just putting my boat up for sale its a 6.4 chivers meridian walkaround. built in july 06 has 150hp Evinrude Etec motor has done 200 hours! also includes dual batteries, deck wash, furuno 585 sounder with 1kw transducer, navman 8120 plotter with australia chart, VHF radio,AM/FM radio. going for 65k. post me back if anyone is interested or call me on 0411103018

With the promise of a beautiful day and light wind conditions, Sherbs, Andrew (Son of Sherbs or SOS), Topper and myself decided to make a quick dash up to Flatrocks to try our luck.

After a few unscheduled detours we arrived to find a misty cloud setteld over Flatrocks and the Flatrock itself already covered by a bit of water.

With high tide still a few hoyrs off, we decided to head a couple of hundred metres down the beach to where there was a nice patch of water between the beach and some offshore reef.

Peppering the water with a good dose of Spess' Spessial Brew we were soon into a good school of quite decent sized herring.

Sherbs soon switched to his favourit "blue bait" and began to pull in some nice double headers, Topper landed a nice double header of a sand crab and a herring, my surf popper outfit accounted for a few quite nice herring and Andrew had a lot of fun on some acrobatic herring on his 1000 Okuma and Strudwick bream rod outfit.

Topper provided some of the highlights of the day when a quite sizeable stringray smashed one of his outfits and a particulary feisty sand crab tried to take the top off of one of his fingers.

Topper prepares to do battle with a big stingray and a crabby crab.

Andrew is pretty happy to be back on his feet again.

Sherbs the master of the double header prepares his beach gear

The surf popper rig was very tempting to some nice sized herring

Topper and Andrew show off Toppers crab and herring double header, seconds before the crab turned the tables on Topper.

Andrew does a "Honshu" with a herring while I was pretty happy with this hard fighting Skippy.

A found a nice little area with a reedf system within casting range.

Some of the mornings fish, many of which will be head up to Exmouth for use as bait with Andrew.

All in all it was a great morning with great company. How can you beat being away from the rat race, on a beautiful beach, with great weather and friends.

All the best, Colin Hay

hey all,

I am looking at going deep sea fishing something in the 300meters , what size sinkers ?but if anyone can suggest rigs to use and is it worth the effit.

 heading out behind rotto, Also I have a lowrance sounder with broadband would that read the bottom ok or do you need a 1kw transducer??

could you please let me know. cheers 

Hi guys,

Well the new home is taking up so much time and i've not been able to get a rod out yet but am looking to head somewhere tonight and tomorrow.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where i should try (landbased in Perth) and what i should target? Was thinking of heading down to the north mole as i've never been there before or maybe Hillarys. Any reports from either location?

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,25321320-2761,00.html

{Registration fees for boats less than 9.99m would increase from $124.30 to $223.10. Boats between 10m and 20m would be subject to an increase from $231.70 to $506.90.}

well thats almost double for my old tub.
And what does the government give me back..SQUAT!!!
3rd world refueling facilities around Perth...yes I have seen better in many 3rd world countries. With the fires at Rotto and other places, you'd think they would have upgraded refueling facilities and fire protection ( oh and I am qualified to comment, seeing I designed, installed and commissioned the refueling system for a naval port in 2004! with full fire protection)

then lets not start with lack of pens, public jetties to moor at for lunch on the Swan, or anywhere else in general.

Getting people on and off your boat around Rotto is a farce these days. You forced to beach your boat, as the two small areas you can get people on & off are utterly inadequate for the amount of boats in the area...
Maybe I need to buy a ferry to get service from the state...because Joe-boat-owner does not!!!

yes, my 5am rant for the day!

I bought this rod in 1995 after a devestating house fire that left me with all I had on and that's it! Naturally, this rod has some sentiment to it and means a lot to me. It has winched and popped and tossed, been thrown around everywhere and still remains faithfull to me. So; it's time for a makeover.

I'm using my BBQ spit turner to do the trick here. A new coat of clearcoat greatfully sold to me by the boys at the Tackleshack (at great expense may I add LOL).

I will post pics of the results in the next day or so.

Oh, BTW. Mad Fish is a secret ingredient to home improvent efforts by me....

UPDATED 12/04/2009

last pic is the end result. It didn't take much to bring the old girl back to life. Just a bottle of red to steady the nerves :)

Would you or wouldn't you take a Trailcraft 5.4 to Broome from Karratha in lieu off charters in Broome. Thinking about the fuel and time but I suspect I should take the boat as I have the time.

Original plan was not to take the girl.

