Went out off 2rocks today !! Was hoping for some demersal 

and southern blue !! Got 5 mins out of the marina !! Whole heap 

of birds busting with fish jumping out went the silver twisty !! No 

blues ended up being bonito !! 5 hook ups and 2 landed !!! After 

10 mins or so they went deep !!! So off we went to chase a dhu! 

Any way drop some fish in 30 m out from Moore river light house 

went out to 44m mate got some sort of whiskery or dog shark look 

just like a gummy but had teeth !! I got a good pink but all went 

quiet so we shot in a back home for burbon !!! Quiet but a good 

day out !! Cheers da pirate !!!

Howdy all,

Old man just gave me one of his prized reels from his trolling days.  The plan is to use this as a LBG reel at some stage.

I've googled but found no specifications on this reel.  From my understanding this reel went out of production in 2000.

If anyone can shed some light on it, i.e line capacity etc.

Cheers,

Clem

 Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen

Whilst beavering away in the garage this evening, on the lathe making pens, I heard a loud bang over the noise of the dust extractor. I switched off the machinary to investigate and was greeted by the sight of this boat in my street in Port Kennedy. As I had the camera with me for taking photos of pens, I was able to grab a 'Happy snap' before rendering assistance. I could see the driver and no one was hurt.

He took this narrow corner too tightly and cut the corner and the boat trailer hit the kerb and flipped. Felt sorry for the young fellow, all distraught, and on the phone to his Dad.

I thought we could right the boat, but I put a couple of heavy duty ratchets on as well. By then, his dad and family turned up and between us all, we were able to right the boat. The main damage was the draw bar was twisted and some cosmetic damage, bumps and scrapes etc.

Boat was righted and the strap used to ensure it stayed on. The young fellow was very appreciative of my efforts, as the dad. They drove off slowly, not far to get home.

I guess Dad had another chat with him once home, but all seemed calm and rational, poor bugger.

He had a crap day out on the water as well, no fish!!
Cheers

Willy

Jarrahland

hi all, went for a fish yesterday and we caught 3 juvenile mullas and 3 tailor of roughly 40cm. the tailor came home for dinner and the mullas were released.

my question is, is it ok to eat one of the tailor which we found some sort of tick on? it was only one very small tick-like parasite near its tail above the anal fin. i havent yet filleted it to see what the flesh is like. if the wife wasnt carrying our own little parasite  i would just cook it and eat it, simply because ive already gutted it and hate wasting fish, and cooking should kill anything harmful.

do you guys have any experience with these tick like things? i wish i had of snapped a photo of it but i didnt think to. a quick search on google and FW didnt bring much up for me that looked like it. it was very small, 2mm at most, a round body with all of it legs exposed, yellowish white sandy colour.

 Hey guys. I'm hoping Someone has some info on cork flooring for boats. I'm redoing my floor in my leeder 710 super sports over winter and was looking at the cork flooring instead of carpet. Does anyone have it, know who does it and what it's worth? 

Cheers guys 

dan 

 So after Friday's efforts, my young bloke wanted to get into some of the tuna.com action (from the Wicked Tuna tv show). This morning's weather conned me into thinking it would be reasonable out there so we made a late call to head for Hillarys and throw the boat in. All the reports said rain but the sky said blue so we went. My daughter decided she didn't want to get left out of the action and she jumped in too.

We got to Hillarys around 10:30 and pushed out into a bit of a sloppy nor'easter. The plan was to stay close and fish for herring in case the weather went south with the forecasts. Within minutes of burleying up the herring were thick as anything and in a hungry mood! James (aka Dave from tuna.com) was into it first and demanded a photo for his new website he is going to make about fishing (where do they come up with this stuff?).

After we swung about 10 aboard and let them go (when I told him he couldn't sell them for thousands then he didn't want to kill them for nothing!!) the wind picked up enough to make Charlotte (aka TJ from Hot Tuna) decide it was time to head in due to the ocean being too wibbly.

It turned out to be a great call as we had just sat down to lunch when the rain hit hard! 

 On the way home the boat got a fresh water high pressure wash from the heavens and all I had to do was flush the engine! Good stuff.

