bottom fishing off westend

started the weekend on saturday at woodman point boat ramp at about 2pm headed straight to garden island for some squids after about an hour had 5 nice size squids in the bait tank so decided to head out to rotto for an afternoon dive to see what was around no crays wich was disapointing so called it a day anchored up had a nice bbq and a sleep to head out for a fish first light wind was abit disapointing early morning but died off about 9am, wind was coming from the east so decided to start drifting off westend in about 30 meters drifting west wasn,t long before the fish started biting by time we got to about 50 meters we managed 2 baldchin gropers around 45-50cm, 2 undersize snapper, 2 undersize duies, 3 monster sweep,1 cod, 2 red sapper, a few in red fish in sydney we call perch, plenty of wrasse, and to my suprise a nice size chinaman i thought you only catch them up north a good weekend plenty of fish and beautiful conditions.

hope the weather is the same this weekend

cheers warren


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sounds great. did you take

Thu, 2010-01-21 22:32

sounds great. did you take any pics of the chinaman by chance. definately a srange catch down this far

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we have but i,m currently

Thu, 2010-01-21 22:35

we have but i,m currently looking for a cable to plug my phone to my laptop soon as i do will post pics

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a chinaman at rotto thats

Thu, 2010-01-21 23:26

a chinaman at rotto thats unheard of! ure posotive it was a chinaman mate?

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May be be a blackarse? I

Fri, 2010-01-22 01:33

May be be a blackarse? I think they look similar.
Sounds like a nice session.

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harlequin?

Fri, 2010-01-22 05:32

harlequin?

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thats my guess

Fri, 2010-01-22 06:39

thats my guess

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laptop/cables

Fri, 2010-01-22 08:23

Just a thought a lot of laptops will take the flash cards from the cameras via a slot almsot all laptops have and had for long time teh SD card readers just compact flash is rarer :) have a look for a little slit that could fit your sd card it should be a snugg fitt

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Sounds like a great time wazza

Fri, 2010-01-22 08:35

I can see you planning a sicky Monday so you can have a four day weekend out there.

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yep more than likely a

Fri, 2010-01-22 11:34

yep more than likely a harliquen. Few of them out there at the moment.

Nice work

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chinaman fish or chinaman

Fri, 2010-01-22 14:28

chinaman fish or chinaman cod. if he means chinaman cod my guess would be a wirrah. sounds like a nice haul tho

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maybe chinaman leather jacket

Fri, 2010-01-22 14:37

maybe chinaman leather jacket

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Might be that chinaman that

Fri, 2010-01-22 17:46

went missing on thursday nite???haha

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you might be right but after

Fri, 2010-01-22 19:30

you might be right but after looking in the fish id at the harlequin fish this was different this one had yellow and blue spots on a very bright red it may be a different type of halequin but being from over east when i saw it, i called it for a chinaman

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sargent baker

Sat, 2010-01-23 22:43

sargent baker