https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-08-14/fears-covid-19-is-making-pink-snapper-too-rare/100369750

Here Brocko. Too hard to put these pics in the other thread but below are some samples around Hillarys and Hale Reef as well as a nice lump out of Mindarie. The bottom one through The Gap is running C-Map and Navionics on either screen. Very minimal coverage outside of 22m though.

The bottom shot is the 4 Mile out of Busso.

Enjoy 

 Can anyone let me know if they get spaniards at shark bay in August please. Might be able to get out on a friends boat next week. 

Had a bonza day with a Mackie bagout north of Exmouth around the Islands on our last trip in July.

Occasionally you get a good day. And this was one of them.

Found a lump trolled it early got 4 Mack's before the sharks took over.

Went and bottom dropped for 3 hours finding new ground, then went back to lump and bagged out on the Mack's in half hour.

You've got to be quick and have a very effcient system to beat the sharks. 

The Madfish bag managed all the fish easily and the ice lasted all day (even to 3am the next morning) when all the cleaning and cryovaccing had finally been completed.

It's not just the catching/cleaning boat etc - it's also cleaning the fish with some skin on and cryvaccing that takes time.

The biggest Mack went 1.3m. One of the reds was a Tomato Cod - what was the other?

Hi

Please ID. Thought maybe brown spot wrasse. Released and swam back strongly

Cheers

 Gday all - checkout the concepts for the redesign of the ammo jetty. An oppurtunity to have a say.. https://www.mysaytransport.wa.gov.au/woodman-point-ammo-jetty

I like concept 2 based on the historic design with plenty of fishing space at the T junction. I also like concept 3, as it is the longest of the 3 designs and is curved towards the end (good for the Sou-Westerly winds most summer afternoons.) 

Cheers

Ash

Took advantage of a weather window to get out fishing on the harbour, lucked out on Snapper but managed to find some good sized Gurnards

 Gday all 

Going to Denham from perth on the 27/08/21 and are planning to leave late .

Is there any recommendations for a stop half way besides the S bend. 

thanks in advance

Curious if anyone gotten rid of their carpet and coated the floor in a product like raptor lining or something else?

not interested in Eva flooring or any other stick on stuff 

looking for a spray on or paint on application

any tips welcomed 

cheers  

jess 

This beast came out on the market floor today.

Even Harry, the market fish guru, said it was probably the biggest one he had ever seen come through.  Caught by a professional out of Denmark.

12.8kg or 28.2lb weighed on certified scales is one hell of a big tailor.  Didn't get the length, but for comparison the plastic lug is 650mm long.

Update - The fish was 1.05m and a capture photo is below.

  This is new to me . Will be down Margaret River end of August staying at Glenbourgh . Looking for spots either of rocks or beach for slide baiting . 

  Know Round rock is one place any more . Have 4wd but not important .

Enjoy 

 Went out for squid session today, and I have never seen Cockburn Sound water so brown.

Could not see the bottom,even at a meter deep.

It's worse up North end of Garden Island, and no squid for me.

 Casing some info on truscend and ocean legacy light jigging rods . Chasing a pe1 to pe2.5  with parabolic action . Live in the pilbara so cant get my hands on one to look at . Using it with a ocea jigger 1500 chasing smaller reef species like blue lined emperor etc . Also any stockists around i can have a chat with about them .

Cheers Carry

 hey guys im heading up to gnaraloo early september were towing up a 4.5 meter tinny and will be launching from gnaraloo bay, first time up there so i was hoping to get some ideas as were to head from the beach as i havnt had a good look at the charts yet or some areas to try out, is it good diving in shallow? also looking out for the the marine park zones weather permitting. 

tinny has a sounder 

if to windy for the tinny we will probably try some land based or surfing ! 

hoping for some mint weather, cheers will posy up some pics of the trip when back

with a trip to kalbarri in mid september approaching ive been having a look through the site searching for info to hopefully have a better trip than last time. im familiar with the mouth and also know the wather could be touch and go this time of year but heres hoping.

