Got a mate who's thinking of buying a Trailcraft 525 Runabout. (He's just sent me an email)
I used to have a Trailcraft back in the day and was great entry level boat IMHO, particularly for the river / estuary - but not so flash on my kidneys coming back in with the doctor blowing
I've since owned fiberglass and wouldn't go back to ali & that will be the main point I will be making to him.
I went to the website & from what I can gather they are now made in China.
Anyone had any experience with these new Chinese manufactured Trailcrafts.
Appreciate your thoughts....

 G'day,

heading down to Denmark for 10 days over Xmas with the family, but not taking the boat. just wondering if there's any locals on here or someone staying down there that might have a spot on their boat for a fish one day? Would like to get out deep but keen on whatever, will bring own gear.Will pay fuel/bait/beers etc

cheers 

i was just wondering, can you fihsh of blackwall reach cliffs for mulloway or are there to many snaggs? thanks

 Gday all, any diver available to retrieve my pot please? Its in 12 meters and seems that it has moved 50mtrs with or without assistance. Definately not where 

I left it. 15 mins from Pt Kennedy ramp. 

1st pic shows rope and I think pot is in the pic? and the ground 50mtrs from where I dropped it. I did watch it land (which way i dont know) and I hung around  for 1/2 hr to see if it moved.

2nd pic is where the pot was, 

I put "white line"  on to try distinguish my pot from the bottom

Cheers Adam

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 So early in the season and already people think they have the right to pull other peoples cray pots.

Suggest we all keep an eye out and dob in anyone seen pulling other peoples pots, look after your mates. Suggest using your phones to catch them in the act.

Maybe we should set up some site to name and shame any person prosecuted of this mongrel act.

Who couldn't be happy for Michele Payne after that win today. Great stuff and good on ya love. Mind you I bet the bookies love her as well.

 g/day i was wondering if you had to pick one jetty in the swan to fish at night with the most species being able to be caught which one would it be? preferably no further then ascot in the swan and no further then the canning bridge in the canning river. i was thinking about Claremont jetty or peppy grove as i used to get good catches there, also i love whiting is there a spot in the swan around freo that whiting are taken? i want to use sp and bait but blowies keep eating my sp during the day....cheers guys

 99 percent prob seen it. Type in John Reno big Ol Johnson ( Google ). I don't know how to link stuff .  Very clever

 Anyone here tried the iBobber or the deeper smart fish finder before?

Its essentially a castable sounder device that you attach to your line (much like a bobber) and it has a sounder detector that runs through an app on your phone.

Basically a land-based sounder. Would be keen to hear people's reviews of it 

cheers 

 Hi guys.

Looking at buying a new reel to chase tailor. Will also be using it for skippy and KGs.  I am a big fan of Pflueger and thinking of buying the new Trion SWX salt series 4000 reel.  Anyone here using one and your thoughts on it?  

Has anyone had this issue before?

I am trying to get my RBFL and the fisheries website simply says payment unsucessfull. Tried several cards (all have money) and my wife also tried to make a payment and was also unsucesfull.

This has happened to me before and always in the end it accepts the payment later with the same details. Bit of a problem when i plan to hit the south coast tomorrow.

Anyone have any solutions ?

 Hi guy's

I live in the Cockburn area and was just wondering if any fellow members might know where I could buy cray bait down this way such as orange ruffy heads and blue macks etc in 20kg boxes?

Cheers

Paul

Hey guys,

this is my first real crack at cray fishing and want to make sure I'm getting it right so any advice would be welcome, and thankyou in advance!

Firstly my boating mate and I have currently got 2 plastic pots, and 2 full size timber (jarrah frame with pine slats and 2 bait baskets, steel bases).

The timber pots have an extra 5kg of weight on top of the steel base. would this be substantial?

The plastic have somewhere in the range of 15-20kg in them. Enough?

I kept my snapper heads to use as bait but wondering if they are not "smelly" enough? maybe tuna heads instead?

Lastly I have been placing the pots mostly on 5 fathom in 7-12 meters and using a bathiscope to set them right next to big bombies/ledges but on the sand. It looks good but have got nothing at all so far so looking to seasoned peoples advice to better my chances.......or is it a little early in the season, bad moon ect....

Thanks guys,

Sparrow

 Interesting that the coroner has called for the wearing of life jackets to be mandatory in unprotected waters...

www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/lancelin-fisherman-death-prompts-tougher-life-jacket-rules/news-story/e8c62765126cce8371a619723c7b9210

Also touches on better education on how to use safety equipment.

Life jackets are already mandatory in some eastern states while underway.

 First venture out to Rotto for the season on Sunday. With near perfect wind conditions, we headed towards Parker point.

Due to it looking pretty Sharky upon arrival, we drifted around Porpoise Bay for some squid, half for bait and half for dinner.

After a hour, we had three onthe boat, with the same number lost again, and schools of them swimming up looking at the jigs. Although wanting more, we had enough.

Putting over to Parke Point, we had a quick dive onthe outside of the reef and it was pretty sparse. Only two crays spotted so we bailed half way through and went to another shallow spot where we got 8, most of which were girls. We ended up with one cray.

