Looking for recommendations for mobile marine mechanic servicing south of the river. Just need a once over, service before heading up north shortly. If not mobile mechanic who do you recomend for a quality service.

Cheers

Dhue went 16 kg . Still got it up . Rod broke while in holder ( drag wasn’t set) basically high sticking without holding rod in stand up rod holder

Have had a search and nothing posted within last 5 years that I could see

chasing some decent mulies individually frozen if that's still an option 

lately have just had blocks that when defrosted turn to absolute mush and are basically burley only

anyone know where some decent mulies are for sale

don't mind paying more just want some that last past 830am  

cheers 

Dilemma. brands, company names, etc will remain nameless, for now.
 

A good mate just laid out over $450 for a brand new PE 4-6 overhead jigging rod, as well as $500 overhead reel spooled with PE4 braid, from a well known Perth retailer. Combo with line was just over $1k. 
 

2 days after the purchase, we took the rod out of its cover, cut off the tags, and assembled the reel and rod whilst on the boat at coral bay (over the Anzac weekend). Very first fish, on the very first day, the PE4-6 rod snaps, on a 50cm pinky. I witnessed the snap, and as much as I'd like to be hanging shit on him for it, there was absolutely no high-sticking involved. Bit of a bugger on the first day, but we ended up borrowing another (Smaller / PE2-4) rod for him to use over the next few days. 
 

fast forward to early last week, when he returns the rod to the place of purchase, for them to tell him "they will have to investigate why it's snapped", and get back to him.... 
 

This morning they have called to inform him they will not be replacing it under warranty, as it was "load tested in shop", and they "don't know how it was handled after purchase". I believe the "load test" was them pulling on the rod tip, whilst my mate held it. They will however offer him a 30% discount on his next rod purchase in their store....

 

I know I have snapped a fuck-tonne of high end rods over the years, and unless the rod was 2+ years old, or it was completely my fault, they've been exchanged with almost no questions asked. 
 

id just like a few thoughts and opinions on:

1). Whether the retailer handled this correctly

2). whether you believe this to be a fair outcome

annnnndd GO

a quick pic of a good Coronation he landed (and didn't snap) on the PE 2-4 rod
 

 Quick troll today got us this guy for lunch.

 Crappy South Easterly today blowing a nice solid 20 kts, the trade winds have arrived. Seeing as they're going to be here for the next six months I thought we'd go out and hide behind the back of Prince of Wales Island and have a troll. Collected this feisty guy and we've just finished having a rather nice Cobia snack for dinner. Went 950 and weighed a little over 7kg, took a Rapala magnum 20.

 Hi all.

Heading to Exmouth next week. Is it worth heading over to Yardi Creek with my 18 foot Quinny for a family cruise?

Can you fish in the creek? Is it worth running a small lure?

Thanks in advance

 Thinking of a trip out tomorrow and wiondering what the feeling is about a light wind with a biggish swell

Cheers for any replies

 Gday guys gonna pull my 24 footer up to Exxy in mid may from 17 -24May and really wanna get the Mrs onto her first Marlin or saily. Just wondering if mid-May is a good time to go try. Was thinking of heading out of tantabiddi and troll along the drop-off there, any quick tips on that or where else to try for a billy out of Exxy greatly appreciated  cheers Dave

Enjoy 

have to wonder if this is a random attack , or a croc that has been conditioned or learned where food can eb grabbed from ??

given croc can learn prey/food behaviour and stalk their prey by observing its habits
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-30/nt-crocodile-jumps-out-of-water-into-fishos-boat-kakadu/100105532

 There is some good Snapper fishing to be had in our harbours with softbaits if you can take the time to find the fish

Hi guys.

after a bit of an epic stuff up on tuesday i managed to loose my favourite rod and reel combo over board in 60m of water with what seemed a godfish atatched :/ had a seragosa 10000 with 50lb jbraid  and rod was awesome. got in in exmuth 8 years ago, not sure of exact brand, think it was hornet or something. either way it was my top rod.. some epic language followed. lucky i was solo and a long way out!!

anyway, i need a replacement,so looking for advice. i really liked the seragosa...

will mainly be used for bottom bouncing in 40+m of water. tagretting dhues, baldies etc, but would be nice if could double for trolling or a bit of jigging.

im really not into broomsticks. would love something that has good sensitivity, and allows a bit of play, but needs to be strong.

will probably be putting 50lb jbraid on again.

as far as costs go, happy to go around $450 or so for a good reel, and prob up to a similar amount for the rod.

Would really love some suggestions as to what to start looking at.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers

Goat.

Exmouth 270 m looks perchy to me  

Couldn't have asked for a better day!

Cracking mixed bag and a handful of undersized pinkies plus two just under dhuies caught too (both wam off well  ).

