What a beautiful day. If you were in Perth and you have a boat, I guess you went out to sea today. Well that is what is seemed like this morning.
I pottered off down to Hillarys to have an early morning fish at the lighthouse.
Arrived about half an hour before dawn and set myself up. It was all quiet and then the armada started coming out of the harbour. I fish that spot most Sunday mornings and I have never seen as many boats come out of there as I did today.
There will little dinghys with old fishos going solo, new dinghys with four or five young blokes (all wearing beanies), an old clinker manned by a pair of cap wearing old anglers, flash big cruisers, dozens of fishing boats, yachts, kayakers, boats full of scuba divers, guys on jet skis with their babes hanging onto their shoulders and and a pair of fishing rods in holders, surf club boats, rescue boats, charter boats - you name it - it went out of the harbour today.
And no wonder. What a beautiful morning. It must have been fantastic out on the ocean.
Hope all of those who did venture out had a fishing day to match the conditions.
Myself, I had a handy morning. Kept four nice skippy, saw some dolphins, a massive stingray and a sizeable school of mullet.
What a beautiful day.

Colin 1 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club

goin to jurien this alvo leaving r/ham at 3.30pm returning tuesday nite/wednesday morning 1 spot available can pick up if on way
share costs aprox 150 for accomodation aprox 200 for fuel car/boat
two days fishing
call daz on 0412110428

We are heading out from Two Rocks tomorrow is anyone else heading out

Light and variable winds with smooth seas. Moderate long period swell.

Winds: NE 2 to 2 knots

Seas: SW 9 feet at 12 sec.

Light and variable winds with smooth seas. Moderate long period swell.
Winds: S 2 to 2 knots
Seas: SW 9 feet at 12 sec.

hopefully we,ll get some fish,let u guys know.. me mark n kaneo are gonna smash some new ground near the lumps 

Spots around rotto

Description Comments Latitude S Longitude E Datum

Snapper Snapper. Reef bottom. 31 37 115 33
Water depth 30m.
Jacksons RKS Water depth 10m. Reef bottom. 32.01.550 115.35.000
Kingston Spit Water depth 15m. 31.59.210 115.34.450
Thompson Wrecks Water depth 12m. Wrecks. 31.59.200 115.33.400
Monday WK Water depth 12m. 31.59.050 115.32.210
Roe Reef Crayfish. Water depth 8m. 31.58.420 115.32.210
Reef bottom.
Point Clune Water depth 12m. Reef bottom. 31.58.750 115.31.400
Parrakeet Bay Crayfish. Water depth 6m. 31.59.030 115.31.190
North Point Crayfish. Water depth 10m. 31.59.050 115.30.680
Reef bottom.
Outer Parrakeet Sharks. Water depth 16m. 31.58.720 115.31.080
Armstrong Point Crayfish. Water depth 8m. 31.59.400 115.30.200
Outer Armstrong Dropoff 11 - 25m. 31.58.910 115.29.905
North Point Deep Canyon. Water depth 14 - 26m. 31.58.580 115.29.850
Coesy Point Pelagic fish. Water depth 18m. 31.59.330 115.29.300
City of York Wreck. Water depth 12m. 31.59.645 115.29.300
Swirl Reef Coral bottom. Water depth 21m. 31.59.970 115.28.130
Mirp Flores Jewfish, Crayfish. 32.00.345 115.28.240
Water depth 15m.
1 Horse Shoe Reef Reef bottom. Water depth 18m. 32.00.345 115.27.710
2 Horse Shoe Reef Reef bottom. 32.00.180 115.27.270
3 Horse Shoe Reef Reef bottom. 32.00.300 115.27.160
1 North West Patch Crayfish. Water depth 18m. 32.00.750 115.26.930
Reef bottom.
2 North West Patch Reef bottom. 32.00.860 115.26.850
3 North West Patch Reef bottom. 32.00.795 115.26.495
West End Crayfish, Bream. 32.01.435 115.26.415
Water depth 18m.
West Patch Jewfish. Water depth 20m. 32.01.930 115.26.415
1 Cape Vlamingh Water depth 19m. 32.01.710 115.26.880
2 Cape Vlamingh Deep Water depth 26m. 32.01.850 115.26.700
Fish Hook Dropoff Dropoff. Water depth 19m. 32.01.730 115.27.185
Radar Reef Stingray. Coral bottom. 32.01.700 115.27.625
Water depth 18m.
Willson Bay Crayfish. Water depth 18m. 32.01.560 115.27.500
South Point Water depth 18m. 32.01.450 115.28.400
Strickland Bay Reef bottom. Water depth 18m. 32.01.330 115.28.790
Kitson Point Reef bottom. Water depth 18m. 32.01.420 115.29.610
1 Green Is. Drop Reef bottom. Water depth 18m. 32.01.310 115.29.910
2 Green Is. Drop Reef bottom. 32.01.430 115.30.200
Outer Green Island Bomboras & Coral bottom. 32.01.620 115.29.930
Water depth 15m.
Salmon Point Bream. Coral bottom. 32.01.880 115.31.00
Water depth 21m.
Jeannies Drop Off Dropoff. Water depth 24m. 32.01.955 115.31.490
Parker Point Coral bottom. Water depth 25m. 32.01.840 115.31.780
Parker Point Crayfish. Coral bottom. 32.01.520 115.31.950
Water depth 16m.
Porpoise Caves Reef bottom. Water depth 18m. 32.01.590 115.32.320
Crystal Palace Reef & ledge bottom. 32.01.550 115.32.700
Water depth 18m.
Lady Elizabeth Wreck. Water depth 6m. 32.01.080 115.32.960
Dyer Island Wreck. Reef bottom. 32.01.350 115.33.070
Water depth 14m.
The Count Reef bottom. Water depth 10m. 32.00.915 115.33.500
Wallace Island Coral bottom. Water depth 8m. 32.00.790 115.33.395
N/E Roe Crayfish. Reef bottom. 31.58.110 115.33.220
Water depth 25m

