Alright peeps

Now a couple more questions.  Firstly jigging

I have aquired my self a few knife/butterfly jigs and am gonna use them in  couple of weeks when I go wreck fishing for pollack and cod, just wondered on the best way to 'work' them in the water, i know roughly but want some tips from the experts.

secondly rovex big boss 7500 reel.  It is available in my local shop and I am thinking about getting one for the said jigging to use with a specialist rod, I know they are made by jarvis walker and that they are not shimano or accurate etc.  But bear in mind i probably wont hook a sambo in the english channel and the worst it will come up against is a cod or pollack in the 5 to 15kg bracket.  So are they any good and will it cope.  The depth is up to 100 metres ish.

Cheers Rog

hey all just got back from my favorite beach spot 10mins out of gero cbd. was in search of a few mulloway but had no luck the tide was really low so not much water in the little hole i fish.  got this nice tailor right on sunset. I got a few bits but not much pretty quiet tonight

just seeing if anyone fishing tonight or tomorrow mornin... i want to go fishing just dont know where i want to go....

Today I received a letter from the fisheries,outlining the new rules and regulations,im guessing this is in reply to the pertition I signed ,expressing my veiws on licence fees.this letter has all the relevent info concerning the bans and the new rules .just wondering did anyone else get this letters.

Heading out tomorrow and maybe Wed for for final chance at the banned species, for a while. Weather looks ok, anyone else having a go.

GO BLUES.

hey all

beacause of the ban and the fact that i love tackling these fast and strong fighting fish i am planning to be going out tagerting them.

i know one or two spots where you can catch them but dose any1 know where you can catch kilo plus fish in one spot around ocean reef area?

cheers danno

Ok, So im watching some tv and theres a show called hooked and they were with some nz Boat designer and celeb fisherman in Aus I think in the coral sea. They were trolling lures and cameras going for dogfin tuna, some great shots but when they finally boated a est 1.5 mt 70kg tuna and went to release it, it was knackered with "a problem with its swim bladder from pressure differential after being brought up" isnt that barotrauma? So they haul the fish back on board after watching it flounder around on the surface in shark infested water (the other hookup got sharked). Their remedy? A release weight? No, They knife the swim bladder and let it go.  Is this a good way to deal with it over the release weight?  Or something because the fish was so large?

Also with all this stuff today on the forums about extra species being added to possibly make the v21 due to bycatch survival problems. How does the rest of Aus compare from us in legislation and education? 

I dunno, straight after they went on a rant about dynamite fishing leading to habitat destruction enviro rant and they were trying to catch and release.  But what is the right way?

Hi Crew,

Phil from Bozo's has generously donated a lure package worth $150 for me to giveaway.   I'm going to split it up into 2 sections - $75 worth of bozo's lures. Each will get a FW shirt, a hat and sticker.

So, the way its going to work. 

1) One section of the competition will be for the LONGEST fish landed on a Bozo's lure (placed on brag mat with measurements clear, fish's mouth closed and at the end of the mat as you would for keeping a fish)

2) The other section will be for the BEST PHOTO of a fish caught on a Bozo.  (as judged by the members like the POTM competitions)

To make it fair for the Perth guys who have bans coming in, this competition also includes samsonfish, YTK, mackerel etc, everything not on the banned list.

Please label your entries for eg. - Bozos competition - Matt's Sambo etc -

You can get your bozo's lures at The Tackleshack or Oceanside or online at : bozos.com.au

The competition will run to the end of November and I be continually pushing it up to the top to keep it in your minds.

Cheers,

Adam

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

WA Sinker Supply release New FE Model Release Weight.

Due to the short supply of lead ( and its increase in cost) the guys at WA Sinkers who manufacture the soon to be compulsory Release Weight have come up with a slightly cheaper but equally effective FE Model. I believe it’s made of iron (steel) and zinc dipped .....soon to be available in three sizes. Supply won’t be a problem so no excuses not to have one or two on board by the 16th of December 2009....

Would even make a great Christmas present for all the boat angler’s in the family

edit....sorry my mistake on the supplier

With the ban coming into effect at the end of the week, I thought I would start a thread to see how people are going to be fishing during the bans.

Are you going to cut down on your fishing effort, maybe give some landbased fishing a bit more of a crack, or head out just as often and target some species you dont often target (maybe on the ocean, or maybe in the rivers and dams)? Maybe some try for species you havent targetted before, head up north/down south or perhaps the ban wont affect you much at all if you're allready targetting those species, or are mostly a land based fisho? 

I'm sort of looking forward to it as hopefully I'll get a chance to learn more about targetting some other species on a boat. Would be good to go jigging for pre-season sambos, or just get some whiting and squid. Would be nice to knock a KG off my target list too. Will have to see what opportunities present themselves.

From the Daily Mail, UK.

How far would you go to grab yourself a bite to eat?

This
is the moment when a pair of bottlenose dolphins decided that two heads
were better than one as they teamed up to snare a salmon.

Scottish photographer Alistair Kemp was amazed when the hungry duo leapt out of the water chasing their unfortunate prey.

Catch me if you can: The two dolphins have a little bit of fun as they toy with their prey

The playful pair appeared to be
having quite a lot of fun with their quarry and there was no escape for
the salmon, despite its best efforts.

The
slippery customer kept the two dolphins amused as they dodged each
other in the Moray Firth, Scotland, but ultimately, it was time for the
salmon to admit defeat and fulfil its destiny as dolphin food.

Gotcha: It's game over for the unlucky salmon as one of the dolphin finally grabs his prize

Anyone know what this is?  I caught it on a handline in indonesia a few years back?

