Is it best to fish at the peaks or slopes? If so why?

Tuesday and Wednesday have an unusual tide pattern, good fishing? orrrr...

Hi Guys heading up to Leeman this weekend (finally got approval from the missus) got a few spots I wanna try , but have just a couple of questions

any tackle size info would be appreciated I have never been there before so not sure whats gonna be attacking my baits

thinking my beach outfit and 80 pound braid and a lighter set up rod for the fun and live baits

Also in regards to baits is there bait avail up there or should i take it with me .

thanks

Hi guys,

Has anyone been out to the islands the past few days? Was hoping for a report on whether the clear offshore water is pushing in or whether the visibility is not good at the moment? Heading up this weekend so trying to work out conditions for a dive or not

Cheers

Can anyone help me out with where to purchas plastic bait baskets for a cray pots?

 Guys how do you secure your trailerboats in your driveways?

Any methods that are more secure than others?

Also, can anyone reccomend a good insurance mob to go through for a 5m trailerboat?

Had my 5.8m Haines Hunter stolen from Mount Lawley Wednesday afternoon 23/1/13

Older hull - early 90's with a 2007 115etec on it.

Red trim inside, Red paint under gunnel and red fibreglass mudgards.

If you've seen it please let us know. Please see photos. Beers provided.

Ben 0428970880

Michael 0414753563

Thanks

 My son is looking around for a versitile outfit that can fish 30 on he wants something that is good for sofies......enough grunt to pull a Baldie off the bottom he's got around $500 saved for rod and reel......so a mid priced outfit......

 Went out tonight for a quick shark fish after work, sent out the balloons with some smallish baits just hoping for a shark and finally got one small enough to keep instead of the usual 2m+ ones. Mate josh and myself where stoked to get one and is the first land based hammer we have seen.

Hi everyone,

Im looking to purchase a new light demersal jigging combo for jigs 80-120g being used in 30-50m... The reels I am considering at the moment are the Shimano Ocea Jigger 1500PG or the JM Powerspell PE3. Possibly the Trinidad 16A could get a look in, but it is a lot heavier than the OJ with similar specs.

I understand that quite a few guys on here own the OJ and seem to rate them, but I am a little concerned on the longevity of the 8kg drag rating once a few decent dhus or sambos have been hooked, and the fact there seems to be no upgrade available for the 1500. The star drag will be a new experience on a jigging reel for me also, but of less importance. On the other hand though there seems to be little feedback or user reviews at all for the JM and Trinidad.

If my concerns for the drag were put to rest I'd probably prefer the OJ, so any feedback on that point would be helpful. Any experiences at all with using the others would be appreciated, as the JM seems a solid unit.

Cheers.

 So, I've been fishing for about 2 years, and I absolutely love it. I'm learning so much every time I go out. In that time I think I've done quite well, originally starting off boat fishing, and then going land based as well.  

So far I've done well on the following species

whiting

king George whiting

flat head

herring

pink snapper

dhu fish

skippy

Gummies

leather jacket

sambos

and plenty of undesirables.

what I really want to get into is some baldies, marks, tuna, and tailor.  Any pointers would be great. 

Thanks

I am chasing a thermostat for my yammy 40. Was wondering where the best place is to get yamaha spare parts NOR?

could be a project for someone? looks like a lot of work

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/rockingham/motorboats-powerboats/centre-console-project-5-3m-guardian-free/1012982404

Here are couple of photos from last weekend

Puka came from "new grounds" that we spotted, and was firing fish on the sounder ... few Green Eyes though .... 

and Dollie from the FADs ...

Gday members,

I've just got myself a Go Pro (hero 2) to try and get some footage of some of the fish I catch, just wondering where the majority of you guys and girls get your accesories from? I'm not overly keen on purchasing online due to a couple bad experiences, so I suppose the real question is, what Perth based store is best for buying accesories? Any help would be much apprieciated.

Regards

Matt

Hey Guys,

Off early friday morning down to Lucky Bay for the long weekend. Havent fished the south coast before and hoping to do a bit of beach fishing, diving and 4wding. Any advice on target species, places to try, bait etc would be great...

Cheers

Mat

Hi to all the FW users

I am new to the forum and new to the country, I live in Mandurah, can anybody offer me some advice of which beaches  I should try down this way to have a decent chance of hooking / catching a shark ? not bothered about size or types, would like to have a realistic chance of catching one.

