hey guys i caught this wierd looking fish and i have know idea what he is,i put him back because i didnt know if they are any good to eat and i wasnt to keen i putting him in the eski incase someone got spiked.does any one know what he is and if they are any good to eat?

Well after a week off work, and the wind OK. Not the tide and moon for a arvo/evening fish.

Headed West from Dampier and found the spot. Fish on sounder but not what you would call a bonanza.

Then hell broke out. Every drop a fish. Bagged out on Blueline and Black Snaps in 20mins. Then as we still wanted to fish only kept other species. As it was evening/night the price fish like trout wasnt on the menu, but after 2 hours, a further bag out on big Flag (which we love and target --Horror horror) decided well what now.

It just was a fish a drop, whatever we used got nailed. Tested some thoeries on old bait, no didnt matter, nailed.

Low tide and full (ish) moon normally I would have thought social fish, but this was stella, and the stella 10T SW finally got to sing a little, just to reveal a 3-4ft Blacktip.

Has anyone else experienced stella days when you wouldnt have thought so.

Today going for a squid, to much fish in the fridge. Dont freeze our fish, gives us a reason to eat fresh and go again. But with 2 days to go fishing wise, bagged out on white fillets, its time for a target change. Squid and sportsfish on the menu. Watch out Queenies, here come the fly wand.

Neels 

Looking for a reasonably priced late model long shaft outboard. Preferably 1998 onwards. 2 or 4 stroke.

Either PM or post reply on here.

Tah yous

Looking at buying a daiwa catalina 4500H, has anyone used one and what would anyone suggest as another reel for the same price range?

cheers, James

May have to book an annual leave day???  Or Hope the fine weather continues into the weekend!

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/graphs/wa.asp

I just bought a Shimano stella 8000sw, as it says above i'm looking for a good rod

maybe a shimano rod???? any thoughts welcome

price around $100-$200

Cheers Jesse

 

thewest.com.au 12 August 2011

Following on from Ryan C's best capture thread, I thought what about the opposite - the fishing trip from hell!

My worst one was in late 2005 at Kalbarri. For a 3 day fishing trip over the weekend, myself and a coupla mates hired the 6.5m boat "Bulowayo Boy" from Murchison boat hire. Good stable hire boat, and lovely people to deal with, are the lasting good memories of the trip.

On the first day out, we went circa 15nm North, and scored a coupla small red throats and pinkies. The wind picked up about lunchtime, and this was forcast so wasn't unexpected. Early arvo saw us calling for a return to base as the conditions were continuing to deteriorate. With a decent seabreeze, and swell of 2 meters saw us with a slowish return journey. About 15mins into our return trip, a call came over the radio if anyone was in the vicinity of a North West direction from the river mouth. It was the Kalbarri VMR crew.

We answered, and received the reply that a 4m dighy with 4 people onboard was overdue. We altered course and headed further out to their radio'd position, but couldn't find them. After  ½ hr of looking fruitlessly for them in their supposed fishing position, we decided to head home along a route close to the shoreline to make sure we had the greatest chance of seeing them if they were in trouble. We were calling in regularly with VMR, to see if they had returned safely.

A km or so North of the rivermouth, we saw what we all dreaded. An upturned dinghy on the reef, debris floating and being smashed against the reef by the wind and waves. One bloke was sitting dazed on the reef near the dinghy. Another was lying prone on the reef and unmoving. He too eventually sat up as we came as close as we dared to the reef. These were the lucky ones.

As we circled the area, we saw another bloke in the wash, and he was dumped onto the reef by the swell. Unfortunately he was deceased. We hung around searching for the other 1, in constant contact with VMR keeping them abreast of what was happening. Eventually, SES vollies, local crayboats, jetski's, police and others arrived at the scene, and they took over. We had been hanging around as close as we could to the rocks without putting ourselves in danger just to keep the blokes on the reef re-assured, and trying to find the other fisherman and also collecting the debris from the water.

The upshot of it all was 1 dead fisherman found on the day, but another still missing. We searched over the next 2 days for the missing person, to no avail. I heard tell that 6 weeks after the accident, a foot was found and thats all.

The Kalbarri SES vollies were absolutely fantastic throughout! cant speak highly enough of their quality of people, service and commitment!

All in all, a nightmare of a trip, but nowhere near as bad for us as the others.

Some salient lessons were learnt tho, now that I've got my own boat!. Always log on/ log off with VMR. always state where you're going and an eta, etc. And dont go out in an open dinghy with 4 people, miles out to sea, with a decent seabreeze forecast!

