queensland Fishing the Deep Blue

[mattza13]

Gday,

Just thought i should share some of the fish me and a few mates have been getting into of late. Mid Last year was my first trip out 'deep' resulting in an awesome result in a mates 24ft centre console/cab. I landed a 14kg Blue eye, my first fish that deep, and also a Bass Groper that weighed in at a touch over 30kg. Both where taken on a Alvey Reef King and 200lb braid. Sounds overkill but boy do these guys give some curry. However This was just a start.

Early this year it became a mission of me and my best mate to get out there to nail a few. All well and good except for the fact he owns a 5.5m centre console, but that hasnt stopped us. I went out and got myself a tynos 50II and a heap of 80lb braid and off we went. First trip out we managed 9 fish from 4 drops in 400-440m, stand up, no harness, no bent butt, just rod, reel and a gimble belt. Have nailed them a few trips out now too. The exact species was debateable at first and photos where sent out to people in the know and a hit came back from the Australian Museum with a positive identification of Brilliant Pomfret or otherwise known as Illustrious Pomfret.

Then it comes to this weekend past. Out with the mate in the 24ft Ocean Master again. Gotta Love it. Packed with all the goodies, Raymarine c90w with 1kw transducer and raymarine auto pilot, deck winch with 3500m of 200lb braid, 80w electric with 1000m 200lb braid and my Tyrnos 50II with near on 1500m of 80lb and enough fuel to go anywhere. so an extended trip was in order to hit some pinnicles down south in water as deep as 900m. We managed 5 Blue eye early in the piece then could not stay away from green eye dogfish (sharks) They would find us no mater the depth we fished so made for a long day and half fishing. Most where around 2ft but with some bigger models up around the 5-6ft range. Also managed a 1m+ OilFish which took a circle loaded with 3 pillies in an isothermic(sp) layer at around 270m however he was lost boat side pulling the 15/0 circle from his face, hindsight not a bad thing seeing as they are unedible.

Next mission is to get a big groper or blue eye on the tyrnos.

[aussie123]

Nice lot of fish.

Those Blue eye are awesome eating and so are the Pomfret.

Those oilfish are good eating as well but if you eat to much in one go,well expect a lot of trips to the dunny,lol

[jon]

nice work bud always cool to see a report of something a bit different keep it up! :cheer:

[Do$tylz]

sweet as. I'd love to go out chasing those things. I wonder how much 4lb my stella 10000 can hold ??

How long do you guys find yourself cruising for to get to those sorta spots?

[Terry H]

Those fish are unreal! Look at the eyes on those things!

Hats off to you blokes though. willingly dropping 400+ metres of line into the water sounds (to me) crazy, and far too much effort! I hate respooling my Tiagra 80WA, and (in terms of distance/line etc) that sounds like dumping half of what I respool into the water just to get to the fish. It would suck to get baited and not hook anything!

[mattza13]

Typically it takes us anything from 2-6 hours to get to a spot by boat. getting baited isn't the problem, the.problem is when you can't escape the little green eyed dog fish (shark) that can sniff out a bait from 100km away. And the little things are mostly about 2ft only. although we saw a few around 5ft on the weekend. no matter how deep or shadow we fished into the blue eye grounds we could not escape them. It got to a point where we could catch three sharks per drop on a 2 bait rig. was a bloody joke.

Lol 4lb, that's where our sinkers start :-P