if there big ones i would get a gigi an a hand line and just throw it at them cheaper and less messy wen the net gets tangled.

cheers danno

if you are going to do make shore u got some bread burley ready so wen u get one and the spooky off u get burley them bak.

seens a couple monster ones but also seen a school of bit smaller ones jumping around in the shallows which woulda been castnetable... those big ones would put up a great fight on light gear!

u could try and jag them with lures

i did in the river with the monster ones in there but it tricky

cheers danno

yer go with danno i go to point peron alot and jag them great fun and you will alwase get one if your lucky just use a lure that has big hooks but not to big otherwise you will spook them cast over them and jig jag throw your rod around whil reeling it in fast threw the school good fun if you get one on they go off

jagging fish was illegal,comes under the same rules as using dynamite and poisons

I was actually thinking that myself neil!

So the point wasn't, how to catch a mullet anyway... I was asking if and where you're allowed to use a cast net around the metro SOR area. Anyone?

from the CSBP Jetty right arround point Peron to june road.

No set net fishing allowed anywhere thru out the zone

its all on the fisheries website

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/NetFishing/NettingRules2010.pdf

Hope this helps.

inlets, creeks, lakes and their entrances) are closed

All of WA's ocean waters are open to throw netting;

total fishing exclusions zones, and any other area,

which is closed to all types of netting at all times.

• Throw netting (inland waters) Throw nets are

Kimberley region north and east of Onslow for

the take of cherabin and baitfish of the sardine,

bony herring, hardyhead, anchovy, mullet and

garfish families (families Clupeidae, Atherinidae,

Engraulididae, Mugilidae and Hemiramphidae)

For more of the complex info read the link.

Hope this assist. For example throw nets are possible in the Peel-Harvey inlet apart from the cut, and I lived there for 18yrs and never saw one!!!!

Neels

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/NetFishing/NettingRules2010.pdf

to the guys who mentioned about jagging the fish you may want to read this extract from the fisheries website.

Protecting fish and their habitats

A number of activities are explicitly prohibited in order to

protect fish and their habitats in key environments.

Legal recreational fishing gear methods are defined in

fisheries regulations (see above). Everything else is illegal

In particular you may not:

• Use fish traps or ‘pots’ of any kind (except lobster pots).

• Use dredges.

waters so that fish are enclosed, left stranded, destroyed

or wasted.

(for example, fish poisons) on WA waters.

• ‘Jag’ fish with baitless hooks.

• Use commercial fishing gear of any kind.

lines or moorings.

• Fish for live or dead coral or ‘live rock’.

You aften see people with a jag hook, Jag for the numerous bait fish underneath and then hoink the rig out with the fresh "jagged" bait attacked and then go for the attackers.

This I see as illegal then!

Cheers

Neels

Last time this looked much easier than getting the sabiki and using that to gather bait, or a cast net from the platform, which I now also think is illegal.

I stand corrected.

Im keen to catch a few mullet, I got a spot where there is some monsters but can never catch them. Do you use a float and a tiny hook with bread on it?

Whats the difference, a hook in its back or a hook in its face? I dont really understand the jagging law. I guess the fish isnt willingly taking the hook when you jag it.

What about when the herring are on the boil and you can catch them on unbaited hooks LOL

The difference is that for every one fish you land by jagging you probbaly bugger several others.

With jagging I think it's more to do with the damage you do to the fish you don't catch.

wether it wants to eat your bait or hook but it dosnt have a choice when there is a set of trebbles ripped through its back

well you lern something every day cherz guys

Yeah sounds about right.
Cheers

I agree that the fisheries website says no castnets in that area... but on the Department of Environment website that show the marine park boundaries and special areas..

 http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=2000&Itemid=99999999

it has the area around cape peron showing as "General Use".. which in reading on another documents has cast netting allowed with a net licence..... it also says spearfishing without tanks is allowed.. interestinggg...

 Does the fisheries override the dec?

Would refer to any legal fishing activity. Netting is general use with a license but is prohibited in the area shown on the fisheries website.

Clear as mud?

You cannot legally use a cast net at Point Peron/Mangles Bay