hi everyone,

going to jurien this thursday and im thinking of taking my stradic 2500ci4 up there for small plastics, its loaded up with 10lb td-sensor...you guys reckon its worth the shot to give it a thrashing and stop some smaller fish? or not bother..it states 7kg of drag but obviously thats just on paper, whats everyones thought?

i need some 2 oz jigheads for thursday. Oceanside was out so anyone know where i can get some south of river?

yes i did the search thing and couldnt find anything?

my dad is wanting to buy a small ally boat, forward controls ,elec start,canopy is some of the must haves.

 up to 16ft , with the funds going to a max of $10k.

pm me with details

thanks ron

can anyone out there read japanese and convert to english?

Going to get the crab nets dusted off and fixed up and have promised the kids I would take them down to our local marina perhaps on weds to see if we can get some.

I've used old fish frames for bait and bought some frozen mullet before as well as using these blue sardine/mackeral type things that the cray boat didn't need. By far the best bait was fresh mullet, followed closely by pink snapper frames, but I've heard of people using chicken frames is this true??

If so, do you use cooked chicken frames or raw, do you age them or are they fresh??

Any help would be much appreciated and would help keep the kids amused.

Cheers

Deckie available for sunday or monday, keen to try out the new monster mesh seagate combo pm if interested, will split the bill might even show u the secretspot ;)

Cheers Matt

do you guys do it yourselves or take it to the shops?? If you do it yourselves is it hard and how did you learn about the reels etc?

This charter speaks for itself.
Seasport Charters
Ive booked the whole boat for this Thurs 20 Sept....yes in 2 days!!
I need 3 more fishos.....all artificial but you can use bait if you want.
BYO gear but boat does have bottom fishing gear.

BYO lunch, boat provides water and soft drinks.

Boat leaves 6am
Be there by 5.45am

and back at the marina by about 3pm

Please PM me more details.

they were on special at rays outdoors from $250 down to $59

it will do for me and my son and from all looking around they seem strong and have double chamber

also takes a 2.5hp petrol motor or a 18lb electric

i was looking at saving some $$ to get myself a Dragonfly Daylite Paddler Sit On Top Kayak

i know this isnt much of a boat but it would do me for just off the shore to get to where i cant normally fish

Hey all, come January my girlfriend and I will be heading on a holiday up North staying in kalbarri for 3 nights carnarvon for 5 nights (family reasons) and staying in exmouth and the ningaloo area for 5 days. We are taking two kayaks rigged for fishing but these are slow and we are fairly inexperienced anyone know of any safe easy spots where we can drop a line? Also my goal for fishing on this trip is to catch a quennies or trevs on poppers or chromies any tips or locations would be much appreciated (land based)! thanks guys

Headed out for a fish today with my uncle Glen (his boat) and brother in law, Brendan. With the forecast for winds to be easing around midday it was a later than usual start hitting the water around 8:30 with the plan to venture out to the 40m from rockingham and try and find a dhu or 2. Conditions weren't too bad with the easterly being quite managable on the way out.

I had gotten Brendan interested in the plastics and jigs lately and he had recantly gotten his first jigging outfit for his birthday which needed breaking in. Armed with some mcarthy plastics and a few demersal jigs we did a few drops on some good soundings of fish on the way out but to no avail. Once at our destination the first fish onboard was a nice 51cm KG to Glen on bait, followed by an undersize dhuie and snapper. Meanwhile Bren had given up on the plastics and gone for a nap (partying too hard before fishing) as I lost a decent fish on plastic.

By now it was midday and the wind had dropped right off to give us awesome conditions. I was hoping to find some sambos out there for some fun as we'd caught them in this area before and my wish soon came true. I noticed a big splash out the back of the boat which could only have been a fish, so I quickly wound up my plastic towards the surface and as I looked down into the depths I saw the silvery flanks of some decant fish swiping at my baby elf on the way up but not actually hitting it. I dropped back down a few times but they just wouldn't hit it so I quickly grabbed another rod that was already rigged with a jig and dropped it down to the waiting sambos. Jig jig jig and I could see the sambos fighting over it... BAM I was on! Not a big fish at all but they're always fun!

As I had hooked up Brendan was forcefully woken up and quickly dropped a plastic down for an instant hookup also.

I grabbed the PE3 outfit with the plastic on and quickly hooked up again, seeing the hook up 10m below.

There were fish everywhere!

After landing another sambo I tied on a popper to try for some surface action as there were splashes happening all around the boat. I jumped up on the bow and put out a few casts hoping for a sambo on the surface but after a few follows from fish, I realised the splashes weren't sambos but tuna, pretty big ones too. Tuna on the surface with sambos undernearth, I could see fish swimming everywhere! Gave up with the popper after no action from a few more casts and went back to the jigging. This time I got out the PE6 to put some hurt on a few fish!

Meanwhile Brendan was getting the jigging action down and really breaking in the new rod.

