The absolute idiots are at it again. ABC news site reports decapitated tiger shark at Busselton jetty. 
'And the rest of us are left wondering how in the hell we preserve recreational fishing when we're surrounded by absolute drop kicks. 

 Article on perthnow about a shark close to shore, might be good if you directed your wire trace ban comments on there to let dumb Punch know what you think. Just a thought....

 Happy as "Pig in S..."

Behind Garden Island.

Thought I'd drop cray pots in tommorow arvo and cruised down to shore catch for some bait and not open saturdays anymore or not at all? Shop kind of looks empty. Now I'm actually struggling to find where to buy bait anywhere. Does anyone know where can buy 20kg boxes NOR on a Saturday arvo? 

 Just saw 21 - 22 degree water current coming down from Jurien bay now and over the weekend  hopefully a few pelagics start appearing off perth  im excited!  (sorry havent had much to be excited about for a while with this ban and crap weather we been having)  cheers fellas

 
Enjoy 

Hey guys

We have a Black Friday sale with 30% off store wide. Just in time with the dermersal ban lifting in a few weeks..

Underdog Hybrid Jigs  

100g - $8.75

150g - $9.80

180g - $10.85

250g - $11.55

BKK Octopus hooks 25pk

1/0 - $7.35

3/0 - $9.10

6/0 - $10.50

8/0 - $11.55

10/0 - $11.90

95mm stick baits from $7

trolling lures $7

Vibes from $7

plus many more bargains

Check out https://www.mackdogtackle.com.au/ 

enter code "Black30" at checkout

Sale ends midnight Sunday 26th

 Heard shorecatch has closed, was gonna go there in a few weeks and get a heap of gardies. Where can we get them now?   North of river preferably (im in quinns/jindalee)   cheers for any advice

 discussing Cray bait and someone said shore catch has closed down, anyone have more info

I am heading to this location for a fish and have no idea where to fish. Any tips would be much appreciated. PM me if preferred.  

 I was going with the tm260 on the new boat but contemplating the equivalent as in hull for doing deeper water.It's a plate boat and my question is how robust are the in hull units as the boat drags its belly quite often across very shallow sand bars to get out the mouth.Would it handle it ?

cheers

 Presently in Stanley Tasmania.....this is the view over Bass Strait from the Nut

 Have my 2 pots, know a bit about o reef don't need to go out every day, share all cost obviously 

 Heading up there for a couple of weeks . Weather looking good at the moment . Anyone else up there at the same time . Will be mainly chasing billfish . Hoping the sails are still in the gulf but have no idea what area they concentrate . Think they are between nor west reef and muirons but not sure . Any help would be appreciated . I've done a lot out from tantabiddi but got a crew that is keen to chase sails on spin gear . 6.4mtr boat . Cheers Paul

 
Emjoy 

 Ok here's the scenario....

Son wants to head out into the sound with his mates and catch some Herring and Whiting, they plan to hit the back of Garden island and cook up that potential feed.

Any non legalities with that? 

I didn't think so but trying google a question like that is a mission.

Cheers 

Did 7 days at Dirk afew weeks ago, what a crazy place,

afew days down the bottom of the island on the east side,

so much fun wading around with light gear, sea life everywhere,

sharks swimming around ur ankles , flattys, trevs,whiting, bait schools,turtles

so alive.

   Spent afew days up the top, one session at the block fishing solo (while missus read a book) straight up hooked a big Spanish which once I got it too the bottom of the cliff revealed itself as a huge wahoo, one last bolt and my braid rubbed on the cliff , gone, decided a bit too Dangerous fishing there with no one around ,

So had afew sessions out front of our shack at urchin point while the swell was down, great trip but would return with a bigger crew, not the place to go with just you and ur missus.

I've never seen so much sea life anywhere else.

thanks for the info I got from some of the members here

 Nice afternoon today grabbed a block

of mulies to chase a bit of bait ! Hopefully 

convert into something larger another night. 
The tailor came on early round 4.30pm .

me and my mate managed our bag well 

before sun down. Not too bad on size with

most in mid 40s and a little bigger.. 

cheers pirate..

