After the wind had finally dropped on Sunday we headed out off the Cape to find some fish. First drop and my mate was on to a good fish. A few minutes later he had a good size dhuy on board. After a couple more drifts and a few other species boated a second dhuy was caught. We decided to release this fish so we could keep fishing but this proved to be quite hard work. The release weight I had was way to small for the fish and didnt have enough weight to pull the fish under. Ended up making my own release weight out of several sinkers and a big hook. After a bit of stuffing around the fish finally went down for a sucessful release. Things went quite after this. Managed a couple of sambos on jigs on the way home to top of another good day.

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.  The size of a golfball yet the second deadliest thing in the ocean.

Edited from Jeff Whalley January 18th, 2010

An 11 year old girl was flown to hospital on Saturday after being stung by a blue ringed octopus at Anglesea Victoria, while playing in a rock pool.

"Suddenly her airways contracted and she started having difficulty breathing and her family called the ambulance straight away." Sgt McKiterick said.

Paramedics then summoned the air ambulance to rush the girl to the Royal Children's Hospital. The hospital was not able to provide an update on the girl's condition last night.

Sgt McKiterick said such attacks were unheard of during his years of policing along the coast.

"It was always something for the warmer coastal areas further north," he said.

He said beachgoers should take safety precautions.  "People should be aware particularly when in rock pools."

Last week Surrey Hills six-year-old Holly Smith accidentally transported a blue-ringed octopus home in a bucket of shells she had been collecting.

She was in the bath cleaning the shells when a deadly blue-ringed octopus fell out of one.

The octopus, which died due to being out of salt water, was preserved in a jar with methylated spirits.

Blue-ringed octopuses were common throughout Australian waters and liked to rest in dark, quiet places like shells throughout the day before hunting for food at night.

Hello All,

have been given an Abu Garcia Multitip 8ft 4-8lb nibble tip Fibreglass rod.

It is very nimble and light. Does not cast light lures too well (seems to be too soft) and was wondering what its best use would be.

Any suggestions appreciated.





Cheers

Going to the North Mole sometime this week, hopefully at night.

Going for rays and sharks just bigger stuff really for a bit of fun, however can you guys help me out with a few things,

Whats the best rig to use and bait. and where on the North Mole is best for the sort of fishing?

Cheers, John

Ola guys and girls

Just keeping you posted with the news from 'ol Blighty.  Got meself a trip to the river Ebro in Spain booked for October 2010, fishing for carp and catfish from boats.  A weeks trip with the promise of carp upto 40lb and similar with the cats!  Whether you love em or hate em they fight well and fishing for them can be a great crack!

The weather here now is no better, the snow melted a few days ago, and since then it has rained, so the rivers are now really ruined, cold icy water, plus the muddy rain water from the fields has really knackered them.  So I thought i would start up a thread of your better fishing shots, not necessarily with fish in, but showing off some of the good, or bad weather that your have experienced.

These are my photos of a sunny time.

South Drain Wedmore December 2008

Salcombe England November 2006

Take care team.  I gotta boat trip next sunday weather permitting so hopefully I will hve some new photos!

Rog

what shops have served you well in the past, who hasent and whats your favourite?

Hi bought a $25+ japanese squid jig from the tackle shop and went in the sound/GI today plenty of weed at varing depths and didn't get one hit my questions as follows:

1. do you tie the jig direct to the line

2. attach a swivel to the line then direct on to the jig

3. connect the swivel with a leader then the jig if so how long is the leader

4. attach a burley cage simular to a herring set up

5. was it to calm today for squidding

TIA

hey people im going to seceret harbour tonight if anybody wants to join pm me quick ill probably be there allnight

Sherbs and I are looking at getting some Tripods built for fishing on some of the reefs around Perth. Does anyone have a design sheet for one of these or know where we can find one? Many thanks, Colin Hay

Hey. My brother has just bought a small boat and we're heading out for the second time off Mindarie early tomorrow morning (weather permitting). We're not familiar with boat fishing in the area so we're going to hang near Quinns Rocks not too far out. Maybe near the reef. (We've always been land based.) 

