Hi all,

anyone out there had any experience with Sterncraft ally boats.

built in Tasmania.

looking at a 7.8 metre 2008 boat at the moment with twin 140's on it.

5mm hull and 4 mm sides.

any comments, good or bad, would be appreciated.

cheers

brett

hey caught this while mulloway fishing i think its a wirra but it was bigger than any other wirra i have seen was about 4 - 5 kg fought like a pulling up an old boot

 Hey all what's the best methods and bait to catch some land based sharks or mullaway any help would be great thanx 

 What is the approx breaking strain of a loop to loop? If I tie Bimini in mainline braid and attach it to an aussie plait loop using a loop to loop, is this a reliable connection?

Enjoy

chasing some casting brake covers for a few reels (its the little knob beside the handle you tension or loosen depending on how much restriction you want on your line when casting to prevent backlash) saltiga z30 ,Okuma tiburon baitcaster and a 400b calcutta anyone know where to order these parts from.

Cheers Carry

I know everyone hates the grey suits moving in on a nice fish out on the barges.

But has anyone tryed to catch the sharks out there. They fight hard and most time they fight dirty and fight a f**king load harder.

I know its all about the sport and they release like nothing had ever happened.

but then again its not a fish (to get a pic with) its a shark. but if go out there you go for sport fish and for me (dont no about anybody else) a shark is a worthy apponent. 

Just a little greedy...hows the 10 bag limit and 28cm minimum

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/News/Fishing/VIC-Two-huge-illegal-snapper-hauls-uncovered_6015592.aspx

Is anyone going fishing this weekend landbased, cos i want to go but dont know where. Off the beach or groyne sounds good this sat, good tide for mulla/tailor. Was wondering where people are going, might come down and have a look/fish ;)

Hi

I was just wondering if anyone could help me out.

We just bought some skirt lures and also couple off xraps??

What is the ideal trawling speed for Skirts???

What is the ideal trawling speed for XRAPs/lures??

Hey All,

Was wondering what knot everyone uses to join mono to leader ... specifically light mono (1, 2, 3 Kg) to heavy leader (40lb +)

I used quite a few over the years ... Plait/Bimini Twists to Wind-ons, Improved Albright, Slim Beauty ... etc

Slim Beauty passed most of the bench tests, however, takes time to tie and look right.

Any thoughts or "new" knots in the market I need to know?

Hey, i am in yr9 atm and have access to a metalwork room, and was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to make your own knife jigs for kingfish/sambos???

I have some experience in the metalwork room, so i am fairly capapable, can mig and oxy weld if necessary.

So I’ve just got back from Hervey Bay in QLD, what a trip, seriously wrapped!!

So we  picked up our RV and had a week of fishing, the plan was to hit up the Urangan Pier most days, 1770 later in the week, and do some guided charters.  When we got to Hervey we were greeted with 30+knots winds which had made the water around the coast as dirty as id ever seen, this immediately put a spanner in the works and made the first few days pretty hard going. We found it hard enough to get live bait which I couldn’t believe; first fish of the trip was a 62 black jew, my first jew fish of any kind.

Home

The arsenal

After a few tough days we got out on our first day of our guided charters. Let me tell you, this guy, was BY FAR, the biggest dickhead any of us had ever meet. He was the most unfriendly, negative, unhelpful, sooky person possible and I tell you, if he hadn’t of got us onto fish I would have killed him. I knew something was up when I mentioned his name to the local tackle shop and they all went quite. Not only did he refuse to chase any kind of mackerel, he sooked it up whenever we wanted to chase the tuna because they, and i quote "bleed on the boat", and he demanded that we released fish even if we hadnt got a good photo (this is after he had taken his happy snaps)... UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!

The guide from hell!!

....Anyway!! First day on the boat saw us chasing blue fin and Mac tuna schools with some pretty good success. Got a few big mac, and a stonking blue that went 15kg and took 50 minutes to get up on a 4000 size reel. He went straight in the esky and onto the plate for the next few night’s dinners. As the first day out was pretty cloudy we didn’t get a chance to do any sight casting on the flats, the weather was going to be alot better the next day so we decided to cast some poppers at some tidal eddys to try and raise some fish. We ended up boating a little kind, a couta, and just missed out on hooking some huge queenies. Not sure why but they just couldn’t find the hook, got slammed about five times.  

Day 2 of the guide saw us chasing a few more tuna in the morning, then we went off to jig some plastics over some hole out in the middle of no where. As Hervey is pretty low on any sort of structure this little hole seems to draw the fish. We ended up getting a few decent brassies on light gear. We killed a little more time chasing some tuna until we got the tide to hit up the flats for the real reason we got the guide. 

