More just plain epic fishing from the south coast
what another insane weekend along the south coast for us. lots of fish, screaming drags, few firsts and an old curse of mine lifted!!!
saturday we went out rock hopping to a remote location we found on google earth, trecked it in using ropes to get to the lower ledges but finaly made it there and groper where the first target, first cast for my brother and Ryan resulted in them both getting a nice grouper each about 5-6kg on unweighted crabs, they both where released and my first cast resulted in an absolute smoking on "groper drag" by a fish i couldnt even turn before it burried my in a reef ledge. mucked around with bait and jigs and picked up a bonito and 4 nice big black arse. packed up and headed to a spot half way back to the car that looked promosing and Aron has hooked a nice fish that is giving him a lot of trouble on 40lb and his 8-12kg rod and poor calatina 5000 is singing away in protest, few minutes later up pops a nice 12kg fish that we gaffed and kept, few more casts and ive picked up a rat then home time and the rest of the walk back out.
sunday last minute a few of us went down to a common ledge and Aron slides a live herring into some deep water before hooking a monster sambo or king that quickly burries him on stupidly tight drag!! That was a BIG fish!!!
now a gummy shark off a beach has been a goal of mine for a good few years now, always either weatched others catch them, lost them at my feet or had something else go horribly wrong and one way or another ive missed out so tonight i gave it a good crack at a beach out of town and i broke the curse!!! 10KG LAND BASED GUMMY!!!!!! over the moon with this fish on my 20lb setup and a strip of herring and first cast of the night!!
always looking for a new challenge!!
trymyluck
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well done again guys, awesome
well done again guys, awesome stuff.
opsrey
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Nice gummy, in fact nice fish all around.
How high was the cilff and rope work?
Ben85
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that's crazy!- good to see
that's crazy!- good to see you guys pushing the limits to find good fishing
Buz
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Bloody love what you and
Bloody love what you and your crew get up to down there Chris. Epic fishing and adventures. Would gladly pay to do a Landbased fishing tour with you :-)
Chris fish
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Cheers guys, really enjoying
Cheers guys, really enjoying ticking off a few of these targets. We had to climb down 3 ledges about 10-20m each to get to this spot not vertical like abseiling but need the rope to get down steep rocks that where slippery. Bit extreme but worth getting to these hard to reach spots and I think results speak for themselves
always looking for a new challenge!!
surfhead
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Wow
Wow that looks like extreme fishing to me; getting down must have been hard enough , but getting back up again ? I have trouble just reaching the lower levels of the North Mole haha.
Some great catches there
opsrey
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Any chance you could share some crab information.
You lads have wetted my appetite for a crack at such fishing. Would you mind sharing you crabbing knowledge a little? For fishos like me a trip south is a trip where you need a few skills in the bag for the style of fishing being done. I've never done much fishing with crab as bait, so a shake down on gathering the crabs would be very helpful. Thanks in advance for anything passed on.
Chris fish
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Groper are pretty simple
Groper are pretty simple really. Just the crabs on the rocks at the spots we use knives to get them and just chuck them on a hook tied to our leaders, use heavy gear and long 60-100lb leaders and just cast them out. If your remote enough then there is grouper there usually. If it's to hard for you to get into then it's to hard for everyone else so keep going.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Buz
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When i go chasing Groper on
When i go chasing Groper on the south coast i find the easiest way to collect the rock crabs alive is to use the opera style yabbie traps and just put them on the rocks near the water or in a rock pool. If you want them dead I use a thin piece of stainless steel about a meter long with a burly blob on one end as a hand grip and the other end beaten flat and an 'arrow head' filed into it. Find this doesnt damage the crab as much as using a knife does. Good to get a few so you can crush some up for burley.
unhurry
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awesome just reading
just reading your report is awesome - let alone being there!
Well done to you all
Patto 1
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Awesome effort once again
Awesome effort once again Chris ,always a good read too
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Adam Gallash
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yup
You boys really have the south wired, great report.
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terboz123
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love it mate....
love it mate....
a hard days fishing still beats work
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GCGFC membercrezz
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nice to see the gummy ticked
nice to see the gummy ticked off your list mate, always a good feeling of accomplishment.
Brock O
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Great Catches
And report as usual! congrates on the gummy Chris.
br3nno
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Roughly where is
Roughly where is this?
dunsborough, albany, esperance :) ?
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