hey bois

went about 5km off hillaries today with a couple of mates and what a day it was.....

anchored then dropped the lines.....

straight away i hooked a 27cm pink snapper then my mate hooked a ray....

i caught about 7 or 8 small pinkies within 1 hour.

we moved to a different spot and my mate hooked onto another ray

i hooked onto something big but it turned out to be a double header of pinkies lol

i then felt a huge hit and was like wtf was that and then i pulled up a 1kg skippy....

i was the sittin on the chair resting after a hard day fishing when i hooked onto something huge and it just took my line and snapped....

my mate caught a gummy shark here earlier in the day so we thought it was another 1

all in all it was a great days fishing and cant wait til next weekend to get back out on the water....

pce out

I remember talking to an old boy in Coral Bay a few years ago who claimed that after good rains, red emperor move in closer to shore (30-40m there) to feed.

Was this bloke blowing smoke up my you know what or has anyone else experienced/heard this?

John

Looking for a good, cheap rod between 9-10ft in length, 2piece and rated to around 8-10kg. Will mainly use it for spinning from the stones using 60-80g metals, want to be able to ping them out pretty far so a rod with a bit of flex would be ideal. For use with 30lb braid and around $150 in price.

Any help appreciated

Damo

An interesting day. Conditions good early arvo but turned to shit and weed when it mattered most. I worked hard for a couple of flathead, a nice shovel nose and some whiting for bait. I met up with a member on the beach. Her forum name is Shorly I think and she hasn't posted here for a while. I am sure she will revive herself again now and once again become active. Nice to meet you Shortly and Hubbie (and dog).

how did every one go in the comp yesterday
what was the winning fish ect

Another Aquarian is celebrating today. Good onya Andy, hope you have a great day, All the best, Colin Hay

138mm of rain since 4pm yesterday in Karratha. At least it is reasonably cool at the moment. Looking at the radar a bit more to come yet

What is the best out there,should be a few brand names.
Not caring what it costs.Working on 20-30LB line

Not interested in what's the best value for money,just the thinnest and strength

hey fellow fishermen and women
i was wondering if there is any gardies around at the moment as i need some for a exmouth trip in a couple of weeks i have a boat to get them
any help on where there at would be awsome cheers prefer north of river

Heres a lure that i caught my Snapper on recently, it was a brand new lure, but is very second hand now...

Those big blunt Snapper teeth, designed for cracking open crustaceans make short work of hard plastic lures...

What lures do you have that have been savaged by the prey?

hey was wondring i have a big prawn soc net in shed i jsut found was wondring where i can walk with that in the metro area

to get anything rilly

was hoping to go out tonight cheers 

Hey guys,

to start with i'm a real novice at fishing.

Anyway me and a mate went to the groyne at Woodman's Point this morning to try for some herring

and the thing was that we were chucking the burley out there and the herring seemed to be very interested in it there were heaps 

swimming around the top and sometimes jumping up and stuff. However we were never able to hook up at all? It was so annoying!!!

Would anybody know what we were doing wrong? We were using a running burley cage with around 40cm leader to a small hook. 

Tried big and small bits of bait (whitebait and prawns) and I was able to only bring one herring in off a whole whitebait.

My mate also caught a snook with a halco twisty and I got a whiting only to lose it right at my feet :(

thanks guys,

Kav 

gday, have a 4.7 savage osprey that has a bit of bottom sheet damage. it has been repaired, but it got me to thinking about welding new bottom sheets. Has anyone done this to their boat or had someone do this to their boat? What did it cost? Could a handyman with good mig welding skills do this themselves with the right gear? The ribs are floating so that wouldnt be an issue. Any advice, phone no,s of people who could do this, would be appreciated!!!

Few whiting and herring off back beach bunbury last week. Heaps of small ones. Only 4 keepers. On beach and tube worms.

Not the biggest but they were good eating.  Caught 8 keepers( 2 Harlequin, 1 Pinkie, 3 Black Arse,  1 chinaman cod & a nice whiting.  Fishin  in 17 -18 metres after getting skunked in 35 & 20 metres.  All taken on yellowtail & nothing was interested in the large fresh squid.  Thinking about hitting the tyre reef tomorrow night.  Anyone know if there are any big Pinkies there now.  Open for suggestions...would like to catcha large fish of any kind!!!