Also more space then and can take the Engel with cold beer.

The home engineer suggested why not and I cant disagree.

What do you all think?

Neels

I have just got back from doing my Saturday chores at Woolies in Mindarie. Coming back via Marmion Ave I saw what I thought was thick smoke. It was in fact a pea soup like fog coming off the ocean. Quite strange really. Anyone else see it?

Anybody know where I can purchase any of these?

Gday all, I know a lot of people still use mono and was just wondering what is the best mono out on the market? Mainly interested in 8-24kg line for trolling and bottom bashing on an overhead setup.

I was wondering if the ramp at Jurien has wash down facilities.

Thank you in advance

Chris

I realise that you can catch squid almost anywhere at any time , however can anyone tell me if there is a prefered time of tide and moon phase that seems to produce greater numbers than usual?

hey guys i am headin up to warra staion with brad93 on monday jsut wondring what you think the winds will be like for then next week or so

stoppin of at luky bay the first night hopefully get into some mullaway 

thanks heaps

danobigfish

hear is some pics of some of the gear i got ready for exxy in 3 weeks i think... minus 2 rods... dads 10ft live fibre and his 9ft ugly stick... :D jeeez hes good to me...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anybody knows some good fishing spots in a boat just out from the mylup/binningup area. Any info would be greatly appreciated

any 1 know were the salmon are, thx

would anyone be able to locate a picture of a Shimano Twinpower 10k?

thinking of getting one

cheeers

Just a heads up that the traffic heading down south is already building up. Apparantly there was a truck rollover near Lake Clifton.

Seabreeze is predicting pretty good contitions for most of the next six days for those heading down south to chase salmon. Best of luck to you. Colin

Can anyone tell me what state the Carnarvon jetty is in? Is there any news on if and when any repairs will be made?
Many thanks, Colin Hay

looking at going out tomorrow from Two rocks.

There is going to be a N / NE wind between 8-16knots, i cant remember the last time i went out in N/NE winds, anyone know how rough it gets? with this wind direction?

Cheers

Hi guys,

Me and a group of mates are thinking of heading north to wagoe to check out the beach fishing. I have read several post's on here with suggestions on rigs and what you can expect to catch. My question is what time of year is normally best to go?

We would be shore based and looking to go for approximately 5 days. Would mainly be chasing larger species such as Snapper, mulla's and perhaps Mackerel.

any info much appreciated.

scano

Hey Guys,

my trip to exmouth has being postponed til late may now, and ive just had a rod built up at bluewater exmouth which is ready to go, I just wondering if anyones coming back from up that way, ill shout ya a carton of p!SS to bring it back to perth for us

Cheers

Hi guys,

I am going up to Kalbarri for the first time with the family in a campervan early next week.

Not much space to sneak a big rod with, but can take a 9 foot 2 piece with a medium size reel and limited tackle.

Any suggestions where I could sneak off for an early morning or late arvo fish?

Can rent a boat, but don't know the area at all - river mouth any good?

What species are best to target up there?

Dave

Just wondering if anyone would know where i coudl find Navman charts quickly?

I have a Navman Tracker 5600 which only has the metro maps on it, and was hoping to find the WA maps.

Its a C-MAP NT+ memory card.

Thannks

Bodie

Any other keen boat fisho,s interested in doing an over nighter out of Mandurah / Safety bay area meeting up out at the South West bank or somewhere similar.

Weekend Saturday 18th April weather permitting.

 PM me if you are interested?

Garry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYeFIPtHlk
enjoy fellas

I have heard there are still some around. Has anyone seen or caught any close to shore this week. I can't get down south to chase the salmon over Easter so I am hoping I might find some Yellowtail's. Any information would be greatly appreciated, Colin Hay

Hi all

Leaving Karratha for 2 weeks of Broome time. Wondering about some light shore (or boat hire) based sports fishing around the area. Anyone have any info would be greatly appreciated. Wont tow up the traily 5.4 because of fuel but still cant keep my feet out of the water.

Neels

Unfortunately left the camera as we were only going for a crab, but decided to fish near some structure in 18m of water last saturday night. Caught 2 fish that have me baffled. Catfish head, close to metre in lenght, fight like a sportsfish with multiple runs, no give up like a true cattie, and with a large sickle tail. Silver blue in colour and almost looks like a shark in the H2O. Caught right on bottom.

Never seen one before but they fought like the blazes and had my Miller barra stick and Curado screaming.

I just wonder if anyone has any ideas about what it could have been. Both released TFAD (to fight another day).

Neels