 Hey guys, just up dating earlier post bout heading to knobby point for a fish fri and sat- as u can c it went well- we got some cracking dhuies, realeasing many quality fish. 8-14 mtr of water. Fishing partner Damo got his first dhui and sambo on jig as well . We trolled a few quality sambos up for sum arm bending action, looking forward to getting back there.

Anybody have any advice on the purchase of an electric outboard motor. Preferences eg

Brought a litre of this product a while back and thinking about using it on a regular basis. Up to now I have been doing regular outboard flushing via fresh water from tap.

Who uses Salt Off SX50 or similar on your outboard etc and what is your experience.

Also believe it is good for cleaning reels etc?

 As MickC already wrote, we had an amazing afternoon session on good size skippy on Friday the 3rd. The shot below is taken a few hours after the skipps had moved in and it was already dark by the time I remembered to take a sounder shot! ha ha.

And from earlier with the result

a few fish from may! I reckon ive caught more birds in that net than fish. They always seem to fly into it, when ya take them out they bite hell out of ya!

Im up at work at the moment and have been watching the weather on Seabreeze noticing the weather has been looking good for the last few days, so for the last few nights I have been constantly checking fishwrecked for any stories, reports, photos of everyones catch but there hasnt been many posted!! Haha I havnt been able to get my fishing fix and looks like murphys law next week when I am home the weather is going to blow up so I probably wont get out either!!

Hahaha Make sure you lucky guys are putting your stories and photos up for us who cant get out so we can dream :)

Cheers fellas!!

 There was an article in the local Mandurah paper this week with the above Title. Two seperate incidents of people getting caught pulling other peoples pots. If I was 20 years younger i might know how to copy & paste the story. Any way, the bastards got caught. Thank you fisheries.  

 I want to buy a new set of weighing scales. 20 - 30 kg (I'm optomistic) Are there any brand recommendations to buy? Or any crap ones to Not buy? They're not very expensive but still dont want to waste money on something that doesnt do what its supposed to do or breaks in 5 minutes.    

 Just want to hear opinions on if this is usual or not.

Went out yesterday, bit lumpy in the morning but beautiful in the arvo. Anyway 35-40m deep & caught what we thought were kingies until we got on deck & realised they were very large salmon. we were catching them at 800mm and built like tanks. I have never caught them that deep before. Not too sure if they were following us around but tried 3 spots and all produced salmon until we moved 3 miles away! We were also north of Mindarie which again is a little unusual.

The fight on this size was awesome & kept us entertained for a while. Managed a couple of good baldies,KG's & big pinky. All dhuies were released well inc again a few token Harlequins which seem to be a bit more prevalent.

Anyway would be good to hear if others have caught salmon this deep?

 Andre OZ 1200 + 2 extra shafts, only used a few times, in great condition

Retails for $545 and each shaft is $80, selling for an upgrade, great all rounder gun.

Asking 700

Any interest please text or call me on 0417 898 368

Cheers

 Hi all

Heading to Gnaraloo today with a stop in Carnarvon tonight. I left the cryovacs at home. I know very very funny for a man who sells them. Just wondering if there is anyone in Carnarvon willing to lend me one for a week? I will make it worth their while.

and ready for the barrage of comments :))

PM me or call on 0403978583

cheerd

dave

 hey everyone,

going to go out for the first time at night on sunday night. we are gonna try and fish for snapper, since its our first time in the boat at night we dont really wanna travel any further than cockburn sound, are there any spots in cockburn worth fishing at night for snapper or other species? any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers vinnie

 Hey,

I have just purchased a scotty 1060 Downrigger  and I was just wondering how sturdy the mount bracket is? I was planing on using a  12lb bomb and was  just fearful that it would be too heavy.

cheers 

anyone got some places where you can catch a feed of whiting, tackle some bream or a mulloway arround geraldton?

just on the hunt for some poppers an other lures that have proved effective when targeting whiting?!?!?

Enjoy

 Hey people,

Im wanting to head over to NZ early next year Januaryish, I am looking to spend two weeks over there. I am hoping to go on like a 3-5 day trout fishing trip tour guided. I was wondering has anyone been over there and done something Similar? What charter did you go on? Any recomendations as to what i should be looking for?

