Help please = I'm new
Submitted by Baldy Groper on Wed, 2010-04-21 23:29
hi, the name is baldy, well ok that's the nickname
im kinda new to fishin, but i love it
am borrowing my friends old fibreglass boat and have been trying to get good fish but they seem to avoid me like the plague
can anyone help me out? what am i doin wrong?
i fish from point peron, but am happy to launch from woodmans point ramp if that means ill catch more
thanks everyone for your help, well thats if you are gunna give it to me

kavman
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Date Joined: 09/02/09
you need to be a little more
you need to be a little more specific mate.
what fish do you want to target? and whereabouts do you usually head from pt peron ramp? what techniques have you used so far to no avail?
If it's just the bread and butter fish it shouldn't be too hard. Anchoring up near the weed patches just out from the ramp and burleying up usually sees me with a mixed bag or bread and butter fish. Whiting, herring mostly.
Also, drifting with a couple of squid jigs out usually finds me some squid. Drift over those same weed patches. I've used a pink or orange jig and every time i've caught squid.
Hope that helps mate, but be a little more specific too.
Good luck!
mrsquidworth
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Date Joined: 12/04/10
go squidworth go
good advice on the squid from kavman there they are the best bait for every thing and not ba tucker in there own right to. i agree on the pink or orange colour choice but i don't go for any old jig anymore have tryed the cheep $3 dolar ones and you do get a couple on em but after splashing out on a couple of $17 yozuri jigs my catch rate has dramaticly increased. and i think you do beter to work em a bit to insteadof just drifting em over the side of the boat, cast em out behind you as you drift a let em sink down then twitch em slowly back to the boat, it's a tough call on how close to the bottom you want to go as loosing jigs is not cool but i recon if yur not getting a bit of weed hear and there your not getting the jig down into the strike zone.
Faulkner Family
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it depends on how big the
it depends on how big the boat is .if your launching from point peron head out from the chanel markers and between john ledge reef and the 5 fathom bank you will find skippy , whiting (mainly sand but the odd kg)herring along with the chance of the larger species. you can anchor up and burley or drift. just make sure all the correct safety gear is on board
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Baldy Groper
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Date Joined: 21/04/10
thanks for the responses
thanks for the responses kavman mrssquidworth and faukner family
i am happy to target whatever i can get but i really want a big jewfish or snappa where can i get them? dont say the shop i know that already i want to catch with my own bare hands
im going to try that drifting stuff kavman. also what is the best stuff to use for burley? can you get king gorge whiting on those weed beds? big ones?
i have an old 5 meter boat faukner family - shes an olden but a gooden ahaha i like that
Bodie
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Hi Baldy, welcome.Straight
Hi Baldy, welcome.
Straight out from Point peron is the 5 fatham bank (Can see this on your gps).
This is the best location for you to start, there is always snapper on the bank out there, just a matter of finding them.
Options
1. Anchor and burely using cubed mulies. Then float a mulie on a set of gangs down into your burely trail. (or snell a mulie if you know how).
2. Drifting across the 5 fatham can be worth a go too, try and drift off the back of it, say from 10 metres out to 20-22 mstres.
Always a good chance of picking up KG whiting (big oens too) Dhu fish, black bums and obviously snapper.
Best baits are whole mulie, or whole californian squid.
Snapper are best targeted sunrise or late arvo.
Hope this helps mate.
adamsmith84
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Date Joined: 04/11/09
you can also anchor
on 3 fathom bank around the reefs between garden and carnac island you get big skippy,kg's and the odd dufish/pink snapper
you can also try mewstone reef off freo where you get big tailor if you use whole mulies or garfish and cast into the white wash