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An excited Jeni Gates from Bluewater Tackle World Exmouth has reported the much awaited works have begun on the Exmouth Game Fishing Club clubhouse.
Paperwork has been signed for the lease agreement between Exmouth Game Fishing Club and DPI. It's been a long wait and after many years, the club has finally begun works.
Exmouth will also feature on this weekend's IFish episode to air on One HD. Young angler Hayden Michaels shows host Paul Worsteling his tricks. Hayden (right) is pictured here with Paul.
The anglers troll shallow water close to town - encountering spangled emperor and golden trevally.
Check your local TV guides for viewing times.
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Following the success of the innaugural event earlier this year, the WA Calamari Classic is back. For those interested anglers who havn't yet got their entries in, be quick as they close tomorrow.
The boating section is limited to 40 boats.
Here's the details:
DATE: Sunday Sept the 13th
VENUE: Cockburn Pleasure Boat Storage top car park (Woodmans Pt)
CHECK IN(registration): 6.30am-8.00am
START: 8am
WEIGH IN: 11:30am (Late Penalties Apply)
Entry Fees: $40/boat
$10/Kayak
$10/shore based
BOUNDARIES:
To make this tournament as versatile as possible the WA Calamari
Classic will be made up of 3 sections; Boat, Kayak and Shore based.
Boat- Inside Cockburn Sound and north to the tip of North Mole and west to the southern most point of Rottnest Island.
Boats are not permitted to venture under and beyond the Garden Is
Causeway.
Yaks- Same Boundaries apply as for boats. Yaks may also be launched from outside the Cockburn Power Boat complex after signing in.
Shore Based- Shore Based anglers can only fish as
individuals and may fish from any legal rock platform, jetty or beach
between North Mole and the Garden Is Causeway. Shore based anglers are
not permitted to fish anywhere on Garden Island.
RULES:
* This is a lure only tournament. Anglers may only use artificial
squid jigs to capture squid, however squid may be switch baited from
dead or live baits.
* Cuttle fish and Octopus are excluded from weigh-in. This is a Squid Only tournament.
* All squid must be caught on the competition day and weighed in a fresh and consumable condition to qualify for prizes.
WEIGH IN LIMIT:
Boat- Boats may fish a team of as many anglers as
legally permitted for the size of the boat. The 10 heaviest squid only
may be weighed in. Prizes awarded for 10 heaviest squid from boat will
be awarded per team, not per individual angler on board.
Yaks- The 5 heaviest squid only may be weighed in by a single angler or double team from Yaks.
Shore Based- The 5 heaviest squid only may be weighed in by a single angler from shore.
PRIZES:
There will be prizes awarded for the following categories.
Boat- Heaviest bag of 10 squid from boat.
R/U heaviest bag of 10 squid from boat.
Heaviest single squid from boat.
Yaks- Heaviest bag of 5 squid from a yak.
R/U heaviest bag of 5 squid from a yak.
Heaviest single squid from yak.
Shore- Heaviest bag of 5 squid from shore by a single angler.
R/U heaviest bag of 5 squid from shore by a single angler.
Heaviest single squid from shore.
Fun Prize- The dirtiest ink shot angler.
Random Prizes - There will be plenty of random prizes given away on the day.
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Recfishwest is seeking dhufish and snapper fishermen to help with research -
We invite you to participate in a FRDC funded project called "Development of an agent-based model to communicate the implications of recruitment variability of finfish to recreational fishers".
The computer model (known as an agent-based model) being developed in this study will help recreational fishers and fisheries scientists answer key questions about the biology and recreational fisheries for important WA demersal fish species.
We need your help by completing a short survey (approximately 20 mins) and then join in on a group discussion (approximately 1-2 hours). Both the survey and group discussion aims to capture fisher knowledge about the habitat preferences and movements between habitats of Dhufish and Snapper and how fishers use this knowledge when fishing.
When fully developed, users will be able to interact with the program as a virtual "fisher" who can make decisions such as when, where and how long to fish, given various information, e.g. weather, fuel prices, catch rates etc.