Can you tell me what species of fish we're likely to catch? Is there any advice you can give for fishing in the area?

Cheers

Thinking of going down to hillarys this evening for a fish, wondering what is biting down there, and how to catch them , and where abouts in Hillarys?

Also i was wondering if there are any rays around at the moment? and if so how do you catch them???

Many Regards

Tom

Hi All.  Can anyone provide some advice on trolling the dampier pipeline?  Im not sure where it begins (whitnell Bay?), or the best area of it?  I know its a popular spot for Trout etc, so any advice no matter how minascule would be greatly appreciated...just after somewhere to start?  Cheers!

My wife n I just got bak from one of tha groyne's that colin showed me.   Great morning for my wife who pulled in 2 herring with a fluoro rig I set up for her.    As for me I'm starting to think that tha fish are fuking with me!!!    One bite at my nice chrome twistie I bought and nothing else good thing I had beer to keep me busy!    Gonna try again tommorow.

took out the boy,s for a feed, I had 1 drop for the day, 2 x dhuies in 5mins, 8.5kg and 9kg, then moved to some other ground for some variety, left the kg,s on the bite, great fun,

hi guys was at woodmans point tonight fishing for tailor anyways the tailor came on the bite and i caught probably 20 or so but all were well undersize execpt for one 40 cm one. and as usual every d@@khead was ther taking buckets ful of undersize talior so i decided to do something about it this time because it seems like every time i go out i see the same thing, so asked the asian guy next to me with like 10 tiny talior in his bucket if he new what the bag and size lmit are and that he should not be keeping them cos they are way to small,but he just laughed at me and continued to take them every cast so i called the fishwatch number in front of him and reported him and all the others anyway the guy just took my details and said he will pass it on to the fisheries officer who will come down . so i waited for another 2 hours or so while they kept on keeping undersize fish,hoping that fisheries would come down and bust them but they never came where are fisheries ? what the hell is the point of me calling in if there not going to do anything about  it? al my years fishing i have never seen a fisheries officer do they even exist? this is happening every day and unless they start doing something about it there wont be much fishing in the future.sorry for the long rant but this just pisses me off so much.

anyone whos been to the ammo jetty a few times will know of the big resident seal

was just wondering if anyone has snorkelled with it as i was snorkelling one day and the seal was hanging around near end of jetty and didnt go there as a thought it might think i'm trying to steal his fish and attack me, anyone out there that knows if its friendly

I thought we jigged to avoid fish like this.

Don't know if this is a bad sign or if it's telling me that I can catch anything on a jig this year!

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find any coral ground south of dawesville, headed out from there a couple of times and sounded around for ages and found it pretty barren! not asking for exact spots just roughly what depths the better ground is in, Cheers

After some suggestions for a live bait tank set up. I have a small seat on the boat which is roughly 800mm long x 600mm wide x 600mm high that I want to convert to a live bait tank. Live bait will range from herring to small salmon.

Cheers

Brendan

You know you have done a good job of parenting when your son buys you the xmas gift that will be with you for a long time to come.

A knife, not just any knife but one made from ceramic material. I thought Kyocera made printers. He made me proud, without a doubt the best sushi/fishing essential I own today.

Check out this video for the story.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnT5INymiY

Took the kids out to have a look at the rock pools along the Mindarie area. Seems to be alot of deep pools and ledges there. Was wondering if anyone has had any luck snorkeling around there for Occy or if anyone has tried fishing when the tide is in. No doubt that you would loose alot of gear tho.

Part two. Without a happy ending.

