G'day legends

     Fishing of Dongara this weekend with 3 on board. Caught a nice dhuie but got sharked and only got back about half the fish.

     Only dhu we got but one of the guys asked the question and we couldnt answer it. Saw Fisheries at the ramp, which is always good

     to see those guys, so we posed the question to them and they also didnt know the answer so I'm just gonna put it out there.

     Does that half fish count towards the bag limit? i would think it does even though a shark got half of it.

     Fisheries officer seemed to think maybe not but neither of us would risk the fine if wrong. 

      What do you legends think?

 Heading for Kal on thursday, just wondered if there are fish to be caught in these unusual formations or do your lines get ripped to pieces ?

 Small freezer (a little shabby) but in working condition. No longer required. Free pickup in Dianella if wanted by anyone

 Little slow with the 200knts at start

of the day.. managed few squid early 

but size was down .. kept at it with no 

colour being a stand out ..  definitely

gonna start picking up  ..  cheers 

pirate..

Tried somewhere new today bloody good fun . Excellent sizes in area.

 Hi everyone, up in monkey Mia at the moment. Just wondering if anyone has advice in general areas to try for a feed off the boat? 

Thanks in advance all 

Am thinking of a trip to the sound. Wondering what the sound is like in the easterlies we have at the moment. Thinking tomorrow afternoon

Cheers

 So my 11 year old nephew and myself went to Albany for a couple of days to try to get him onto his first salmon. He's caught herring and a few tailor but thas it. My sister in law doesn't have a lot of fishing knowledge and time so I offered to go for a run to Albany with him. ( and so I could get into them again...)

Went for drive this afternoon after setting up camp in the cabin to show him Shelly's beach-too windy. Went to the salmon holes and had a look down at the beach. Saw a few tails sticking out of the sand. Said to him, this is why you always bring rods when looking at spots. 

First cast with bait and he's on! Was a bit surprised on how much they can fight! Was only a couple of small ones to open the scoreboard but I think he may be hooked on getting bigger fish now!

 So my 11 year old nephew and myself went to Albany for a couple of days to try to get him onto his first salmon. He's caught herring and a few tailor but thas it. My sister in law doesn't have a lot of fishing knowledge and time so I offered to go for a run to Albany with him. ( and so I could get into them again...)

Went for drive this afternoon after setting up camp in the cabin to show him Shelly's beach-too windy. Went to the salmon holes and had a look down at the beach. Saw a few tails sticking out of the sand. Said to him, this is why you always bring rods when looking at spots. 

First cast with bait and he's on! Was a bit surprised on how much they can fight! Was only a couple of small ones to open the scoreboard but I think he may be hooked on getting bigger fish now!

Went to complete angler today . Bought a couple of new outfits 2 to 4 kilo pretty happy with them . Give them a crack next few days . Like a kid in candy store

Enjoy 

Hey guys,

Finally giving up my oversized reels and broomstick rods for some lighter gear. I was gifted a Penn Slammer 3500 and I would like a reccomendation for a nice graphite rod to match with it, we mainly tinny fish the offshore reefs with bait.

I want some sensitivity and be able to have a bit of fun with it. I have a 5500 also so bonus points if both would suit but mainly want it to match my smaller reel.

Thanks for any help folks :)

 Hi All,

Mrs is keen to have a get away and Ningaloo popped up in conversation. We tried warroora in Oct' 2016 but was windy all week and retreated to CB.

We are trying to work out what dates suit us but will likely be around late july to early/mid august. We are looking at either Warroora (sandy point or 14mile) or Ningaloo (windabandi & North/South Lefroy). Weather will be what it will be, but hoping we are going to have better luck that our last attempt. Have searched the forum and found plenty of info on the track in; Tinny (375 with 25hp yam) is rooftopper on the camper so will be fine for the journey in. 

Main thing I'm looking into is, what fish will be around in the middle of winter? I am keen to troll for mackies, wahoo & even a sail, but being solo it will be a mission... any tips for a tinny soloist? If i can get outside the reef i was going to troll & keep an eye on ground to drop for dermsals at a later date once i have a few marks to check out.

North/South Lefroy: Is it worth heading north or south from main passage (opposite North Lefroy & keeping within the boundarys), or if heading out deeper for bottom fish, what depths should I be aiming for if the weather allows?

Sandy Point/14Mile: Troll to the north behind the reef & what depth to aim for to find some demersals?

Small boat but very confident in the setup & regularly take it to 35-40m off Perth & south coast.

& any general tips for setting up camp for 7-10 days? Water will be our biggest issue...

Cheers!

Anyone know who might be missing these?