im wanting to target the nothern species that are around kalbarri - reds, jacks, trout, muddies etc and was hoping smeone culd point me in the right direction with a few tips and tricks and also areas that could produce

thanks heaps

why would you go out in this weather this morning ?? they both need to pay for the cost of the recovery etc

https://thewest.com.au/news/disaster-and-emergency/kayakers-rescued-off-garden-island-after-man-capsizes-during-severe-weather-warning-ng-b881952943z?utm_content=buffer64e48&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=the-west-news&fbclid=IwAR3-3pPbjpQNeEiRaj2cd-VDThcM7zyFQfU71vAyqUgGexN5_DuJnH87jP8

Two men who went kayaking despite a severe weather and wind warning being in place across parts of the State have been rescued off Garden Island.

Water police received a distress call about 10.30am, when one of the men’s kayaks lost its outrigger in the wild water, causing him to capsize and his EPIRB to activate.

RAC Rescue, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Cockburn Volunteer Sea Search and Rescue were called to assist the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in rescuing the stranded kayakers.

 Montebello island charters, what a knob, just saw it on channel 7 jeez! total moron

 Has anyone tried drop shot style fishing. Weather looking good Tuesday / Wednesday, planning a trip out wide and thinking of giving drop shot rigs a go for some bait. 1 advantage I can think of is the rigs cant get tangled like a 2 or 3 hook rig on very light line does. Picture attached of a hook I tied using a very tightly cinched dropper loop > hook stands out horizontal to the line nicely. I reckon a small softy plastic hooked through the nose should work well

Enjoy 

 Hi all found a heap of old Perth newspaper reports from 70s 80s in a old fishing book given to me years ago so I would share will post more when I get time here's a couple some have dates ,palm beach report from oct4 75 and one with Mulies block is dec 82 and one is to the day 43yrs ago the last time it rained in Perth enjoy 

Gents

ive just picked up a box of tackle and boat bits at a garage sale and in it is a down rigger and some attachments

Are these used much in WA and has anyone had any success

these is  a little on YouTube  of the yanks using them but I thought they maybe handy trawling deep for makies

keen to hear people's thaoughts

 Started pulling the lil Whaler apart yesterday. Plan is to turn her into a big open dingy with a 100 horse tiller steer on the rear. The main deck came out in one piece which is great so it can be re used. Just need to dig out the old fuel tanks and all of that damn foam.

I'm going to buy my boy a Y6 graduation pressie and am thinking a nice combo would be something he'll keep for many many and get heaps of joy out of. He's taken a liking to my Type J/5000 Biomaster or Catalina/5000 Biomaster combos which gives me anxiety when he uses them so looking for something similar.

Budget is around $500 and probably go a 5000 Stradic so can anyone recommend a rod around the $150‐200 mark. 

The Saltist 18 PE2-4 rods look like they will fit the bill so has anyone used one of those?

Cheers JF

 I'm looking at networking a couple of Lowrance HDS screens via the Yellow Ethernet connectors.

I only need about a 200mm long cable, does anybody know where I can get the connectors to fit Lowrance/Simrad from please?

I've had a scour around the internet and cant find them and I want to make one up myself.

Thanks people.

Richy

I need some help with my Simrad Evo 3 setting the custom depth.  I can use it and zoom on the bottom up to 8X, but if I am in deeper water it reads fine with 8X zoom.  I then try and set upper depth and lower depth, so say in 150m of water, I set the upper depth to 100m and the lower depth to 170m but it doesn't read.  I have the same problem with my Elite TI so I must be doing something wrong.  Any suggestions?

Hi

Further to a recent post, I went ahead and purchased an Icom. Went for the entry level unit IC-M200.

Installed it this morning and when I went to test it a while ago, I found that I couldn't select Hi power on channel 77. The manual does say that some channels cant select Hi. This would be a bit of a problem as Ocean Reef sea rescue use this channel

Any advice will be most welcome

Thanks

Enjoy 

Wont be long till the Crab season of 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obD5Xadkbo