first time deep drop
Submitted by Jorie on Tue, 2013-06-25 15:11
Heading to walpole in august planning on deep dropping 200-250 aiming for hapuka and cod wondering what alse to excpect can any one give me some advice if you have fished there before cheers jordan
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deep out from walpole
out from peaceful bay the drop off starts at about 100 meters. The edge is thick with reds and snapper in XOS sizes. From there it just dropped away. We got grey band and hapuka from maybe 120 to 180. The hapuka where thick in very visible schools. Get out a bit deeper 300 to 400 and blue eyes are about as well.
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Jorie
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How big are the hapuka and greyband? Dont have electrics so wanna stay inside 200 if I can any tips on gear and rigs?
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not huge
actually most were smaller than I see here local. Biggest maybe 18kg but schools of puka were about 8kg
Others I was with got a little bigger.
That said i fished mainly 160 metres. Here that would be 280 meters
Electric all the way only because you can fish all day without fatigue.
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Jorie
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good size tho
We only just got bigger boat 6.8 bar crusher so only new to deep dropping if we get some results then we will get electric s ( I work in tackle shop) cheers for the advise you use 200 lb mono three droppers and circle hooks? Do u use glow lights
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will destroys mono and glow squids here but they were not an issue out from walpole but the ground was not mud there
I only use 2 droppers as a double header of big fish is enough.
Line was only 120lb with either snelled "j" hooks or single circles.
For reds circles are good but I dont like them for snapper.
For grey band and hapuka circles are good
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no
reason why you cant fish in 300m with manuel reels, if you want it that bad youll fish it,