Hey there I'm new to fishing and was wondering if anyone has any tips that might be useful eg jigs , best bait , good fishing spots ( Bunbury region). 

Any help would be much appreciated 

many thanks 

 Hi all just after some advice im going out for a dive tomorrow and have some one coming to fish on the boat while we dive the question is they don't have a fishing licence can they fish under mine Evan though I will be under water diving? 

Thanks

Rod

 I understand most people will lightly sand off damage to a spool lip. What exact grade sand paper is ideal? anything else i need to know?

cheers

Hi all, anyine elso noticed that Willy Weather is now only updating their wind forcast the day before. This site used to be quite reliable for a two to three day outlook.

Swap for whatever on tomorrow night

G'day everyone. 

Another pesky question of mine. 

Who here uses a Fishing Almanac?  Do you find it accurate?  I picked up Tim Smiths Almanac with bite times and tide times the other day.  Some interesting stuff in there besides the times to fish etc with different species, size limits, knots and rigs etc.

Hoping it is accurate, as it will possibly help remove the less productive days on the water.

All useful input is appreciated.

Thanks,

Justo

G'day everyone. 

Another pesky question of mine. 

Who here uses a Fishing Almanac?  Do you find it accurate?  I picked up Tim Smiths Almanac with bite times and tide times the other day.  Some interesting stuff in there besides the times to fish etc with different species, size limits, knots and rigs etc.

Hoping it is accurate, as it will possibly help remove the less productive days on the water.

All useful input is appreciated.

Thanks,

Justo

G'day everyone. 

Another pesky question of mine. 

Who here uses a Fishing Almanac?  Do you find it accurate?  I picked up Tim Smiths Almanac with bite times and tide times the other day.  Some interesting stuff in there besides the times to fish etc with different species, size limits, knots and rigs etc.

Hoping it is accurate, as it will possibly help remove the less productive days on the water.

All useful input is appreciated.

Thanks,

Justo

hi all,  looking for 1 only keen deckie for friday,  heading out from 2 rocks.

 need someone lighthearted and happy tomove around searching for a few dhuies. found some good ground 35kms out.  18ft boat.i have a spare rod and reel if needed.

 actually hard to find fishos that are keen to help out and not all talk.

 i like to have a couple of beers and crack crappy jokes, so no one easily offended.

bring food and a can do attitude.

 prefer someone in northern suberbs , im north of joondalup , meet at mine .load up and have a bloody good day out.

no garantee of fish but usually do pretty well.

would love to have a regular crewie keen to help maintain boat in future etc.

  hell feels like ive applied for a dating website.

 please pm.

Wheres everyone heading this fine weekend? and what are you targetting?

I'm going to lancelin targetting crays on scuba and macks on trolling and spearfishing :) maybe a dhuie or baldy aswell

Sorry but not really fishing related.  I have purchased a 3L turbo deisel Rodeo and its due for my service with it at 110000Km.  Being the very first deisel I have owned, I am looking for any opinions on a good/reputable service centre NOR (Joondalup area??).  Is there a "general" ball park figure for a service?  I have heard DPF being bandied around but don't even know if my vehicle has got one.

Thanks in advance

has anybody here used or own one of shimanos big baitrunner LC. i have read all about them by tackle shop reviews but are they any good. im thinking of using it off the beach live baiting mulloway. cheers guys.

 Anyone going to fish the abrolhos this weekend?

Need a boat name for my boat seafarer vagabond ,

my thought so far are SEA HUNT or maybe SEA UNT , what are your thoughts or recomendations ?

Hi guys,

Heading to Coral Bay on the school holidays and a mate is taking his boat.  I've been looking into different topics and past posts and wondering if anyone has some advice on tying rigs for red emperor out deep, around 60-70m.  From what I've looked into, I might lose a bit of lead to sharks and rough ground and had seen something about tying heavier leader on the sinker or setting the lead above the hooks.  Basically, should I just use the basic paternoster or go for something different?

Also checking if I've got suitable gear.  Got a Penn 760 slammer with 50lb braid, Okuma Force Fb80 with 30lb braid and a Penn Accord 7000 with 30lb braid and the rods are a Penn spinfisher and another boat rod.  Should I also take up the little flick rod and bait runner to play with off the beach? Going up with my wife and kids and staying in a caravan at Peoples caravan park.

Pretty excited and looking forward to some good fishing!

Thanks

Hay guys just wondering is there any crays moving around carnac  

 anyone fishing monkey mia between april 13 and may 4?  if you see us on "bon peche" a grey 5m runabout, come and say hello!

 does anyone know of any good fishing spots on 5 fathom bank or if possible GPS coordinates of some good ground 

 What a great day we had out on our charter and we made it into the April Addition of Fishing WA magazine!

