Hey All

My son's groomsmen have organised a weekend away at Jurien bay on the 28,29,30 august for a bucks weekend away, as he loves fishing camping and free diving. There will be 2 5.5m boats going, but as I have never fished there, can anyone recommend where to fish and dive up there, we are staying at the Jurien tourist park, hopefully can park the boat at our designated site cheers in advanced Darryl

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 Hey heading up to shelter bay on 1/9 driving boats over from Denham can anyone tell me best place to store cars and trailers please 

be there for 10 days anyone else be up there around that time 

 New toys by Ocean's Legacy in stock. These are next level. 

Hi All

I'm heading down to Walpole this weekend, taking the tinnie and was planning to do some bream fishing up the Franklin and maybe target some bread and butter stuff around the mouth. Given the rain forcast through the week and now looks to increase on the weekend, am I wasting my time? Any info on how much that river runs after heavy rain and what section of the river/estury the fish generally move to would be much appreciated. If its going to be a waste of time i'll leave the boat at home.

Cheers

Jarrod 

I’m sure you all saw the email, this should be really interesting, hopefully resulting in more sustainable fishing

recfishwest.org.au/news/scientists-get-their-teeth-into-shark-bite-off-study/

After being hammered by sharks up at coral bay for the last 2 weeks we were discussing setting up a shark shield for bottom bashing ourselves, has anyone actually tried it? Bit of info on their website sounds like they're confident it works

 Bottom meats back in stock. Remember guys and girls you get 10% OFF with your FWM discount.

 Chasing a lowrance 50/200 hdi transducer with hook reveal plug the splithshot tranny that came with it isnt great for anything over 15-20m or if anyone has advice on a better one cheers tightlines

 Hi folks, chasing some advise.

Purchased a vehicle with 20" rims and i would like to put some A/T tyres on it.

I know people say get rid of em and put 18's on but that would mean buying 5 new wheels, cladding them with rubber and having 5 20" in the shed doing nothing.

Has anyone changed out their 265/50R20's for say BFG's 275/55R20's.

If so or you know of someone that did, how do they go and is there any problems.

It means i get a bigger sidewall to play with lowering the pressure for the beach and a slightly wider tyre.

Your opinions will be appreciated as usual.

cheers.

 Was just thinking the other day about when an old mate of mine had a shack north of Leeman in the mid 90's. I owned a Pacemaker Calais back then which was an awesome boat.

Being a bit of a Tarzan back then me and my mate would head out bottom bouncing for Dhuies all day before an arvo dive for crays. We'd head out in a sou wester no probs as long as the swell was ok. These were some of the best days of my life up there, there were hardly any boats fishing that area so we always nailed big bags of fish. 

We used to run a wing of net out each night and bag heaps of big Mullet, herring and Skippy. 

Another fave pastime was spearing Cobbler along the beach there at night with the gidgy, skinned and pan fried nothing could beat it.  

One particular day after smashing the ocean and sitting up on the hill late arvo sucking beers and having green rollie ;) we watched a dinghy float past heading for Madagascar. Old mate came out of the shack and said to us salvage rights for that if you're keen.

Looking at my mate with a grin appearing said F^%k yeah! So half cut we swam out to my boat which was moored, at this time the sea breeze was a howling 25-knots + so we were knackered by the time we climbed on board . Anyway it tooks us about 3 or 4 km's before we caught up to the dinghy. Tied it on , dragged it back and beached it. 

In the meantime the owner of said dinghy showed up at the shack telling us he saved his boys arses,  they'd beached it after fishing and hadn't dragged it out properly. He knew that the boat was absolutely lost if we hadn't of picked it up and I wasn't going to be a prick about salvage rights etc. 

So he said what do you want? Two x 1L bottles of Jim Beam was the order, No probs mate and brought them around a couple of hours later. 

Enjoyed getting sideways that night lol. It's the old thing we might've needed him for something down the track later so it was a good deal. 
It was a shame in the end to have to pull the shack down, The shire was happy with $500 a year lease fees but CALM stuck it's nose in and demanded they go. 