Hey all

Just bought a daiwa caldia 2000 and a liberty club egi rod, i know a shallow spool model 2004 would have been a better option but couldnt find one for the same price, my dilema now is i would prefer a braid less than .15mm, berkley whiplash is .10mm at 30lb... rovex goes .10mm at 6lb and some suffix i was looking at was .20mm at 10lb, im using 8lb powerpro (claimed .14mm) on a stradic 1000 but would prefer something a bit softer. The caldia should fit 150M of .20mm, im leaning towards the whiplash, any thoughts? So many braids these days its getting painful figuring out what to use.

 might be going down to rockingham grain terminal tonight to get some bronzies mabey a gummie, anbody know if they are having anylook down there ? 

With the great weather we have had in the past couple of days it was decided to make the most of it. Met up with Lamby out wide on Wednesday and went in the search of a few dhuies. The day started pretty slow with a couple of spots showing good fish but no takers. After searching around for a few hours Matt who was on Lamby's boat managed a to pick up a nice dhuie on a Fanky metal. After a couple more hours of not much Lamby decided to make his way home and we went and tried a few more spots further west. Finally found a few fish that were hungry. Dave and I both managed to hook up onto good fish. I got busted off and Dave boated a nice dhuie which was caught on a McArthy 7".

After a couple more drifts with no luck it was decied to head for home and try a sambo spot on the way. The sambo spot looked very fishy on the sounder but the fish were on the bottom which was strange. Dave decided to send a FCL Labo down and worked it slowly and I sent down a Sea Rocks knife jig and worked it fast. Dave hooked up and got busted off not long after on a good fish. We were both thinking a sambo but next drop proved us wrong. Dave hooked up again and after a good fight pulled in a dhuie. Managed to catch a couple more dhuies before we headed for home. Looks like my sambo spot had been overtaken by dhuies. Can't complain with that.

Day two we decided to head back to where we found the dhuys the day before. Tried a few old spots on the way out and scored a nice pinkie on the old fav 7" McArthy red mullet.

Arrived at the 'sambo' spot to find it looking very fishy again. Dave hooked up first and pulled in a dhuie, meanwhile I had hooked up to something very solid. After trying to get this fish off the bottom for quite some time we were both starting to think I had hooked a sambo. After a few more minutes it started to come off  the bottom, but every now and then did some blistering runs. After a nervous battle it slowly started to drift away from the boat and we both knew then it was a dhuie. Sure enough it was and a cracking fish too. A new PB for me of 18.5kgs. Was caught on a McArthy 7" pink/pearl using 20lb line on a Posiedon Spin Jerker PSPJ603L and a Certate 3000.

After catching and releasing a few more dhuies of various sizes we decided to try find a few sambos. Headed south to a ledge that goes from 25m to 40m. Sure enough the sambos and ambers were there harassing the baitfish. The next couple of hours were spent stretching the arms and back on some average size fish.

After both of us were beat we headed home to clean the two days efforts of fish. Ended up with 18kg of fillets for the two days. Got to be happy with that.

Hi all

wanting to get a new beach rod and am choosing between either the sensor surf 16ft or the tournament master 16ft, just asking if any of you blokes have one and which one is better for the job.

it would be used mostly for beach, with some occasional rock and reef fishing, any input would be much appreciated

cheers

Gday all,

Taking a mate out tonight from Woodies for a snapper bash for the first time. Gonna anchor and burley up and run the soft plastics and unweighted mullies.

Iv heard a full moon can be crap for Snapper fishing. Any truth to that?

Will hopefully have some pics tomorrow

Enjoy

Hey

I am keen to hear people's thoughts on the different ways of rigging butterfly jigs, particularly Caprice, Hooker, Ima Ro etc for targetting demersals/reef dwellers. 

The twin assist on the top seems popular, though I notice that jigs like the Fanky come with the double hook & squid combo on the slotted mount on the bottom. Have also seen people combining both these methods, though most pics I have seen of Caprice's run the top assist, rather than the double on the bottom as with the Fanky.

Any input appreciated!

Dan

LB fished hard yeterday morning from before daylight. Poppers and baitcasting in very good territory. Nothing! Went again this arvo and again everything seemed to be right. I tossed fresh Mullies for 4 hours. Again, nothing.

What does the almanac say? Are they busy breeding? I have heard reports that purist palegic fishos are blaming it on the water. Wassup Doc?

Let's not fill this discussion with non-LB heroics. What's happening in the LB world?

Guys and Girls

Just wondering if anyone stores there Boat anywhere North of the River. I was thinking about Wangara area ECT I don't mind towing it just want it out of the front yard. Mine is taking up half the yard and would like to get into storage if the price is right.

