baby steps - deep dropping
mmmm, well its been well documented for my entry into the deep drop fishing scene......
it started off with a naught, but then a bang and a 37kg puka...... sadly as most of you, (if you read my posts) i have struggled since and 7 trips since account for 0. It was apparent it seemed each trip i would make signifiance steps in the right direction, whether albiet ground, fish on sounder , learing to understand setting driffs, understanding sounder settings you named.....there is too much to learn!
well yesterday, a crewman pulled through and off we went, with a lil bit of confidence in my step with the soundings i found last week, high hopes were had.the easterly was far more sloppy then predicted for the morning, anyhoo of pushed.....
i struggled quitr hard sounding in the short sharp easterly chop out there,still the wind started settling around 11 am. just a magnitude of green eyes. cant get away from the bastards.
come 5pm we had hit all mysoundings from the week before for 0......nothing, and even tried the 450-500 for nothing bar XOS green eye. I started cracking the shits big time and basically said, we are going on, we will sound the 200-220mline for a few miles before heading in. after about 10 mins of sounding something odd came up on the sounded after the 220m edge. It looked what i thought was coral and soft structure on a much harder bottom..
last drift then in i tell the decky. i drop = green eye he drops = dropped a good fish just after hook up..... hmmmmm , one last drift on sunset then.
i go first and instantly on the bottom i finally have head shakes........ and a few mins later up popped my first 15 kg greyband.....about time its beeen along time between fish in terms of my deep dropping ( i think 6 full days out there), a frustrating thing for me was i completely messed my sounder settings up mid morning and didnt get reading the way ilike till the 200 sounding!
so end result, another slow day, but i did learn a bit in terms of some skills i need to suss to get this deep drop code cracked...... absolutely gutted i couldnt find any of the showins from last week but its all a learning curve
So, 2 down, 2 to go!
GREYBAND 15kg
PUKA 37kg
PERTH METRO BASS (i have caught a few 40+ in NZ) ???????
BLUE EYE ????
a hard days fishing still beats work
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bsir
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Good write us
mate, I've been reading these write ups as I've been considering getting into it.
thats a pretty nice fish. Well done.
Bodie
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Good eating size, don't want
Good eating size, don't want me any bigger
Koma
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Nice fish
Nice fish
Faulkner Family
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well done. persistance for
well done. persistance for sure, if it was that easy out there everyone would do it. gotta be happy with a greyband or 7 bar that size they are great eating. your time will come to get the bigguns from the deep.
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JohnF
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Well done Brett, ice Grey
Well done Brett, ice Grey band, this is the limit as far as size and reasonable eating quality go.
I went 5 trips without a fish, it can be hard out there.
blue eye.......I had to seek help to tick that one off.....thanks To Bodie.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Dale
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Persistence starting to pay off Brett, must nearly have the key now.
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meglodon
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Great fish
Well done there, you are starting up the ladder now. It's a long way to go for the lessons but when you strike gold it makes all the travel worth while.
Nor or Sor.
terboz123
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NOR....very north. as far
NOR....very north. as far from the trench i can be....... love going out off the shelf and seeing absolutely no boats :) ....
a hard days fishing still beats work
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Thanks for the report
Thanks for the report Terboz.
Seems like a hard one to crack thats for sure. Getting alot out of the reports you put up.
Any sounder shots at all from the ground you picked the GB off??
Shark1
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On ye mate, good eating fish
On ye mate, good eating fish size , my biggest is 9kg this far i rate them top table fare at the smaller size
which sounder u running
We pulled pinkies in 350- 400- what i was hoping was school puka on the sounder 4 different spots
rest of day green eyes
Simo_
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It's hard work out there. I
It's hard work out there. I got lucky with Grey Band and Blue Eye on my first try. Time after that got nothing.
Bring on April
ChrisG
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Managed to do okay deep
Managed to do okay deep dropping of Exmouth this year but still trying to crack the metro code. Been out only half a dozen times for not much really, couple of small grey bands and last weekend couldn't get past the swallowtails and greeneyes! Swallowtails were thick as! Like rats everywhere in 280-350m; ran out of deep drop baits long before the weather turned bad which was frustrating! Wish I had a bigger boat so didn't have to wait until near perfect conditions to get out that wide.
Look forward to reading more of your posts mate
Bodie
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greeneyes make good bai! Yes
greeneyes make good bait!
Yes thats right those little annoying sharks, Blueeye love them filleted in half.