Hey guys, just looking to get any info any of you have on your deep dropping success off Mandurah. Just to get an idea of whether or not it's worth the extra miles. Any words of wisdom would be magic. Cheers

 hey guys just seeing if there is anyother fishing family near us with kids. We have 4 kid 8 year old girl 6 year old boy 4 year old boy and a 18 month old girl and yes we are both 25 lol. would be good to get to no more people in the same situation and maybe organise family fishing trip together. Also boys bday party is this weekend with bouncy castles that are big enough for the adults if u wanna go on it plus a bbq a bit later if anyone wants to come meet some more fishos or let the kids have a play. Just message me :) WARNING there will be a fair few beer consumed 

 Further to my previous posting a few weeks back the site has been inundated with people experiencing the same issues with crays being removed from their pots. Over the last few weeks we have been successful with crays but have pots broken due to mechanical winches lifting them and repositioned anything upto 100m away. As we all know the fisheries are limited with resources but have shown a strong presence on the water, in particulate between Rockingham and Dawesville.

THE SOLUTION

I have been told by a few angry potters that they have now started this due to poaching from pots.

Clearly mark a crayfish and inject "opening medicine into the flesh of the crayfish (does not harm him).  

The idea being is this crays will be stolen and added to what we suspect a stock pile. Hopefully this message circulates to the correct people. They will not be able to identify these crays and their entire stock pile will be unless or WELCOME to the squerts! ENJOY XMAS DAY ON THE DUNNY!!!!!!!!!

Went out early to check the pots now that there was bait in them!  After using all of the fish we caught at Walpole (minus the flathead fillets of course), plus some tuna heads, expectations were fairly high given we got some yesterday, even though the pots hadn’t been baited for a couple of weeks.

Ahh yes, lots of crays and quite a few non berried females.  Even got our first jumbo of the season, and he was an absolute horse.  Had to check it was a male as it was clearly greater than 105mm carapace length – good thing I read FishWrecked so knew about the “fine print” rule.

He’s Christmas dinner.

Hi all fellow anglers!

A group of us are planning a trip up north in the first week of May and we are debating between staying at Coral Bay or Exmouth. I've been to Coral Bay previously and enjoyed it but if the wind blows then you don't have too many other options of places to fish. In my opinion I would think that Exmouth gives you loads more opportunities depending on which way the wind is blowing. Would like to hear what opinions others have on the 2 places whether it be fishing in general or any other pros and cons for both locations.

Cheers in adavnce! Kuzi.

Hey guys im looking at heading out to a beach to chase some tailor.
Anywhere metro, like Floreat Drain and north or south from there
would be good. 

Can anyone recommend a decent beach, last time i fished at a beach was 
Floreat Drain. i managed a few average sized fish just using a tailor rig 
and whiole mulies. 

Id really like to try get one on a popper. If i cant ill stick to bait. 

thanks in advance for any info.

Does anyone have any ideas whats going on at the mouth, marker buoys seem to be set a little strange.

 Caught this morning at Maylands. It's the biggest bream I've ever caught. Measured 42cm.

I caught it, my friend scooped it out and held it for the photo.  Caught using squid tentacle. Haha

 hi all 

as the shark out of my freezer is defrosting on the kitchen sink 

i am looking for some suggstions on a decent way to prepare and cook shark

i have heard of soaking in milk for an hour or so before cooking but have never tried  it 

any suggestions or an old school recipe would be good?

cheers 

 Can tell the tourist season is upon us down here.

Found this on the beach today. I am hopefull it is no one on here but incase your reading this if you are caught by me or other locals doing this the stingray wont be the only one getting its wings clipped.

 Goes to the person who scheduled for work at OR Marina this morning which blocked off half of the ramps. What a winner. Just as well I got a few crays. 

Any one use Mindarie this morning

Took us longer to get the boat on the trailer than it did
to go to the Alkimos and back & pull 4 pots

 Seen this trailer at woodies in the car park this morning. I'm sure it would work well for a big cat but thought it was worth a photo. Never seen a boat trailer with 16 hubs!! 

Hi All ,

  Going to put a pot winch on my profish 465 , have been looking at the Maxwell Anchormax 12v capstan .

  Any recomendations on other brands would be appreciated .

  Also where is the best place to buy them ( perth / Mand )

   Cheers Ray

Went out to bait the pots today, after leaving them out there since Thursday before last.  WTF, 15 crays - they have been using our pots as a hotel.  2 small, but legal whites, and 13 huge berried females that went back.  Not long now until we bring back 20kg of keepers.

Baited them up with a dozen tuna heads and all the fish we got at Walpole so see how we go tomorrow morning.

Had a look at some new tailor reefs, and pinkie ground, as conditions were great and the water was clear.  Then went chasing King George and got 3 thumpers, amongst a lot of other stuff.  

