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Hi all just upgraded my boat from a 4 meter estuary boat to a 5.2 meter genesis looking for some tips or maybe spots i could start looking for some decent deep sea fishing ground. Live in rockingham and have fished the five fathom with some good success but looking 2 go a bit deeper now. Any tips would be helpful have been spending a lot of time looking for some good lumps on my coloured sounder without much luck. Thanks

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Sat, 2009-04-04 21:09

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FISHING SPOTS

Sat, 2009-04-04 21:55

I head out to the s/w bank . I fish off the back of it in 50 to 60 mts and go alright . Just make sure you get the wheather right good luck

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Where is the south west bank

Sun, 2009-04-05 12:42

Where is the south west bank i might have 2 check the charts went out twenty five k yesterday and couldnt find any hard ground might take a while to get used 2 the new sounder not sure what im looking at yet. Thanks for the advice gregk

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s/w bank

Sun, 2009-04-05 19:10

head out of point perron on  250 260 degrees you can't miss it comes up from 45 / 47 to 30ies get off the back of it look for coral with your bottom lock  .You can fish the big lumps but you loose a lot of gear and its about 20 nm out

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cheers

Sun, 2009-04-05 21:09

Will give that a try still working out the sounder read the book a few times and still not a full book on picking what i should be looking for on the bottom the sounder is a raymarine ds500 colour sounder a little diffrent 2 using my old hummingbird. Do you usually have zoom on your sounder and do u have fish symbols active or do u have it so just a coloured blurr comes up for a fish what is bottom lock all new 2 me. I Guess i cant expect 2 be catching good fish first time  but  a wrass would of been good What size boat have u got greg

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bottom lock

Mon, 2009-04-06 19:21

its lets you read the bottom say 5 meters and it reads  growth above the bottom .I split my screen and the other side i have it on 200hz I dont fish id on i just look for good ground I look for 1 meter plus growth but often pick up fish around the good growth so keep your gear in the or you can alot miles and not much fishing .I have a 5 meter razorline c/cab with 90 honda good luck.

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cheers for that greg one

Mon, 2009-04-06 20:44

cheers for that greg one last thing with a five meter boat what is the go with the weather this weekend forecast is for a 15 knot ese what is the strongest winds u would head out there in. dont mind a bit of rough weather but dont want to get out there and find we cant get back better 2 be safe then sorry thanks for all your help greg

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If it stays like this then

Mon, 2009-04-06 21:50

If it stays like this then Saturday would be great, even better take Wednesday off and head out.

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cheers tony heading 2 rotto

Mon, 2009-04-06 23:00

cheers tony heading 2 rotto for the night saturday with my other half  going out tuesday night 2 five fathom if u keen let me know glad i found a site where i can talk to people with similar interest

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Mate i live close to rocko,

Tue, 2009-04-07 09:40

Mate i live close to rocko, happy to team up for a trip or 2 out.

Dont have a huge amounts of spots off rocko yet, but still worth a look.

we are heading to rotto sat too.. Wonder if there are any Tuna or macks just outt he back?

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rotto

Tue, 2009-04-07 17:27

iam goin thursday night for fads friday dunno bout macks and tuna at rotto but i hear a roumour of em out of mindari aroud three mile ay

 

 

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