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spots around perth

Description Comments Latitude S Longitude E Datum

Snapper Snapper. Reef bottom. 31 37 115 33
Water depth 30m.
Marty's Spot WA Jewfish, Crayfish. 31.39.552 115.37.709 WGS84
Water depth 17m. Reef ledge.
Cray Crayfish. Water depth 5.5 - 8m. 31.41.42 115.41.38 WGS84
Raised area.
Rino's Spot Sand Whiting, Flathead 31.43.84 115.36.31
Water depth 30m. Sand bottom.
City Beach Whiting. Water depth 8 - 15m. 31 49.399 115 44.271 WGS84
Sand & reef bottom.
Centaur Reef Sth Snapper, Samson Fish, Reef Fish. 31.53.189 115.42.557 AGD66
Water depth 12m.
Penn Reels FAD 31.54.85 115.11.75 AGD66
Ship & Yacht Brokers FAD 31.54.96 115.14.91 AGD66
Trigg Snapper, Herring, 31.55.485 115.35.100
West Australian Jewfish.
Whiting Patch Whiting. Sand & weed bottom. 31.55.488 115.42.344
Water depth 8 - 10m.
Zeno's Cafe FAD 31.59.77 115.12.95 AGD66
Alex's Marine FAD 32.01.92 115.19.99 AGD66
32.00.00 115.19.00 AGD66
O'Loughlin FAD 32.03.00 115.11.60 AGD66
Club Marine FAD 32.03.26 115.19.49 AGD66
32.03.27 115.19.65 AGD66
Freedom FAD 32.05.00 115.09.60 AGD66
O'Loughlin FAD 32.05.00 115.11.00 AGD66
Mario's Mark 32 05.037 115 46.793
Mewstone Fremantle. King George Whiting, 32 05 07 115 39 18
Herring, Dhufish. Reef bottom.
Kingie Reef 32.05.200 115.27.410 AGD66
Carnac Squid, Whiting, Tommy Rough. 32 07 208 115 40 008 WGS84
Shallow grass beds 200m off
Carnac Island.
Seawood Fremantle. Samsonfish, Snapper, 32 08 00 115 35 15 WGS84
Dhufish. Reef drop off.
Magellan FAD 32.08.01 115.10.04 AGD66
32,08.05 115.10.07 AGD66
5 Fathom Mark Snapper Snapper, Whiting, Queen Snapper, 32 08.650 115 35.460 WGS84
Samsonfish, Silver Travelly,
Dhufish. Water depth 21m.
5 Fathom Mark Garden Isl Nth. 32.09.946 115.36.381 AGD66
Snapper, Samson Fish, King
George Whiting.
Water depth 12m.
Harding Rock Cockburn Sound. 32 10.050 115 40.851 WGS84
Herring, Tailor, Snapper, Squid,
King George Whiting, Salmon,
Trevally.
Water depth 6 - 10m.
D9 Snapper. Wreck. Water depth 6m. 32 11 664 115 44 516 WGS84
D9 Dozer Snapper. Sand bottom. Water 32.11.65 115.44.57
depth 11m.
Point Peron Marker Outer Marker 32.15.361 115.40.936 AGD66
Orizaba Wreck 32.16.978 115.37.595 AGD66
Horse Shoe Reef 32.18.200 115.21.500 AGD66
Coventry Reef 32.20.155 115.38.185 AGD66
Beacon Marine FAD 32.59.92 115.13.07 AGD66
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heading out tomorro with kaneo and my #1 deckie,whoms pics are in my gallery hopefully post some massive fish here tomorro eve.. good luck to every1..make sure you check ur datum on a few of these spots.as for the top list 99% are WGS84 ,this is default for most gps systems in aust..