Cheers in advance

Paul

 Hi All,

I've been doing a bit of reserch on the internet trying to find tackle/rig wallets that have heavy duty snap lock bags attached and can only find one that ships from the UK.  The postage is a bit steep so looking for a local/Australian option.  Any ideas?

Went out last night with a mate for tailor from the beach.  While I got nothing, he picked up a couple of thumpers, one close to 60-65 cm and a suicidal herring.  I'll post a picture when he sends it through.

Thanks

hi
heading to woodmans point today to try and stock up on crab bait for the nets
planing on using the sabiki rig with burley
what time of the day i should go?
and is the sabiki rig the best method to use catching them?

any help would be appreciated
thanks

 Managed to get out a few times lately chasing a lot of different things, haven't targeted big sharks for a bit so I focused on just having some fun on squid, bream, diving/ spearfishing and looking for some new spots, found an awesome ledge that I'm going to helium balloon from for southern bluefin or maybe a Mack ( fair few Spanish and shark Mack's have been seen lately and a few caught), went for a dive Sunday morning and did ok with a horse queeny and nice grouper from bad vis so wasn't to bad either.  

The next few weekends I'll be after some big sharks so hopefully I'll get some photos and the salmon are starting to show with schools passing by every few days at most of the good beaches with some huge fish going 10kg.

Hi guys, I have a few questions about Shark Bay Denham hopefully someone out there can help. I have a small aluminium runabout 4.75m quintrex coast runner with a 50hp honda on the back.  Im looking at holidaying in Shark Bay around late July.  Is this a good time of year to go for fishing weather conditions?  Will my boat be big enough to get around to steep point, what sort of fishing is on offer within the relatively calm waters of the bay and my final question is there a possibility of catching palagics within a few nautical miles of Denham without having to go all the way out to the west side of dirk hartog island.  Any help will be much appreciated.  Cheers. 

I am new to the forum and recently got a tinny and mainly fish the 3 mile around Hillarys and Ocean Reef with a fly rod. I have noted some other part time swoffas on here and was wondering if there were other’s that waive the fly around on the 3 mile reef and what has been your experience and success or failure. As for me I have not had that much success mainly some reef fish but I am enjoying the challenge and navigating around the 3 mile.

Hope to hear from some of the other swoffas out there.

 Was wondering if anyone had fished or fishes around canberra and would be happy to give me some info re. spots etc.  

Cheers

Dean

Hey Guys and Girls,

Gearing up slowly for the big round Aus trip towards the end of there year, and a mate of mine gave me a ARB steel roof rack......cheers mate :-)

One small problem.......it has a bit of surface rust so it really needs a sand back and repaint.

So i decided id give it a go.......after about a hour of sanding i realised that it really isnt a job for someone with my patience and lack of tools.

So my question is does anybody know anyone who would maybe sand blast and respray or similar and could give me a rough price or any other ideas or is it just not worth the trouble??

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Cheers Belly....

 I would like to Congratulate Lamby and his wife on the arrival of their baby boy 21/1/13. Great stuff Cuz.

Reelax, the Mrs and Turbo.

Hi there

I've been sacrificing far too many SJ41s to the ocean recently, and wondering whether anyone knows of a source to buy them in bulk at a decent price rather than in the small packets of a few hooks each?

Not chasing thousands or anything, but packs of 50 or perhaps 100 in each of 7/0, 9/0 and 11/0 would be great.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Dan

Id just like to inform you all that woodies point is being close again tgoday and they are doing more maintenence on the jetty. So far they have cut the 'T' junction off at the end which is extremely dissapointing for myself an others that fish the jetty a few times a week. i have written a letter to the council to try and get them to fix the jetty rather than pull the end down. Anyway thats my little complaint haha but if anyone else fishes there regularly it would probably be a good idea to send the council a letter because the more letters thay recieve the better.

cheers,

snapper_seeker 

Getting back from work next week and keen to get my boy out crabbing. Any reports at the moment. Am looking to venture down Mandurah way.

Does anybody know any metro beaches the have decent sized fish.

thanks

Does anybody know any metro beaches the have decent sized fish.

thanks

 Hey guys,

just got back fishing from under the narrows and I caught 9 black bream and 4 silver bream and 1 whitting  in under 1 hour oh and zero blowies wtf!! All fish went back as I went just for some fun!!!