Recfishwest will be holding a workshop evening with interested dhufish and snapper fishers, Thursday 10th September, 5:30pm at the Recfishwest Offices, Watermans Bay Marine Centre, West Coast Drive, (opposite Elvire Street), Waterman.
The workshop will involve a research presentation from Dr Alex Hesp, Murdoch University on research at the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research relevant to recreational fishers.
Please RSVP your interest in attending via email.
Details here and here.
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Here's a preview of this week's Sunday Times fishing column...
HOT SPOTS
METROPOLITAN
Last week's prediction by Bluewater Tackle World Scarborough's Joff Weston that the bottom fish would bite willingly and that 34m of water was the best depth to try proved spot on - with Weston and Johari Rochfort scoring two fine dhufish on their first drop. Rochfort later boated an 81cm pink snapper and also caught some great king george whiting and breaksea cod. The pair also caught and released a number of other dhuies.
Graeme Stewart bagged two excellent dhufish from similar ground. Bluewater Tackle World Mindarie staffers Anthony Kane and Jason Rushton were others to enjoy a red letter day north of Two Rocks. Jason beat his former boat record dhuie of 14kg by bringing up an 18kg monster. The pair caught another dhufish of 14kg and breaksea cod, baldchin and pink snapper to 75cm. Pink snapper made a target for boat fishers adjacent to Scarborough Beach although squid activity is slowing in the northern metro waters. Some terrific garfish were found near Little Island.
Herring fishing is productive up and down the coast. There has been better tailor action along the northern beaches. James Maugham caught several tailor to 50cm from the Mindarie rock wall and skippy were on at times. Large flathead, some up to about a kilo, were nabbed by shore anglers along Floreat and City Beaches.
Bream catches have been better in deeper areas of the Swan with a fillet of bony herring taking hits where the water is particularly discoloured - including around Belmont and Bassendean. Perth Water has yielded better fish. The Canning River is yielding good size fish also with deep working lures such as Vibs and tiny metal slices more productive.
MOORE RIVER
Tailor action is okay for beach fishers, with the river fishing for bream in a similar vain to the Swan and Canning. Deeper holes are turning up fish with deep running lure styles best.
MANDURAH
When opportunities exist the Five Fathom Bank has been hot for pink snapper and skippy. Herring are widespread along beaches and in the Cut with tailor a welcome reward at Tims Thicket and White Hills.
With the freshwater season open, Harvey dams would make good spots to try for trout. Redfin perch catches are coming from the Murray River above Pinjarra.
KALBARRI
The local monthly club fishing competition produced fair bream activity. Martin Stewart and Dylan Ivey did well in the junior comp - Stewart's best fish was a 526g bream. In the seniors Gary Ivey and Di Stewart caught good bream with the best though a 814g bream for Brett Bain.
Shore experts Daniel and Simon Tarasek found some decent pink snapper with Simon bringing in the largest at 3.66kg. Daniel took a samson fish of 16kg and Ashley Van Vierson brought back a mulloway of 3.3kg and a 1.5kg tailor.
Boat anglers faired well on pink snapper, skippy and samson fish. Nik Bramwell's 16.19kg sambo narrowly beating Tarasek's shore-based catch. Junior Beau Ivey came back with a 5.11kg pink snapper.
Laurie Malton and his son Jared, along with Jason Agrela, travelled out wide but couldn't find the big ones. They scored eight fish including red throat, samson fish, small dhufish and pink snapper.
CARNARVON
Quobba continues to yield large fish with an added bonus of tuna within casting distance of shore at the Blowholes. The town beaches such as Miaboolya are excellent for tailor and mulloway along with plenty of yellowfin bream to 45cm. Spotted mackerel and tailor hit shore spots south of town and from the prawn jetties. The long Jetty is also hot for the bream. At Bush Bay there have been mullet, whiting, bream and big squid were targeted with success. Around the islands red emperor, baldchin and coral trout featured in bags. Pink snapper have also been prolific but mackerel are scarce. Dinghy fishers also found snapper close to shore.
EXMOUTH
Last week's Exmouth newsletter can be viewed here. A new one will be posted shortly.
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