Fishos,

I am looking to upgrade the transducer on my sounder and was wondering if the Furuno 627 will benefit from upgrading the transducer as i fish from anything from 10mts to 100mts .

All thoughts please

 Hi guys, going to china (Beijing specifically) in about 4 weeks for a school trip. Theres a few shopping sessions on the agenda so naturally i thought i might be able to pick up some fishing gear. We will be shopping at wangfujing street and also at the silk markets although it is more renowned for fakes. Just wondering if anyone had had any experience with these locations... and more importantly is there any fishing shops there ? I havn't been able to find out on the internet anywere. Also does anyone know any quality chinese lure making companies that will be worth looking at. 

Also managed to get a few flatty in the swan yesterday, this being the biggest... much bigger to come though :P Sorry for the mobile phone photo quality :) 

Cheers ! tight lines :)

I am after a trolling rod to match to my old faithfull Penn International 16s.

The Penn runs 15kg Trilene Big game.

I would spend $300-$400.

Any suggestions?  I have in the past just put it on something (anything but often an old Sabre that I just sold in my garage sale) and am not really sure of the characteristics of a trolling rod vs a bottom bashing rod.

Cheers

Cam

Hey does anyone know if seasport charters operates this time of the year?
cheers

Hey does anyone know if seasport charters operates this time of the year?
cheers

Wondering what the offshore tailor fishing is like nor metro? Any good areas or reefs to hit up with poppers or baits? Never chased them metro nor. So have no idea where to start, any info would be great.

Cheers.

Do any of you guys take the middle set of trebles off hard plastic lures? Do you find they get a better action or strike rate?

Should i get a Shimano Raider 2, Mexican fire rack spin, 1pc, 3-12g, 2-5kg,

Or

A shimano Raider soft plastic 2pc, 2-10g, 2-4kg,

http://www.motackle.com.au/index.cfm?pr=catalogue&search

For use for fishing kg, whiting, herring tailor, squid, skippy, flatties, wrasse ext of a boat in 10-20ish m water, or off land, shore, bridges. Basically for light fishing off land, boat ect, maybe light trolling with slices??

 mate has a small crack on his ally boat. prob just a 10-20 min job. cant find much in the search thingo so im after some help.

hey everyone, just wondering if anyone is heading thru Gero to Coral Bay over the next week or 2 or 3?

I have a package for a mate up there, about 5kg, small electric motor size of shoebox.

I live about a km from 440 roadhouse or could be left there for collection on the way thru.

Freight to CB is just a headf++k, and when its not a headf++k then its a wallet f++k

Had a pretty goos session today at the usual haunt... got the usual batch of decent demersals, but a couple of things stood out that are pretty rare around here. Firstly, we got the first wahoo on my boat (pic attached) and secondly, something even better...

The weather was a bit average, so we were tucked in close in about 10 meters putting a few baldies in the esky when I big shadow started beelining towards us. Great, I thought, here comes a big tiger, no more fish here for us... on second check, it wasnt....

http:/youtube.com/watch?v=D135ZjNsVcU

this fella hung around the boat for ages. he came right up the back of the boat to begin with, and just hung there for about 2 mins with his head just out of the water like he was looking at us- it was almost as wide as the back of my boat. Then he did a couple of cicles of the boat and took off before coming back again for another 5 mins when I finaly got my act together and pulled out the camera. Wasnt shy at all. the only other time Ive seen them was on the proper exxy touriest trips, where they throw you in and have to swim like hell to keep up with them. This guy was in no hurry at all. Was thinking he must have lost him mum or something, but he would gave gone 6m easy, so wasnt that much of a kid... the footage is a bit dodgy I know, but think you get the  idea...

And as a side note, after we lobbed a couple of plastics at the cobia swimming with him, my mate hooked up and landed one of the smaller ones, and he had this on this back... fairly new scar obviously... but it looked very clean for a sharkbite (lucky guy if it was) and made me wonder... I really hope someone didnt mistake it for a shark and decide to do a bit of fin harvesting. He still fought well, didnt seem to be affecting him to much...

Anyway, thought Id share it, it really blew me away. You get a bit jaded when you live a great fishing spot like I do, but this was definately one for the diary

 Hey,

Im thinking about buying a fin nor 9500 but I'm just wandering if it would do the job when ballooning and catching sharks on land? And also what rod would best suit the reel?

hi guys recently brought a torium and looking to start slide baiting just wondering what everyones opinions are on mono and the best for the job?

got a problem (this is a constructive post no negative comments please)

i usually fish with my mates for snapper and mulloway off my local beach kayaking baits out (i kayak out my mates are too pussy or have better common sense than me hahaha) in cockburn sound around 4km away from d9.

