queensland offshore monday 4th august

[MichaelJ]

went offshore again today

pretty slow day overall but we got some good fish

and lost another jig to a big aj

we caught 2 cobia 24kg and 25kg gutted and gilled

1 hapuka cod around 10kg

1 good snap around 5.5-6kg

some small pearlies and snaps plus lots of undersize

lost 2 sharks around 100-150kg lol

also got pics this time lol

[Feral]

You call that a slow day I'd call it a great day!

[MichaelJ]

the hapuka cod

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/SDC10211_AFO.jpg

[MichaelJ]

the snap

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/SDC10213_AFO.jpg

[MichaelJ]

the cobes snap and hapuka

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/SDC10216_AFO.jpg

[Biggles]

Awesome feed, just luvely.

Regards

Al

[MichaelJ]

feral a long time between good fish though

also it was really glassy this morning going out and turned crap with strong wind and decent swell this arvo

[Leighton]

Off the Goldy?

Livies?

Great fish, plenty of good chewing on the Hapuka

[tacklebox]

Nice one Whatnow. Do Hapuka Cod's eyes usually look like that?

[MichaelJ]

nah coloundra wide/cape moreton

all them were on squid and pillies

livies were pretty hard to get

[MichaelJ]

tacklebox wrote:

Nice one Whatnow. Do Hapuka Cod's eyes usually look like that?

there eyes pop out of there head when there brought up from deep water which is were they live

in aus there almost only caught in like 200m water but this one came from 120m

[bogan]

wow... fishing in 120metres of water... i barely that amount of line on a reel lol

damn nice fish though, top job.

[mangler]

Good feed there mate! That snap looks a good size when being held up, but in the back of the ute with the cobia he looks dwarfed!

Cheers,

Matt

[Dinodadog]

Well done nice looking lot there

[nuckle]

awsome cobes, how deep were they in?

[fishyman]

wouldnt they be a nice cigutera (spelling) risk being that size?

[ellicat]

A case of quality over quantity there whatnow.

I'm with Feral - absolutely drooling:woohoo:

[werewolf]

nice size about the cobes! You can't complain about a pair of 50 lb cobes!

[MichaelJ]

they were in about 40m nuckle

and fishyman cobia dont carry ciguataria around here ther all fine to eat

[kriso]

i think he ment the cod?

[MichaelJ]

the hapuka wouldnt get ya sick iether

[kiwifisho]

Nice feed BroB)

[Smithy]

I would say that is actually a Bar Cod. Coming from only 120m confirms it. The white edge to the tail is the give away. Hapuka are more elongated and Bass Grouper have a black tinge or certainly no white tinge to the trailing edge of the tail. I put a couple of pictures up a while ago of a couple we caught on other sites and that was the consensus. Ours were from 227m and 350m. There are some good species ID pics of the deepwater ooglies on the NSW Fisheries website.

[MichaelJ]

nah it was long and skinier than normal cods not the round shape they normally have smithy

but i just looked up both fish on google images they both look very very similair so u might be right

also it tasted very very very nice one of if not the best fish ive eaten