Any excuse will do!
A mate of mine works for Fisheries research and said he's needing fresh frames (tissue samples) especially Hapuku and Bass Groper. He's studying the Biology & Genetics so I said any excuse will do, we'll get out on the next best day. Monday's weather was looking sweet so off we went, fished the deepwater but had to find the buggers!
My mates second drift/attempt with 3 big baits going down, result a triple header of Hapuku;
Two were similar size, the other a bit smaller (not in picture), the biggest Puka (weighed) 16kg;
I did a few drifts after that, with missing the fish/drift & them just not bitting so I went and looked for them again and dropped on top of em...jiggy jig jiggy jig and whamo i'm on!
Bass Groper weighed 26kg on Sanme jig!
Was a magnificent day on the water, much cooler out there and an easy ride in!
Colin Hay
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Another fantastic result Ryan
The triple header must have been hard work to get up.
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Decella
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What size
Eskie are you fellas running?
Goodz
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Looks like awesome
Looks like awesome conditions way out there! Very nice fish too! What outfit you using to jig way out there?
Rodrat
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Crikey
Great fish ryan, well done
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Trousersnake
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Nice work dudes
They almost compare in size to my herring yesterday lol
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zen
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TOP FISH
awesome fish topped off by awesome conditions by the looks...
Paully
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The Bass Whisperer
Absolutely magical, but somehow just not fair!
Tigh82
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once again
was going to call in and say gday on monday but driving past cott and looking at the conditions i thought you might have been heading out. Well done mate!
Wreckless
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Nice fish
What depth were you fishing in Ryan?
Mick
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Nice work again Ryan u make
Nice work again Ryan u make it sound so easy
Play hard fish harder
soupster51
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Very Nice
Great work Buddy. I had no doubt that the hot days would mean deep water for you. Great result. Now that is a research job that we all want......
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grayzeee
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good work yet again ryan.
good work yet again ryan. well done lads
what depths do you start finding these fish? what sort of structure are they hanging onto??
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
Simmo
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The man is a machine, it has
The man is a machine, it has been said many times.
Nice work lads, gotta be happy with that.
Alan James
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Tissue Samples
I'm also interested in doing tissue samples. When can I pick up a fillet of one of those beauties.
Adam Gallash
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research
Be great to see what the results are re age structure and spawning habits, guess that info will be quite a way off though. :( Great catch fellas.
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eltaco
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They are massive do they get
They are massive do they get much bigger .How far out do ya go too score them
Albee Mangles
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Great work again Ryan!
Some crackin fish there mate, well done!!!
just dhu it
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great work
great work Ryan, nice looking fish and conditions , you havent mention how deep and how far you had to travel which might put some people of, but it look worth while when you you find the fish.
Wet Dreams
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Too good
A tripple header of that size would've be a serious struggle..top effort.
Mind the smell, ive been fishing!
Faulkner Family
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yet again well done.
yet again well done. research , yeah right. you just want to go fishing and make us all jealous. would have been magic out there.
eltaco, not too long ago Ryan had a fellow fisher on his boat that got a record bass groper at nearly 50kg , so yeah they get bigger
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Craig Pearse
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Nice 1 Ryan, you always
Nice 1 Ryan,
you always bring the goods
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info!
Cheers fella's, sorry for delay....been down south marroning!
Decella, i've got 2 F/G ice boxes, one 126L (main ice box) and the other 105L (back-up)
Goodz, I use a Daiwa electric reel matched to a Ozflex 24kg Offshore Sports rod. I fight all my fish manually unless its a shitfish, shark or empty jig which is then powered up but any descent fish is done the hard way, as I say to mates i want to earn my fish (just my pref)
Mick/Grayzeee, I work the 200-500m depths for deepwater species, these fish coming from the deepwer end of that scale this time. Not alot of big structure just drop off/edges and looking for fish!
Adam, yeh he's looking at Biology-with age growth & Reproduction. He's also looking at Population Structure/Genetics....interesting stuff so far but yes early days!
Eltaco, how big do they get, a 80kg metro Bass that was a comercial capture along time ago was sold at the fish markets!. A big one now is approx 60kg but as Russ said Kasey got a stonker Bass (state record) on jig, on my boat last season that went 46kg!
Biggerfish/Just Dhu it, easier now indeed but hard when I first started but all my reconaisanse has paid off. As for distance, depending on where I launch from as many different spots but its about a 2 hour steam one way and any deepwater fishing isnt easy unless you dedicate yourself!
Cheers
shabba
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awsome stuff again ryan. u
awsome stuff again ryan. u have well & truely got that deep water sussed. just shows how diverse u are at fishing. does not matter if its, bread & butter fish, dhu's snapper, baldy, squid, crays, marron, crabs, etc etc, u all ways find them......