Due to the demersal and snapper ban i have decided not to even target mulloway due to the risk of catching snapper and i often target sharks like tigers bulls blacktips bronzies hammers and gummies (all released except gummies and blacktips) off the same beach. Due to not being able to fish for snapper or mulloway etc i have started targeting sharks everytime i have been there ( mainly large bull sharks ). This beach is about 4km away from d9 ( aprox i think) and i kayak out at least 500m. so ill cut to the chase.

I beleive that there is a large possibilty that great white may come through and im scared i might hook one while targeting other sharks (i have seen tiagra 50w with braid spooled and have heard of big sharks being hooked with my pb and 8ft bull). So the question i want to ask is should i not bother targeting sharks because the  of hooking a great white is too high ?

Hi guys

Me and a mate recently bought a boat 21' glass boat.

With the demersal ban on we are pretty keen to catch some fish. Has anyone been doing alright off rotto trolling for tuna as of late? weather permitting we are planning on heading out next weekend (weather looks a bit off at this stage).

Not asking for peoples exact locations just a rough guide.

Cheers lads,

Alex

 Has anyone had any luck catching and KG off Jurien?

 Ive got problems with fish showing up on the bottom everytime we turn the boat or go over some chop. The sounder is new, its on a fibreglass cat

With the huge amount of people with boats that came into the shop today to buy bait / jigs/ plastics etc i find myself looking outside to see a fairly savage little bit of weather passing bye...... Wonder how it is out there

Tides etc looking good for a bit of arvo/night fish, thinking of heading there tonight. So, anyone caught much at north mole lately? I've never really done well there to be honest.

 just had an old bloke tell me that he puts methylated spirits into his fuel tank to clean the fuel tank or something? anyone know wat the deal is with that? he was runnin a 6l inboard. could this just be for old fuel? dunno 

just about a full house at hillarys ramp today, or will it be too calm for catching fish and they will be hiding

 Ok so 3 hours ago I was at Quinns dog beach when something took my bait and proceeded to take nearly 300 metres of my line, stopping every now and then but generally not letting me take any in before going again. Felt very powerful, it jumped twice and the guy with me thought it looked around the seven feet mark. played it for around 1/2 hour before it came in slightly and bit through my 50lb mono leader,game over! Does anyone have any idea as to what that could have been? Cheers guys

     Leaving for Exmouth next this coming Wednesday. Not having much luck getting out with Eddy.

     Wondering if any one up there might be able to fit one extra on a boat. Will pay for fuel and the likes .

     Have all my own gear.

     PM me if you could help

 G'day all, I've never done any YTK fishing and very keen to give it a go, after seeing Zac's post, mite hit up the cook for a few days off n head south to try give it a bash, so my questions, if any one could give me some advise on what to look for (shore base), bait, rig , moon ,tide ,time of day..anything would greatly appreciate it ???? Cheers in advance Ric

Anyone done the cage diving in south australia goin over in july 2013  for 4 weeks wouldnt mind havin a go would be a buzz i reckon any recomendations on charter companies would be good.

Carry

what are these schooling fish, tuna, sambos ??????

 Hey guys im new too the site, have been meaning to sign up for a while not but finally got around to it!

my old man lives down in bremer bay and am gonna go down there for a few weeks when i finish exams. Ive had plenty of fishin experience up north for the first 6 months of this year, and occasionaly fish metro.

I have been down to bremer quite a few times but have never propely fished, i have dived there a few times and have seen some absoutle stonkers, kingfish, salmon, queen snapper, corination trouts, blue gropers etc

and i know a few of the good spots fosters etc

But really wonderin what tatics, lures, plastics etc i should concentrate on

Am thinkin ill mostly be fishing off the rocks, but might have access to a small dingy.

Any advice / information would be greatly appricaited :)

cheers and tight lines!

Matt

Hi guys ...headed out from PP for the first time yesterday , not too far off the nav marker in open water we unintentionally went straight over the top of a perfectly round flat spot maybe 3-4m dia looked as though it was churning up sand...haven't come across them before , just wondering what are they ???

 Can anyone help me out with this?  I'm pretty sure that the jigging rods tend to be shorter and they have a parabolic action.  Not sure why that is.  The bottom bashing rods are.... different - but how exactly and why?

Hi all, weather is all over the place-who's going to fish offshore tomorrow in 40s, if yes what boat? Thoughts guys, thanks