Will be a great read.

FishinWA mag

 Thinking of selling the boat and setting a secondhand seadoo or yamaha jetski for fishing, just wondering if anyone has done this. And if so are they more or less expensive to maintain, have heard some horror stories. But they were at boat yards where they don't sell jetski's

 Anyone know if there have been some hanging around lately???

 Hi all,

Looking at repowering my boat and just after a bit of advice. I currently have a 2002 40hp Mercury on the back but would love a bit more power when kneeboarding and biscuiting. The plate on the hull says it can take up to a 70hp but I can not afford a brand new one. Becuase of this I have been looking at second hand ones. So my questions are:

1) Where would be the best place to pick up a second hand outboard and trade in my 40hp one with installation

2) Seeing as I already have all the mercury dials setup in the dash would I be better getting another Mercury and just swapping motor? Only issue with this is that Mercury only make a 75hp which is why I've been looking at yamaha and suzuki who make a 70hp. Would putting a 75hp void my insurance or cause any other problems?

Thanks

 HI guys.

For today only we are offering Fishwrecked members the chance to go fishing on our charter boat this Friday being Good Friday.

The weather forecast looks good.

Now, here is this once only offer, valid until 6pm tonight.

We will take out a max of 6 people at $220 per person (a saving of $30 per person)

Or if you and a group of your mates wants to book out the boat with a min of 4 people the charge is $220 per person, which means if just u and ur m8s want to be on the boat with no one else (apart from staff) then the min cost would be only $880 for the day

We provide everything including

Breakfast

Lunch

Soft drinks and water

Bait & Tackle

Sunscreen

And good company.

Our charter has been booked solid with bookings already confirmed for the 16 of December which is over 8 months away!

We pride ourselves on customer service. SO if you would like to make a booking call now to confirm your spot for Friday. First in first served

 I just had a chats with some friends who had been out recently with a charter. Im not going to say who or where or when, so dont ask. This is only to do with how you feel about what happened.

After an early morning start and travelling out to the grounds, the punters where set up with the gear and away they went. Fish were caught across the boat, as you would hope for after paying out $250+ each for the day.

However, im told, the skipper and crew picked up their own rods and proceeded to jig from the front of the boat instead of attending to the paying customers. The punters had to net there own fish in cases and if a new rig required wait until the crew brought their own line in. One punter got a nice dhuie only to have the deckie get a bigger one then pay out on him over the merits of jigs verses bait. 

At the end of the day the crew had caught two large dhuies, one which they shared with the the paying customers, one they kept for themselves.

Now, is it just me, or is this wrong. These guys seem to look at there job as a day out fishing for themselves that the punters have paid for. 

I know my friends where a bit stunned by the crews actions and they have been on many charters. This is the first time they have treated this way.

I never use charters myself, have my own boat, so I have no knowledge as to whether this is common/normal practice.

As the title says

Whats your thoughts on this practice

Hi all heading up to exmouth tmoz for a short trip want to go chasing some good demersals eg reds coral trout spangles rankin goldband can anyone give me any tips on what depths baits lures etc to try. Been up there a few times with little secess any feed back would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Boozy

Slikpik

 Hi guys,

Heading up to Kalbarri for my first time during July with some mate to catch some fish...

Just wondering if anyone knows some good landbased spots (not cliffs) beachs ect around the area that produce good fish at that time of year?

Cheers

Sam

Hey guys

I'm heading up to Kalbarri next Monday and am looking for some recent info on whats biting up there.  My dream is catch a landbased snapper but it seems it's the wrong time of year to target them from shore.  Will mainly be fishing landbased and maybe hiring a tinny for one day in the river.  Had a look at some of the old reports in the search function and got some good info.  Anyone know anything about what to target up there this time of year in the river and landbased?

Cheers

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Dont even want it but feel like buying it!

Gday fellas

I am going to be in dunsborough next weekend and i am tossing up wether to take the boat,

If i do is there a suitable place to launch a 6m ali boat in dunsborough. I have a 4wd hilux to launch it with.

I have been looking at my charts and it looks like there is a few good rises along the 30m line strait out past the wreck. Would these be worth a go/ or would i be better off heading out to wrights bank off the point and looking for rises and lumps around there?

Will be chasing any demersals really and maybe have a crack at squid.

Hi All,

just wanted to know it Transducer theft is a common occurance, only had my boat for a mth and mine has vanished somehow last week, the bad news is its costing 400 to get a new one installed - any ideas on how to prevent this from happening?

cheers.