Got to Woodmans Point at 6.45pm and managed to get the bait in the water by 7. Met Brendon(Hsiehlung), Ron and Shane members from fishwrecked there. Managed to get a couple tailors and it all went cold after 8.30. I kept on putting live baits on the big rod but crabs love them... by that time I ran out of live bait, so I got a couple live scallies from my aunty and used them. At around 10.30 I did my rountine bait check and had to put on fresh bait, I hooked up half a scallie and casted it out about 50-60m. Sat the drag and was about to put it down on the ground when the line was screaming!!! The bait was in the water for only 10secs and something got it. This thing was pulling like crazy, fighting harder than the ray I caught 2 days ago. Had to tightened the drag further otherwise I would be running out of line(had about 80 or so meters left). Called my uncle for assistance to get the belt thingo on and put the rod in. By this time I was surround with people watching. Even though the drag was really tight it was still spooling my line out. I had to hold on to the line and pull and reel in at the same time. After 15 mins. Some jackass 4m from me decided to cast his line out when everybody had reeled theirs in... and guess what? it crossed my line and hooked it. He reeled it in till it was about 2 metres from the tip of my rod and the line snapped... I was so bloody pissed...and that ass could also come to me afterwards and say  bad luck must of been a big fish. WTH were you thinking????? GOD... had a guy come ask me how far I cast it out while I was busy fighting it..He kept insisting that it was the sea lion that was around the jetty.. For goodness sake This thing is like 70m or so out. And the sea lion was like 5m from where I was standing. I swear it must be a shark of some sort tho. Don't think rays hang 5ft below the surface. 

Gonna have to buy a thicker line now. And probably another reel. Any suggestions on what reel? A big reel with lots of room for line and good drag system thing. 

PS. To Brendon and Ron where were you guys!?!? You should of stayed haha. 

how does evrone think the weathers gonna be on sunday or monday, think of heading to rotto from woodies in 5.9M cuddy, wats the go sunday or monday,

also the seabreeze site so far has said that any day thats gonna rough has been calm, and vice versa, it says monday gonna reasonable, but lately the accuracy has been s&^&.

also whats biting right now there, are there mackies or tuna, particualy only looking to go max 4 km off west end, any good demersals havent had luck here before, any advice would be super

any tips or idea on what is to be expected to catch at myalup beach this time of year and any tips on how to do it?

gday just wondering what has been geting caught out at rotto lately and what bait is the best and rigs for bottom fish going out on sunday what should be around

I've been around UWA a bit this week, and scouted off the jetties in the area in my spare time. Two days ago (Weds) I walked around Jo-Jo's jetty and I saw dozens (literally) of bream swimming around, along with a school of what I thought were hardyheads going nuts. Some of the bream were good pan-sized specimens. Best of all was that I saw no blowies around.
So today I came prepared with my rod, and an assortment of lures. I got down to Jo-Jos at lunch to find the area filled with jellyfish. In some areas I would say the water was 50% jellyfish. I couldn't see the schools of beautiful bream that I had been staring at for half an hour just two days before, and blowies were thick as flies. I cast around anyway... there were some bream there, as I had two follow my lure right to the jetty. Then after those followers, nothing.

Its often the way, when you see some fish cranking you are not prepared, then come back prepared and turn up donuts.

Has anyone had any luck in that general area lately? I've got some lunch breaks to fill next week :-)

Hi everyone

Does anybody know if it's good or safe to spray your fishing reel on the outside and outside moving parts with CRC Silicone Spray.

I normally use WD40 as I have a fishing book that says to use a water displacing spray on the reel to keep it in good nick.

The Silicone spray is a lot less oilier but not sure how it affects a reel's external moving parts and finish.

Dont bother with a reply. BUT I AM GOING to try and fish.

CU in 2 weeks.

Mean fishing and fun in the meantime all.

Neels

giday, first post on here and ive just got a few questions

im off to kalbarri soon with the misses, a fake 4*4 (honda crv) and not boat. i was just wanting to

know any good spots to go close to town, and also if its worth wetting a line in the river??

any tips would be great

THANKS