Can someone tell

How much per month does it cost per month?

Who to ring?

How do you get your boat when you want?

Is it worth it?

I can't seem to find anywhere north of the River is anyone else having the same problem?

any info appreciated

Thanks

I'm trying to read a map/chart book and the figures for the ocean have me baffled. The book "Fish Finder" must have an explanation in it but I cannot find it

I am not a boatie so have no knowledge of marine naviigation. So I had a look at some examples of charts on the net and they do not match what is in the book.

Instead of having a single number (depth I assume), they have a number with a 'subscript' number or letter.

I don't know if I can insert subscripts here but the second number or letter is one.

Eg, 4g, 62, 95 etc

Can anyone enlighten me please

Phil

hi guys i was thinking recently about the most memorable catches i've made in my life or fish that i've seen others catch , that were either caught on way too light gear or in gnarly terrain or just catching a certain species in shallow water where it should not have been, the best i've ever done was off koks island in carnarvon a 33kg spaniard on a floater on a stella 4000 with 300m of 20lb braid , that fish took me to the bottom of the spool in the first run and i held the spool with less than 10m left then after fighting the fish for 10 minutes and getting most of the line back it took off again and took me to the backing knot and it held!!! definately my all time best capture!, the best i have seen was my mate Ray catching a 17kg dhu on our first night fishing excursion near garden island , the only fish we caught for the night was his 17kg dhu in 7m of water on a bluebait and very light tackle it was awesome.   cheers

Even though being right handed they say you should reel an egg beater with your left so you always have control of the winder.. I'm pretty sure this originated in England. I personally don't but who does? Does it make a big difference if you do?

Australians will soon be able to buy sustainable canned tuna in supermarkets, which reduces the hidden cost of high-yield fishing techniques.

Just been released... Shimano Terez Rods.. Start at $299.. For jigging, stick baits, popping etc...

Compleat Angler Nedlands have just got them in stock I believe, so check them out!

Hi all i have my brother coming over to visit me from vico and i am going to take him fishin in me tinnie but he really wants to get onto some solid sambos this is in mid september are they about then and which charter is a good one for targeting them any info would be good cheers

Hey Fella's,

Just wanted to let everyone know that there are rumours of another clean up day being organized for sometime in spring.

We have had two in the last two years and this will be the third. There have been members from Wangler, Fishwrecked and Hotbite at all the previous clean-ups and they have been a huge success

The last two have been at ASI groyne and North Mole and I am hoping that the next one will be north of the river.

Hopefully this will be a multi forum clean up as our local fishing spots are for everyone to enjoy no matter what forum you post on or what magazine you read.

I really hope this one gets a lot of support from all West Australian Fisherman and is a day we can all be proud of!!!

More details will follow.

Cheers Russ

Gday all anyone still catching squid out Dampier way been trying around Point Samson way but no luck.

Hi Guys,

Heading up to Exmouth in a few weeks and was wondering about decent campsites to stay.

In the past we have always stayed at Ningaloo station which is really nice and a great place however the drive off the highway to the campsite towing a boat takes about an hour and a half which when you are coming from Perth makes the journey that little bit too hard.

Can anyone suggest any places to camp in the area. Really am chasing somewhere not to far off the beaten track and great to stay.

We are completely self sufficient campers and dont need any ammeneties.

Also this is the first time we are going to be taking a reasonably big boat so would be very interested in hearing any suggestions on locations or places to fish/spearfish. Someone mentioned to me that inside the gulf is the way to go?? 

Jd

Gday all looking at buying a sounder/plotter combo but am looking for advice as to whether or not i should buy two seperate untis instead.

Currently I am looking at either the huumminbird 798 ci with side scan ot the 858.

The other thing i want to know is what are peoples experiences with buying from US and where did you get it from. Ive come across a few sites that are about 4-500 dollars cheaper than in australia. This even includes shipping and local maps. The only downside is some of the units come in imperial units but for the money saved i can put up with that..

Cheers Michael

 anyone heading out that needs another deckie

I was going to take my boat out but can find a crew

call us 0420997088

Just wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether the Stradic CI4 reels are worth the extra coin over the regular Stradic reels & what the reasons for that opinion might be? 

Hopefully someone can help me but next winter im booked in for a fishing trip to exmouth with Family,boat in tow. I have Limited experience with game fishing (perth based), and i would really hope i could get some advise for fishing marlin, sailfish, mahi, mackerals etc. I need a new rod and reel specifically for trolling. Id rather get mid range gear$$ and id prefer to fish on the lighter side. Please also advice on line leader, and rigs/ lures. Ive got a year to save and prepare. Any tips much appreciated.