Great conditions - Average fishing

Today signified the last day of school holidays and after dealing with the mass exodus from town it was time to head to tantas to do a solo and to make the most of the predicted conditions.

 

Upon arrival it was near on glass, just a little easterly chop which began to drop the second I hit the water.  The first photo shows half decent conditions, it just got better all day until it was complete glass about 3pm.  Anyway, the plan was to head deeeeeeeep to try for some rubies.

 

Trolling out to the deep spots I raised one small black but he wasn't hungry, just followed the lure to the boat as I retrieved it. I spent a good hour out wide and couldn't find anything so headed to another deep ledge I had.  I didn't find much at this spot either, just a few stinking catfish, one a double header with a little whaler - then I found a little patch of pinkies and managed 2 along with a nice pearl perch.  Things then shut down and I headed back to the deep spot, first drift and I found an unknown - I thought it may have been a juvenile ruby but I'm not 100% sure.  Any fish ID'ers out there, please let me know.

 

Anyway, before I could do a second drift I encountered a few engine dramas and had to call the day short.  Hopefully I can get out to the deep stuff again soon to do some more exploring.  Just great to get some good conditions again and at least got a small feed.

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Definately looks like a ruby

Fri, 2010-07-16 19:03

Definately looks like a ruby to me . . . . the only snapper I saw today was the sign at snapper loop where I worked all day :-(

 At least I wasnt on the roof all day and couldnt see the water and boats driving out of town. .

Was awsum conditions thats for sure

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Toss up

Fri, 2010-07-16 19:08

Its a toss up between a ruby snapper and a pale snapper. Has the deeper red of the ruby but the more forked tail of the pale snapper.

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top stuff ads

Fri, 2010-07-16 22:42

Hey Adro , i showed the boys off the pro boat and they said it was a Flame of some sort..not to sure myself but they said it was excellent to eat. So wishing i was out there with ya mate.

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beautiful

Fri, 2010-07-16 22:50

Geez they're a beautiful looking fish hey.

 

What sort of depth were you in Ads?  Bluejuice has mentioned the option of heading out to try for some rubies when we're up at the Monties with them next month, would be good to have some idea of what to expect...

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Be interesting seeing blue

Fri, 2010-07-16 22:56

Be interesting seeing blue juice have never been up there before!!!!!

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sounds like you had some fun

Fri, 2010-07-16 23:18

sounds like you had some fun out there, even tho the fish werent abundant you still got a feed and a first for you, even tho you have no idea what it isLaughing. you could take a pic into work , they might be able to help

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effort mate

Sat, 2010-07-17 06:57

reasonable effort mate

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320m

Sat, 2010-07-17 09:00

This one fought all the way up from 320m, which equated to about 400m of line out with 2x24 oz sinkers on.

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Long Tailed Red Snapper

Sat, 2010-07-17 12:22

Found this link for what appears to be the same species:

http://www.hawaii-seafood.org/wild-hawaii-fish/bottomfish/long-tail-snapper-onaga/

They also had them for sale at the Boatshed fish market this week. It was relatively cheap so I bought a few fillets and they fried up well. Haven't ssen them for sale in metro area before.

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Sat, 2010-07-17 13:05

Nice catch there Adam, thats know here as a Flame Snapper in these parts;

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good on ya adam, at least

Mon, 2010-07-19 08:42

good on ya adam, at least you didn't have to go to 'work', then all you would have caught was marlin and dollies. unlucky on the engine, could have been worse tho, its a long swim from out there.

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nice one mate, looking

Fri, 2010-07-23 20:08

nice one mate, looking forward to getting up there again and venturing out deep.