 Anyone got thoughts on the most likely timing for the whites this year? I've been potting last few weeks but only reds and the majority berried females. Last year the expert at Fisheries thought it could be ealry November due to slightly higher water temperatures, but it wasn't ue to a surprise cooler water pulse in November that delayed things From what I have gathered, on an average year where coastal seawater temperature is 20 or above, ealry to Mid- to late November is normal for the run, but last year it was patchy and around Perth metro seemed to only really get going from about 7 December. Anyone thinking this month is still likely, or could it be  December like last year?

 
Enjoy 

Can anyone recommend someone to paint an ali boat? I just got a bunch of bar work redone and would like to get that and the deck/gunwales re-sprayed before getting the canvas done. Ideally looking for someone NOR.

 Hey all,

just have a relly from italy coming over and she's keen to see some whales, I know I saw a couple just out back of 5 fathom bank a few weeks back out from Point Peron but wondering if anyone else has been seeing them locally. I'll probably launch out of Rockingham but could do Mandurah if they down that way.

cheers!!

Hi all

I know the very mention of ETEC's gets tongues wagging but I'm looking for some feedback from current owners. I tried to search, but last few etec threads are from a while back.

Long story short, I have been looking for a boat for going on 3 years and I am unfortunately getting to the point where I am almost willing to cop that anything plate ali and a cuddy is nearly 20k overpriced. I passed up another potential boat on the wend due to the fact it had an ETEC on it with around 800 hours. It didnt stop the next bloke though and it sold within the weekend.

I just want to get some feedback from people who currently own an ETEC as to what parts availability, ease of servicing, and general ownership is currently like. Are you still happy that they will be supported or is it something that plays on your mind? 

The etec on the boat I was very seriously considering had just had fuel pump and an injector replaced which seems to be somewhat common on them.

For the owners of ETEC's, if something was to happen to your boat, would you consider purchasing another boat with an ETEC on it?

Happy to hear thoughts.

Cheers

Steve

Hey Team, next job on the list is a new transducer install - I checked the search function for historic posts and there's nothing really recent, do people have any recommendations for someone to do a through hull install again north of the river please.

I've got the location sussed as there's a nice central keel/planing beam (so zero degrees) and I left a string to pull through the tranny cable after I installed the big TM265 on the back.  

I've uploaded a few images of a replica fit out (im not presently looking at replacing the two 20deg offsets, but the central through hull behind the pump). The back of the boat shows a central flat keel which is ideal for the zero deg. through hull. 

 Hey lads

On the hunt for a tinny if anyone is thinking of selling?

Looking for between 4.0 - 4.7mtr range

Up to $10k

Preferbly 4 stroke but not a deal breaker!

Hit us up if your thinking of putting one one the market soon!!

Cheers

 
Enjoy 

 Looking at zipwakes for a new boat build, just wondering about minimum distance from the transducer as not to effect reading. Plate boat 6.2m thinking about going the 450s. Cheers 

 Good morning,

Purchased a new mercury motor and bravo 3 leg just after Christmas last year.

Motor and leg went in for it's first routine inspection, after using the motor for less than 2 hours it started making a grinding noise above 3k RPM which cut short a 5 day fishing trip, it was struggling to even maintaine a crusing speed without throwing up fault codes and going into limp mode.

Motor now has a mechanical noise which sounds like it is coming from the top end, also still makes a grinding noise under power.

Boat has since been at the dealer for over 5 months now while they test and replace parts to see what and how it failed, is this acceptable for a brand new motor, i still do not have a final outcome on replacing the motor. I understand they need to see what failed and what caused it to fail, this still doesn't change the fact there is a considerable mechanical noise.. The dealer pulled out 9.5 litres of mixed fuel/oil out of the block..

I wont even go down the road of still waiting on my brand new duo props that were supposed to come with the brand new bravo 3. Instead i have been stuck with the second hand props that are dented and well used this whole time, even after multiple calls and emails which ended up with Mercury getting involved.

in short, is 5 months an acceptable timeframe to testing a motor that probably has lifter and bearing failure?

Great to see a "Local FishWrecked Fisherman" coming back thru the Channel(just). 

Think he will have a laugh when he sees this.....

Great to see a "Local Fisherman" coming back thru the Channel(just).