which jetty?

What jetty? No idea what you're talking about mate.

 It'll be the busso jetty...I'm guessing

Sorry. The busselton jetty.

all the more reason to keep avoiding the place.

Full of either meathead bogans from Hester st or moronic asian tourists.

HAHA good one Matt! Too right

 Geez-I thought you were talking about the new Palm Beach jetty,because that's the same,and even worse when the crabbing season starts,brand new crab nets everywhere and then there's the rubbish left,which I pick up on my morning walk and put in the new bins that are placed at the entrance to the jetty.

Approx 200 people,  more like approx  80 friday  and 200 saturday maybe cause 500 people with 4 to a car is still 125 cars and the car park has cars for the resteraunts so will have trouble holding that many. I travelled down and went out fri and sat. Do many people head out for the mulloway in season

Depends what time of the night you went. I stopped counting near the third scalie and had to park at yoganup park as all the other car parks were full. My mates had to park in the nard car park.

squid and fish wouldnt stand a chance with that lot. sort of place to stay away from on weekends

it"s not too bad as the numbers drop off quickly after about 8pm as they are mostly fishing families that don,t know how to fish. If you go early in the mornings, you can sometimes get the jetty to yourself if your lucky appart from the die hards.

Glad to hear it's so popular then. And good to see if families are taking advantage of the easy access for the little ones. Diidn't the council down there try to ban fishing on the jetty?

Is the place to go if you want to pick up free crab nets, there are heaps of them under the jetty (along with glasses and mobile phones)

Willy

Jarrahland

Fishing is banned at the end of the busselton jetty. Rumor has it when the marine parks come in there will some more access taken away from the end. The city of Busselton has recently asked for expressions of interest for commercial sights approximately one third out (section four) and two thirds out (section seven). There was also a plan for a marina from the half way mark to the edge of the proposed marine park on the eastern side. Basically as the city commercialises the jetty, anglers will loose access as commercial activities are not compatible with angling. Probably within ten years.

I think the next closure will be closing the  Busso.jetty down at night time because there is rumblings within council the ammount of crap that is left by fishers at night time is not a good look for the yuppie tourist. When I say crap I mean human excrement so we're trying to get public toilets installed half way out on the jetty so there's no excuses. The council have been on the air waves banging on about it so I reckon it's just a matter of time.

thats a shame then

ive been fishing on the jetty once with my wife and kids when we holidayed down there a few years ago we were there early in the arvo when it was quiet

then every one turned up to get a few tailor which is to be exoected, we were fishing from the landing which got rather full, which was also expected, then some young indigenous guys turned up and thought it was there right to abuse evryone on the jetty for being in there way they pushed there way onto the allready full landing and proceeded to swear and carry on about their lines getting crossed by other people, i had to take my kids home luckily we allreay had a dozen or so tailor between the 5 of us.

i didnt mind fishing shoulder to shoulder with other people i expected it but didnt need the abuse and foul language. my son asked me why that man was so angry

on another note its a shame geraldton doesnt have somthing similar they used to have a big jetty back in the day but its long gone

we from the fishing club drew up a petition to have a jetty built for fishing families, disabled and elderly alike, in response to the petition the local council decided to build a completely useless small jetty in an unproductive fishing area with no input from the public, they have decided that the jetty would best be used to "view" the town from rather than fishing it is designed to run along an allready existing rock wall so the jetty wont extend out to sea more than a couple of metres this is because they didnt want to pile drive any pillars into the ocean sighting money as the reason.

they cant see the tourist value of a large jetty in gero i think it would be a huge drawing card for geraldton, how can a place like geraldton a town built on fishing not even have 1 jetty i dont understand

anyway ive had my rant

i think what im trying to say is that jetties are great leave them for the public and build some more of them sorry for stealing the thread

I think all of us have witnessed the sought of behaviour you mentioned bitten and there's no doubting the benefits Jetties offer fishers both local and tourists alike but it's a bit unfortunate that the majority well behaved have to suffer for the antisocial behaviour of a few.

 went down for a holiday with the family. Two youngsters, which should be in school, lazily hang around the first bend. They snapped comments on my walk pass them.  My ignorance obviously frustrated them as they so evidently put it in the only phrases they know. So the question was - should i spoil the trip by explaining to the police why i fed them to the sharks? There were many tourists there, what an impression that left. Having been through that I decided not to take my son on there. So the local restaurant missed out on our business. Get the cops and fisheries on there and get rid of the berley.