Magic.

 Does anyone have a recommendation on someone, mobile preferably, to install a bilge float switch on my 5.5 genesis. 
I have a bilge in currently, accessed through the screw hatch on the transom, works fine, i just want to make it an auto one i can leave on overnight and not worry about the boat going down when sleeping on it

I am in Atwell, any recommendations welcomed

Cheers

Hi, my 4.2m stacer seashorse has got a little crack in her and taking on a bit of water. Just looking for some recommendations for Ali welders to fix it up? I’m NOR in Scarborough so closer the better but don’t mind travelling a bit! Thanks in advance! Cheers  

Nothing huge but had a great day.

 Tamara got a nice Queenie yesterday and this is how it ended up. Good old sashimi with soy sauce and a truckload of ginger and deep fried with a rice flour n cider batter. Added some of the essential fish and chip condiments with a non traditional being a deep fried dill pickle. The verdict was yum!.

Got the boat all ready and lockdown compliant to test out the new Hillarys carpark setup

 So for those of us that have been fishing for a number of decades are there any fish that you think have become harder to find or disappeared from a once popular spot?

I'll kick it off with Tailor off the beach in Warnbro Beach over the Chrismas period (Summer) Remember when there would be 100's people with gas lanterns alight fishing along there on Summer evenings.

Hi

Looking for 1 or 2 crew for a trip on Tuesday

Meet Ocean Reef (or Dianella) at 6 and return to Ocean Reef at around 15:30

Normal stuff - own gear and share of expenses for the day

Boat is a 24 foot Pursuit with a 250 Suzuki. Plan to fish top of the bank if weather and current permit (around 24NM - maybe FADS if weather really good

Eric

Getting sneaky

 Hi all

Does anyone know where the jumbo stern saver can be ordered from in Oz?

Wanting it for a TM260

Thanks

Jamie

 Just had a quick trip north that was was cut a day short due to the roads nort( being closed; took off as soon as they opened and traffic was awesome with hardly anyone on the road. 8 days in Exmouth with 7 of them seeing us out on the water. Couple of mates who have never fished north along for the trip so was good to get a few fish. 
 

 Decided on an early knock off Friday and did a run out to some proven ground and first drift spotted a couple of familiar looking targets on the furuno , jig jig , hooked up on the gomoku and just couldn't stop it or pick it for that matter.

After 10 ofd minutes of chasing and trying to figure out the taker I was 100 % convinced I had foul hooked a sting ray due the constant thump thump on the rod tip so I made the call to lock uo the drag on the 5000 stradic , thumb the spool and give it shit no matter the result

After another 5 minutes all came to light when a solid dhu that went 23.2 kg surfaced 20 metres from the  boat

Over the years I have bee fortunate enough to catch quite a few of these large specimens but This one took the cake for fight , with the jig completely swallowed  and the leeder hooked under the pec fin this fish fought like no other

 Took Tamara out for a fish today as the weather Gods are turning it on at the moment up here. Did well in finding some working birds, did even better at putting her onto a Wahoo about 1.3m long. Then things turned to shit. Got the hoo on board with high fives all round, spiked it and cut its throat to bleed it out then I fucked up. Had the ( what I thought was stone cold dead ) fish over the side of the boat and was bleeding it out when it gives an almighty kick of its tail and freed itself from my not so good grip and sloooowly glided off into the depths. No worries I'll grab the gaff and bring it back, gaff was too short ( now I know why people have stupidly long gaffs on board ) and the fish was gone forever. I contemplated jumping in after it and wisely kept my now blood stained clothes dry. 

After convincing myself that this was a random one off event I got back onto the job of getting some fish into the boat. Ten minutes later a sold Spaniard was bought alongside.... Quick grab of the leader and a yoink to get it onto the gunwhale and grab its tail when it spat the Giant Trembler did a couple of flips on the gunwhale and it promptly went back to hang with its mates.

Faaaark me as Mr Rude would have said.

Moral of the story.

Use a gaff

Rope the tail when bleeding 

We had a ball regardless of the shit that went down.

Weathers looking good for a chance at redemption tomorrow!.

 List the boat you owned for the least amount of time and why you sold  

Boston whaler 240

Only had it for 2 years. Sold as kids lost interest and too expensive to go solo fishing in 

 G'day all, I'm going to Big Lagoon soon and havent been there before so wondering what you can fish for from tinny and any spots for land based fishing. Bait and rigs would be helpfull.

Cheers

Scruffy

 Perfect weather on Wednesday good ground fish on the screen, fished with occy, squid, cuttlefish, whiting, herring and jigs for no return then caught a small sergant baker thought that looks likely bait. Seconds after it hit the bottom dinner for all. Just goes to show how selective they can be if not that hungry.