonts to pop down will be on tigg beach but jsut abit south of the reef

hope to c some one come down 

cya 

Dan1 had a stella of a day on the water on Sunday getting his bag/boat limit of Dhuies. Between 2 boats 6 dhuies were caught with also Harlequin fish and King George caught.

Gday all,

currently looking at rods that will cast 60-100g lures (poppers and stickbaits) effectively, preferably with a stiff tip. Will be running 50-80lb braid for some fun on either a Stradic or Sustain for GT's, tuna etc... I'm not expecting to stop anything huge and I know I will be severely undergunned in some situations but that's all part of the fun. Will be fishing from a boat and from shore. Anything around $400 for what I want it for?

Cheers in advance.

just a warning to any off roaders who go offroad around wilbinga - watch out for the little stink bugs as i found a nest of em in my hair a few weeks back -  they jump in the windows and crawl up the seat , then they crawl up ya back and live in your hair - and at the end of the day wen u lie down in bed they  crawl over your face leavin a trail of stink bug smell - it smells like squashed ants and dog sh**. - the little bastards mutiply as well i found six in the cruiser. and ya cant get rid of the smell

Young Chris has only just really started getting into fishing and still has a long way to go, but his Enthusiasm and hunger to learn has seen him already reach some rewarding milestones. One of those milestones was catching a fish on a jig which he managed to achieve off Cape Naturaliste on Saturday. Not the Sambo you wanted Chris, but non the less a good effort mate. No matter how many years you have fished, you will always learn something new.

Just wondering what everyones opinion is on them? thinking of buying one but cant decided between the shimano raider and the berkley dropshot just wondering if anyone here uses one of them and likes them?

Anyone keen to meet up around 7.30- 8?

What sppeds to people recommend when trolling!

I have my own ideas but i am probably wrong and would love to hear the speeds for:

The billies

Macks

Coral trout and other bottom lure hitters

Squid (i think this one is obvious - as slow as the boat will go)

Look forward to some help.

Cheers

Neels

 can anyone give us a vague idea which part of the river would be a good place to take the little kids squidding??  ( not asking for exact or gps settings lol) mrs Flash not keen on taking the little ones out of the river in these less then ideal boating conditions!!

Hi all, We are looking at holding a night out to welcome our UK member, Roger Knife - and his wife, to Perth. Roger arrives on July 31, so we are looking at having a get together at a north of the river pub on Saturday evening, August 1.

For all those who are interested in attending could you please put your name down on this thread.
Wives and partners are more than welcome - as are suggestions on a venue,

Many thanks, Colin Hay

last year i purchased a sunbeam vac 660 for our fishing trip. i found that it would work on the automatic for 3 seals and then it would partially suck air and seal the bag, leaving air inside. i would have to rely on the manual pulse and seal for the rest of our fishing trip. I returned it and got a new one on warranty and found that it had the same problem.

Is there a problem with the new 660s or have i had 2 dud ones. I emailed sunbeam and they suggested that i let it rest for 1 minute after the first 2 seals and then 15 minutes after the 6th seal. Has anyone else experienced these problems.

Thanks.

Went down freo way today and got all 15 in about 2 1/2 hours, The 2.5 pink Aurie Q did the damage and the bag went 5.4kg,

After browsing the net looking at boats that are most suitable for fishing off and is very stable... come across a west australian company Epic Marine and their boats

Adventurous... 

This beauty comes at a starting size of 6.1m. Trailer friendly with a generous list of inclusions. The hull comes with a 6 year guarantee.

1. 
   
   
   
   
   Hardtop.


2. Generous V berth.


3. Lockup cabin with sliding door.


4. Felt lined hard top.


5. Pockets to V berth.


6. Sliding windows.


7. Size starts at 6.1m


8. 200 lt fuel tank.


9. 4 side pockets.


10. Smooth contoured transom.


11. 175lt catch tank.


12. Solid seat boxes with inclusion of a small consumables shelf.


13. Rounded keel being trainer friendly and planning strakes applied.


14. Grab rails and full bar work.


15. Solid bow roller.

1. showers


2. deck washer.

.. wondering if any of the members own one or have been on one.. all feedback welcome.

 http://epicmarine.com.au/gallery.html

cheers

Deano

was thinking of going for a drive down to so busso to have a squid off the jetty and maybe wet a line was wondering if you can still get out to parts of the jetty and if you can how long across? and if im likely to encounter some flathead and whiting down there? thanks

Went down and did a couple shots of the big girl. Thought i would share...

Sunday,0830,changed destination plans from going north to the Beejaling Shoals just south of the Blowholes to the Mud hole about 3/4 of the way to the islands off Carnarvon.
Had a look around for fish on some marked spots untill I found one showing some promise,anchored up and dropped the lines in.Result was undersized sweetlip emperor for both of us on board,another drop,same thing so upped anchor.

Checked out another couple of marks until found one with fish showing.Anchored again and first drop produced a double header of pinkies,both just legal size,back they went.Old mate Neville came up with a double of a just undersize pinkie and a pan size snapper,back goes the pinkie and into the box goes the pan size.After 20 odd drops we had released about 15 undersized pinkies and had just 1 x just size pinkie,the pan size snapper and a trevally of 2kg.

Upped anchor and headed towards Koks Island in company with another boat who must have had the same idea.Both of us anchored on the same bit of ground about 40metres apart.First drop and I'm onto something solid,bang and its gone,inspection showed 150lb trace line frayed/bitten through a few inches below the dropper knot.Nev is on and fairly stretching his arms with a double header of pinkies in the range of 5-6kg.I lose the next one when the 10/0 suicide hook snaps off as I was lifting it in to the boatOver the next hour we get our bag limit of pinkies,four of which are of a bigger size than usually caught up here so we were not complaining especially Nev who hadn't caught one before let alone a double header of them.He has lived up here on and off for years and while having heard of the islands had never seen them so he got a trip to remember and we hope a lot more to look forward to.

Back at the ramp we were chatting to two other boats who went to the shoals for average returns of 2 pinkies and 2 average spaniards so I think we made the right choice for once.

I was walking past a shop yesterday and saw one of those 'born to fish - forced to work' t-shirts and a thought crossed my mind with regard to the new fishing regs, we should get new t-shirts made up with the logo

'Forced to work to be able to afford to fish'

DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE ON MY LEVEL OF HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, AND THE FACT THAT APPARENTLY I DONT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING WHEN IT COMES TO A PETITION, I HAVE REVISED MY PETITION ACCORDING TO PETITION GUIDELINES, IF THERE ARE ANY FURTHER PROBLEMS THAT ANYONE HAS WITH IT, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO LET ME KNOW.

THANKS, AND PLEASE SIGN.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/unfair-fishing-fees

On Edit > I have spoken to the shire concil,,Sutton st (naval base boat ramp to the power station)will be closed,recent storms have caused damage and theres lots of rubbish being left as well,,,Horses access road further South will not be closed.

im going fishing tommortow at the bent street boat ramp at about 6 in the morning and im wondering what i coulg get and how i get it what methods plz help out asap