I have never been barra fishing before and am super keen to do it.

Noticed that you can do heli fishing out of Kununurra at a price and that the best fishing seems to be the run off around march to May. What would the fishing be like now that it is cooler? I imagine I am better waiting off till summer/autumn again.

Any thoughts?

Enjoy

 I just scored some from the bargin bin. 4 for $20. They look like they should be ok for Mackies etc....

 I was taking some photos of a trout just off the beach in the bay at coral bay.I noticed it was changing colour as it changed its surroundings.When it was over weed it would go blotchy and look completely different.I did not get any decent pics of it when really blotchy but these pics still show the difference

 Okay I know that this story is going to sound unbelievable to some but i guarantee this is no word of a lie!!

On Tuesday night given the good weather i decided to launch the boat after work and go for a fish in Cockburn Sound.

When i arrived at the location that i wanted to fish, the sun had just gone down and it was starting to get dark. I anchored up and threw a few handfuls of diced up mulies out the back of the boat for a bit of berley.

I had one rod already rigged up with some gangs so i threw an unweighted mulie on there and cast that out the back and left the rod in the rod holder. As it was getting dark i mounted an anchor light in the other rod holder.

While the mulie sat out the back of the boat i rigged up my other rod (new spin combo being used for second time only) Once rigged up i baited the hooks with a whole unweighted squid and cast it out the side of the boat leaving the rod lying down accross the side of the boat as the 2 rod holders were occupied.

I left this rod while i grabbed my other rod out of the rod holder and could feel there was no weight on the line so i began to reel it in. As i was doing so, from right underneath me my other rod was ripped out of the boat and in to the water.

As you can imagine i was absolutely furious as this was a brand new combo. I made a scene and plenty of curse words were screamed! fortunately nobody was around to hear me carrying on.

I tried to calm myself down by continuing to fish with my other combo. After having one of the hooks on my gangs straightened slightly by a hit i decided to change rig and continue fishing.

After over an hour of continuing to fish on the same spot, As i was retrieving my bait, I hooked a dead weight roughly half way through the retrieve. At first i thought i must have snagged a large piece of weed.

When i got my rig to the boat i realised i had snagged some fishing line. When i got the line in to the boat i recognised that it was the line from my rod that had been pulled overboard instantly. I frantically untwisted the line from my hook! What was more amazing was that i could feel that whatever had taken my line was still on the other end! I then managed to retrieve my rod from the water while holding the line with my spare hand. Once I got the rod in to the boat i proceeded to reel the fish in to find a lovely 70cm Pink on the other end!!!

I could not believe my luck!! This trip turned from one of the most dissapointing to one of the most memorable in the space of about a minute!!

 If anybody has every had a similar experience i would love to hear it!

 Hey guys, where does everyone get fresh bait from ? (Apart from catching it) I'm getting sick of the servo bait.. cheers !

 has anyone recently fished at woodmans point boat ramp. i am going this saturday for bread and butter speacis.

I picked up a Stradic 5000 FJ a year ago and earlier this week sent it back under warranty. The receipt was in the reel box and kept in my wardrobe at home. Yet after only 12 months the receipt had faded so much it was pretty hard to read. What happens if I need to get it fixed under warranty in another year, the receipt might be completely blank by then!

Almost seems like a ploy to stop warranty claims.

I also got a gift voucher from the same store and within a year it was blank and unable to be read. The store wasn't going to accept the voucher until they realised it was issued by a different store in the same chain.

Any else having the same issue?

Any tricks to get the receipt to last longer? Just photocopy it as soon as you get home?

Have taken a photocopy of my Stradic receipt now but it is already to late (too faded that the copier doesn't pick up the writing).

When you hook onto a shark, and it won't bite you off and you can break it off, don't put the rod in the holder with a locked up drag while you reach for a knife to cut the leader.

They tend to dive back under the boat and graphite only flexes so far ........................................................................................

