Current speeds?
Submitted by Chook1204 on Fri, 2018-04-06 18:23
Just seeing if any body studies the current speeds much? I went out the shelf down south today and the current was shocking could not hold bottom in 150m due to the current strength, I just had a look on windy.com and the currents said .3knots south west which was the direction but I’m pretty sure it was a lot quicker, any ideas if that speed is too quick to be out there?
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sunshine
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Get the same at Jurien
Have seek pro cray pots with five floats all of which were underwater.....very hard to hold bottom in those conditi9ns and in deeper water damned near impossible
quadfisher
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Anchor up and troll lures?
Highest speed for the leewin current is around 3.5 knots or 6.5kph , thats moving considering thats in hundreds of metres of water,
the volume per secound passing a certain point on the coast must be amazing , a mackie would barely need to shake his tail, covering 156kms every 24 hours!
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Breaksea
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Hmmm, anchoring up
I remember a day many years back, glassed-off with a strong current, when I anchored up and cubed in 90m depth.
A good day's tuna fishing until it was time to weigh anchor, when I discovered that I'd taken the anchor-retrieval buoy and clip out of the boat and forgotten to put it back. Pulling in 200m of nylon (sinking) anchor line plus anchor and chain by hand in a 3 knot current was not fun. The last 60 m involved walking from bow to stern, cleat, coil line, repeat, once my arms gave out. :-)