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Eastern Promises - Offshore 26th June 2009

Angus

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Awesome day out with Dom and Karol today.

DOm your an awesome skipper mate. A lot of time spent to make sure we were onto the fish.

I am absolutely nackered so im not going to a super detailed one, but im sure questions will arise later.

Total keeper tally:

13 Snapper

2 Spangled Emperor

1 Banded Cod

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Overall a senstational day on the water.

Thanks again Dom for the deckie opportunity! I really learnt a lot.

No paternosters were used, all float lining. Based on the other boats we could see and the radio chat, we were doing very well in comparisson!

Angus

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Angus wrote:

A banded cod for me.

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Sounds and looks like a whole lot of fun.

That little cod looks like a cross between a rankin and a chinaman. I have never seen one of them before. are they common outside?

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bretto wrote:

Angus wrote:
A banded cod for me.

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Sounds and looks like a whole lot of fun.

That little cod looks like a cross between a rankin and a chinaman. I have never seen one of them before. are they common outside?

I had never even heard of them and was relying on Dom for an ID!!!

Angus

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mate nice emperor there mate and good catches all round did u get most of the fish on sun up or where they patchy through the day,sounds like you guys had a ball cant wait to get out there myself,and i think that float lining is the go thats the method i use lot with lightest weight for the conditions

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Fantastic company having you aboard Angus. You really made Karol work hard to nail that spangled to keep his deckie spot. :laugh:

We had a slow run across the bay in what what was some pretty sloppy bay chop. Once we got out although a touch breezy it was beautiful. The wind dropped right out during the day to next to nothing.

It was a pretty slow day but persistence paid off in the end.

We started off at shallow tempest with first snap and spangleds caught in quick succession. Boy did the big spangly give Karol a workout. He was totally shagged afterwards. For a while I was thinking that there was no way he was bringing it up before it reefed him. It pretty much shutdown soon after so we headed a bit wider in seach of fish. Dropped on a few marks with good shows in 80-90m for no joy. Found a few new patches of reef around 90m that started producing. We slowly put a bag together. Fishing wasn't the easiest due to a fairly quick drift speed which made a fair bit of lead neccessary. It was awesome to find a few new marks as backup.

Azza,

All of the grounds were between shallow and deep tempest. Pretty much 500m to 1000m south of the new green zone. :angry: which happen to include a few of my favourite old marks.

Sparksie,

Floatlining is pretty much using a standad running sinker estuary rig with just enough lead to get you down if you keep on letting out line. Tackle was small to medium lever drag overhead reels with 50lb braid.

Stradiebrad,

Shallow fired for a very short period of time after sunrise but then deeper reefs produced in dribs and drabs throughout the day.

Silver_Wrex,

Zero rain on the water apart from a few drops on a glassed out bay on the way home.

Tugger,

Gus's spangly was in the mid to high 40's.

Bretto,

The bar cod is the first I have seen. Not at all common in that depth of water.

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nadders wrote:

hmm do you ever floatline in estuary situations i.e in as little as 6-10m of water?

that spangled emp is awesome mate gotta be happy with that bag :D

mate when i was at straddie thats what iwas doing in about 6mtrs of water and got the 6.4kg snapper,the lighter you fish the better
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i was awake all bloody night tossin n turnin, i was going to ring you at 3.30 am, had a squiz at forecast n thought hmmmm, bit sloppy! but rrr well, more days to come. next trip for me is up the coast in close you keen, will be spending the night out! n head back mid morning. just waitin on the weather, hearing reports, but like you said dribbs n drabs atm, but got to fire soon hey. 1 lad from here told of a place that is firing, but won't go there without him or say, so shouldn't be to long now. next moon or 2.

still a good feed there boys well done!

rob

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Smithy wrote:

On the cod, it looks like a Bar Cod to me. They are normally found on the shelf and at around 20kg. They are more 150-300m deep usually. Blue Eye Trevalla or Hapuka are then usually 300m+.

Thats interesting Smithy cheers.

This one was in no more than 80m!

Angus

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noname wrote:

i was awake all bloody night tossin n turnin, i was going to ring you at 3.30 am, had a squiz at forecast n thought hmmmm, bit sloppy! but rrr well, more days to come. next trip for me is up the coast in close you keen, will be spending the night out! n head back mid morning. just waitin on the weather, hearing reports, but like you said dribbs n drabs atm, but got to fire soon hey. 1 lad from here told of a place that is firing, but won't go there without him or say, so shouldn't be to long now. next moon or 2.

still a good feed there boys well done!

rob

Hey Rob,

Definitely keen to join you for a sunny coast close in trip as have never fished close in up there. The closest I have fished up there is cal 12 mile with very lack lustre results. Have had a few drops on the gneerings on the way home from the banks but nothing happening as it was midday.

Tuesdays forecast looks sensational but no can do as work commitments.

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