TheSaint

 Hi all.

heading up to Shark Bay for the yearly boys fishing trip. I would love some advice and general locations, depth etc, to target reds and trout. We have caught a couple in years gone by but they have always been a bycatch as the trouts have been taken whilst trolling for Macks and the reds while Bottom baiting for Pinks. Any and all help is appreciated

 G'day all,

Well after lots of planning, searching deep drop on here, making rigs (thanks Oceanside) the stars finally alligned yesterday with the outlook looking good and the brother in law and I having the day off. 

The plan was to leave Mandurah Marina at 6:30 make our way out to the 40m mark and if it looked good enough continue on wider. So apart from a bit of swell the ENE wind was fine out there, so we decided to give it a crack. With no marks to go on this was an exploration and have a go trip. Took some GPS co ords off the navionics app in an area that I thought looked reasonable the app said the contour lines would be in the 260/280m range but was a bit out, more like 320m. So we slowed right down (4 knots for my set up, 587 & tm260) which produced a pretty good picture. I had the same problem as another guy on here regards using high TVG cluttering up the screen, so left it on medium. Any way long story short we done a lot of sounding but didn't come across any real good looking drop offs in the area we were searching. a couple of times we thought we came across what looked to be fish, set a drift up (which is pretty tricky in those depths) for the total of one Nannygai, which is dinner tonight. 

So all in all I'm glad to finally get out there and have a go. It's a bloody long way out there and doing it without electrics is hard but do able. We fished from 280m-320m. Might have to beg, borrow or steal some spots haha. Not likely I know. We stopped at a few closer spots on the way home but could only manage an undersize Dhu & Pinky.

Cheers for reading.

Chris. 

Heading to Gnarloo and found the exclusion zone co-ordinates but they are diff than what I can enter into my GPS E 113.29.3500 somehow converts to N 113 17.400 WTF how can that be right anyone advise the correct conversion?

Was using http://www.gpscoordinates.eu/convert-gps-coordinates.php to do the conversion.

Ultimately chasing Gnaraloo bay 3 mile & turtles exclusion zone GPS co-ordinates if anyone has them.

Have a 6.25 Fiberglass Cruise craft but am being advised that with only 2 guys it'll be too difficult to retrieve from the beach so have a 13' tinnie as an alternative.
Thoughts on that?

 Anyone seen any anywhere in a store   Been to 4 stores can't find any

 Hi everyone

im currently doing a few upgrades on the boat trailer and want to put a walkway down the middle. Haven't been able to find much on the internet yet so just wondering what people have used and where they got the materials from. 

Thanks 

Reece

Hey All,

So, after my Snapper success a few weeks back I've been unable to get back out on the boat with the weather that's been coming through.

Looking at seabreeze forecast for Saturday it looks like the wind will have dropped off a bit, but BOM says that the swell will be up. I'm pretty new to boating so am still trying to get to grips with when to go out. Is it worth a trip out this Sat or will it be bad out there?

I launch from Woodman point, can go fishing around in the Sound or head out a bit further, weather permitting. I've got a 24ft with 200 hp outboard.

I suppose the question is - is the weather good enough for me to head somewhere that I will get a catch of something (happy to head out squidding, if that's the best option - just want to put something on the dinner table sat night!).

Thanks!

not sure if this has popped up before on the forum but thought id post a link to rocksteady rod holder looks like a great idea to save laying rods/reels down on the rocks and getting scratched and dings and tripping over them also pretty sure its an Aussie invention to http://www.rocksteadyrodholder.com/

 What's everyone's opinion? Is the sustain worth the extra money or not. Both look like excellent reels, would be good to hear some feedback from fellow fishos. Cheers 

 Might seem like a silly question,

But I've noticed people talking about it on here and also seen people's sounder pics of when they use the shift function on their furuno and have the depth set to say the bottom 20m of the water column or the bottom 40m

Question is how do you do this? Ive had a play around with mine but cant suss it out

im sure its really easy if someone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction

thanks alot

jess

Had a browse thru the search and not much recent info

heading to karratha in oct and a few of us going to jump on a charter

either out of dampier or Samson?

any ideas?

thanks

 When your Tailor fishing what is your preferred method?

