Deepdropping -Today's catch
It was decided that I was only going for a squid sesh, just outside of Hillary's, as the weather was looking crap for a fish outside 3 mile. Then a late decision to throw in the heavy gear aswell just in case. My deckie (anypuddle) convinced me to head deep, the ride out was lumpy, but we pushed on to the 100's. It was pretty messy going. Got to the 100's, after 40km's and said 'this is crap, should we turn back ?' My deckie also had 2nd thoughts by this stage, but then I had a thought - stuff you we came this far, just another 20km's to go so toughen up! just to be mean..lol. All this time looking behind and thinking it's going to be a slow trip home, would take about 3hrs....
Got to this spot, 1st drop, sea anchor out and suprisingly, no current and holding bottom very easily.....5 more drifts and this was the result ! The biggest GB went about 25kg plus
Heading home for the 1st 15km's was 15 - 20kph.....but then got to the 120's and things started to look good....it just got better and better so all up only took 2hrs to get back by 2:30pm ! Thank God !
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BigV
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Wow
Wow thats a kick arse saddleback that big one top stuff worth the effort in the end ey
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Righteo
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well done, cant wait to have
well done, cant wait to have a crack at some myself.
Here we go again.
milsey
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Awsome stuff again mate, we
Awsome stuff again mate, we pushed through the slop but decided it wasnt a day to be deep dropping, You proved that wrong.
Just1morecast
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You're a legend. Killing it
You're a legend. Killing it out there bruu!!! Haha
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Alan James
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That jig
in the first pic looks familar. Well done Dougie. Nice GBs
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till
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Nice fatsos there mate!
Nice fatsos there mate!
wangler
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time to come out soon with us
;)
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Ericl
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Crappy looking fish, nice
Crappy looking fish, nice looking Pepsi Max can though :)
scottland
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Great haul
Gotta be happy with that
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Faulkner Family
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some great eating there. well
some great eating there. well worth the trip out. well done
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Chris fish
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Well done great catches,
Well done great catches, would love to get one of them on a jig one day... Going to be eating like a king for ages...
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Nice effort! Interesting
Nice effort! Interesting getting it on a takabura/octa style jig. How heavy was it?
wangler
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was just taking the piss for a laugh
that top pic was a set up. My reel would have exploded and handle broken on that cheap reel. Still early days using those jigs tho..
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Ooh
Had the fish nibbling there wangler, could have fed it to him and allowed him to swallow the hooks.. :)
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well done mate. very nice
well done mate. very nice
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Awesome stuff Dougie, great
Awesome stuff Dougie, great to see the conditions were such that you could get the baits and jigs down queit easily like last time. I see anypuddle is still persisting with the manual Sealine :) hahahaha dedicated for sure!
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Nice one doug
Killing the pig--- Well done
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Nice one
Always happy catching GB's!
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great effort
glad there was no current up there as just south of rotto the current was pretty strong
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anypuddle
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nice one wangler
,,good report didnt give too much away i suppose.. hey those knife-jaws we caught were great eating, you try yours yet?
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dkonig82
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Great haul mate, gotta be
Great haul mate, gotta be stoked with that.
These on baits or jigs?
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Jiggs
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haha nice haul mate.Me and
haha nice haul mate.
Me and the old man were gonna try a deep drop on saturday.
Got out to about the 40m mark and Dad decided to turn inside out and we headed back in :(
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anypuddle
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hey buz
yeah still fishing with a manual reel .. my old diawa sealine. u know its funny dont mind pulling up real fish from 300 or 400 m . just a pain when its them damn blowie/green eyes. got a triple header last time . one gb on a 670 g jig on the bottom then a red snapper on a bait and another gb on top. love using a jig as a sinker took 25 mins to get up... little sit down after that
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Top Effort
good to see the hard yards paid off for you.
Nice work
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WE WANT BLUE EYE AND BG!!!!
WE WANT BLUE EYE AND BG!!!!
not all asians keep undersize fish.
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Not Pinkys :)
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