After being assured by our guide that we didn’t have the right conditions, that our sunglasses weren’t good enough to see, and that the fishing hadn’t been that great of late, i did start to worry a little as to what the fishing was going to be like. My worries were quickly put aside as within the first 5 minutes I donged a 6kd golden on the head on the move and hooked up, seconds later my mate hooked up as well... Double!

Double!

Bens first sight casted golden

After Ben got his fish up and my fish got lost with leader in hand at the boat we moved on, the other boys got into a few  fish and then it was my turn on the rod again. We came up on a school of stingrays which looked a certainty to have fish around them. I had a cast, then BANG, a big golden came out of the rays and smashed my plastic, ben had his cast, ON, another double hook up. These fish were about 7-8kg, awesome fish that went super hard on 3500 and 4000 size reels. I boated my fish first and was wrapped, probably the best fishing experience of my life, especially sharing it with your best mate. Definitely recommend this style of fishing to anyone, what a buzz!

My first "landed" sight casted golden :)

The next day saw the wind get up again this meant we had to stick close to shore, we got a ripping 85 cm flattie on a soft plastic, but that was it for a few days. Eventually we took a risk and got the ferry over to Fraser Island to fish the Kingfisher bay jetty, I had heard some stories about this place, but really we only went there to get out of the wind. What a decision! It is the best landbased platform I have fished from, thats taking Broome jetty and Urangan pier into consideration. Amazing place, there is sunken barge just off from the pier used as a wave breaker... let me tell you that the fish know exactly where to go when there in trouble. Got busted off about ten times!! The first day saw us get into some jews, tailor, some monster flatties, and Huge golden trevally. I hooked up to a big golden that stripped about 30 metres of locked drag from my catalina 4500, Finally got him up after he wrapped me around every pylon at the place only to lose him again with leader in hand and the bogas almost in his mouth. He was so cooked that ben reached out an grabbed  him by the tail but he was to powerful to hold, and with one final effort threw ben of him :( we estimated him between 10-12kg, massive for a golden, and would of easily been my PB and arguably best fish ever. I was pissed, and let the boys know about it. Hahaha, i got over it pretty quickly though as I nailed my PB flatty of 87cm (im 6’5 so you can imagine how long my arms are). We spent a few days on fraser, I cant wait to get back there. Such a cool place with some awesome fishing, even with the 6500’s and matching jig rods we were still getting dusted.

That pretty much was the end of the trip, had a ball, lots of laughs, met some good guys, and some absolute twats, most importantly got some awesome fish and some great memories.. Hope you enjoyed the report!!

There's been some discussion and support for the formation of a fishing club on the Busso. jetty catering for the young anglers among us who enjoy fishing. This all started several years ago when Recfishwest held a fishing clinic for the school kids on the jetty and it was so favourably received by the children that one of the teachers suggested that a club should be formed so that children of both genders can participate in it. I've sent an e-mail to Recfishwest seeking support as well as notifying their Southwest rep of our intentions but what I really need is imput from fishers who fish the jetty whether or not it's worthwhile pursuing so feel free to make comment. It will only happen if there is strong public support. 

So... I've Got leavers coming and yep were going to Dongara!

We will be doing, so i was wondering what's the fishing like up there never been to Dongara itself.

I was wondering if anyone has some sound advice about good fishing spots and apart from the main jetty/marina thingy, 4wd beach acess is always open too.

just wondering whats a fair price to sell a lowrance global map 2000 with a gold card for auz?

my cous has asked me and im not really sure...

he also has a small b&w hummingbird sounder for sale

cheers

ron

Has anyone noticed how many fishers go out the jetty since the restoration. On Friday night approx 200 fishers and on saturday night 500 plus. All with new $20 squid jigs on rods. Someone has made a killing flogging gear.

hi guys

my cousin is chasing a hds8 or 10 combo, where is the cheapest place to buy.

anyone got a second hand for sale??

will be buying the card later

thanks

 Anyone know if theres been any scalies or yakkas at eshed or woodies latley ? Need some for bait

Hi all,

After a few weeks of trolling along out on the 30m contour nearby Mandurah,

I have caught several different species of fish, mainly on the purple lure.

I have posted some of the images.

5 of the Bonito's in the Esky was caught on the purple lure.

Whats up with purple?

I caught this shark a week ago and was wondering what kind it is. It had some faint black tips on its fins so was thinking mabye a black tip reef shark.

It was off Mindarie in about 25 meters of water.