Posted on FB today, found in Baldivis

Anyone getting out on a boat in Kalbarri atm?
We are lucky enough to be here for 10 days and the weather is awesome - ocean is dead flat - the charter we booked some 6months ago however is telling us that it’s really rough out at sea and we may be able to go Thursday if the weather improves…..am I missing something?

Made they boys Dinner at work ,crumbed mully . 1 side fed us all . Trimmed every sign of blood off fillets. No lies it was unreal . Very firm it was gold . Now I stunk out control room ( pickled occy). God it stinks when you cook it in vin/mix . Turned out nice and soft . Made 4 jars up .Pizza followed by occy tonight gold.

Hi need some info. Is this a blue spotted tuskfish? 

 Hit me up if you need a deckie, I'm keen

Let one of my sons use boat Thursday night . Mullys still there . Went for swim today ( water warm) crabs still everywhere . Occys look like they have been having a ball . One good thing about crab ban . Occy get big quick .

Enjoy 

 Got out today after few trailer improvements 

berlyed up for skippy that never arrived .

onto to the metals dropped two good pike 

then a lost landing net . Managed a Dundee 

grab on two pike a heap of herring taking 

the metals and a quick 30min go on squid

for 6 . Ended up with a nice lunch for 

tomorrow.. cheers fellas pirate . 

 Another Swiftcraft.....

yo dudes,

I thought I would start a new thread, rather than hijack Frosty's post.

There is a common repetetive issue with RAT tests, where they are often not showing up positive when youve got Covid. A PCR test is more difinitive and accurate. 

Although there a literally thousands of similar cases to this, one of the school dads was crook in a house full of Covid, and repeatedly tested negative on the RATs. A PCR test a few days later confirmed he had the Coco!

Essentially, if the writing is on the wall but the RATs arent coming up positive, go get a PCR. 

 Hey fishos. I haven't been doing any serious fishing for a few years now due to work, shit roster, and a bit of depression on the side, suddenly I realise I don't know what used to. So to get myself back, I have jumped in with a mate to go up to cockatoo island and have a fish at the buccaneer classic in a few weeks.

Anyone familiar with the area that can give me an idea on what gear I need to take up there to be prepared? Coins not an issue, but time is. Pretty much will just have the tues after Easter to grab what I need before flying up.

I have dusted off my gear so current ammo is demonblood 64cj with 30lb stradic 4000. Tcurve deep jig 200 with 60ish lb saragosa 8000. I will take.my.trusty overheads tyros 20s one with heavy braid one with heavy mono, 24kg backbone for bottom bouncing. Are any of these not suitable to the area?

Any suggestions on a decent trolling oh rod for the other tyrnos too. I have never been a big fan of the 24kg backbone so ideas on a replacement for that one would be good too. Any rods around suitable for bottom and troll? 

I have a reasonable swag of jigs for the spin setups, but any particular weight and variety I should stock up on? 

Thanks in advance

 Anyone planning to go out of Two Rocks over the Easter break needs to know that capital works being done has very seriously limited the parking space available. 
The grassed area above the marina is absolutely not available. This area has been packed with parking in previous years.
Parking along the marina wall is also unavailable. 

Could be a lot of very frustrated boaties this weekend  

 Well, just back from the annual trek to CB...what to say about 2022-well here goes the summary !!!

Left home 5am for the 2 day, 19 hr trek to CB on the boys only trip..absolute no dramas other than the price of fuel..ouch...forecast looking sketchy with pending 'possible'cyclone..but not worried as usually bettert than they say...

New Furuno 295 with 2KW transducers only went in 2 weeks prior...couldn't wait to test it out.

Day 1- arrive mid pm, unpack into the house, straight to pub for well earnt coldies....work on my standard plan of going both nth and sth in the first 2 days to see where the fish are at..and shallow or deep. listen to the people at the cleaning station with a keen ear for any info that can help...using some common sense and experience you can work out a lot form the cleaning station and what fish are being cleaned....good ideas in my head to help with the plan for the first few days

Day 2- weather shmick ..headed North to try the normal red ground..fishing slow, but managed 6 good reds, 6 x XL spangos and a few others to make up the bag- good start..

Day 3- weather good form 10am onwards.... head South..fishing slowish in the 70-80m marks, head out to the 100's and it picks up..good bag of reds/goldband and usual suspects of robbos/spangos/rankins etc

Day 4 and 5- wet, wet, wet.......rum, rum, rum- no more to say

day 6- weather absolute hollywood so head out to South indonesia to hit up the Rubies.....sounder looks normal- BUT can't beleive it...not a single bite...bit of sounding around and we rustle up a fish/drift on some new ground. Then heading in found some new ground in 170m..looks ok so we drop and its on..fish every drop for all 3 fishos...work through some fish to keep the better ones and off we go happy and content

Day 7- weather looks awesome for day 8/9 so have a crusiy day doing some snorkling/sightseeing for the crew that hadn't been before....cpl more crew driving 13 hrs straight to fish hard for 2 days, then drive home-they roll in 1130pm...