Hello fellow fishos
Heading down Busselbury ways (busselton/bunbury). have never fished the busso jetty before and i heard its pretty good. has anyone ever fished the jetty before and if so has any advise for a first timer.
cheers

As usual I turn up at the mole to see the action, but not get any. I was going to get up at 5am, but decided to sleep in till 5:20am. Dammit, it always happens like this.

A school of them was just passing through about 6:05 - 6:15, there were three hookups but only one landed. My scales are only marked to 12kg, and they pulled them out about a third as much again, so perhaps 18kg, this was after it had spent a few hours on the rocks and had been bled as well!

Apart from that fish, all I saw landed was a few herring, a squid and I jagged a few pathetic garfish. I was probably there 6am till about 11 perhaps.

Went woodies point jetty , hoping for something big, saw a couple tuna suprisingly right off the end... Grabbed a lure, Too late :(

Ended up spending bout 1 hour catching a mix of mackeral,skippy and yellowtail.

Stuck the big baits out, First rod went off (my beast of a rod) fought like a snapper, i was hell excited but when it came up it was a shovelnose :(

About 4-5kg

Then got a port jackson about 3kg

Then went home, stopped at servo to get a pie, $4 for this little crappy size of half my fist pie.

It sucked.

Hey poeple, as i missed out on a stella 8000 on ebay (won the bid but it turned out they had none in stock and still dont) i am in the market for an 8000 or 10000FA. If anyone wants to unload one at a competitive price let me know. Otherwise as soon as the ebay shops in the us get them back in stock, im going to get one

Cheers

just wondering about somewhere mtro to fish tomorrow landbased. dont wanna go to hillaries or the narrrows. my thoughts were
Canning Bridge
Cottesloe
mindarie
most of the Swan River

any ideas to whats firing there at the moment?

Does anybody know if the last FAD is still out there after last Sat's storm?

Ok, now remember that I am new to saltwater fishing, and relatively new to Australia, so that pretty much makes me a noob all around.

 So a few times now while out fishing, we've come upon an active baitball.  Problem is, we can't ever seem to cath anything around them.  I understand that just bc fish are actively feeding on bait, does not 100% guarantee, but I think I could use some tips on how to attack them.

 So give me your best shot!

How do you approach one?

Are there ways to tell what is feeding?

Do you cast or troll?

What lures?  or do you baitcast?

any and all help is much appreciated!  Thanks! 

G'day all,

I just dropped in to to say hi after joining this site the other day.

First chance I've had to log on.

Tho I'm new here, I am no stranger to WA and Perth fishing as I have been around since late 1973 - ex US and NZ

I have been away since the end of 2004 and recently returned. So I have a lot of unfished hours to catch up on.

With no boat except 12' tinnie without motor things will be a bit restricted for a while.

I hope to run into some of you great people on fishing outings around this fair town and afar and look forward to many hours online here at Fishwrecked.

Broke my draught with this fine little specimen at Hilarys Marina south end last week. Went 3.43kg and made for 4 delicious meals.

