Hey All

just wondering if any of you wear prescription Sunny's

i need to get some and was just wondering what everyone has, i was looking at spotter but they will set me back a fair bit,

is there any other good options out there

THanks 

Enjoy

 Leaving town.. need to empty freezer of burley i made. Skippy sambo pilchard shread with chook pellets.. anout 10 x2kg bag. Need to take the lot. 1st in best dressed 

Here is a question for those in the know. I was surfing around Dunbier's site and noticed that under their FAQs they state that the towball weight should not exceed 5 - 7% of the BMT. I was always under the impression it was supposed to be around 10% (which my setup is)? Further surfing then revealed a couple of schools of thought. One school saying under 10% increases the chance of sway whilst another school says over 7% puts undue pressure on the towing vehicle potentially presenting unsafe conditions and increasing the wear on the vehicle.

What are your thoughts?

 Picked up some good Reds in Kalbarri yesterday, the spot was also loaded with Mulloway. I sent a jig down hoping for a trout and a Red took it.

ok , so my gps units could do with an upgrade

currently I am running two ,,original is a Furuno ,with about 800 + waypoints still works well , but id like to have a bigger screen , colour etc and upgrade it as the screen lettering is starting to fade

second unit I acquired a few years ago with a boat buy is a hummingbird , its colour and works well ,has about 675 waypoints on it

so I have always had good life with no hassles from the Furuno , so I was thinking to upgrade with Furuno … it will likely be a gps, sounder combo … but ill only be wanting to run it as a full gps as I have a good Furuno 620fcv, with a 2kw transducer that does all I need

so talking to a few peeps , some are advising to go with Lowrance ? , as Furuno are exy and Lowrance will be better value and make better gps ??

to date iv not done a lot of research , been too busy ……

so who runs what and why ?? looking for feedback on the both as just gps units ??

price range is around the 2-2.5 k mark ?

what peoples thoughs on either ? have you got either and what are the differences for the gurus to chime in with ??

hezzy

 Gday Guys

Myself and 5 mates are heading to Shelter Bay in Shark Bay from Sept 28th till the 8th

We have 2 boats and looking for any advice on Trolling for Macks and Getting bigger Snapper? is it warm enough? 

Last time we did well with catching plenty of Blue line Empror and Baldies in the shallows but all the Pinkies were tiny

Also if anyone is in the area around that time if there keen to catch up for a beer?

 Hi 

Has anybody here tried using C map genesis and if so what do you think ?

 Got out for a fish Friday arvo for pinks with my youngest boy then a fish Saturday that you all know about ! 

 Done my bit of chasing big fish off the rocks but these guy are next level..... check out Gido's land based game on YouTube . 

 Took Staggies daughter, Darline, out today to honour her Dad on the water. 

 My daughter, Sarah, came out as well for a nice fathers day on a perfect ocean in the early afternoon. 

 We got a good bag. 

 So Saturday we had a challenge to crack some Harpuka considering the weather. Took off and grabed some fresh bait firstup at 5am. Headed out to 300's and as soon as we started sounding around we had some good ground. Sounder lit up with blue streaks 5m of the bottom. We were hopeful. First drop on my new rod and bang less than 5 secs and i was on. Snap!!!!!!! line broke. Very unhappy person to say the least. Next turn around reriggen dropped down two rods and bang both on. Snap again for me. 600m of line gone. veryunimpressed, My mate locked on and started the long haul. Half way up his rod got even heavier. Up come a nice Harpuka wrapped in my loely brand new red line. OMG star handline pulling in the line and 100m off the back is a big fish floating. Managed to haul in the Grey bandand reclaim my first drop fish. It was going to be a good day.Ended up over the next few hours Harpuka and a small grey band. All up 90L of juice and a boat load of good quality fish. Hope its not just our lucky first. Biggest Harp went 7kg GB 8KG. Tatsed great and the Best Farthers day presents to My dads too

 Heading to nanga in a few weeks, after some advice on beach fishing in the area.

Mainly after whiting, is there particular times/tides to fish?

Any info would be much appreciated 

 About 5 years I would drift in 20-30m of water 5km off mindarie and pull one up every drop. Now im struggling to find them.

Is Swanbourne still producing?

Would appreciate any ball park areas (eg 10m depth off Scarborough)

Also, is burley ever a good idea for Whiting? Or are you asking for wrasse and other undesirables.

 Had a good day on the water today,Unfortunely was pinged twice,early in the day a black barcrusher named Back in Black came out of nowhere and dropped in on my drift(under50m),sounded around and quickly left(after a few choice words)

Later in the day a older fibreglass boat did something similar.

Its a big ocean out there especially when your 30km+ out.

I understand i dont own the ocean and guys can have the sames marks.

There have been times i have got to a spot and found someone on it and have given it a wide berth and gone to the next spot as the its a big ocean.

 Went off bunno today and my mate got a 590mm nanny. Hardly seen them before so wondering how big do they get ?

 Hi guys new to the site so hopefully this post works. Thinking of heading out of Point Peron tommorow and head over to rotto for a spot of fishing just check to see if the ramps down there have been dug out and there's enough water to launch without having to back your car into the water 

cheers

 took my 11yr old son Jesse out off Hillarys this afternoon for a quick fish , launched the crusher at 12pm and headed to a spot in 12m down the coast a bit , got the  burley trail going and the pinks came on hard , my son got 4 smallish ones on a paternoster and 1/2 mulies then one of my floaters went off with a nice 80cm model which went into the icebox , the young fella then scored a 66cm fish on his green gomoku rod which we kept for his dinner. I then had a double hookup with a pair of 70 - 75cm fish that were both released and we pulled anchor and headed in happy. Great afternoon with my boy. 

Lookiing good for tomorrow morning, overcast but flat with light easterlies so gonna head out of two rocks first thing tomorrow morning. We usually go west/north west out of two rocks but this time gonna head out in a more north westerly direction than we usually go looking for new ground, any tips on what depths to be looking in around that area greatly appreciated cheers dave

Enjoy

 Hi I have a 4.88 M Quintrex runabout, at present I am towing it with a Ford Territory AWD, my wife wants us to downsize and buy a Nissan x-trail, with a 4 cylinder 2.2 petrol engine, anyone here tow a similar rig with an X-trail ? (it will be an 2017 model).

Just wondering.....Mal.

Hello Fishos

When fishing floaters for Mackerel and other large pelagic species,
What size hook and brand do you use? Cheers tight lines.

Hi all,

Heading down to Dunsborough this weekend and thinking of hitting the flats out front of town for YFW or flathead but given the mild weather, am I better focusing on other species?

Cheers
C

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what a load.

 Interesting sidescan shot

Hi, has anybody got a tanacom 750 that I can have a look at. I want to see how big in the hand they are. checked my local tackle stores north of the river to no avail.
Thanks Vince

 Went out from Tworocks yesterday fished lots of spots and ground heaps showing on the sounder but weren't real hungry 

Hi members,

I'm trying to gather some info on the distribution of Greyband/Eightbar Cod in WA

So far I have confirmed specimens (based on photo or a sample) from mid-Pilbara to Albany and from depths 105 to 470m

Does anyone have any records (preferably with an image) from outside this distribution or depth range in WA?  Happy to communicate by email or PM if you prefer.

Thanks in advance, Glenn

 Went out at 3pm but couldn't  get thru the skips, caught heaps on bigjohns small bucktail jigs and on small pieces  of mulie. Kept 8 and let heaps go.good fun but not what we  were after.

 Where in wa can someone catch Murray cod ? I have two friends coming over from eastern states 

and want to show them a good fishing trip. I am south of Perth. Any ideas