I put him back because my freezer is already full of fish.

Need help guys,

I am looking for a new plastic rod to match up to my 5000 stradic. I heard diawa sol are the goods but I have been told you just cant moraly put a shimano reel on a diawa rod so I would prefer to keep it shimano. Budget is around $250. I have owned one of the old raiders and also the raider plastic but found them a bit stiff. was looking at the Tcurve revolution or the Tcurve T series? stradic has 20lb line on it so looking for an 4-8kg or a 5-10kg at a pinch. open to ideas

Cheers

 Is there many sambos on the wrecks ATM moment ?? Might be heading for a jig Friday

When changing the trebles for singles on lures, is there a specific hook that you guys would recommend?

Thanks

In my never ending quest to find information on transducers and which one will best suit me I happened across this link. Not sure if people have seen this but it answered a few of the questions that I have about transducers, how they work and why. It may be of interest to others.

http://www.furunousa.com/Learning%20Center%20Documents/FurunoTransducerGuide-LR.pdf

cheers

Hi all

have a few more 585 questions for those who have/ had one and know them well and could help out with please... Finally about the put mine on the boat and know that it will take some experimenting with to get things right, but any info/ advice that could help me hit the ground running would be really appreciated...

Basically, Im after some advice on the best settings to do a couple of different things:

1) Normal scouting around in both shallow (10-20m) and medium (50-80m) depths at around 8-12knts while trolling

and

2) Higher speed scouting when moving between spots etc at between 20-30knts (also, it is feasable to expect to pick up schools of/ small pockets of fish when travelling at these speeds with the correct set up in anywhere from 20-80m? I have a Tm260 transom mount tranny)

I have had a search of the archives on here, and found a couple of sets of settings (thanks harro and grayzee) (see below) and I am assuming these are for reading at slower speeds?

Again... thanks for any advice/ info anyone can help with...

Harros:

pic advance - 2/1

zoom mode - bottom lock

shift - set to 5m

interference - auto

color erase - 10%

clutter - 0%

white line - 0%

tvg - medium

tx power - 100%

tx rate - 10

symbols - off

info - off

colors - 16

set depths to - 5m,15m,30m,40m,50,m60,m80,120 (set for me down south)

zoom - 5metres

bottom lock - 3 mtres

background color – blue

Grayzees:

manual gain

auto range while heading out until in the area then shift mode (stays in auto range for sambo's)

pic advance - 1/2 when at sounding speed

 bottom lock to 10 meters

a scope on  (whats under your transducer currently)

shift - set to 15 meters + (you may miss fish midwater if zoomed too close)

interference - auto

color erase - 10%

clutter - 10%

tvg - medium

tx power - 100%

tx rate - 10

colors - 16

dont use zoom

background color - white

hey lads

just asking if there is anywhere in the sound where these bad boys can be caught reguraly? got a new reel and wanna test it out, not asking for any exact spots just a rough area. any info is much appreciated cheers.

Looking to tap into the knowledge from those who have had their boats in Coral Bay before, fish to the north or south? roughly what a typical days journey is for the fuel budget (gotta be better than 80Nm return out here) what wind speed is marginal for getting out between the reefs etc, tide issues, sinker sizes. looking to hit mainly the bottom species but we will have all the pelagic/billfish gear onboard too while we search for ground on day 1.

Thanks in advance guys, we have a week down there this coming saturday, if you're in the neibourhood and spot a blue Cruisecraft 625 Outsider LAS VEGAS, come and say g'day and have a beer with us. we'll be the loud ones at the pub on Melbourne cup day too!

 Hi guys.

been trying catching some swan tailor with no luck. Tried the narrows bridge and the stretch from old swan brewery towards nedlands flicking halco metals 10 and 20g, poppers and surface lures

Any advise on spots and lures plastics I can try.

cheers

werner

Hi everyone.

Me and a mate have spent a lot off time out at rotto the last 3 months with at least 3 trips out a week. We have been having some great fishing but since the ban has come in, we havent had much luck with stuff we can catch. Because off the ban we have been doing some jigging and trawling. We have had some great days jigging but there are too many sharks down there. We lost 7 lures within an hour jigging and hooking fish then getting busted. Annoying as hell. We spent 4 hours trawling behind rotto but havent had any luck.

Does anyone have any tips for Lures or weather conditions that are ideal to snag some Mackerel or Tuna?? Trawling is the go atm but ive heard that the water needs to be abit warmer before they start reving up?

Also does anyone know what date they tow the FADS out?? Ive heard november but not sure what date??

Thanks