gracetown has the best ramp in that area .. just stick to the left as you head out and go slow - dont even attempt a night launch. canal rocks has a lot of surge so pic your days there.

plenty of spots in these areas and you only need to travel half mile to find deep water grounds of about 40m .

for herring and squid just hang around in the bay or cast lures onto the breaking reef.

oh yeah forgot about that 1,  i am quite familiar with that area as i have surfed it a fair bit and have seen the whole bay break on massive swells.  I have the mrs as a deckie but she isnt really that inot fishing so some squid would be a great way to kick things off then venture out a bit.  cheers feral

Have put a pic of Canal Rocks boat tramp up on Fishwecked pics if you want to have a look.

With what you are saying i wouldn't use Gnarabup/Prevally ramp. Difficult at the best of times. More for experienced crew. Gracetown is a good ramp, just be mindful of the weather.

Canal rocks is main one i use on west coast. Bit surgy at times, making it difficult to get boat back on trailer. Steep ramp too. Would be handy having an experienced deckie with you there if it was anything but milpond.

Mostly what i do though is launch from Quidalup or Old Dunsborough ramp and drive around the cape to get to the west. Bit more time distance and fuel, but if the weather turns to poo you can come back arond and fish in the bay. Same if weather is bad but you know it is going to get good hide around the lighthouse and wait, then shoot out. Alot of boats down there seem to do this.

PM me if you want some general directions on where to go out from there.

cheers buz

Don,t have to go to the west side to get big fish. Seen plenty of good fish on the four mile while diving the last couple of months.

if you are central to Margies then the ramp at Gnarabup/Prevally should be OK. i have a 4.6 and never a problem but if you have a 2WD  (i have a 4WD) then watch the weed on the ramp and with any ramp south watch the swell surge.

gracetown is easier but very limited space to launch/retreive and dont rope boat to the finger jetty. there are directional markers up on the hill in the gullly to align the channel out through the breakers and just watch the waves and get your timing right.

otherwise augusta has good facilities and deep water off the cape but very weather dependant.

any area between canal and gracetown in 20-40m holds good fish and without giving away gps marks one does need to head far offshore, say 1-3 kms

cheers forthe quality feed back.  why dont you tie to the jetty at gracetown

you will see when you have a look.

the swell tends to jam the boat up under the shoulder of the pylons and thus damage the boat for smaller vessels.

all the locals I know who use it have advised agianst it and taking that advise i have never especially when you see it. 

there is a little sand beach adjacent to the ramp to rest your boat on the ocean side but last time there the ramp was VERY slippery.

hey damo .. thanks for the info on the channel markers at gracetown .. i never even knew there was any .. the ramp was pretty slippery last sunday but a little water wont kill ya :)