Do you use a sinker with gangs and soak your mulie?

Or

Do you use gangs without a sinker and slowly wind it in like a lure?

Which works better?

Took the old voyager out for about half a day and on returning I noticed a shit load of water come out the bung hole when I undid it after retrieving at the ramp. Stopped for some beers and when walking back I saw 2 jets of water about 5mm thick pissing out from underneath the boat more towards the front of the boat . Luckily it was parked at an angle with the bow lower than the stern otherwise I wouldnt have seen the leaks. Holes are about 10cm apart. Have bought 1m2 of fibreglass mat (225g chopped strand mat) a tin of polyester resin and catalyst dropper bottle from whitworths. Was thinking I should put a small patch separately on each hole then a large patch to cover both holes. Never done apatch job on fibreglass and abit worried about the patch basically ripping off when Im going flat out. Should I cut the patches in a round pattern or with a sharp point in the direction the boat goes to try to reduce the water drag  any tips suggestions gratefully accepted.     

 Im headin to the states over December January.

i was wondering where has anyone been before and bought decent gear (reels, lures, tackle)?

i always find myself looking at things in the states online so i figured whilst i was there i may aswel grab some gear.

Florida a good place to start?

please feel free to share to share cities or areas to try.

**Edit- I'm talkin places to actually go to while in America?

thanks in advance

jess

Anyone having any luck at the ASI groyne or the woodman point rocks. If so what have u been catching?
Cheers

Having been converted to Sashimi years ago I have tried heaps of seafood as sashimi.

IMO in order the best is -

Scallops - sliced thin

Prawn - clean and cut into cubes

Squid - cleaned body, sliced into very thin rings

Tuna - so far YFT and SBFT is the only quality tuna I have tried. Would love to see what the fus is about Atlantic bluefin, but jikes it is pricy

Coral trout - sensational white flesh raw.

Anyone tried anything else exotic they can recommend. Have tried most fish caught of WA and some are good, others, well - taste better cooked.

Hey all
Anyone have a small fiberglass tinnie they wana sell cheap!

 I'm wondering if you can still buy these I have looked in fishing shop but haven't seen them I am going up to exmouth and have read all the advice from you guys and you recommend them but can't find them 

Hi folks, I have a week holidays to kill so I am looking at heading north for a quick fishing trip.
I am chasing ideas on where & when to go for some good L/B fishing like Quobba etc.
I am thinking of dragging up a camper trailor around the end of August to save the hastles of booking chalet style accomidation.
Been boat fishing north to Exmouth for about 14 years, but do like the L/B for a change.
Thanx in advance for your help.
cheers Rob

anyone in Melbourne get any land based snapper today?

all seriousness, I hope the storm doesn't do too much damage.

http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/national/clique/cold-front-hits-victoria-20140623-3aola.html?aggregate=&selectedImage=0

I love the pic of the guys fishing off the jetty.

Hi All

I am off to ningaloo/exmouth in september and im chasing as much info and insight into trying to catch my first marlin from my boat.

I am a noob when it comes to trolling as we havnt really done it before.

I will be taking a couple of outfits set up for just trolling for macks and hopefully a marlin. I already have a couple Tyrnos 30s so will be spooling them with mono Not sure weather to go 30lb or 50lb though? Do i have half a chance if a marlin does decide to take the lure on these reels or do i need to run 50w reels?

After reading most topics about it in the search function i will be dropping into Oceanside to get some richter soft oscars and soft grassys.

Can any one help me with what i will need? And some advice to a noob to help catch our first marlin

Cheers Jayce

 Hi,

I have a small job in mandurah, I am getting a security screen installed on the front door. We have a normal globe just outside the front door and need to replace with a down light, are there any sparks that can do a cash job. Prob only take 20 mins as house is only 6 months old, heaps of room in roof.