A quick fuel tank top up had us putting towards the windmills to get a feed of whiting which were very much onthe bite. Lower bait down with bail arm open when onthe bottom and count to ten, retrieve. 7/10 times we had a keeper on. Even managed a few herring in 10m

Quick putt over to another spot which a mate had given me for some KG's and after catching two of the biggest sandies I have seen, we spent the last hour dodging blowies in 12m of water and decided to call it quits.

At the end of the day, one cray, two herring, three squid and twenty odd whiting. Sat on 22 knots all the way there, and 26 on the way back, which is pretty good for my boat.

 Few crays taken on a dive around Bernier Island last week. Werent caught by me. Also got plenty of baldies and heaps of trout.

 Hi all,

I am heading down to Bunker Day on december 4th for a wedding.

Whats around? (i want to target herring, whiting, tailor, skippy, salmon, sharks and rays)

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers Sam

 good morning out for first dive of the season

lots of guys on the shore and in boats off o/reef chasin snails

we found a few crays as well so good barbie tnite!

 Went out this morning from woodies point to go and get some Abs from Carnac Island only to find in my early morning haste that i forgot to put my sounder/gps on my boat. No worries just a quick trip out and back in an hour or so. Driving out there i realised i also forgot to take my saftey grab bag with my flares and epirb , oh well nearly there not gonna go back. back at the ramp Marine Saftey were there waiting to check saftey equip and skippers ticket. Guy came and asked to see saftey gear and told him the situation expecting to get fined. Good young bloke understood my dilemma and said well we didn't see you out there and can't say you didn't just turn around in the harbour and come back and let me off. Top bloke ! Thanks alot ! He  could have been an arsehole and booked me , but didn't.

Just finished installing my new sounder and stoked with the quality with me really not yet having a clue how to get the best out of it and learning how to read what I am seeing.

Came across this today not far out of Meelup. Is this snapper feeding on smaller fish?

 Late morning start with not one of us finishing a tank

 Up at wagoe atm with Shane and Rambo and last nights session was a ball tearer weather and fish wise.

Fished till 3am with plenty of  action through the night.

The session started well with afew tailor for strip bait and then had the first good mulla on the beach by 8pm. Over the next few hours some good fish kept us entertained. In between the bigger fish there were the usual soapies and odd tailor to keep bait levels up. Some big sharks also came to play ending in some big bust offs.

My mate rambo was slow out of the blocks untill he loaded up on a good fish. Called again for a good mulla but to our surprise up popped a nice cobia. This is actually his second cobe in 2 months from here as he got one last time similar size. 

 After high tide things slowed but l was loaded up to another good fish. This time a nice pinkie

The mullas and pinkie were released and swan off well. The cobe on the other hand went in the ice box.

Fishing again tonight but as l write this theres abit of weed moving in and the swell has picked up, but We'll still give it a crack.

Sorry about pic quality. 

Paul

i see some little pricks tried to burn down busso jetty as it was caught on CCTV if i could only get my hands on them they would be in a world of pain those little c$%k suckers sorry about my language im really mad about this....  http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/outrage-as-vandals-light-fire-on-historic-busselton-jetty-20151029-gkme6k.html

Hi

Got a few mates visiting Perth for a conference next year from the Eastern state and they want to do a bit of fishing.

Just wondering whatwhat I should consider around March ?

1) chasing Dollies around the Fad ?
2) Jigging for sambo and dermesal fish
3) popping for whiting down in Mandurah ?
4) trolling for Mackie ? Tuna ?
5) go to the rotto trench or the garve yard and try out luck there ?

most will be catch and release so do they still need a fishing boat license ?

also I have not seriously fish for the last five years, need to find some spot fast

can anyone recommend a setup Sounder /transducer combo that can show good ground with boat travelling around 20 knots , I was hoping to do some scout trip to see if I can see some good ground around Rotto before March comes along.

Any tips is greatly appreciated.

cheers

 Went out with the other half tonight for a quick flick

bit quiet for this time of year picked a little 

bronze only Fishin tailor gear and he wrapped

me round the prop !! Just bait casting mulies ! 

Mrs got her first green back !! Belted back in 

with storm chasing our arse !! Good little sesh!!

cheers boyz !! Da pirate !!

hi all

just after some advice. Can you use attach eggsnaps directly to jigs or do you need to tie to your leader?

new to this so don't laugh. I'm sure this won't be my last dumb question. 

Got there around 10 am, signs stating closed til mid December. I'm furious ! Bunch of diggers adding rocks to the shoulder where the gates are it looks like. Probably for a wider road. Went nearby and got some squid anyways !

 

Was in Freo yesterday and thought that I will have a look what is going on at the North molo, since I haven't been down there in ages. What was the most prominent change was the forest of 3P parking signs with "automatic number recognition in use" on it and other BS. Not sure what sparked it, if people were camping there or what, but 3 hours seems bit short for a fishing session. Some people stay there over night fishing and I certainly spend more than 3 hrs there at a time. Otherwise it's not worth the trip. This overregulation of everything is really getting on my nerves lately. I don’t think that there were any parking issues there (rubbish is another issue), plenty of room for everybody. Did anybody get done for parking longer there or it's not really policed that much? Yet…

If sunday weather stays good we gonna see if we can find the schools of sambos in behind rotto in the 40's, if we cant find them gonna head out to the containers. I know its sharky out there but feel like giving the arms a good stretching anybody else gonna be in the area?  cheers Dave

Enjoy