Just wondering has the law been passed in western Australia in regards to the skipper being .05 like the rest of the states or are we still exempt ?? Thanks

Gday all

Heading up to broome on boxing day for a week.

Staying at eco beach for first few days and then heading back in to town.

Looking for any advice/spots to try out. Creeks,spinning off the beach or anything.

Will have a small 4x4 so I can travel around a bit.

Would love to get in to my first barra and queenie.

Cheers

Dan

 these are just a few of the home made poppers I made out of jarrah over the holidays. Ive tested them and they swim like a dream. they are perfectly weighted and simetrical and they swim just as good if not better than any bought popper ive ever seen. still looking for the best way to paint them but as soon as i do Ill be ready to take orders!!!

 Borrowed a kayak off a mate and headed out from pt walter with a friend of mine. trolling small scorpions and twistys we hooked up chopper after chopper no big ones with the biggest going 36 cms... but dam i never thought fishin off a yak would be so much fun.. The lil reel with 4 pound going zzzzzzzzzz every couple mins. Released them all and will be back out there again soon :) something to do when the wind is upp.. plenty out thereee

Marko

Hi guys,

Picking my first boat up tomorrow arvo and need to sort out the insurance tomorrow.

What companies does everyone go through?? what do i need to look for in a good insurance company??

I have bought a 18 foot ali with a honda 130 fourstoke. tandem braked trailer.

Would really appreciate any advice or experiences.

Cheers

just a heads up was down mindaries this arvo for a bit of a look with the kids , bout 6pm when i seen 5 cars with smashed windows

they were all fishermens cars parked along the rock wall so theres some low lifes hanging round up there .

didnt hang around just told some of the poor bastards what had happened to there cars ........

does anyone know where to find squid in mandurah?

this just after 30 secs of trolling in the flying foam passage dampier. only 100 metres off the beach where we were camping. 

we hauled this in 2 boats in just over 2 hours. beautiful weather too. 5 reds 4 spanglies 4 pinkies a rankin and some goldspot.

 Hi guys and girls

 Firstly great forum really helpfull on so many different levels  , we are staying at rotto for a couple of weeks and we are looking to do some fishing a close family friend has a boat but we don't really know any spots we have a terrific whiting spot went out yesterday and got 40 in no time but we wanted to get onto some bigger fish my mother in law wants a dhew fish :-) don't we all I don't mind what we catch But I don't want to waste hours driving around looking for spots as we try to only go out for 3 or 4 hours each morning so we can get home befor lunch to spend time with my young children and family , any help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance 

Matt

Got down the beach last night set up my chair, rod holder, bait, grabbed a beer snd got ready for a good nights fishing.....

First cast and I felt a knot in the line go flying through the eyes...........looked down at my reel and SHIT!!!!! I was down to Mono!!!

I specically asked them at the tackle shop to fill my spool with braid.........no mono!

I couldnt cast it with a bloody great knot in it so my only choice was to take the braid off.........second cast.......twang!.........look down at my reel and no line left on the spool!!!!!!!!  FUCK!!!

Pack the gear up, grab another beer and watch my mate pull in 3 Tailor in as many minutes.......

Oh well.......a bad days fishing is better than a good day at work.

Had a cracker day out on the first day of the season, Mick and I both got a 15kg Dhu each and another two smaller ones that went back easily, big Baldy, big KG, Black Ass and some nice Pinkies, fish were on the bite all day and we were back at the ramp by 3!

Cheers Mick for puting us on the fish yet again, legend!

 Hi all, first report for me and second season with the boat. still looking for ground when the weather plays the game, last season was hard with outtings and no fish, manage to pull a few sized dhue myself but the best fish caught on the boat have always been by the deckie. This is an issue for the wife recons the only fish i can kill are the duaghters gold fish.

So yesterday being a day with a leave pass and the weather looking reasoable we decided to head out and have a look around, tryed a spot from last season which had my brother cath a 18kg Dhue to my none, first three fish were good size Srg Baker which quickly went on ice but this did not entice a Dhue, then followed my first and only fish for the day a decent Break sea cod that went 46cm, this went in the box for my conferdence of catching big and better fish was not good. My mate then open his account with a break sea cod also that went 50cm.

We decided on a move to a spot found by luck last season that had biggfish land three big snapper to my none in a ten minute period, first drop had my mate on again with a doble header Queenie and baby amber jack ( i think ) second drop my mate again double header of pinkies, the larger we kepted and the smaller returned strong. This was by 930 so we thought the chances of another class 1 would be good but it didnt eventuate the weather turned dead not a fart of wind. that was it not a fish landed after that even with all attempts made. headed in at 3 with a few keepers.

Well i guess persistance is the key, i gain somthing out of every outing and the deckie is always happy. took a few photos of the day. i enjoy the photos and reports on this site weather big or small so thought i would contribute.

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Hi guys

Just wondering, do any of you anchor in depths of 30-40m behind garden island or just drift? I know you don't anchor on 5 fathom because waves build up over the shallow water.

We were going to anchor up because fish were everywhere in 30m but i was thinking what happens if a rogue wave appears.

Also, how much anchor rope do you guys have?

Thanks

Yay! honda's new 250hp outboard is here! (soon!)

Not sure what they are called, but anyone dived off the rocks at burns beach? I dived there today and saw the marine parks boat watching me as I got back up. From what I know, this isn't part of a marine park or no dive zone or am I wrong?

 of having set hooks on cray pot ropes ?

