been getting into the crabs lately. fresh malted shells n full of meat! gona be a good year for this year finally. 

a quick cpl hours this arvo got the boat limit!!

I haven't herd many reports from the e shed this year. so far it looks like the beach is the go for a mulla. ill be hitting the sheds or the moles this weekend as the tides look to be moveing a lot over sat and sunday. any one else giving it a go???

while i was FIFOing my ass off over the easter long weekend, it really cheers you up when your mates are sending you this sort of stuff... NOT

and before the usual suspects start climbing on their soapboxes, the limit is 8 per person up here and this is 2 sessions of shore free diving over 2 days...

regardless, their still pricks :)

Hi all,

After some opinions of the above as to which is better.  construction and drag wise. 

I realise the JM has 35kg or drag.....something I only use when targeting the BIG KG whiting ......but seriously is it a better drag system?  and if I'm after sails....hence the bigger spool size, then does it affect it running it at a much lower drag than that. 

any info or anyone who has used one of these with anything to tell ...much apreciated.

voids the shimano warranty????....if they find out ? ...lol

Also if anyone has one of these to sell PM me.

Cheers  

 just wondering what the optimum rod length for soft placcys snapper and dhuie type stuff would be i would imagine around 6'6

is 7'0 getting too long to be comfortable to use

i wanted to do some light line stuff on a bit of a budget as i dont get out on a boat very often how about the daiwa aird combos? im looking at getting the 2500 aird with a 3000 spare spool as it will double when i target the big greenbacks this winter nailed a 6kg tailor on 15lb line last year would like to do it on 8 - 10 lb this year

cheers for your responses guys

dan

 Hi Everyone

I have been out of the country for a few months and am redy to get back into my fishing. Just wondering whats happening fishing wise down at Hillary's at the moment? Where the hot spots are? What species are biting? And if theres any chance of snagging a stingray or something big, and if so whats the best method?

Many thanks in advance

Tom

I was thinking the Lowrance HDS 12 Touch...

Don't want to spend more than $5k all up.

What is the best value for money in your opinion?

Thanks in advance boys.

Cheers

JW

Gday fellow Fisho's.

Aiming to land my first Chopper or Tailor. will be in rockingham/shoalwater area for a week this sunday!!!

Can i ask any of the experts please what bait/tackle should i be using????

What is the best time to try and catch a tailor???

ive noticed it will be a full moon i think on the monday 8TH will this help my chances???

Any hints or tips are greatly appreciated as i only get a chance to fish probably once a year coz i live in

Kalgoorlie :(

 just wondering if anyone else has been told to leave the jetty while 

fishing in the marina? one of the foot patrol guards told myself and the 

rest of the people om the jetty they had to leave. he must be thinking of near the dome 

area right?

anyway just a heads up..

 Went out of Friday very early, dark but with good moonlight. Passing through the GI /Carnac channel I could clearly see a boat at anchor with correct anchor light and nav lights illuminated and deliberately ensured I was well south of him only to find a virtually unlit boat directly in my path and also anchored with one tiny red flashing single low intensity led located somewhere low on the hull

What gives, but for the moon and a spotlessly clear windscreen could so easily have slammed into it ...........there are some absolute idiots out there 

 went out at a gentlemans start this morning with old bangaz n son on the big rig. straight to the spot from the first drop it was on! dhuis big red throats baldies pinkies. threw so many fish back and just kept the best of them! amazing spot and left them biting! good day out on the honey hole! thanks to bangaz for the big rig and good day with the boys! paradise is real!!

I think this is worth a read by those who take people on their boat who don't have a RFBL, and catch fish when you assume thay have a licence. It's a bit long winded but worth the effor IMO

http://decisions.justice.wa.gov.au/supreme/supdcsn.nsf/judgment.xsp?documentId=941D49C0E4C4C4AF48257B33001B5DCB&action=openDocument&SessionID=DFT9723BQG

Ok so we were out quite a good distace doing some jigging for ambers and sambos. We were the only boat around until they started rocking up. So after some time there were 3-4 boats and even a charter super close, i could have thrown my lure into every boat by hand. Where has the respect and courtisy gone.  The charter even circled and backed up within 15- 20 m while we were fishing. All we could say is "ARE U SERIOUS". 

will try again tomorrow,must be due a feed soon

 Somehow i've managed to lose the tm260 off the back of the boat on its third outting out. It was professionally mounted and has appeared to fail where the plastic of the transducer meets the bracket - ill post a pic tonight. I didnt hit anything, but it was quite sloppy on the 20nm steam out.

before i pay the excess to replace im keen to be comfortable that it doesnt happen again. Has anyone heard of this happening before? My other option is to wire the other p66 on the hull into the unit and be done with it.

Also the tm260 was second hand so no warranty recourse there.