After a while we finally drifted off the sambos so we headed back to our mark and found them again. They were sitting down the bottom until we dropped our jigs down and worked them back up, then they would all follow!

They were getting bigger every fish, I had a split ring decide to end a solid battle, to then rerig and get pinged off on the next fish due to crossing lines. But we fought on!

We were getting tired by now after landing well over 20 sambos up to 25kg+ and it was as I had the PE3 back down and decided it was time to wind in when I hooked up again and quickly watched the little stradic 4000 start to smoke! I've never seen line leave a spool so quickly. 25mins later and I landed the biggest sambo of the day... the photo doesn't do it justice but it was over 30kg and hard to hold properly!

All fish were released well bar 1 small amberjack (I think it was?) that is destined for the bbq tomorrow.

Great fun day out, no need to wait till "sambo season" to get some good sambo action!

My friend and i are planning to go overnight fishing on the holidays coming. we never done beach fishing. so we been surfing the web on learning how to read the water and trying to figure out how to find the gutter but nothing make any sence.
Does anyone have a tip on how to find the gutter or a link or perhaps a picture of gutter area?

well, for those who read the first post i was wondering if the shape my hull, affected the way the transducer was working.

after ajusting some of the settings, it deffinatly did work better, i was getting a good pic up to about 18knts,

 but i had already installed the in hull tranny and thank god i did.

here are some pics.

the pics with the silver tape on top are with the transom mount tranny,(that was to remind me what pic was what)

 the others is the in hull,

i took pics at slow speed and at nearly 30knts(its hard taking pics at speed)

rear mount @1.1knt

in hull @4.2knt

rear mount @26.4knt

in hull @28.6knt

as you can see no other settings where changed so i think that it speaks for its self.......

the in hull is much better and a dont think has lost any thing from going trhough the hull.

cheers ron

afternoon fishwrecked crew.

just wondering how much a daiwa saltiga 50 is roughly worth? fully spooled with 30lb mono and only one or two minor marks, used less than 5 times. any rough estimate will be great.

thanks in advance.

hey fishwrecked members

went on sea breeze this morning and found out it was high tide so me and my father went to maylands.

i got down there my baitcaster was already rigged up so i put a prawn casted it out then i started to rig up my other rod when all of a sudden my bait caster started to move i lucky got it b4 it went of the jetty and i landed a 25 cm bream absoulutly stoked

later on i i had a run with a 35 ish one but it got a way after that i got a 22.5cm one but that was it for me for the day but i was verry happy asi got my pb of 25 cm lol i know its tiny but its something

the two last  photos are the same fish btw

the gear i used was

a baitcaster 3 kg mono wuth a 4 to 6 kilo rod and

starlo stik 2 to 4 kilo with symmetre 1000 6 lbs braid

cheers matt 

hey goin to bremer bay at the end of february i nned to get a new rod and reel set i will fishin the esturie and doin land based fishin all over the place just wanting to no your reccomendations of what rod and reel to get or what type and and if any lures are good and the main fish to target is salmon and special lure and teqnice to catch em i have money to spend not goin over board. cheers for any help much appreciated

Went over to my nonno's(grand dad's) house this morning to go get some fresh vegies and stuff out of the garden. Went into his garage after to have a look at all the old fishing gear rod/reels and tackle. Found about 40 massive sinkers all in different sizes along with full tackle box of terminal tackle. About 15 or so rods mostly crapp wit a few oldy daiwa reels on it which i didnt take, andddd a boat combo TLd 30 2 speed and daiwa STP 15 kilo loaded wit braid. So im a happy boy this morning.

The anticipation was high as i headed up from Fremantle at 4.30 yesterday morning. I went straight to the River mouth in search of that nice Tailor i'd been hearing about. By the time i burley'd up and got the mulie in the water it was 6:30, bang on high tide. I wouldn't say the mouth had broken, but the crashing waves occasionally allowed the water to spill into the river.

The hours fishing the beach provided no success, and there were two locals either side of me who also caught nothing, along with an elderly gentleman who was ballooning. One fellow even stated he had caught nothing in the last five weeks, which was a far cry of the reports i'd recently heard. A young, enthusiastic family rocked up a little later in the morning and pulled in a dozen or so sand whiting, quite small, but at least they caught something! Haha.

At about 11:30 i called it quits for the beach, and took to the river in the kayak (Finn Beachcomber). This is where the fun started! I paddled up about 100 meters past the big sand dune and noticed some really niced structure, positioned the yak and let the easterly winds drift me along it. Not even 15 seconds later, WHACK! With no hesitation, something came out and smaches my coral prawn, could it be that elusive 40cm bream i was hunting? After as good short battle, i lifted aboard what i initially thought was a tailor...then i thought it was an unusually large herring...then i got distracted by 2 stunning young ladies cruising past in a tinny. Anyway, it wasn't until i got home and did some research that i realised it was an Australian Salmon, 30cm to the fork.

