The headline image of Bom Diggity's latest WA beach video is not a fish. It is a controller flashing a wind warning at 250 metres and a drone deciding the conditions are not safe for a deeper release.
That sums up Preston Beach in 2026. Drone fishing has matured into a base-level technique on the WA south coast, with the kit doing more of the safety work and the angler doing more of the spotting. Mo, who runs the small Triple X Saltwater Braid label out of his Facebook page, drove down from Hedland in the Pilbara to fish a day with Bom Diggity at Preston. Tyres came down to 12-13 PSI on the run-in. A soft dune climb took three goes. By mid-morning the two crews were set up well down the beach with bait, lines and a drone.
"This is one of the best fishing coast in WA," Bom Diggity said. "From Tim's thicket to Preston Beach has got to be one of the best fishing coastline I reckon."
He flagged the weed boundary north of Preston — through Myalup and Binningup — for anyone planning a longer run. The clean band south of the township is the one to target.
The wind story was the day's defining one. The drone, sent out for a deeper drop, had its release point pulled back to 250 metres after the controller's wind-warning indicator lit up. The bait went down anyway, and the drone used its automated home-return to fly itself back to the take-off pad — the kind of safety net that has quietly opened drone fishing to anglers who do not have hours of stick-time. Mo's rig was the first to read a bite, and a clean tailor came up the wash.
"It is a Taylor. It is. Oh, he's caught one," Bom Diggity called over before getting back to his own line. "That's a nice Taylor as well."
With bait in the water the day shifted gears for the second hour. Bom Diggity used the trip to put an iTechworld PS3600 power station through a full-cook test on the beach — bacon-wrapped fillet mignon from a local Perth market, garlic mushrooms, fries, gravy, all run through an air fryer on power station alone. He kept coming back to the same metric: a 10-minute cook used just 4 percent of the battery, with 96 percent still in the bank.
"If you want to make life easy when you're camping, go get yourself a power station," Bom Diggity said. "It doesn't matter — Bluetti or any power station. Do yourself a favor and go buy one."
Mo banked a second tailor through the back end of the session. Bom Diggity finally got on the board with a small flathead pulled out of weed in the wash. He released it with a line that has become the running theme of his channel.
"Doesn't matter how small it is, it's still a fish," he said. "Best fish of the day to be honest."
The wider read for any anglerfishing.pro reader trialling drone fishing on the WA coast is the same as the trip itself. The kit handles more of the heavy lifting than it did two seasons ago. The catches are not records — a tailor and a flathead are a fair day on Preston Beach for any technique — but the consistency is there. And the on-beach setup is now a deflated-tyre 4WD, a power station, an air fryer and a controller that knows when not to push the drone further out. Preston Beach delivered exactly that template.