Premium feed tonight :-)

north side of hillarys near the pump station there are heaps atm feeding on tiny baitfish, never seen so many fish down there

FW Crew,

Just after your opinions on some of the better glass hulls from the past 20 or so years I Guess...

Not recent, I'm more after a project.

I'll be interested to hear your thoughts, something around the 18ft mark preferably.

Cheers

Tim

Following on from my previous post (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/boat-wrap-part-1-request-member-assistance), the boat wrap project has progressed.  The date for installation is still 12 December so the graphic has now been produced and is in “final edit” stage.  The boat has been properly prepared and all is ready to go.

We have spent a lot of time designing the graphic for the boat.  The theme is “bait fish massacre by big angry fish”.  We only have this weekend to provide any further amendments (there has been a lot of redesign already) so need to supply any final adjustments by first thing Monday.

As with any design, you miss things.  We are seeking comment from knowledgeable Members so do not ignore anything obvious.  Yes, the tailor are too big and the dhu and pink are a bit small relative to the others but these will be addressed.  Any comment on the general arrangement would be appreciated so we make sure we get it right.

I get a bit slack when it comes to posting pics on here but reading Andy ( sea kems ) double header story with his boys made me write and post a couple of pics.

Last summer I was back in SE South Oz seeing my family when me and a good mate took the kids out in the bay for a quick fish.

Its often a lottery & generally you are happy if you can manage a feed. Where I grew up is a lot different to the West Coast of South Oz.

Anyway we'd caught a couple of small snapper ( released ) and then a couple of ok Gummys, My daughter and step son both managed one each which made me chuffed but anyway the little bloke was so desperate to be the king of the boat he was concentrating so hard when there was a bit of action happening but he couldn't keep his eyes off the last gummy that had been bled and not yet thrown on ice. It was down not far from his feet with its head furtherest away but I could tell by him glancing down every few seconds while trying ever so hard to concentrate it was throwing him off his game. Anyway he looked down checking all was ok and the next time he was all serious I reached down and grabbed the back of his ankle - Well F#%K me he nearly leapt into the drink, it was a pisser!! He bloody thought he was a goner... He's got a good sense of humour and still reminds me of it but yeah good times when you have the kids around especially if you can go home with the nights dinner.

Just wondering if annyone knows where I could get the Handle/foam part of a boat fishing rod repaired in Mandurah and how much would it cost

 Quick 20min dive, back in the boat and on the way home enjoying a cold VB. Few whites wif heads 100mm +.

Does life get any better

Hi All,

Was wondering which courier/freight/shipping company does everyone use for shipping rod interstate ? What are the charges like ? Australian Post does not deliver anything over 1 metre. :(

The rods are packed and sealed in either PVC pipes or its own custom transparent plastic rectagular tube.

Thanks

Uluabuster

Rang the number on the tag and still waiting on Fisheries to get back to me with details about what info they need and most importantly, what my prize is going to be. I'm hoping it's going to be a 6.5m boat with a huge donk on the back and a 4WD 

 Looks like the Leeuwin Current is bringing all sorts down this way. It's a beauty thats for sure.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/south-west/a/25689779/jamie-lands-a-big-one/

Enjoy

Hi all,

Hoping to take wife and 2 young girls out crabbing in Mandurah in my 5.3m glass boat just before Christmas 

I've never done it down Mandurah before. 

Just after some general advice on where to launch from, areas / depths to try.

Also will a boat of my size be ok as I've heard the estuary is pretty shallow, are the shallow spots well marked?

Cheers for any advice

Joycey

 Heading away for a few nights after news years with the 4wd and tinny 4.2 dory.

just wondering where to go for the best fishing and camping?

geraldton, horrocks or kalbarri? We will prob just swag it under the awning, (will be hot) as everything will be booked up at that time of year.

any suggestions would be helpful!

cheers in advance

hey guys just wondering if any of the kalbarri locals on here would be keen to take us (father in law my lil bro in law and myself) out when we come up in feb we have skippers tickets own gear and are keen to pay our own way we would like to get a couple fish, macks demersal etc but cant bring up our boat as house we at has no room. pm if you are ok with it, Charters have been an option but will be more expensive for the three of us,

Any info is appreciated

Cheers Cell

Hi guys

Im heading up to Jurien in the first week of January. My question is, if I am getting some pots made up should I be getting Jarrah or pine slats?

Some people are telling me that Jarrah are only good for reds and the whites dont like them, whereas some swear by pine all season long.

Any constructive input would be appreciated.

Cheers

Brad

 Just got the Recfishwest news email; those new FADS have been deployed, including a subsurface one, be interested to see how they go. There's also a "have your say" on what to stock at Wellington dam, after the recent Murray Cod/local ponds activity will be interesting to see what gets stocked! What's everyone gonna ask for?