40m dive today (with sounder pics)
Well what a dive ,makes diving inside the reef look sad.VIDEO TO COME .Have some great sounder pics of overhangs and caves for those who say sounders won't pick them up . We hit the water around 9:00 and headed out to a large lump 13 miles out from Two Rocks ,depth 41m rising to 32m This lump gets plenty of boat fishing it .Conditions were perfect .After setting the anchor and geting ready it was buddy checks and into the water .Meeting us half way was a large school of buff bream mixed with sambos.once on the bottom then the fish turned up you name it we seen it .Around 15 dhuies were around the lump three around 13kg all the way down to small fish off 200mm boldchin,harliquin,sambos,red snapper sweetlip portjackson shark hundreds off fish on a lump that gets flogged to death.Picked up sinkers sitting on the bottom, and rigs hooked to the coral.CRAYS ,CRAYS,CRAYS.and not little 1kg-3kg crays hundreds and hundres walking over the coral out in the open ledges full of them.one overhang was like a horror movie they were hanging off the ceiling waiting to pounce.Here are some sounder pics off the lump showing caves and large overhangs.I will edit the video and have it up i a few days
This is a large overhange 3m hige and 3-4 metres deep
This one is a cave with a large crack running east across the lunp ,the yellow through the midle is the crack
opening to a large cave
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biggerfish
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Nice work Paul like the way
Nice work Paul like the way you've got the sounder shot then the underwAter photo looks identical. Is this the sort of ground u get all your duhies on. What sort of bottom time do u get in 30-40 meteres and do u have a pony bottle half way up. Nice work again on the photos thanks for putting them up for us all to see.
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till
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Thats my kind of horror
Thats my kind of horror movie!
Paul G
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Total bottom time 30minutes
Total bottom time 30minutes including stops. Two stops one at 6m and one at 3m for five minutes.No pony 12litre tanks this is tipical dhuie ground as said this lump is well known and gets hamered,and still heaps of fish .last time out I did two drifts never got a bite.
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PilbaraBrad
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cool, looking forward to the
cool, looking forward to the vid mate
STEVE231
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Nice one Paul, I'm sure
Nice one Paul, I'm sure plenty will find it informative.
Look forward to the video footage.
fisho-ron
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proof is in the pics now
proof is in the pics now isnt it paul?
great looking ground mate, cant wait for the vid
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Nice
Nice stuff Paul. Be scared shitless myself diving in that depth.
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Love the vids can't wait
Love the vids can't wait
Paul G
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Yes 40m is a deep dive
Yes 40m is a deep dive wouldn't want things to go wrong.Jesse did well no probs ,takes it all in his stride.Have got some better lumps out there so the next good day will hit another and get some more video .Im hoping to drop onto 30 -40 dhuies in a school and get some pics that would be tops .The lump Jesse got his 20kg the other week will be next on the list 17mile out.41m up to 35m but hold good numbers of fish.
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GrahamM
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Good to see Paul the bottom
Good to see Paul the bottom times at that depth suck but sometimes the dive is worth the 10 min deco stops
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Yeah well done Paul and Jesse
looking forward to the vid
alfred
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Sounds great Paul.
Sounds great Paul.
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Tops
The sounder pic compaired to the under water shot are nearly identical and should make a few of the "sounders cannot show caves" crowd think again.
Good report Paul.
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well , certainly got some
well , certainly got some ground there paul
great sounder shots too. undeniable
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great report Paul. cant wait
great report Paul. cant wait to see the vid of all the crays. you watch but, when the season opens they will all be gone just to piss you off
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Brody
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Love your work Paul, and
Love your work Paul, and case closed re: caves/sounders.
Faulkner Family
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just curious as to what
just curious as to what sounder your running to get these pics
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Mainey
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Now I understand the sounder visions
As a 'newby' to using a 'sounder' all I can say is W O W
When seeing that series of sounder photo's then the actual photo of the area, makes sense to me how they look from the vision shown on a sounder.
THANK YOU, for the visions you have shown & I also await the video
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Russ the sounder is the
Russ the sounder is the furuno GP700 combo.I will keep on putting up sounder picks ,and bottom pics on each dive .
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Great pics paul
Awsome work Paul.
Northwest
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32m-41m and always boats on
32m-41m and always boats on it, I think I know da one, have to be honest fished it many times and only every now and then we get something off it.
good to see its doin well considering how many people fish it, on comp days we used to see a good 5 boats all over it. Obviously some gd fish still there!! great pics paul im looking forward to that vid, cheers for sharing!!
Paul G
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There are heaps of lumps
There are heaps of lumps through that area dozens and all holding fish,I have two months to dive and film as many as I can .
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Just1morecast
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Great stuff Paul, Jesse def
Great stuff Paul, Jesse def has guts to head down that deep. He will remember these days forever diving with the "old boy" haha. I saw a few of those overhangs and cliffs when i was heading out the back of rotto yesterday on my sounder
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kane
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cool paul
like the comparison between sounder and real life, were you diving on air mate or a gas mix?
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till
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I always thought diving with
I always thought diving with stage tanks is a little princess for craying ;)
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Just air Kane,not onto the
Just air Kane,not onto the mixes yet.maybe oneday.
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Can't wait for the vid
Can't wait for the vid paul. Wish I still went diving. I could go a feed of crays when the seaon opens.
I fish for the future - Cause I can't bloody catch anything!
sunshine
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Just add a seadoo with a video mount
And you can rapidly explore the areas -
And a big thanks thanks Paul for confirming what i have been saying since the very introduction of digital sounders - with correctly adjusted (read LESS) gain you can easily distinguish caves, overhangs and holes and even distinguish bottom types from mud to hard coral colour sounder or not - trouble is most fisho's run way way too much gain and the signal "fills in" all of those fish holding structures hiding them
Top work !
Paul G
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You are spot on with the
You are spot on with the gain settings .Most people are told to run the gain as high as you can without clutter.My gain will go to 100 I run it at 40,and as you can see I don't have any probs with bottom or fish.
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hooty
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Hi
Hi Paul
Interested to know what sort of video your using and cost ect as I wouldnt mind filming a bit of diving and Im often in 30-40m
Cheers Hooty