Gents i have recently bought a Northstar Navman from ebay but have found it to be reasonably difficult and confusing to use especially compared to the original Navman. Has anyone else bought one of these in the past and had the same dramas. The GOTO set up isnt real clear if anyone had any info on these it would be appreciated.

Cheers fellas Boozehag

gday guys

ive been watching this forum for a while. im from the south coast of nsw and am making my way over your way in a couple of weeks. a mate is living in denham near monkey mia and im goin up fishin with him in the first week of november. he has an idea of the fishing up there but i just thought id ask you guys what to expect and what tackle i should pack. besides fishing out around shark bay etc i think we are hiring a boat to go fishing around dirk hartog.

so any tips with tackle, fishing spots, and what to expect would be appreciated.
hoping to maybe catch a big ol spanyard if i can or just something big and mean. but just looking forward to catching something different

anyway thanks

Media Release
Repeat offender banned from abalone fishing
Date: Friday, 12 October 2007

A 40 year-old man has been prohibited from fishing for abalone in Western Australia, following an order handed down in a Joondalup court this week (Wednesday 10 October).

Duy Cam Dao of Marangaroo was additionally ordered to pay fines, court costs and a mandatory penalty amounting to $9,100.70 for being involved in taking abalone from reefs off Waterman, where abalone fishing is not allowed. He also forfeited all of the fishing gear he used at the time.

The court was told that Dao was one of three men, who appeared to become startled after returning to shore with their catch, dumped it and ran from the beach to a vehicle parked on West Coast Highway where they were intercepted by Fisheries and Marine Officers.

Supervising Fisheries and Marine Officer Mark Kleeman said that Dao and the two other men had dropped bags, containing a total of 330 abalone, shortly before being apprehended just before 1am on Wednesday 25 January 2006.

“Dao also refused to give his name and address, when called on to do so by the Fisheries and Marine Officers who apprehended him,” Mr Kleeman said.

“The men were trying to operate under the cover of darkness, but were seen by Fisheries Officers from the cliff top above beach in the Waterman’s Reef Observation Area, which is closed to the take of abalone at all times of the year.

“Abalone fishing is very tightly managed between the Busselton Jetty and the Greenough River Mouth, to help ensure the future of the fishery. As well as no take areas, the recreational season is very limited in those areas where abalone fishing is allowed.

“WA has one of the few remaining sustainable abalone fisheries in the world and, as part of ensuring its careful management based on good research, there will be only six hours of abalone fishing allowed in the West Coast zone this year - between 7am and 8am on six consecutive Sundays from 4 November - 9 December 2007.”

Mr Kleeman said Dao’s two co-offenders were convicted and heavily fined in November last year and this week’s court rulings resulted in an appropriate conclusion to the case.

“The magistrate took into account that this was a second offence for Dao and issued an order under Section 225 of the Fish Resources Management Act to ban him from fishing for abalone because the offence was serious and he hadn’t learnt his lesson,” he said.

More details on the rules that apply to abalone fishing in WA are available online at www.fish.wa.gov.au, where you can download a new brochure for the 2007/2008 seasons.


Sucked in i say.......smug ignorance!

Gday i've been having a look around ebay lately for fishing gear and have been buying a few things and i find it pretty amazing the stuff on the and the price. I brought 425 scented 2" grubs for $13 including delivery. anc considering there about $10 for 25 in the shops thats a pretty amazing sale. I though they would have been useless but alreaddy in a few weeks i have caught herring, bream, skippy, whiting, pink snapper, breaksea cod and harlequin on them. Also brought a good bottom bashing outfit overhead reel on a 24kg standup with 80lb braid all up for $80 and the outfit has certainly shown it can stand up to most fish alreaddy used it on the pinkys in the sound and out deep on some dhufish and a mulloway. Anyone who hasnt had a look should really check it out some amazing savings there

anyone keen to hit mindarie this arvo for the late arvo early evening fish?

hunting all the usual suspects... plus the tailor which are running... anyone?

I need a fricken lift! lol i only live around the corner but my wife wont drive me down, plus i got noone to go with and ive lost my license!

