Exmouth Greyband
We finally managed to get out to the deep spots after a gentleman hours start. (thanks to Jeff for not getting any evidence)
First drift and the counter on my electric reel said 360m (which had the battery die soon after). After about 20 minutes we finally got the bite we wanted and we knew we had found the cod hole. After 15 odd minutes of fighting each we had two floating behemoths to the surface and the high 5's began, considering we were fishing without a sounder that could go over 160m.
With the esky full we moved to another spot to try and find some rubies which proved to be uneventfull. We then did a little bit of trolling around for no luck and headed back to the original spot for one last drift to try and get Simmo a cod. With the south wester well and truly in we missed the spot but found a secondary mark which gave me the last fish of the day and with the electric reel out of battery, the arms and back got well and truly stretched on a nice 20kg fish.
Unfortunately it has to be a short report as I think I'm still hungover from Thursday nights squidding mission, lol. Now I'm looking forward to trying them on the plate as I've heard they are pretty good table fare.
Cheers,
Adam
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DazSamFishing
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Plenty of tasty fillets!
Plenty of tasty fillets! Well done, especially without the use of a sounder.
Megadon
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Adam you must be stoked!!!
Adam you must be stoked!!! giving Ryan a run for his money lol.
scotto
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ball tearers!!
they are awesome fish mate. i didnt even know youse got them up there, let alone as big as that. a deckie up there showed me a picture of a 47kg ruby snapper from up that way. you can see the bands better after they've carked it hey.
how do you go with the cod's over a metre returned rule??
till
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Pretty sure they dropped the
Pretty sure they dropped the 1m rule for grey barred last round of changes.
scotto
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yep
yeah just found that then. " epinephelus sp over 1000mm or 30kg are protected. (except grey banded rock cod)"
makes sense i guess, as any cod pulled from more than a hundred metres would be screwed anyway.
Gully
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360m - that is keen
360m - that is keen mate.
Top fish though and when you eventually got them to the surface I suppose it is worth it :P
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deepwater
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We final got out there
We final got out there thanks Ads ,was good to see a good mate catch a good one and power on throught a mass hangover well done
jeff
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howd ya go
Howd ya go today mate? I was still pretty slow, suprised I survived out there yesterday, but it had to be done!
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harro
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fookin awesme
thats the shit, well done boys, gonna be chasing them out down here soon, they are bombs, were they good eating, coz u,ll be eating them for months.. lol well done
47kg ruby snapper?? wtf dont think so... but who knows,\\\\\
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Definately is keen,
Definately is keen, but epic allround Ads...
Now to drop a jig down nxt time!
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Good fish!!
Top fish boys!!!
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I'll bring the deepwater
I'll bring the deepwater sounder next year if you bring the GPS...
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introduction
hi everyone my name is dean from victoria new to this website and looking forward to talking great fishing and boating tails with you
out wide
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Don't ya just love
them big buggers coming up from the deep. Well done boys.
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great effort Adam and crew.
great effort Adam and crew. they are hooters . im sure you wont be disapointed with the taste. good to see you had to fish like most of us when the battery died. maybe next time you will remember to charge it first
.well done and enjoy the chew
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connors
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nice fish boys
nice fish boys
deepwater
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COD COD COD I LOVE IT
MATE we did well on the cod,it took about an hour to cut and pack it all we got a sail on a diver ,lost another,lost 3macs ,got a 1kg trev 3kg so no go and 200 charlies on 1kg ,not too good got a tag pole and tags was going to go get some billies but not sure just yet ??? its raining JEFF
Gully
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Looks great guys - welcome
Looks great guys - welcome to the site too Dean.
Am currently looking into getting a 1kw transducer for a sounder I have aquired. Just got to find a bloody company that will help me out. Why do people say they will call you back and never do?
Anyway onto the rubies for you guys next I suppose?
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Top Fish
Awesome fish Adam. Back breakers but awesome fun.
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That's awesome
Definately worth making the trip out wide for a catch like that.
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are they the same as the
are they the same as the hapuka from new zealand? great fish well done
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No Webby
Different species
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Very nice well done guys
Very nice well done guys ,yes some sore arms and backs .Will need to get me a elictric reel I think.
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Goatch
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Awesome fish
Guys , congrats on them , absolute stonkers .
Just one more cast , honest !!!
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360 metres
360 mts ; WTF... i dont even go that far for my holidays......
Well done guys, like was said i didnt know they were found up there. Hope ya got a couple of decent freezers. Rob
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Alan James
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Top fish and well done
What does jump out at me tho is that the fish in the first three pics look huge compared to the garage shot of the three fish together. I guess an example of how deceiptive the camera can be even without photo shopping.
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power of the camera, i
power of the camera, i thought the same, shows how the angle does alot, awesome fish and good job Adam, certainly a great catch, some jealous people around i would say