Cheers rog

sharpening and ganging mustad 5/0 limericks for the next break in the weather - to fish mulies and fillets on the bottom for tailor mulloway rays and sharks off the metro beaches

Hey Crew

Has anyone fished the beach at Moore River in the past week. If so is there any seaweed around?

Im thinkin about headin up on thursday or friday but dont wanted to be wasting my time if its lined with weed.

Cheers

Godders.

hey guys wondering if any one knows any good camping and fishing spots within 2-3 hours from perth  thanks.

got up this morning at thort it mite be alrite to go for a fish get to the ramp bout 9 then we went out to have a fish we came straight bak in afta bout 1min of being out of the harbour. so we decided not to waste the day so we moored up on the new moorings in the marina. we fishd three till bout 2 then went home. there wrere plenty of skippy and herring there but they didnt seem hungry. caught a big southern fiddler ray on my little rod but funily enough i didnt even hook it but it got tangled with some old line that was stickn out its mouth. no fish but beta luck next time we hope

Hi all

From my limited reading it is only the pink snapper and possibly the Dhue that participate in this most pleasureable experience during this closure period. I fully agree that if they want to let them do it in private  we should leave them behind closed doors to create more. But I cant see evidence that all the other banned species perform this nuptial duty during the closed time.

Wouldnt it be nice if we could span the breaks according to when the fish is fecund (randy) species wise. Then a blanket would not be so bad.

More science is needed no matter how we hate that (I am a science minded critter) or else help me in my wrong ways.

Lets not interupt their coitus but let science get behind this and find out when they perform nuptials (for you youngster Bonk) and per species ban these periods.

Then all hell on Earth dont happen at the same time!!

Oh shit!

More politics.

Neels

Here's a Pic of the chinaman she caught a couple of years ago

A Large Fish Eating A Duck

http://www.youtube.com/v/Jp9BSW38bXg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

wheres all the blue oval fans,gotta love that , 1 ford in the top 10!

On page 44 of todays Sunday times is a lift out outlining the new changes ,very easy to read and understand would recomend all have a read will clear up some questions you may have

I am so confused by it all.

Cheers

Neels

Just thinking of going to the Cocos Islands on a holiday with some fishing attached. Anyone have any information etc that could assist.

Cheers all

Neels

Hi Guys

Is anybody using a Stressfree Winch NG Series with freefall

I have a 6mt Jackman hull and am looking at buying an electric winch and I have heard that Stressfree winches are pretty good and I am trying to work out if this winch is big enough for my boat

Any info would be helpful

Just got back from the boat show.

8 of 10 I reckon. Good displays and a good turnout.

Anyway while there I ended up bargining for a Furuno while my good mate did the same on a Lowrance.

I got a 585 ($2100) he got a HDS 7 ($2000).

We have a little wager, over 6 months he reckons he'll kick my ar*se.

Let the games begin????

Anyway all that aside what do all think about the two.

All comments welcome (good & bad).

Cheers in advance....

Hey guys

 I am heading off to sharkbay in april 2010 for my first real fishing trip on my recently purchased boat. and ideas of fishing tackle i need and or some good spots for nice fish 

aww Heck, Is it even worth going to be worth wetting a line when the high tide is only .94 of a metre?

Just seen blue juice are offering EXTREME deep sea fishing, so they can dodge the bans over oct, nov, dec. Unless I missed the last media release out of 831, I thought the ban was for ALL demersal fish apart from kgw. Whats going on?

Sherbs and I got up in the early hours to head up to one of his favourite tailor spots, hoping the weed had moved away and that the tailor had moved in.

We met up with Haong (pronounced Wang) when we got there and found that the dreaded weed looked to have thinned out quite a lot, but the wind and the swell was a fair bit stronger and bigger than forecast.

We made our way out to the fishing hot spot and sent out our rigs baited with mulies hoping for one of the much sort after 60 cm plus metro tailor that can be found at this time of the year.

And after just two casts, my new Saltist 4500 H spinning reel and Moonraker rod were doing battle with what felt like a cracking good tailor.

After angling the fish through the swell and the rocky edges I managed to bring it ashore, only to have it jump off the hook at my feet. Thankfully it landed in a crevice between the rocks and I was able to grab it pretty quickly.

(I was drenched from the spray of the waves pounding over the rocks, but it was worth it when I hooked this beauty).

This was one of the fish Sherbs, Uncle Stu and I have been chasing hard for the past few months. A big, fat tailor. It measured in at 59 cm (not the 60cm I was hoping for) but boy was I stoked.

(My new Daiwa Saltist 4500H is the ultimate match-up with my Moonraker and is the tailor chasing reel that I have been looking for).

While the tailor were around, they were pretty tenative on the bite, but Sherbs soon managed to entice a nice tailor of around 35 cm in length to his bait and into his bucket.

(Sherbs with some of the mornings haul).

After that it was Haong's turn to find the fish and he handled himself with aplomb, landing a fish in the high 30 cm range and one of about 45 cm in quick sucession.

(Judging by his smile I think Haong had a lot of fun on this tailor hunting expedition.)

Then, as quickly as the tailor had come on the bite, it was all over. We were plagued by sand whiting after that, (they were decimating our baits ravenously as soon as they hit the water), but there was no more signs of any tailor. But that is tailor fishing.

We perservered for an hour or so more and met up with Tall Paul, who was busily trying for some herring and whiting when we headed off.

Thanks Steve and Haong for another exciting fishing morning. I am sure there will be many more to come while the big "spring" tailor are around.

Lost a nice fish on Thur due to a bust off.  I have been using uniknots but don't get the warm fuzzy with them.  Are there any better knots I should be using. Cheers, Ben