STEEP POINT FULL REPORT. lots and lots of pictures
Ok well ive finaly been through all the cameras and got all the photos together and its time to throw up the photos of our trip.
My brother Aron, mates Michael and Rene and myself spent 2 weeks at steep point and this trip the focus was on looking outside the box both fishing and diving and try and figure the place out properly. i think we well and truly achieved this compared to the guys around us just bait fishing the cliffs and ballooling and spinning.
first few days we had a massive front come through with strong westerly winds and huge swells still managed to dive and fish the shallows for a few fish. few days past and the wind changed dirrection and out went a balloon. picked up a little macky ballooing on the 20lb setup for my brother and his first spanish.
swell finaly dropped off and it was on we did a lot of exploring and traveled around the point diving and fishing all over the place for a lot of different species. figured out the shark macks on the light 4-15lb gear and bottom bashed with the same combos using both bait and lures off the cliffs, figured out the shallows after dark for pinkys and emperors and dived the shallows with the boat when the winds allowed. between 4 of us we ended up filling 2 engels with about 50kg of fillets of 5 star fish from rankin cod to baldchin and had a ball along the way.
will take to long to go through all the details so ill write up some of the better moments and let the photos exlain the rest.
my brothers horse sharkey on 15lb that would of gone close to 7kg off the cliffs, my 67cm pinky on 12lb, nice pinky on soft plastic and 12lb, Arons pinky on 4lb and plastic, shark macks on 4lb off the cliffs, my first cobia on plastic from between 2 manta rays, Michaels spango diving in 4m of water, huge tailor on lures, my first coral trout from deep in a cave in 4m of water and thats just a handfull of the better ones.
enjoy.
always looking for a new challenge!!
cuthbad
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Insane
awesome mate, must have been an amazing trip
Uluabuster
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Wicked pics. Looks like you
Wicked pics. Looks like you guys had a ball. Well done.
tim-o
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Ummmm, rusty wire leader on
Ummmm, rusty wire leader on white placcy hahaha. Killed it fellas.
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Chris fish
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nah not rusty just roughed
nah not rusty just roughed up lockweld wire as we where chasing shark macks but my bro let it sink to far and this pinky grabbed it, 4lb line and 1000 size reel off the cliffs around heavy reef would put that fish as one of the best efforts off the trip.
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crezz
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noice!
noice!
oz74
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awesome
Awesome photos mate- looks like a great trip.
cool photo of the manta.
spot many crays around when diving?
cheers
brett
Chris fish
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crays everywhere!!!! and all
crays everywhere!!!! and all jumbos as always up there to. seen the odd ornate as well inside south passage
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Adam Gallash
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great report
Great report Chris and co, top effort indeed!
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Lamby
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Ripper of a post, must of
Ripper of a post, must of been a touch on envy from the other anglers up there?
Love the light line action, Noah's not an issue?
Chris fish
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fair few others up there
fair few others up there found it fairly hard but we worked hard for our results so fairs fair i say haha. noahs and the cod we figured out a way to fix them so they never bothered us, tied 20m of rope off to the rocks and tied fish frames to the other end and let them play tug of war against the cliffs, soon enough they learnt not to bother touching anything close to the cliffs haha had 5 fish sharked and 6 fish eaten by the cods in 2 weeks up there.
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jighead
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You don't muck around do
You don't muck around do you. Great work Chris.
meglodon
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What species of shaark
What type of shark is that, the dorsal fin seems to me to be very big for the length of the shark.
Or is it the camera angle.
Chris fish
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sandbar whalers, very large
sandbar whalers, very large dorsal and pec fins and a light colour compared to the usual dusky whalers that everyone normaly gets to see up there.
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Colt_Striker
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Looks like you had a great
Looks like you had a great trip, some good fish in that lot
sea-kem
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Good report boys.
Good report boys.
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StevieP
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Markie
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you go alrigt ay chris, very
you go alrigt ay chris, very very alright haha killed it lads, good post awsome trip.
deepwater
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some excellent fish the mate
some excellent fish the mate ,from the sure
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AaronC
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Awesome is the only word!!!
Awesome is the only word!!!
SKREW-LOOSE
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you killed it mate
you killed it mate
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dazanator
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well done Chris what a great
well done Chris what a great time you must have had!!
looks like a lot of fish were caught using SP.
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petervb
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Looks like you guys killed
Looks like you guys killed it! Well done
buschy
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Awful
Looks like you guys had a horrible time up there. So glad I wasn't on holiday fishing and diving with you. So much better down here in the city with the wind and rain....
:)
Well done, awesome job & great pics. Thanks for sharing.
randall df223
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Top photos
Top photos
Fish! HARD!
Brock O
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GREAT REPORT
Rusty Balls
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Headed up there in Jan ..
Headed up there in Jan .. hope you left me some fish ;) well played fellas ..looks like I gotta get some bigger Plastics -__-
Nice report mate ....
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Doooma
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Baldies!!!!!!!!!
Awesome trips fellas!!! Jealous as hell!!
Joodles
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Dream time at the point!
Dream time at the point!
br3nno
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FANTASTIC!can someone
FANTASTIC!
can someone explain why steep point is so productive???
BC
Chris fish
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It's hard to fish, hard to
It's hard to fish, hard to fish out because of its isolation and weather doesn't allow much access a lot of the time either. But in saying that I've heard so so many stories of people spending a week up there and getting nothing, I did my research and took my time figuring it out and put a lot of effort into this trip so reward for effort certainly payed off.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Stax
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Light gear, great to see.
It is really good to see somebody using light gear. I have about 35 trips to Steep under my belt and still laugh at people who turn up with 24Kg gear and 40Kg braid. Massive reels and heavy rods means about 10 minutes spinning before your knackered. Light rods and small, quality reels makes for so much more fun.
Great job on the report and a good variety of photo's always helps.
Good luck on your next outing.
Stax
opsrey
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Amazing trip, great report.
Thanks for the post. Great fish, a credit to you all. Couldn't help feel a twinge of envy at the nice gear you use, I grew up loaning my dad's Shakespeare Black Queen. Good in its day, but horrible and soft sloppy in reality.
Nicstaff
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Great oics
grest pics Mate
what size sustain u get the pinky and sharkie on. What rod u have with it
cheers
crasny1
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blew it away
Great fishing and heaps off species. That Bigeye trevor is one off the pretiest fish, and great fun on light gear.
TKU for sharing
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mikegonefishing
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Well done mate! That is one
Well done mate! That is one very successful trip. Got to be happy with that.
z00m
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I wonder if the trip is
I wonder if the trip is still fresh in his mind......since this report is coming up to 2 years old!