best tackle shops in and around perth, for service and gear some places i have been to have been hopless 

 Does anyone know if there are many mackerel about in Kalbarri yet this year? We are going up there in a month and are looking forward to tangling with a few.

 Hi all

was hoping to get some idea of what I was looking at on Saturday.

It's a wreck located in 20m and (usually) has cray pots in close proximity. We dropped plastics and small jigs over this for a few hours but had no enquiries.

my questions are : what are people's opinions on we seeing in the images?

is it likely to be bait over/surrounding the wreck? Or is it more likely to be weed?

we kept sounding  "lines" in the lower 10meters. Could these be fish or more likely severed cray pot ropes?

Does (mid water) weed? Show up on sounders like this?

all 3 pics are within about a 10 meter drift over the wreck.

cheers

Luke

 As a result of a butchered total hip replacement, I have had to sell my dinghy.  The bouncing around in the chop would cause too much jarring on the artificial joint etc.  I think I would be fine standing up on a charter boat and was thinking of trying Shikari Charters in about May/June.  I have never done any real snapper fishing around Perth (mainly up north) and wondered what would be the optimum time over winter to try for them.  Has anyone gone out with Allen Bevan?  I've only heard good reports.  Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

Baz

 hi everyone, headed up to coral bay in a cpl months time. Just wondering everyones opinions on best bottom bouncing combo for 70m + depths. Cheers

 Going up to Denham for 10 days in a few weeks. Hopefully weather should be good enough to get outside the island but looking at other options inside bay or Monkey Mia side.

Would like to have a fish out of Nanga as haven’t been there for over 20 years. Can anyone tell me if you can take your boat and launch there, fish for the day then go back to Denham without needing to book or go through the Nanga station/resort?

 Hey guys is the a way to tell / see if there is watwe trapped in the hull towards deont od boat ??

 Wednesday myself and a mate headed up to a spot near Leeman. Weather was better than expected so we had a quick fish in shallow after launching at 4pm, managed one 65cm dhu. Didn't think to take a photo.

Next day we headed out at daybreak and went about 8 nm offshore in my little 4.2 savage. We did a drift near some craypots and landed a couple of snapper. This is only the second time we have caught snapper in this area. We then went out to about 35 mts where I found little shows like the one below on my new furuno 628.

These produced baldy and dhus and our 2 person bag for the day was 1 dhu around 55cm, 1x 48cm baldy and 2 x 60cm snapper.

The following day we only had a couple hours to fish so went straight out to the 30s but the fish were quiet and we only managed a 60cm baldy and a 4ocm blackarse.

I really do like the furuno 628, the lowrance carbon 7/totalscan combo was only seeing fish if they were really thick

 Heading out the back of the bay just wondering if any one else can give me some more information about the area thanks

Has any body fished of the new Mandurah bridge.My next door neighbour asked me about fishing of there and I felt most embarrassed when I had to tell him I didn’t have a clue about what was being caught of it and.what gear to use for the fish being caught there. If I can find out what is being caught there I can put him right on the type of gear.

Can anyone tell me what is currently being caught of the bridge and the best time to try, thanks in advance for any info you can help with. 

 Got to two rocks ramp this morn nice and early 4.45am launched the boat and sat at the jetty waiting for daylight as there was only a couple of other boats in the water.Next to me there was a fairly new Ali with all the gear nice boat I not 100 percent sure of the name but it started with reel and I think it was reel addiction.Chatting with the guys as you do about hope ya have a good day where ya going they were going out for the deep drop in the 350m -400m metre mark nice they asked me where I was off too and said we had some really good days on the dhuies out west jokingly they said we might have to ping you on the radar lol.So any way they left the marina about 20 mins before us and we waited for a little bit of daylight before we started heading out, so we get to my honey hole hooked up on dhuies all of a sudden these guys come out from nowhere and are only about 20 metres away from us and ping our spot keeping in mind they left the marina some time before us they waited to see where we were going.so watch out for these pingers they have all the good gear but obviously have no idea how to use it 

Enjoy

 Mate just brought a trophy pro looking for ground out wide if any can help me cheers

Hey guys,

Reading mixed reports from threads I’ve searched. Do the FAD locations remain the same every year?

Navionics has them plotted, but don’t want to treck it out there only not to find them.  

Also, any recent reports?

Lavs

 Has anyone got any advice whos fished the Walcott Inlet and also was there much in the way of mud crabs?

Any camping spots would also be apperciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi All,

Looking for a condition report on the beach access at seabird. Planning to launch a small tinny off the beach in the next few weeks.

I haven’t been there in over a year but have had trouble in the past.

Cheers

Andy

anyone used salmon as deep drop baits? Any good?

also anyone know how far up the coast they are at the moment? Seen a couple of reports they’re still a fair way east of Albany... 