Looks as if the forecast for Sunday, which was quite good for a while, has finally returned to recent form .................... and is now sh*thouse.

From BOM

Sunday: NW/SW winds 15/20 knots tending W/SW 15/25 knots in the afternoon

When will this wind settle down? I know that there have been some nice days during the week, however every weekend seems to be blown out

Oh well, I see another day slaving in the garden coming up

Steve

Fisheries Minister Norman Moore has taken further vital steps to protect and sustain Western Australia’s important commercial west coast rock lobster fishery.

Mr Moore said today that the rock lobster industry was facing a crisis unless urgent action was taken to protect the long-term future of a fishery which experts, industry bodies and many commercial fishermen say is under severe pressure.

The new management measures included limiting commercial rock lobster fishing to four days a week (down from six days a week), further pot reductions and changes to legal size limits.

“Soon after becoming the Minister for Fisheries I took precautionary action to protect the rock lobster fishery by imposing a 15 per cent reduction in unit values from early December and flagging a further 15 per reduction for next season,” the Minister said.

“I am now taking further action after receiving advice that my initial raft of measures has not achieved the results necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of the rock lobster fishery.”

Preliminary estimates of the commercial rock lobster catch this season (to the end of January) are that it is 16 per cent higher than the same time last year.

Further details of the new measures included:

· prohibiting fishing on Saturdays and Mondays, in addition to the existing Sunday ban, from March 1

· bringing forward to March 1 the 15 per cent reduction in unit values (based on 2007-08 levels) originally scheduled for the start of the 2009-10 season

· reducing the maximum legal size for female western rock lobsters by 10mm in Zones A and B of the fishery as close as possible to March 15

· increasing the minimum legal size in Zone C to 77mm from as close as possible to March 15.

The changes follow advice from the Rock Lobster Industry Advisory Committee, the Western Rock Lobster Council, Department of Fisheries and research bodies.

Mr Moore said the State Government’s overall aim was to limit the total commercial catch to 7,800 tonnes, compared with a predicted catch of 9,200 tonnes, in order to shift catch forward to offset low catches expected in 2010-11 and 2011-12.

The measures would give further protection for breeding stock in the north of the fishery following last week’s closure of the Big Bank area.

“I’ve taken this action as part of the ongoing assessment of the fishery, which this season identified the lowest puerulus settlement on record,” the Minister said.

Mr Moore said the new measures would take advantage of current abundance to ensure protection of breeding stock and provide carry-over stock for future seasons.

“This will be a difficult time for our rock lobster fishers and the community that depends on it,” he said.

“However, the State Government cannot ignore the research and advice that shows WA’s rock lobster stock needs urgent increased protection.

“Given the crisis facing the western rock lobster fishery - three years of low settlement figures - it is important that management responses are both rapid and adaptive to new research data that becomes available.

“There will be a review in April to assess the impact of these measures and whether they need to be tightened or eased to meet the target.

“I urge all participants in the rock lobster fishing industry to work co-operatively to protect the future of the fishery as we face this tough time.”

Minister's office: 9422 3000

Just out of curiosity, has anyone seen any fisheries officer at North Mole at all? All my years of fishing I haven't seen one. Then again I haven't frequented it as much as the regulars. Reason I'm bringing this up was that I haven't fish at the moles for a long time and was there last night. Had a few tailor runs, but all of them are around 27 to 30cm ish. One that my friend took home was just past the 30 cm mark and a few of the smaller ones released back with one measuring even 29.5cm.

I noticed that some people fishing around me (and I've noticed this in the past few years) just brought up whatever they get and in the fish went into pail, without any measurement of any sort. The sizes look around 30ish cm too so there was a good chance that some of them are undersized. Heck, one fisherman even had a surprising crayfish caught on ganged hooks and that was quite a nice catch I must admit. The cray went into the pail too without being measured (but it looked like a good sized cray), and did he have a license? Beats me.

With North Mole being such a hotspot, I am thinking that the fisheries should patrol that area more. I was just doing some random maths and say a convervative average of 2 tailors are being taken a night. 30-40ish fishermen a night * 2 =  60-80ish tailors and half of that undersized maybe? Also the 2 tailors taken is really a conversative number with some bagging just everything they get. Of course this is just recreational fishing, but question is, is this actually sustainable in the long run? I remember 3-4years back when the tailors average at 30-35cm ish. Of course last night was just a one off fishing sesh after a while and the sizes were pretty disappointing I must say though they are still good fight on light gear.

