Enjoy 

 Hi Gang, Looking to do a trip in october just after school holidays. Never fished WA coast as have been in darwin but had a bit of a look on this site and weighing up shark bay or esperance. Will have a 3.9 tinny so any advice on spots weather this time of year would be welcome. No family so just a boys trip with swags and 4wds.

 Took a half day off yesterday afternoon to do some miles in my little runabout with the perfect weather and before the wind kicks in in coming days. Was fishing in 50-60m off the north Muiron and was getting obliterated by sharks. Got a few red throat and was about to pack it in after losing a good fish + half rig but chucked another bait on my remaining hook and dropped down and pulled a big estuary cod  ~95cm and no idea on the weight. 

Blew its guts after skull dragging it off the bottom and highly doubt it was going to release so I took it home and slabbed up last night. Have really rated the smaller models on the plate that I have caught but interested to know what I can expect from a fish this size. Are they still good chewing? Fillets looked lovely. 

 Hi all

Does anyone know if Perth Fishing Safaris still exist? Website appears to be removed, phone is disconnected and can't find them on Facebook. 

We got my ol man a voucher for his 60th and it's not looking good. 

Cheers

Steve

    Would like to know are there any long term caravan parks in broome near the town . Will be retiering there next year . So fishing almost every day .

    Any help appreciated 

Hi, I am looking into a Uniden MHS155UV duel band uhf/vhf cb radio, I was wondering if anyone has used one/ owns one?, my VHF in the tinny has shit its self and I don't have a UHF in the car so when I first saw there was a dual band radio that got me thinking this might be the best solution

Cheers Yewie

 Gday all,

Looking for reviews for either of the above coolers? 

Madfish have been around a while, though have noticed the treasure chests hit the market recently.

Keen to hear about your experiences - the old hard esky is hardly keeping the ice and need an upgrade urgently. 

Cheers

Hey all

Heading back to Broome in late Sep and looking for charter recommendations for some reef fishing. AOC is booked out for days we want to go so any others worthwhile?

Cheers

Pezdog
 

Heading up in October with my 4.5m side console. Just wondering if anyone has fished the artifical reef system lately?

It's close to the canals which is where im staying so should give it a shot for pelagics and demersals when the wind isnt too crazy Gulf side.

Fingers crossed the Sharks arent too bad!

 
Enjoy 

 https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102758166

 Thursday Friday Saturday, sbt fishing, squiding etc

The City of Wanneroo are carrying out a consultation for recreational fishing on beaches with absolutely zero context of any background issues. Just a glib “do you believe limitations should be placed on fishing activities in areas where surf lifesaving activities are taking place” with no definition of ‘surf lifesaving activities’ but appears it would affect Quinns, Alkimos and Yanchep beaches.

Hi All

Just had the pleasure of taking the phone survey being undertaken by Edith Cowan University (ECU) on behalf of WA Fisheries.  As an engineering type who has a pretty fair understanding of statistics and survey techniques and all I can say is what a waste of time and money.

Really not much more than have you been fishing, boat/shore/both, how many times, where (based on the so-called bioregions), what have you caught (from a list of species) (no interest in number or released or kept), how many times do you think you will go fishing again, do you want to participate in a detail survey log moving forward?  Extremely simplistic and narrow data set.

All they can take from it is have you been fishing and are you going to keep fishing.  If this is the basis for some advisory to Fisheries i cannot fathom how it can be presented as any meaningful or representative way other than a simple how many and where exercise. 

This sadly appears to line up with the poor science we have been seeing used as a basis for managing Fisheries in WA.

I fear there is more bad news to come if you like fishing.

Anyone have a pickled squid recipe they are prepared to share.

conrad 

 Herring bit patchy .. no worries on the 

skippy in berly trail .. filleted and boned 

out .. then into the smoke .. plenty out

there on prawn baits fellas .. cheers 

pirate .

