Venturing into Jetski Fishing --- *** FOR SALE ***
Gday all,
New to the forum, and my first post on here.
Have recently been setting up my jetski ready to get out on the water and after some fish. I have a seadoo rxtx with a Lowrance Elite 5 chart plotter/fish finder and a 'whiteybox' on the back. I used a 'Tallon Elite Socket' for the plotter/finder for ease of mount and dismount for when i want to use the ski without the screen being in the way. I can highly recommend these sockets. Havent had the chance to get out and test it all out yet (working fifo) but will hopefully try it all out as soon as im home next as its sitting in the garage ready to go!
Is there many of us out there doing this in WA yet? And if youre doing it, feel free to give me any advice/info you like! Be keen to get to know anyone else who is into it as well and possibly venture out for a fish somewhere in the metro area soon. Also as i work up north ill be planning more then the odd trip across to Coral Bay/Exmouth to get amongest the action out that way.
Anyway heres a couple pics of the rig so far...
beau
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Welcome to the forum mate.
Welcome to the forum mate. Yes there are a couple guys doing it up and down the coast but I personally only fish with 2 others that fish the metro area. I've seen a couple other blokes ride past but they've never stopped to chat so they must want to keep to themselves. I've been fishing from my Yamaha for nearly 3 and a half years now and I still love it. I fish south of the river, mostly targeting tailor and snapper on lures and plastics. I also started fifo this year so dont get out as much as I used to. Theres a jetski fishing photo album in the Photos section feel free to add any of your own photos. Where are you located?
beau
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Jetski fishing photos
Heres a link to the album
http://fishwrecked.com/category/image-galleries/jetski-fishing-fotos
Moking
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That's the first time I've
That's the first time I've seen all those pic's- and I enjoyed looking at them all.
Hmm-Penguin Island whiting- I'm thinking I will have to give that another try on the ski very soon!
My Dad taught me how to Fish-Thanks Dad.(RIP)
beau
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Post some photos if you have
Post some photos if you have any Al
westozandy
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Hey BeauI live down in
Hey Beau
I live down in mandurah, so ill be chasing tailor down the south beaches, and when im feeling keen ill head out to a couple spots a bit further out and do some bottom bouncing. Just looking forward to cruising around looking for spots. Pretty keen on heading out around Garden and Carnac islands too. Just hope those big white guy stay away haha lucky i bought a supercharged ski for quick getaways haha.
westozandy
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And obviously, cant wait for
And obviously, cant wait for the chance to catch some of those pinkins in cockburn sound that you seem to have done pretty well on. Wanna share the details of any spots...? Haha gotta try right?
beau
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Yeh you'll have to come join
Yeh you'll have to come join us around the islands, plenty of options, tailor, snapper, squid, sambos, kgw etc etc etc...! Have only seen a couple sharks from the ski, memorable one was a big hammerhead nearly the size of the ski. The snapper are good fun, unfortunately I dont have any of my own spots to share, only spots guys ive met through the site that have been kind enough to share with myself, I gotta do the righty by them!
Thats a nice ski you've got to, my best mate bought the same one last summer, I was surprised how much dryer the ride was compared to mine. Have you had the ski long?
Plenty of reefs between halls head and avalon that will be holding tailor this time of year, good luck!
westozandy
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Update: First trip out
Well, first trip out was reasonably succesful, just did a bit of trolling for tailor, found a decent school againest a rather well known rock wall, picked up my bag limit in 30 mins, then caught and released about another 20. Good fun!
Not overly big, majority were about 37cm.
Crumbed tailor it was for tea that night, went down a treat with some fresh lemon squeezed on and a dollop of natural yoghurt!
I had actually planned on heading out after some larger species, I hit the boat ramp at 5am, at 5:15 the SW wind came in creating waist high chop, made conditions not so enjoyable so i headed into a protected area. On my way in I spotted a small reef shark relaxing on the surface until he spotted me and took off. Shortly after that i picked up a large clump of seaweed on my intake grate! Had to get in the water and pull it out coz the ski just wouldnt move haha and the old side to side rock wasnt going to cut it. Needless to say, the area i was in at the time made me a little nervous! Iv been surfing for years, and the thought of shrks has never really bothered me until recently with all the media attention and attacks.
Anyway, heres a pic of my catch... Im away at work again at the moment, hopefully ill get back out to chase some larger species on my next week off!
Happy New Years all!
Edit: Where has the pic upload bit gone....?
westozandy
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So im either blind or i can
So im either blind or i can still not figure how to post pics again, so i started up a photobucket... heres the tailor i caught and a pic of my ski ready for the water.. (hopefully this works...)
another 12 days and im home, cant wait to get out there again, hopefully something a bit bigger next time.
Asahambe
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Good
Catch their mate. Nothing wrong with Tailor their good fun to catch.
Hows ur sounder going I'm looking at buying one atm or maybe a HDS5
choices choices mmm
good pics also
Born to Fish
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westozandy
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Hey Asahambe Yeah they
Hey Asahambe
Yeah they certainly are reasonably good fun to catch! I just am so so keen on getting into some bigger/more powerful fish! Itll happen, just gotta keep spending time out on the water.
The sounder is good mate, cant knock anything bad about it! Resolution even in direct full sunlight is amazing, clear as, and the features of the sounder are really good. I mounted mine 'shoot thru hull' style. Im considering removing it (if i can remove it from the epoxy i mounted it with) and attaching it to the rear of the ski. The image quality is good when using the sounder, but i do get some marks coming up on the screen, and i suspect its possibly from small air bubbles within the epoxy. None the less, it still does the job, i use it more for navigation/depth finding and marking way points more then anything anyway.
Paul T
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Hi Andy Hows the jetski
Hi Andy
Hows the jetski fishing going ? I see you live in mandurah (I also live in mandurah) I am keen on fishing from my jetski, I wouldn't mind having a look at your set up, before I start messing around with my ski, is the whiteybox stable on the tal of your ski ? I would also be interested in seeing the tallon elite socket mtg,
Let me know when you are back in town and we could sort something out
Cheers
Paul
westozandy
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Hey people!Jetski is FOR
Hey people!
Jetski is FOR SALE
See ad here;
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/west-perth/jet-skis/seadoo-rxt-x-260-rs/1014186935
beau
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What happened?
What happened?
scottnofish
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In the ad
He is willing to swap for a boat .must have seen one of those great whites
Paul T
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Hey Andy are you selling your
Hey Andy
are you selling your whiteybox ?
Asahambe
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Well that means more fish for
Well that means more fish for me
Sad to see ur selling just bought mine
Born to Fish
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westozandy
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Haha, What happened is Im
Haha,
What happened is Im going to go halves with a mate in a decent fishing rig.
The ski is awesome, and i love fishing from it, and iv only seen one small shark since iv been out on it haha but yeah, got my eye on something pretty nice at the moment so wanting to sell the ski, Id like to keep it as well, but i dunno if the mrs would be so keen on me keeping the ski and buying a boat as well haha
westozandy
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Paul T Dunno bout sellnig
Paul T
Dunno bout sellnig the whitey box yet, flick me a PM with a price youd pay for it and ill consider it ;)