 It behoves me to make this comment but there are some sorry idiots out there, like the one who had to verbally abuse my 13 year old son who was tending my boat moored onto the finger jetty at the casuarina boat ramp on Sunday whilst I got car to retrieve the boat ( did not take me more than 2 minutes to get trailer into water and a further 1.5 minutes to have boat out and ramp cleared).  Yet this tool ( not an impatient idiot cause that implies some sort of reasonability) not only mouthed off at my son but also nudged into the back of my boat to make his point - my son told me once home.

If the owner of boat "overkill" is a forum member I have a pm for you; please contact me.

Hi All,

I have just installed a new transducer, at slow speeds it seemed to work ok, but when i reached speeds of 6 knots or over it started to have a snow storm of red pixels.

After a few swear words and playing around - i stumbled across the manual depth setting, i adjusted to the depth i was in - this seemed to work but did not give a strong signal.

My previous transcducer would automatically tune to the depth, do you need to manually tune a new tranducer before it starts to adjust automatically.

sorry again for the questions - but would really appreciate some feedback without having to take it back to the installation company.

Cheers Dan

I know evryone says to click the thumbnail under 'image uploads' or something but there isn't anything there for me.

 Hi fellas, just wondering if any of you guys own a sw Stella, can you take the drag knob off and look on the top of the spool to see if there is a bearing on the spool?. Went to my brothers house to check out his new 2013 Stella, took off the drag knob on his 5000 and saw a bearing on the spool which the knob sits on.

i thought this was a new thing because I didn't remember my 5000 having one before I sold it. Then I saw his previous 5000sw which he picked up from bcf a couple of months ago also having the same bearing on the spool.

went home checked my 8000 and 20000(both 2008) one local and one jdm, both doesn't have it.

so is it just the 5000 that has the bearing on the spool?

cheers

 Heading to Warra Station in early May, would like any info from people who have visited, taking a 4.6mtre Ali camping at Sandy Point. 

 hi all, I hope everybody had a great easter.  Managed to get out yesterday with my two boys and my wife. Caught I white tip shark, ras and 4000 northwest blowies. Dunsborough out door world is going to love me as I lost so many hooks and need to restock...lol...Anywsy you all know im an apprentice wen it comes to my sounder.  I believe I need to b on coral to be catching decent fish. Finding it hard distinguishing between rocks, coral mud etc. Do I need to increase my ground thickness to see the ground better.? is coral orangey in color?  Wen I travel along it all looks the same to be honest..any tips or input would be greatly appreciated. .thanks so much in advance. ..cherrs Don

 I just wanted to say what a breath of fresh air it was at the Hillarys boat ramp this afternoon.

I went to launch my boat this afternoon (for the first time at hillarys) and a nice guy kindly came across to tell me that i was in the wrong lane to launch.  Even though the lane did say launch and retrieve i was told that at that time of the day when its a bit busy people will only use it to retrieve. Just thought it was nice of someone to explain that to me rather than have some guy bite my ear off...which i seen before at boat ramps for people not doing whats expected. 

As a nice bonus i also caught a load of fish :) Happy days!

Yes and in big numbers we just got back from the Abrolhos where we filmed And swan with up too 100 Dhuies and snapper,trout,macs ,sharks ,and many other fish and all in one spot . dhuies were in three school off between 30-50fish in a school editing vid will be up in a few days Stay tuned.

Is redfin edible

if so how do you cook it

and what is the best lure and bait.

 Hello all some pics from our outing on good Friday. My oldest boy Rory was rewarded early in the day in 22m with this 6kg speciman.. Next up was the Baldie for the deckie after he lost a horse halfway up so was duly rewarded with a decent fish. It was getting toward 2pm when I heard Anypuddle on the radio so decided to say g'day. I had caught zip until then so that radio call must have bought me some luck as literally 5 mins  my rod took off and I pulled up this PB for me 13kg Dhuie.

This also christened my jigging rod and was the first time I have ever caught a decent fish on braid being an old school mono diehard. Thanks Bunny if you read this. The rod performed oustandingly and it's paired with an 8000 SW Stella.

Day's catch.

It seem that only the odd topic now attracts much interest .with only a couple of comments and hundreds off views ,are people getting bored with the same old thing or just can't be bothered.It's nice to get comments on vids,reports and pics it makes it worth the effort.,I'm sure there are others thinking the same thing or is it just me.

 anyone had much luck with the collie river mulloway latley i tried today but not a touch??? does anyone know where about there hiding?

thanks 

or did the wrong teams win???

 My kids found a dive bag yesterday afternoon down at the Peppy Cut area.

It has some rather nice things with it, I'm sure whoever lost it would be real happy to have back.

Looks like Busso people maybe lost it.

Please ask around.

Cheers, Craig.