 Left hillarys looking for sbt, found our selves inside rotto, had a great time released 24, kept 3 for the pets, no bait very little birds just sight them and motor up until we loaded up the 2 lures and rerepeat, good fun not huge but good fun on light gear 

 
Enjoy 

 Check out the size of these barra. ( Pascoeboyfishing) on YouTube.  Using a directional sonar to spot the fish and watching them follow your lure is unreal, even saw the shark chasing the fish. Next level.  Give it a look, be nice to have something like that on your doorstep. 

Im  Thinking about pulling a few small deep divers / skirts for SBT off rotto west end on saturday. Anyone on here been getting them. Launching from hillarys cheers

 G'day all

I have a few extra lures in my kit to give away.

There are 5 sets of these lures, all similar but some with different colours.

They consist of 2 x 180mm stickbaits and 2 x 200mm poppers.

All brand new. ONE SET PER PERSON PLEASE.

Please, please please, only ask for them if you can actually use them, they are large palegic style lures.

Please keep in open forum, I will not answer any Private messages.

There is no catch, just you will need to collect them.

I live near Perth Airport, just so you know.

Stax

 
Enjoy 

 Hey there Team, 

Just thought I'd share a few pics and some in-sight to a charity we started last year in W.A. supporting Breast Cancer and the McGrath Foundation. 

In late 2019 my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and as covid hit our shores she was going through multiple operations and months of chemo and radiation. She kicked cancers arse and is one of the main reasons after she recovered that we sold up everything and now live a life semi-retired and fishing and working up and down the west coast and beyond. 

Since her treatment I wanted to find a way to give back to some of the charity's that helped her so much, one in particular was the McGrath Foundation and we were lucky enough to have a breast care nurse stationed down in Bunbury during Kel's treatment. So I had got into a bit of rod building and thought of somehow making pink fishing rods and raffle them off but with the help of a mate and a bunch of crew we were able to get a few custom rods built and also some amazing prizes donated by some very generous local and intersate businesses. 

Last year we launched it at the Perth Boat Show and this year we'll be doing the same and running the online raffle through till mid November. 

We have some epic prizes this year and some of our sponsers have made some crazy pink themed fishing and spearo gear! 

Pink Ribbon Fishin’ (@pinkribbonfishin) • Instagram photos and video

OldMate Adventures | Trek Camp Hunt - our charity page and sponsor details.

https://www.facebook.com/PinkRibbonFishin

Tickets will be only $5ea and all money raised goes to the McGrath Foundation. If you follow our socials all the raffle details will be posted mid september onwards. Look out for our Pink Gazebo at the Boat Shows and 4wd Shows and come say howdy. 

Cheers All. 

Jed. 

 Hi team.  I tried the search function, but it wont work.

Going up next week.  Any tips would be appreciated

Couple of beach snapper of the drone @ 200m, yesterday morning. One demersal that just keeps getting better year on year. The one thing fisheries did right protecting the breeding aggregations from commercial and rec anglers. Small ones are a pest at times stealing the baits, but cant complain with fish like these. I have been hearing reports of big fish schools from all over even 600m depths. 

 
Enjoy 

Had a great trip north recently and managed a few good fish with great weather. Sharks only managed to find us a few times which made the trips more enjoyable.

 A while back there was a post that said the Exmouth tantabiddi boar tamp was going to be getting a marina development . Does anyone have any updates on what's going on or some sort of timeline for building or even if it's going to go ahead . 
Cheers Paul

I have a question related to the painted lobster and ornate lobster found in our northern waters.  It's common knowledge that these species are generally not caught in pots.  But does anyone know why?  I have heard it said that they are vegetarians but that is incorrect.  I have also heard that their feelers cannot retract and face backwards which makes it difficult for them to enter pots but that appears to be false as well. 

hi. im in the kimberley late september. really wanting to spend 3 or 4 days in the sale river. information on the sale is not easy to come by as it seems, really hoping i can touch base with anyone that has any expreiance (good or bad) on the sale river. its not our first time up that way but is first time pushing into the sale. travelling with two 9 meter tralier boats and towing a couple of dingys.