Cheers,  Howz60

You just don't know what might be on the end of your line next time you go fishing. Have a look at this link.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/out-of-this-world-fishing.html

hey pplz if anyone is in need of a deckie  for sqwiding in the next three days  morning or night  pm me or call me on 0433999064  more than keen to get out trying to get a few fresh  tubes for my boys b/day next week

Thanks guys for another grand Swan river clean up!!

All the critters we pulled from the river tonite will go down well on the lunch time menu!!

As for the special guy we took tonite I hope he had a great time!!!LOL

gidday all so whoes goin out this weekend , and do you need a deckie own gear chip in usual cheers craig

I am prety keen to head up to Dide bay Saturday, but my mud map is pretty dodgy. Well very dodgy :).

Wondering if anyone had rough idea how many Ks I head into the dunes until I need to turn left to get to the dide bay access rd?

Cheers
Neander

Hello fellow fishos
headin to Dalyellup on 25th for 1 week. Definately throwing some line
any good spots or recommendations to help out a battler would be awesome.
i cant wait to go. dont care if i catch nothing as long as me line is wet haha
nah really i want sum FISH!!! help please

hey guys

hoping to go for a salmon on sat morning prob not here yet but was hoping to go somwhere between hillarys and city beach

could any won help us out cherrs

danobigfish 

Hey guys, I've got the tide times for exmouth but assume they are for the marina, do you know the variance, if any, for tantabiddi or where i could get an accurate tide time for tanta for the next 2 weeks?

Hi chaps
These are the 2007-2008 WA Fisheries Department Major Initiatives For Management of the State’s Recreational Fisheries as outlined in the WA Budget papers.
• Commence a major research project into the sustainability of blue swimmer crabs on the West Coast.
• Implement new management arrangements to protect crab stocks in the West Coast region.
• Commence Integrated Fisheries Management planning for demersal finfish in the West Coast region to determine future allocations between the recreational and commercial fishing sectors.
• Finalise Integrated Fisheries Management allocations between the commercial and recreational fishing sectors for the rock lobster and abalone resource.
• Review fishing consultative structures to ensure effective communication and consultation with recreational and commercial fishers and their peak representative bodies under an Integrated Fisheries Management framework.
• Review freshwater finfish fisheries in the Southwest, including the interaction between trout and other native fish to ensure the protection of native fish whilst promoting a viable recreational trout fishery.
• Review State-wide possession limits for recreational finfish to ensure long-term sustainability.
• Review management arrangements for key demersal species in the West Coast region.

Estimated budget outlay for 2007-08
Just over 10.2 million (That makes the $2 million the Federal Government has budgeted for the whole of Australia look pretty poor).

hey guys, i was wondering if anyone had the gps points for the derwent? ive been researching it but i cant seem to find it.

any help would be appreciated as if the weather is ok im going to head out to the fads before they take the last ones in next week.

Got a 300m spool of it, quite cheap too only because it was on special.. Any good? anyone else got it?

gday all...just join this webby last night and thought it was a good one. caught a decent bonito last week of about 2.5 kilo off northmole. Thats like the biggest bonito i've caught from shore!

gday all...just join this webby last night and thought it was a good one. caught a decent bonito last week of about 2.5 kilo off northmole. Thats like the biggest bonito i've caught from shore!

Hi all off to coral bay saturday hope to get some good fish this time only had my own boat up there once two years ago so still learning so i hope to have some photos of some big reds to show you when i get back if anybody up there within the two weeks let me know will catch up for a beer or two i will check in over the weeks at internet up there. so lets see how i go???????
cheers dan

A WA Team called the Pilbarians is third. Team made up of Mark Cottrell, Ben Robinson and Justin Nell.

661 barra caught by the end of Day 2

Leaving for Exmouth at the end of the week. Wondering if any other Fishwrecked members will be there in the next two weeks.

Hello all, I'm curious to know where on your boat do you attach your Sea Anchor while drift fishing. I always attach it to the Skippers side of the boat about mid-ship so the boat drifts sideways causing more drag to help slow the boat down and also allows you to fish comfortably out the back. Does anyone attach their Sea Anchor to the rear or any other area of the boat and for what reasons?

Cheers Kev