Bom Diggity's Preston Beach episode is a fair snapshot of where Western Australian drone fishing has landed in 2026 — a controller that talks back to you about wind, an iTechworld power station that runs an air-fryer kitchen on the sand, and a tailor on the rack before lunch.
The day was a catch-up. Mo, who runs the small Triple X Saltwater Braid line out of his Facebook page, drove down from Hedland on the Pilbara coast to meet Bom Diggity on the south coast for a beach day at Preston. Tyres dropped to 12-13 PSI on the run-in, a soft, deeply rutted dune track was attempted, reversed and finally beaten on a third run-up, and the two crews set up well down the beach with rods, baits and a drone.
Bom Diggity made the case for the coastline early in the day.
"This is one of the best fishing coast in WA," he said. "From Tim's thicket to Preston Beach has got to be one of the best fishing coastline I reckon."
He also flagged the local trap — past Preston towards Myalup and Binningup the weed builds up enough to bury a hook quickly, so the productive stretch is the band south of that.
The drone work was the point of the trip. Bom Diggity flew a bait out, intending to drop further, before the controller's wind warning lit up and forced him to release at 250 metres rather than push deeper into the breeze. The release worked. The drone then used its home-button auto-return to fly itself back to the original take-off point — a small but increasingly standard piece of automation that has lowered the barrier to entry for anglers who do not have years of stick-time on a remote.
Mo's bait paid off first. A clean tailor came up the wash, with Bom Diggity calling the catch off camera before getting back to his own line.
"It is a Taylor. It is. Oh, he's caught one," he called over. "That's a nice Taylor as well."
The second story was the gear and the cooking. Bom Diggity used the day to put the iTechworld PS3600 power station to work, running a full air-fryer kitchen on the beach — bacon-wrapped fillet mignon from a local market, garlic mushrooms and gravy made on the same draw. The point he kept returning to was that 10 minutes of cooking pulled only 4 percent off the battery, with the kit holding 96 percent after the meal was done.
"If you want to make life easy when you're camping, go get yourself a power station," he said. "It doesn't matter — Bluetti or any power station. Do yourself a favor and go buy one."
Mo finished the on-beach session by catching another tailor or two. Bom Diggity closed the rod day with a small flatty pulled out of weed in the wash and waved at on release.
"Doesn't matter how small it is, it's still a fish," he said as the flathead went back. "Best fish of the day to be honest."
The video doubled as the launch of a Bom Diggity merch giveaway, with winners drawn in a 13 June release, but the operational read for any WA-based reader is straightforward. Drone fishing in Western Australia is no longer a novelty. The controllers handle wind and auto-return. The catches are unspectacular but consistent. The on-beach setup — power station, air fryer, deflated tyres — is the new normal. Preston Beach delivered a small but representative version of all of it.