What are you thoughts on this?

A friend of mine was snorkelling around a metro reef yesterday (11th Feb), about 100m off the beach. Se said at one point a big school of large fish swam past him and he managed to snap this photo. He asked me if I knew what they were, and I am pretty sure they are Salmon. Can anyone confirm this?
If they are salmon, its strange to see a big school of them in the metro area at this time of year isn't it?

 update - 2nd photo

does any one know were i can find some ? any help is good
cheers brenz

Hope you have a good one Tim.
All the best, Colin Hay

Evening All

Does anyone know what is happening on the crab ban in Cockburn Sound, is it due to be opened at all??
Whilst talking Cockburn, just got home after a squid session, caught a feed of good size squid on the western side of Cockburn sound

Anyone know how to convert video formats? my camera vids play through Quicktime and i cannot use them in video making software(Movie Maker etc..). Can anyone recommend a program?  Any tips?

Cheers in advance

Went for a uqick squid session down at te busselton jetty last night. Armed with a couple of haramitsu jigs just to see how it is there after visiting the girlfried, turned out to be quite productive. in an hour and a half i ended up with 7 squid and a last cast occy.... wich i thought was a bit strange on the squid jig. all in all was pretty chuffed to take home a nice feed and a bit of bit! just out of curiosity wa wondering if anyone else has caught occy on a jig before? sorry was no pics, was a bit of a spur of the moment idea so i dint have the camera on me

for the people who fish ther regularly do you reckon theres much chance of a mulla there?

might give it a bash on saturday night

hey guys might be heading out for a fish behind rotto tomoro mornin wondering if the sambos still around the wrecks if not any tips on getting a good feed out there tomoro and where bouts should i be heading and help would be good

cheers guys

- mat

Hi All,

With the strong winds making getting offshore a little difficult, I was wondering if anyone has been having any joy in chasing squid in the north metro area?

I have heard reports that there are a few around in Cockburn Sound, but what about up north?

Cheers Steve

Massive!!!

Hey Guys,

Just thought I would make a post to see what everyones favourite setup / combo is for.....

1) Spinning - casting poppers / plastics/ hard bodies ect 15kg

2) Trolling / Bottom bouncing  15 - 25kg

3) Landbased fishing - Tailor / Mulloway / Salmon  10 -15kg  

I do all three forms of fishing and have a preference but I am going to purchase a couple more combos in the comming weeks jsut wanted to see what some of you out there are using.

Thanks Guys

A friend of ours is holidaying just south of us at bunker bay and took the boat out to get away from the fire.... He caught the fish in the pic close to shore and sent me a pic to see if I could ID it but I have never seen one like it. Can anyone shine some light on what it could be and what they are like for eating??????

It has been filleted and frozen as they are waiting for a reply before they cook it.

Cheers,
David

Gday guys

Headed up to Quobba today in the hope of landing something, did allright but not the best. Left home @ 4am and arrived at our spot about 6, greeted with fantastic conditions. So we geared up and made the trek down the goat track to begin our fishing. On arrival at our platform light was still not evident so we began fishing the bottom to try and manage a feed. Della landed a legal Norwester as well as a few undersized Baldies with a few bust offs in between. Light was now beginning to show so it was time for some spinnning. I was the first to hook up on a smallish Spaniard only to be mauled by a few hungry locals seconds later, managed to get the head though which was used as a teaser later in the day. Saw a big GT swimming under the lower ledges, couldn't believe it, first real one i've seen, this thing must have been 20 or so kgs just cruising along. Anyway the day rolled on with a Longtom and another small Mackie as well as a number of big hits which didn't stay connected. Towards the end of our trip we started playing around with the locals which was a bit of fun and then it was the long walk back up the hill to the car @ around 1. High anticipation with really not much to show is all i can say now. Highlights would deffinitely have to be the GT and the locals, the locals are allways entertaining. All in all it was a good day to be outdoors, even with the heat! Look forward to hitting up this place next time. Pics to follow..

Here they are..

Damo