Ok, so went for a dive today, and found these 2 hanging off a rope snagged on the bottom(which looked like a cray rope). No pot and no float. This was in 14m of water 6km from Hillarys.

hi guys

goodz (ben), troy and myself went out for a fish today from point peron, it was a very early start with us leaving the marina at 4.30am.

little bumpy on the way out but the plan was to stop at one of bens spots on the way out.....first drops result in numerous sambo hookups, even a double header, not huge fish but not rats either, then the sea seep moved in and it was one after another until we had to move to get away from them.

we moved out a little deeper only to come across more sea sweep, they were becoming a pest!!!

move around a little looking for some better shows and then it went off.... with mutilple hookups for the next few hours

you name it, it was coming over the side, by 11am we had landed...

11 dhuys

5 pinkys

6 sambos

4 blackass

6 swallow tail

about 30 sea sweep

and as many skippy as well, plus all the normal shit stuff.

then ben hooks up big time on the light outfit and the fish headed straight back into his hole, with a big effort from ben he manages to get his fish out of the hole and we were all calling it for a big dhuy.

then a nice size groper hits the surface and we were shocked to say the least.

we come home with 2 size dhuys 84cm & 68cm

58cm pinky

bens groper

1 b/b

and a few big skippy each.

every thing else was returned, all the dhuys & pinkys were in great shape and went back without the use of a release weight and swam off strong.

all in all a great day on the water with some quality fishing.

some pics to come soon.

check out pics here  

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/good-fishin

cheers

 Guys, what do you think of the weather tomorrow? I just don't trust the forecast that much, and I'm trying to get couple of iterations. Keeps on changing by the hour! Heading out from NOR, Mindarie/OR

Cheers

 Had a great day out with Fisho-Ron and Troy today landing plennnnnnty of fish between us on baits, jigs and plastic. Even landed a random groper on jig that smashed me hard!

Just a few pics from my camera... somehow Ron avoided a photo!

Hi folks,

Just wandering if anyone has any personal experience / hearsay evidence of mulloway in the Murray River. I know you'll get them on the beaches surrounding the Mandurah region and in the estuary too - but am curious as to whether they pop up from time to time on the other side of the inlet?

FYI - Murray River is running fast as a result of the floods in Williams and is about 0.75m higher than usual. Hard work fishing the snags at the moment!

Cheers,

Rob 

What's going on with the squid? Went out today for a few hours and got none. Tried around garden island. Anyone getting any? Gonna try again tomorrow morning.

 HEY GUYS HEADING TO GREEN HEAD FOR BOXING DAY BEACH FISHING BOATING FOR A DHU HOPFULLY AND SOME CRAYS IF ANYONE HAS REPORTS OR ANY INFO ON WHERE THEIR BITTING IT WOULD BR APPRECATED THANKS.

MERRYCHRISTMAS TO ALL

I usualy fish between Corronation Beach and Bowes river and quite often there are hundreds of crabs running all over the beach.

Last weekend we had caught a couple of Wobygongs a Tailor, a Herring, a Snook, a shovel nose ray and a heap of small Mulloway............

For something different a caught one of these crabs and baited it up with a strip of Mullet and chucked it in.........couple of minutes latter and "bang" .....a 90cm Mulloway.

Do other people use crabs as bait? Are they regarded as good bait or do you reckon it was just arse and he took it because of the mullet?

Cheers

I have a spare voucher for free fishing charter this Wednesday 21st off Mandurah - breakfast and lunch included.

I was going to take a different mate, but he is off on holiday.

So here is my offer, best offer I get to take me out on their boat some other time (covering my fuel share too) get the invite. I can probably arrange transport for you if you are anywhere near Greenwood or Joondalup.

PM me  and I will get back to the winning skipper tomorrow.

cheers

RICEY

Heard that the professionals netted 6 tonnes of tailor last week along the northern beaches of Bunbury... And apparently they were sent off for cat food. 

Whats the point of having bag limits for us recreational anglers when the pro's can take so much?

Well with the ban being lifted yesterday I was just itching to get back out. I love the Super Deep fish and ever more so jigging that depth for them. The current and drift speed often works against me out there but these Japanese Super Deep 750 & 1kg jigs sorted that out!

Blake my shop manager was also keen to get his arm stretched so off we went. I sounded around and located fish on an edge and down went my Super Deep Jig. This is the first time using this jig and holy shit its flutter action is far better than I expected (being so heavy) but the centre weight is awesome and had plenty of flash & action!

First drop I got a small Bass groper, Blake then got a nice Greyband (shark had a swipe on the way up), I then got a Hapuku and Blake finished off with a cracker Bass Groper on the Super Deep 1kg which put a massive smile on his dial!

We could feel the action of the jig in 400m of water and all fish smashed the Super Deep jigs hard. Aggressive hits indeed and some fish hit the jigs on the up jig and some on the flutter down! 


 

My small Bass on the Super Deep Jig!

Blakes Greybanded cod on the Super Deep Jig!


 

My Hapuku on the Super Deep Jig!

Blakes Bass Groper on the Super Deep Jig!

Well done Blake getting quality fish on jig & good company mate

Has anyone made a Bait Cannon (not spud gun)

Seen some on you tube but at $799 cost to much.

Im going to use air to shoot bait out over the surf

Any tips on the build :o)

Thanks

 A 2.5m and two 3m shark sighted this morn at scabs from the chopper

heading off to kalbarri tomorrow at 5 and will be bak on friday so ill post up a full report about the whole trip and wat we get