Went for a fish to the freo traffic bridge today. I put out big baits incase i might hookup some of the freight trains that lurk around the pylons :wink: Got a few crabs with drop nets!There must be bulk amount there!!!! Most were females with eggs which i released but got this really big one which was a keeper.... Went to my usual bream spot and landed 2 silver bream, one went 29cm other went 38cm which we kept . Also got this nice fat 39cm blackie on whole mulie and gangs which i released. Overall it was a great morning weatherwise but damm the flys are gettin bad allready!

Ended up getting a new Furuno FCV585 at the boat show today. Did the rounds and got it for a good price. Just got to wait for the transducer to arrive next week. Hopfully i should be able to get onto fsh now. LOL

  has anyone been upto the lagoon  in the past few days ( anything happing up there )

hey guys....just wondering,if u guys heaDdown to narrows...and fish at the city side...where do u guys park ur cars?im just curious...cause theres no parkings there???thanks very much...

Hi all, if you are going to the boat show this Week-end don't forget to come and say hello to us at "EPIC Marine" at stand 83 accross the fishing club house Cheers Brian

Hey guys can anyone put up some feedback and info on the fisheries managment meetings
as Iam working away at the moment!
Thanks Guys

the local offshore weather is looking good for the weekend,light easterly winds,any one heading out? probaly head out fri and sat out of rocky with my usual crew.
cheers ray

You find yourself stumbling on a killer fishing spot which holds tailor, and all the bread and butter species, however, your car has just broken down and the closest place to you is 150kms away...

The place is so remote that on average, someone else usually drives past once every 5 days so you set up for the long haul and all you have on you is 1 rod, its 8 foot and graphite and has a quality daiwa or shimano reel to match...

Your gear only consists of a couple of metal slices, 3 packs of soft plastics and a couple of stick baits.

Given your dire situation, you are fortunate enough to have enough water to last you a week but you're bloody hungry...

....................................


In this situation, what metal slices would you have? What 3 softies? and what stick baits would you absolutely need and trust to keep you fat and happy until help arrives?

Ps, you broke your left wrist punching the car cos its such a piece of crap... something like h0ju's car (haha) so you can only cast one handed

:P

The latest hotbite mag has got a article about a couple of shipwrecks in mosmans bay in the river.  Never knew they existed until now, when the mullas start moving into the river we were thinking about doing a night fish on it.

So has anyone on here actually found where the barges are?  Doubt someone is going to give me co-ords, so my question is what does it look like on the sounder?  The artice stated that they are pretty broken so are likely to be difficult to find, if it all.  any help appreciated.

Any clues?  anyone


Cheers
Dean

Just reading and picking out some new purchases from the Diawa catolgue and i noticed some of the new rods are stated as purfect for the machine gun cast........now ive done many a different fishing styles and have many different cast in my book but im stuffed if ive ever heard of this before. Could anyone shed some light on this for me as im sure its just one already known but called something different. Cheers Chris.

gidday all does anyone know if knifejaw is its name or is that a nickname if so what is its correct id ? cheers craig

The lewin current should be getting up there soon, saw a leatherback turtle on sunday afternoon on the way back in to oceanreef boat ramps.  At first we thought it was a pilot whale then saw it's big back come up out the water, none of the pics turned out :(

So this might be a sign of the current warming up?  I hear the spanish mackerel are making their way down atm.

Cheers
Dean

The glue holding the carpet on my Tub has lifted after having fuel spilt on it. I figure it is pretty much rooted and stinks of fuel so I ripped it out last night. Boat is a plate one. Just wondering on what people have used in the past. Marine carpet is nice to walk on but I find it is hard to get any smell out of and because it lives in the garage can stink up the house for days.

I was thinking of the rubber matting like the Kiwi boats have, still non slip but drains and wont hold water, or trying to  find someone who will do spray on Bedliner such as Rhino lining and do the back floor with that. An advice and if anyone knows where to get the rubber matting it would be greatly appreciated.