Thanks 

Hi everybody

I apologise if this is in the wrong forum as this is my first post

I have recently purchased a boat after not having one for years and I have the gps coordinates for the gap in the reef when leaving from Hillary's but my question is do people use the leading lights as marked on navionics to depart from ocean reef when heading out wide or is there a better and perhaps safer way to head out through the reef

Many thanks

 All,

After posting about logo free fishing shirts (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/logo-free-fishing-shirts), Members responses gave me the inspiration to continue developing the small family business to service specialist fishing and aquatic related markets.  To that end I have now developed our web site to the point that it is ready to post in draft form for comment.

Let’s just say it has been an interesting journey.  Having never developed a web site before but having some degree of computer literacy, I must say the attraction of learning how to use a website builder was too good to pass up.  I have heard a lot of stories about big bucks being handed to “computer geeks” to develop websites and then you pay again every time you want something to change.  The service is crap, the cost is high and they never really understand exactly what you want.  At least with doing it yourself, you control the content and the timing although I’m not sure you can get the true professionalism that you would from someone trained in design.

That is not to say it is easy.  I must admit I felt like a bit of a geek myself spending so long playing with content, format, navigation, codes, etc.  Add in trying to build a shop with inventory, pricing, terms and conditions, mailing costs and other assorted stuff, including PayPal accounts, was a little mind numbing.  I tried to make it easy to navigate with buttons that get you around as I hate going to sites and getting stuck.  Also, being a complete social media “midget” I had to get my head around Facebook and Twitter of which I had no clue – lucky I have some kids that I could ask questions.  Anyway, I did the best I could and if you like the site please “like it” on the home page – I have no idea what the consequences will be but I have heard it is the done thing.

I am really only asking for comments at this stage – does it all work ok, is it easy to use, does it work properly on tablets and mobiles, have I got all the links right, are the products fair and reasonable, etc, etc, etc?  You will note I have also linked a selection of FW fishing stories, mostly about pinkies, to put them in one place and add some interest.  Any comments at all would be appreciated and you are welcome to PM me.  Any comments on other products and services you would like to see would also be gratefully accepted.

I have been discussing FW sponsorship with Adam and will take this up whereby the link to our business will be available on a permanent basis.  We are likely to include discounts to FW members and will advise how to get reduced prices on the shirts with the sponsorship text.  Hence, the site is being published to seek comments at this stage.

The address is: www.shorecatch.com.au

Thanks, your interest is appreciated.

Mick

G'day

A good mate of mine recently moved down to Cowaramup. I'm driving down in a couple weekends time to visit and was hoping to get a bit of land based fishing action in.

I have never fished land based down south at all and don't even know where to start. If anyone could give me a heads up on which direction to head, don't want any secret spots (or you can PM me any secrets ;) , just a good general guide. He is a part time fisherman and usually just drives to the closest body of water. I told him I'd ask the good folks on fishwrecked for some advice - always found the fishwrecked community to help a brother out when needed. We have all the appropriate beach/rock fishing gear.

We both have FWD's if they are required.

Cheers boys and girls,

Alex

 Hi guys 

please can i have some help on catching swan flathead, the fishing report says they are in the river and being caught but i cant seem to find any please can i get some info on the best spots. Yesterday at jojos jetty i found one sitting in the sand behind the restuarant so i jigged a zman grub right in front of its mouth and it completly ignored it. Also at jojos there are schools of massive 40cm plus brem swimming around but they are super shy and dart away as soon as i cast the grub should i use bait and if so which bait

thanks

TomN

Short notice but thought I would throw it out there.

Not sure on the plan yet - it may be a day exploring the 3mile and then finding a spot for an afternoon snapper fish or start wide (40m) and work out there. I have no spots out there and it would be exploratory so you take the gamble of what you expect for the day.

I'll be leaving Hillarys around 9:30am and probably return an hour or 2 after dark if the weather is as predicted.

PM me your number and we'll go from there.

Boat is 6.4m shown below.

Peeps,

I have looked back through the post history for charters and it appears that none of them are still in business. I am working out of Karratha and will have Sundays off starting this coming Sunday, I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction of a decent fishing charter operator. 

Alteneratively next swing I am bringing up some of my travel gear in hope of getting my first queeny, I think I am going to be heading to Cossak. However I am open to surgestions... 

And as a hail merry I would be more than happy to pay for fuel and bring beers if a local wanted to take me out, Land based or boat based. 

Cheers

Chris