Another  mate of mine used to bring a spud mortar up there that we'd fire off into the ocean, I just told to fire the Farken thing away from my boat. 

Ahhhh shack life, loved it. 

Keen to hear of anyone else that experienced shack life back in the day. Or still has one.

Looking to pull the trigger on a drum winch after giving up all hope for an electric motor due to the extra cost of boat mods required.

Does anyone have a Bell Viper and been happy with it? Not sure if I can justify the additional $500-600 for a Lone Star.

Cheers JF

 Hey there,

Absolute noob to fishing here and I'm trying to look for some guidance. I've just moved to WA as an international student and have always enjoyed fishing with my godparents back home, so was looking to pursue the hobby a little more here. Recently got a rod and a other equipment but haven't found much success (unless you count blowies) at places like Hillarys, Narrows, Claremont Jetty and the Moles in Freo. 

Just wanted to get some tips on preventing snagged as I've been donatin hooks everywhere I go and I hate doing that cause of the damage to the environment. Tried paternoster rigs but still been donating.

I'm inclined to fish off piers and jetty (where legal) as I friend of mine was swept out to sea after being hit by a freak wave so a little fear of going too low on the rocks. However, piers and jetties I've went to are full of blowies even at night, which makes it tough to fish with bait. I've tried frozen bait (gets stolen), soft plastics (blowies bite through them) and squid jigs (haven't found any luck). Am inclined to try hard plastics/metals but am hoping to learn how to prevent snags before investing in these lures! Would love to use live bait but you can't use what you can't catch! I've also read that lures aren't as good in winter cause there fish are a little more sluggish so I've used bait more, with burley and fish oil but still come up with nothing so any help here (from locations to bait) would be great - I've heard people say upriver is better whilst most swear by downriver so it's confusing.

I'm also unsure about windy/choppy conditions, high/low pressure, before/during/after storms as all the articles I've read have come up with differnet opinions (I assume due to their different success on the waters). Could any experienced peep here enlighten me in this area?  

I know it's a lot I'm asking so any little bit would help! I'm not asking for secret spots or expecting to catch a feed everytime I go fishing, just a little help in getting started and clearing up the hours of research I've put in. I'm willing to invest reasonably to improve, but will probably try to make do with what I have at the moment. Thanks for all the help in advance, it's just been incredibly frustrating, embarrassing and expensive the past few weeks. 

Places I'm looking to try out when I've got the time: sandbar @ point walter, sheds @ freo, south mole squid, bicton baths, scout hall jetty or thereabouts. 

 Got to be carefull what you wish for. First crack at a day time sword and was hoping for a small one that would fit in the kill bag and 15min later had a mini sword on board. Going to wish for a big one next time so let this one go to become a sea monster.

Enjoy

 hey just curious to see if anyone has run into any gts around the kalbarri area im doing a trip and wondering if its worth taking the popping gear. 

cheers in advance

 Hey all,

Just wondering if anyone has had experience using the hotel jetty pens at Rotto. We have some accommodation booked in October and if the weather is good are looking at taking a 5.2m ally runabout over, and with kids on board it would be good to have a guaranteed pen near the hotel.

I have looked on the Rottnest website and understand how to book, location of pens etc but they are fairly vague as to mooring arrangements for the pens aside from noting that we would need to bring our own lines.

So, hoping that a fishwrecked member has used these before and has any tips, or even better some pics for over there.

Failing that the beach mooring system seems simple enough but a little bit further away for the guaranteed spots...

Many thanks in advance,

Vincent

 Gday guys

Well the plan is to head to the monties in a couple weeks weather permitting looking at launching on the 21st and head over for 5 days camping on one of the islands looks like it might be hard work to find a good Anchorage close to shore so we dont have to swim to far in. 

Are we better off trying to sleep on the boat so we can anchor in deeper water. 

Cheers

Rod

 Hi Guys

The old trusted Humminbird has lost the plot! GPS I think shat itself.

I dont go out very deep and was thinking purely because I am so used to this by replacing it with a Humminbird Helix 5 or 7.