I would like to give a big shout out to Steve and the crew on Boutime for letting us tag along for the day. Whilst no fish were harmed during the day it was still a great day on the water and the first time I have been to rotto and beyond. Hopefully will get back there when some sambo's come out to play. Did see a heap of whales and also a heap of YTK chopping bait but they would not take a raider no matter what size I threw at them. Saw some reallly good ground on the sounder and found a heap of bait but nothing wanted to play.

when is mandurah boat show...is it next weekend?

hi all,
i need to replace a reel without blowing the budget
my current reel (rovex big boss) actually snapped at the rotor this morning,leving me with a very angry fish still on and no means to retrieve line.
i need a reel that can handle bigger fish but needs to be eggbeater style
i was looking at one of the bigger shimano baitrunners but am unsure if the drag would be up to the job
any reccomendations appreciated

cheers

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Cheers
Andy, Adam, Tim (The Mod Squad)

Hey Fellow Fisho's,

I'm just wondering whats everyone's favourite metal lures. I love my Halco Twisties from 10g - 30g on the light gear and boy I catch everything on them well species that you get in the metro.

Species I caught on them (I actually have a diary):
- Herring        - Skippy
- Flathead       - Blue Mackerel 
- Tailor           - Yellowtail
- Small Pinky (35cm)    

Thats it on my trusty Halco Twisties.

Thanks guys for sharing.

Cheers...
Jangles

hey guys i was on breammaster.com and noticed this thread and thought it might be interesting. it was along the lines of ppl getting abused and such for releasing decent fish. has this ever happened to you or sumone you know?

Just recently i was out on my boat fishing for pink snapper (outside of Cockburn Sound) with a mate (Tigh) and got a few fish but one fish was definately a stand out.

One of the pink snapper actually came up with a whitish/silver scar down it's body. At the time we didn't really think much about it but when i went to wipe away a very small bit of weed off the fish next to the scar it didn't wipe off. Much to my amazement it was about 12mm of tag hanging out with weed growth on it.

Now i've caught tagged fish with growth on it before but this fish had actually grown it's skin over the tag and hense why there was a silver scar, the tag was underneath. I decided it would be good to keep the fish and cut the tag out for research and i couldn't read anything of the tag as it was buried and hard to read. My friend Tigh caught the fish and was good enough to say it's up to you Ryan, we kept the fish which weighed 5.8kg and cut out the tag for info.

At the time i said to Tigh this looks like a very old tag perhaps 4 years old which would be great if thats the case as older tagged fish gives us good info. The tag was the small version and that's what you use on small fish but you could say the pinky nearly grew out of the small tag completely!

I submitted the info to fisheries Research lab, Andrew Rowland (Recfishwest) was good enough to call me back asap with the results which was intriguing.

The fish was;

Caught by: Tony Andro (charter boat)
When: 1st Nov 2001
Where: 33m South of Rotto
Total length: 310mm
Caudal length: 260mm


Now;

Caught by: Tigh (decky on my boat)
When: 1st Oct 2007
Where: just outside of the Sound
Total length:781mm
Caudal length:726mm

The fish was very healthy and at liberty for 6years 11 months, and grew about 67mm a year............WOW, thats friggen awesome news and good info for the tagging research and the frame is here to be donated also.

I was very happy with the info, so was Andrew and thought i'd share this!

heading out from rockingham on sunday for a club comp, leaving peron at 6am returning at 3pm for weigh in, mainly fishing the 90's or so, chip in bait and fuel as usual, anyone interested?

Hey fellow fisho's,

I've read this article in the Fishing WA magazine and it has this part of fishing with jig heads. I was absolutly amazed how simple this is and how effective it is. When I got back from the draft camp all I wanted to do is get a bit of fishing done, but I wanted to check this new style of fishing. Well boy does it catch fish! I treated it like I was using a lure so I whacked a whole Coral Prawn (peeled) and cast it a upon the sand bank and just hopped it along the sand and as soon as the first twitch I was on. A plump Yellowfin Whiting at night on a whole Coral Prawn so may be this thing does work!



Cheers guys!

so whoes goin out this weekend sunday not lookin too horrid

any one been out there lately?
any one heard reports of sambos rocking up yet?

cheers
sam