It has to be good for the region economically and so the shire need to upgrade the facilities, not chase the tourists away. Sure the local fishos will complain because so many outsiders take advantage of such an iconic structure. The simple fact is that while so many tourists are there then the town is healthy. That can't be a bad thing.

correct me if I'm wrong but dont the "pain in the arse tourists" pay an entry fee to go on the jetty and dosent that go towards

the upgrade and maintainance of the jetty? I would have thought the majority of people on the jetty would be "pain in the arse tourists" I'd hate to see Busselton if no "pain in the arse tourist" went down there, frontier town comes to mind.

pays the wages of the staff who work at/on the jetty and maintenance. The restoration was payed by ratepayers.

There is a difference between 'pain in the arse' and 'normal' tourists. I'll let you work that one out

BTW, I didn't see Busselton disappear during the 2 years that the jetty was closed. It's not the be all and end all of the Busselton region. Just a landmark that tourists flock too.

I never said the tourist come just for the jetty and I can understand when they do the wrong thing it pisses you off, yes theres more to bussleton than the jetty  but you should have a little more respect for tourists cos in general they are ok, same for anyone who lives in any country towns exmouth etc I hear locals whinging about tourists all the time but if you didnt have them your towns would be a very different place, quieter and poorer, having said that yes tourist should have a little more respect when visitng other towns but it goes both ways.

There are a lot of people who'd prefer the "old scenario" - access to the end of the jetty for pelagics fishing etc - Bonito, Salmon, Sbt's, Sampson fish(and Mulloway during Winter) as compared to what is available now. It is ironic that since the Sharks have prevailed into the bay there are less divers too - so effectively the end is visted by far fewer people than it used to - it's also a pity it wasn't preserved to the orginal structural end - that way fishers could have that pelagic opportunity without interfering with the Underwater Observatory. Unfortunately availblity to structures like this are so limited more people are gravitating toward them which then also unfortunately brings the D12khead terrorist/ tourist  and everywhere they go is left a shambles. It just goes to show that there remains an element of our Rec Fishing community who are out of touch with nature and the environment.

Sorry but tourism is so important to your community. You say "you" were prepared to share the jetty. WTF. It's not yours mate. Without the jetty the shire there would stuggle. Look at the broader picture mate and stop whinging. I would be so lucky as to have a problem like that.

Given that almost every rec fisher who resides in Busso and quite a few from around the South West attended a meeting held in Churchill Park Hall quite a few years ago that saved the jetty from demolition which was the Shire's chosen direction at the time I know there are a few people in the region who acted for the greater good of Rec Fishos to voice their opinion loud and clearly enough to dissuade the Shire from that path. Without them its highly likely that a very limited structure would be there in its place and the community would be collectively the poorer for it. So please excuse those people who inadvertantly lay some sense of ownership to it!

Returned from Busso today. Left nothing but footprints and a few k. Fisho mates all asked if i fished the jetty. Luckily not I say, for my young lad would have been subjected to the language of two bored brats on the jetty whose only amusement is to harras visitors. Glad i do not have to explain what c...t is. Neither would i have to explain to him why we must not make a mess but the man and lady on the landing could leave a heap of spleen, guts and half mullets behind. Yuppie tourists spent $80 odd on a breakfast at the jetty - where the locals are employed. Spleen, excrement & abusive language for a squid, tailor or sampson fish?  Doesn't seem there is much respect for the shared ammenities that is so dearly paid for?