Maybe the deepest I would fish now would be 40m out from Mandurah and the odd trip up north.

Any comments on the Helix range would be appreciated. Dont look bad on the net but would prefer users comments.

Cheers

 Gday guys

Im looking at taking a 6m boat and the family to Exmouth in late september. We have been down that way a few times but not at that time of year. Just wanted to see if anyone thinks it's worth towing a boat all the way there or is the weather not going to be too friendly for boating. Any feedback or advice would be great.

Cheers

 Hi Guys, 

I am currently doing a bit of research as I am thinking of re-powering my boat in the near future.

At this stage I am wanting a 140-150hp (Still tossing up brands) and just wondering what experiences you have had good/ bad.  

I understand the boat show is coming up (if it goes ahead) and that there is often deals that vendors will have but I still want to get an idea of what others have paid etc. in the meantime. 

If you are willing, can you drop me a PM and let me know things such as brand, price, warranty, fitting, finance, extras and who supplied. 

Cheers.  

 Not cheap but check out this beast just feed the shit fish bycatch straight into it and Bobs ya uncle instant burley. 

youtu.be/agnRCd9-aew

Couple of pics from my Exmouth Fishing Trip.

The Goldband 63cm from 110m.

The Ruby, biggest was 96cm from 300m. We bagged out with 6 this week Monday.

I had the wings today - first time ever - was amazing.

Anyone know what this fish is?

Is it a keeper?

Caught a number of them in 200m and 300m.

Good to chew?

 Help required

 After the Eagles/Collingwood footy match on Sunday, a few of the Exxy 2000 boys got on the piss, which resulted in a spur of the moment Exxy trip being planned for Wednesday......2 days time......more of a wet dream...

Two boats, my 235 Whaler and Troys 235 Whaler  (aka "The Mule").....

Anyhow, we got as far as Jurien, and decided it Exxy was too far given the Exmouth forecast update not as good as we were hoping. So stopped and fished Jurien on Wednesday. It blew its arse off in the morning, but still got our bag of baldies but it was hard work in the slop. 

After a few beers that night in Jurien, we reflected on being battered by the easterly and the forecast for Thursday was lookng similar, so we decied a sleep in and bacon and eggs breaky and head home early was better for us weak pricks.......a 3 days Exxy trip turned into a 1 day Jurien trip......getting old......

After seeing the ocean at 11 am, we ended up chucking the boats back in the water on the way home, did not even take the oversie signs off the boat... just in time for the southerly buster.....bugger. But man did we hit a hot dhuie bite! 

After being busted off by 3 big fish that felt like serious dhuies, we upgraded rigs and Bodie landed a nice dhu whioch we dropped on the deck and we both dropped straigt back in, Bodie hooked up straight away and I loaded up on a nice double header. As we were busy sorting out the release weight for the healthiest 2 dhuies, Troy swung "The Mule" in on our drift and they both hooked up, landing another 2 nice dhuies. 10 minutes of madness.

Great end to a short "Exxy" trip! 

4 dhuies on deck on my Whaler.....wheres the release weight!!!

Troy and Daz on "the Mule", Daz hooked up, Troy had already landed his.

Down sth. Bloody things

 Does anyone know of any business or someone that does moulds of fish in Perth 

 Hi all

Anyone got any recommendations on where the best place is to get a 1KW transom mount transducer fitted south of the river.

Its going on a Seafarer Vagabond.

I know you can do it yourself but I would rather someone with some experience to hopefulley get it right the 1st time.

Thanks in advance

Doublej

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 I am trying to get the council to deliniate the footpath/cycle path at the bent street boat ramp. I hassled them for better lighttting and the y put up a couple of flood lights. I think the path needs some barrier put up as i beleive that it is a potential accident waiting to happen. It will only take someones young kid on a bike or running unsupervised to get in the path of a trailer being reveres down the ramp and it will be a serious accident. You cannot watch all areas as your reveresing your trailer. I know that there has been no accidents yet but there has been some close calls. get ono the council with enough pressure and it might get resolved. Send them an email. cheers