Biggus Arsus Codus
a snapshot of Sundays fishing, now that my arms have recovered enough to maintain the keyboard.
Headed out Sunday with Tim with the plan to leave Point Peron at 7, and fang the 40 odd Nautical Miles West-ish to the Grey Band, Harpuka and other Biggus Arsus Codus grounds out in the 350m ++++ depths. Bit of a prowl around, move back to the red Snapper in 220/150m, may be a bit of time for a Dhu, then back to PP to hit a 3pm deadline.
About 1/4 the way, turned the GPS on to fine tune our direction, only to find it wouldn't talk to the antenna....BUGGER!
After a bit of a look (sea-anchor out and lines over of course 
) headed back to PP to try & sort it or locate a handsfree for the day....hence all the phone calls boys. We managed to disturb a few beauty sleeps 
Finally, a spare GPS unit is located, dropped off and wired in ...NOHA, what can I say - legend 
10.30 and we are back in the race.
2 hours later.........the water is soooooooo weird out that deep. Bizarre. Totally
32oz sinker on, over the side and I'm watching my spool get emptier and emptier......and emptier! The drift was pretty strong so let more line out, then some more.... more still.... I reckon there was about 650 to 700m of braid out coz there was bugger all on the reel.
Nibble nibble, wind back up...
...wind some more..
..then some more still..
..all the while thinking "shit this is heavy, bloody hell it's hard work. Hope there's a fish on the end of this. feels heavy enough to be a fish... Oh God, it could just be the weight of that kick arse sinker and the drag of the current, shit, my arms are burning. Grunt,,,,There better be a fish on there.... if its only a sinker, I'll never hear then end of it. "
Finally......and thankfully.... only a baby one at 8kg.
How the hell these guys pull the 20 - 50kg ones up is beyond me
We had time for 3 more drops - another Grey Band and a monster flattie before having to fang it back for 3pm.
I'm that stiff and sore, not sure I'd go out there again..........................................well....ok..maybe.........and Mr Trevalla lives just a little bit further out
I have to hand it to the skipper, his sheer determination to go fishing () the limited equipment, and then to put us on the fish first drift. Top effort.
The pics are crap....(no comp enteries here 
)..are from a broken phone
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roberta
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Good one Jody
at least you got out, we're still waiting on the winch motor getting fixed and outboard has been serviced. Hope everything is fixed by next Thursday, Leeman is yelling out for us, our van is getting lonely
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Adam Gallash
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nice
Nice one Jodes, not sure I'd want to fish that deep either!
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HuggyB
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good to hear you got out
Sorry I couldn't be much help!
Nice fishies.....
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well done jody
well done Jody , some times the bad starts make it up with some great fish
SamC
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Jody,Jody,Jody...never
Jody,Jody,Jody...never thought you would be the whinging type!
nice coupla cod btw...
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carnarvonite
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Arms
Your arms couldn't be that bad,LOL,after all you can still hold the fish up or maybe thats the straw that broke the camels back.
Nice fish and its tooooo deeep for me.
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well done Jody, got to admit
well done Jody, got to admit i probably wouldnt fish that deep , but the rewards are worth it if you get the fish as they are top eating, and well done to Tim for putting you onto the fish
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Paul G
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Well done guys, only just
Well done guys, only just found your post. I would have to agree 40kg+ fish from that depth NO THANKS..
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scottnofish
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nice one jody
you where lucky mark has 2 gps as i had the other one with me up steep point
good to see you found the fish in the end
Jody
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Ta guys
was a lucky day all round & the memories have faded. Can't have been all that bad..... sure I could cope with a 20... lol
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