 Looking for some advice I have been given a sperm whale tooth, are there any laws on pocessing whale teeth?  Any valuers aound to price them? Just add no scrimshaw all natural.

G'day Folks,

Curious to hear if anyone has favourite fishing/camping/surfing channels on YouTube ?

If I have some time to kill (Eg. on the train to work) I tend to jump on YouTube and see what I can find. The "channels" that I frequent are:

• Youngbloods (favourite)
• Gido's Land Based Fishing Adventures (I don't know how I stumbled onto this one, maybe from this site ? But I'm amazed that this channel isn't bigger. Really enjoying this one atm)
• Chris Bamman - Camping/fishing
• Jamie O'Brien - Surf
• Koa Rothman - Surf

If anyone else has some good one's to recommend then I'd love to hear them. 

Cheers !

Unfortuntately I was left to cop the photos & stories of Fish caught by my Dad, Uncle & Cousins over the past week from their trip to Hamelin Bay.

Let my boat go in Dad's capable hands Saturday 23rd for the family to use on the annual trip south. 

First day down they reported a couple tuna & a small Dhui & Black rock fish?

second day out they come back with a nice mixed bag of Tuna / Snapper / Harlequin / Nanigui & couple Dhuis.

I've had continual issues dialing in the Lowrance Elite9ti, and now looking at upgrading to a new Sounder unit. However, my Cousin was able to dial it in & they got on to a few nice fish as a result.

unfortunately the weather didn't allow them to fish everyday & they had to spend later part of last week at the camp or the Karridale Tavern.

one return they caught another nice Dhu & dad even a Grouper on jig.

will definitely be booking my annual leave for next years pilgramage

 Anyone hear any news from the Blue Marlin Classic run over the long weekend? Any marlin raised?

Keith from The Prodigy has left the surly bonds of Earth . Spent many a ( how do we say Fucked Up ) good evening , morning ,whatever time of the day gurning away and loving his music. Outta Space had to be my best track . Time to plug in my earphones and do some damage to some eardrums . Another good one has gone forever 

 Swang out late with lures in at 9.30am first 5mins 

ended up with a nice pike that inhaled the little 

rapala ..... had a 10 min squid with no joy !! 

Decided too get our bag of herring on metals with 

bonus of a large 80cm pike nailing the little metal 

just as I was telling my mate they will take them 

as well as the divers ! My mate managed a little 

tuna of some sort that went back .,, two biggest 

got a brown sugar rub and got smoked.. !! 

Cheers pirate...

Just saw your post the gearbox issues with the 175 Verado was this you ? Commodore ? Hope all is well now if it was you I towed back in at Tantabiddi yesterday! 

Awesome day today , went 1 from 2 on the blacks - lost a solid fish 80+kg at a guess but boated another smallish beast. Went Mack trolling in the morning north of the entrance which was mental. Exmouth in glass offs is just amazing.  

I was lucky enough to receive a Tiagra 30WLRSA as a gift. Will mainly be used Perth Metro trolling for macks with the occasional trip up north. Thinking of spooling it with 15kg mono. From my research it appears that shimano updated their trolling line up last year and it appears that many of the previous features of the TCurve Tiagra are now on the Backbone... but I cannot find a 2018+ backbone in WA.

I did the foolish thing of looking at the top of the range Tiagra Hyper at Bluewater and wow, what a nice looking rod.

If you were to be buying a new trolling rod for a Tiagra 30 in 2019, what would you be looking at?

I have some vouchers for a well known supermarket style fishing store which I would ideally use, however I am noticing that they seem to specialise in lower end rods.

Hi Crew

Can anyone point me at information about where to head on my first Abrolhos trip?

26' Plate Ali doing day trips from Gero. I'd prefer to camp (swags) but the info seems to say that it's not allowed. 

I'd like to go spearfishing as well while I'm there. It's a huge area, it would be great if someone could help narrow it down a bit for me. 

 Just want to give a shout out to the boys who were fishing off Exmouth today. I blew the gearbox on the verado today having just been fixed from overheating. 

The boys stopped and gave us a tow back to the ramp. Lucky we were not 40km south as planned.

Thanks heaps guys and if u need anything in town whilst your here let me know. Nice work on the blacks.

gday fishwreckers,

wanting some advice on spreader bars for the next bill fishing trip.

there seem to be a range of options from 60 buck eBay specials to 400 buck US imports.

Just chasing peoples opinions and experience with different types.

thanks

First fishing day in Exmouth today and the first time trolling skirts in the crusher and got a Black each by 10am - Exmouth rocks ! Yellowfin everywhere too in by 1pm for lunch. Great day all round