Day 8- full boat of fishos, i decide to hit up my fav  never miss''  Goldband spots 55 kms sth...lets just say after hitting 4 of my 'never miss' spots...we had doughnuts on board and 5 pretty downhearted fishos....hit spot 5 and we see some fish and the right colours too-plus some unexpected reds from 120m...not a great day as we head in i thought, then decided to hit some old shallow spots i haven't been to for years and we rustled up some nice fish to end up with an ok day

Day 9- head back Nth to try and get some better fish for the boys who travelled up. Fish where on the chew early and a cpl of trophy reds boated along with a great bag of reds, robbos, spangos, trout etc...ended up a great day for all

Day 10 and 11- lazy days cleaning the boat/gear and  pub lunches...noice !!!

Day 12 and 13- pretty much the same for the last 2 days of fishing...headed out to fish the 150-200m marks for a mixed bag and the fish where super hungry..nice mix of top quality fish and done nice and early both days...i like that !!!

Day 14- pub lunch, tidy and pack up...ready for the 2 day return home.

To address some questions that  I know will come, here goes....Sharks...i touched on this in last years summary...if people are fishing marks they have been given, strong chance its been fished a bit..once again we caught a lot of our fish on newly found ground. a lot of the time we seemed to get fish on the 1st drop on new country, then nothing.. i took this on board so for the last 4-5 days fishing we only did one drop on any mark and it proved true...hence we where not wasting time needlessly...this would be my best year for sharks in the last 4-5 years...maybe only losing 1-2 fish/day....my advice is the same as last year- if u get sharked-  MOVE, don't have 'just 1 more drop'....still the same story at the cleaning station of people whinging about getting sharked on the same spot as yesterday etc...tut tut..

Highlights-

Reds where really good sized with a few trophy sized ones...as normal the best red [ has to be 8kg plus]  of the trip makes the angler 'the King'  for the trip  and until he is dismantled he doesnt need to get his wallet out at the pub untill he is knocked off....this wasn't good for me and the other crew when The King was knighted on day 2..then on day 9 I dethroned him - then late on day 9 he decided to trump me again !!!!! just  to make sure he didn't need to pay a cent....what an arsehole !!! [ just jealous ] 

More Good coronation trout than i have ever seen before

Spanish Mack on a bottom meat jig half way up on light gear...entertaining

Red Emp wings for tea pretty much every night..yummo

New Furuno 295 was AWESOME....picking up fish shows in 170 m at 45km's / hr..i like that !!!  Can't say enough thanks to 'person A'  for basically setting it up. 30 years of experince i couldn't possibly emulate..which was handy as it was like i had been tweaking it for 30 trips on day 1 !!!

Lowlight- boat getting drained of 200 l of fuel on the very wet night..at $2.50/l it hurts..ouch

I hate to say but Covid still lurks there with staff issues etc..The bakery/pubs etc still just aren't like they used to- probably i need to move forward as they are not likely to get back to those hights for  years...

3 x rods had to got to the graveyard...not ideal, but accidents happen.

Overall this was one of the best trips as weather was great, compnay even better, the fishing was challenging but with experience and knowledge we still got top qualitity fillets for days...

Still love the Bay and can't wait till next year..already counting down

Hope you all can get amongst it and live life to the fullest- FISH ON !!!!!!!

 Gday guys im gonna be with friends in Jurien for all of easter. If wind blowing im not gonna bother towing the boat up there so was just wondering if anybody could suggest a few land based fishing spots just for a few herring or taillor (we will have 2 4WD's)  cheers for any help

I recently saw some fisheries catching some guys who had been taking lots of undersized tailor.

just wondering how you can check or search for what prosecutions that they have done ?

 5461 km 

1269 litres of diesel

83 hrs of driving over seven days

Avg speed of 66 kmh

Diesel burn of 23.5 litres per hundred km

11.5 tonne truck trailer and boat load

C'von to Flying Fish Point Qld 

Zero fuck ups, zero breakdowns, zero dramas 

Some of the worst roads in Australia were driven 

Victoria Hwy NT. Avoid at all costs 

Cloncurry to Hughenden was abysmal to say the least.Two and a half hours to cover 113km in one section, beyond fucked. How this is a national highway has got me stumped.

Big shout out to Duralite trailers, they built me a bombproof trailer that shat all over any road conditions even with a 3.8 ton load. No boat damage at all. Even bigger praises to my ancient 88 Mitsubishi who not once complained and just kept on moving us forward, sometimes at 50kph and sometimes at 90kph all dependent on road conditions. 
 

Thank fuck that trip is done and dusted. Never again!.