I decided to paddle up river and further explore the area. I came across a nice little pocket with some excellent, excellent structure. It might as well have had a big sign saying "There is hundreds of Bream here."   And sure enough, yep!! I spent about 5 hours prowling that area, catchin bream ranging from 18 - 25cm. It was disappointing not to get any of legal size, but the fact they were striking my bait every cast made it a very fun day.

It was the first time i'd been to Moore River, and even though i didn't catch a Tailor or that monster Bream, one thing is for sure, that river is alive, and absolutely teaming with fish. Cannot wait to go back, great spot and great signs for the future.

taking the tinny for a run monday the plan at the moment is squid in the morn and head out for some big whiting wound luch when the wind dies off. launch probably 5 am and get back when ever ready.

if interested just sms me on 0423622846 i may not reply straight away as im at work but will def get back to you

brenz

Hi Fellow fisherman, new to the site and i was wondering if anyone here use Shimano Curado 300 EJ Casting Reels and give me a little review about it? i amm planning to buy it but i wanna make sure it is a good reel.

good luck next week to the saints after a very impresive second half .... pity bout the first half though

Well I got out there today even if it was only for a two hour fish alone but it was the best two hours fishing I have done considering I had no bait on the boat.

I went and saw the guys at ocean side yesterday and bought a few packs of mcarthy plastics and jig heads.  This was going to be my first real crack at the plastics. I left point perron about 1pm and got out west of rotto by about two.  I had a waypoint I was heading to but stopped a few km short as I couldn't stop the itch any longer.   I tied my leader onto my braid with a knot I later found out was the worst knot of my life one I will remember for a while.  Knot tied jig head on thread on my plastic which is a little tricky to get straight. Anyway line up the boat for a good drift and bombs away.

First few minutes nothing was finding it.  hard to tell if I was on the bottom twitch twitch sink twitch sink let some line out twitch sink started thinking maybe this is a crock of shit twitch twitch shitt maybe I should of bought some bait fish on the sounder no hits twitch twitch then a knock on my rod.  was that a bite?  let out some line go for a twitch and it came up solid.  what a feeling that first second u realise u have hooked a fish bit of weight with heaps of head shakes so I called it for a snapper, picked it like a snotty nose a nice 55 cm snapper and within 5 minutes of wetting the line so I let the pinky live another day.

The plastic was a bit smashed but I dropped it again another few minutes of twitch twitch sink twitch then a bit of weight I jerked it but didn't hook let some line out took the tension then felt a knock followed by weight jerked it and came up solid real solid almost like a snag except this snag was moving and giving some slow but solid tail thumps.  my heart stopped I couldn't believe it I had hooked my double digit duhie this was heavy and hard to get off the bottom.  that's when my doddgy knot decided to part ways with my dream duhie shittt shitt shittt.  oh well I thought googled an allbright knot and tied on another plastic.  didn't manage to hook another duhie but got a few other species.  I got a queen snapper a couple of black arse and a few sergeant bakers.  not bad for 2 hours fishing.  can't wait to get a full day out there next weekend hopefully. And honsu I might be in this week to get that sp rod and reel just gotta talk the mrs into spending a bit of the baby bonus:-) sorry no photos hard taking them on your own

I'm looking to take my new inflatable and engine out for a test run tomorrow. Can anyone recommend somewhere suitable on the Swan. Just need somewhere with a quiet ramp, and some not too busy open water nearby where I can get the boat up to full tilt without wiping out any water skiers?

Magpies    /    Saints    /    Bulldogs

hey crew

i was a little north of the grain terminal in kwinana last night trying for sum tailor (which were not around) however we saw a cobbler eating our bait scraps on the shallows we tried every sized hook scraps of mulie which it was eating but he would not go for anything

can someone tell me what rig or bait to use or would it have been a one of?

also which spines are the poisinous ones?

has anyone had any luck using a surf popper with gang hooks on a paternoster rig before for targeting tailor? reding about them on the net and wondering how often they work.thanks

Went down to cockburn near the boat ramps on the beach side near the small wooden jetty

it was quiet as not a bit hit or anything others were fishing and same thing all quiet

hope the summer weather brings in some fish

ha i just got a new boat and wondering if there were any good fishing spots around five fathom bank. i would like to catch snaper and dew fish. also what are good times to go out

any suggestions would be a big help

Hi guys, just looking for up to date reports on b&b fish in the metro area and north. Preferably inshore but wandering what baitfish people are catching?

It seems a bit quiet for herring (migration) and even gardies now. Are there still plenty of yellowtail around? Any slimeys? Mullet?

Cheers

Buschy

So when fishing with others who are "BAIT" fishing, where is the best spot on the boat to be jigging from to avoid tangles? Obviously depends on the direction of the drift, but should you be infront or behind the bait fisho's line? Back corner of the boat or forward?

It amazed me when fishing 50ft away up the bow of a charter boat at the Abrolhos I still managed to tangle with the bait fisho 9 people down at the back of the boat!

Any advice?