Todays Exmouth Deep Efforts
Adz and I left town this morning uncertain of what the weather was going to do but it turned it on for us and we had a glassy day- complete opposite of yesterday, sorry Scott!
We headed out wide and started sounding around in 350m or so and once we found some fish Adz was first drop.
It was a fair lump of a fish which he ended up calling for a shark most of the way up until a nice red shape hit the surface. Finally we had found big rubies, this one going an easy 10kg and so solid across the shoulders.
I was up next and hooked up to a suspected good ruby again only to have the braid break 77m up from the rig. A re-rig and another drop had me onto my deepwater ooglie
Not wanting to leave without a big ruby myeslf I had one more drop followed by a big hookup.
I'd had enough after that so we came in shallower (120m) and pulled a red emperor, pearl perch and goldband.
We decided to try and complete the red/orange trifecta so came in shallow to see if there was a coral trout around but to no avail. Back at the cleaning table we decided to check the ruby snapper's stomach and found some interesting stomach contents. I'd hate to digest these spiny things.
All in all it was a very good day with some new spots for the GPS. Still gotta get me that big rube.
till
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Fantastic Ruby
Fantastic Ruby Adam!
Interesting prawny things in it's guts too. I think I have some spare cray carapaces in the freezer too ;)
beau
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great photos and some
great photos and some interesting fish guys!
barneyboy
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Nice fish fellas
That long silver looking thing looks like a southern barracouta. Are they scampi in the bottom pic? they sort of look like it. anyways good fishing
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carnarvonite
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Scampi??
The ruby's stomach contents could be scampi.
Complete change from yesterdays effort, Scott will be really pissed off when he sees the report. Big sharks are bloody hard work in shallow water let alone dragging one up from 350 metres down, glad it was you not me.
Have no idea what the ooglie is.
mullows
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How good is that
How good is that Ruby!!!!
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Anthony Hall 87
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Nice Ruby fella's, shame
Nice Ruby fella's, shame about the shark.
Just curious, what sounder set-up/tranny you running out there Adam??
Tight lines to all :)
Adam Gallash
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A furuno 585 and 1kw tranny. I tell ya what, I called the ruby for a shark for good reason, fought all the way up and killed my back, felt every kick!!
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Peter73
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Well done on a good day out ,
Well done on a good day out , you'd be happy with the Ruby .Be intresting to hear how the long silver Muntant fish tastes like .
Paul G
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Awsome fish guys looks like I
Awsome fish guys looks like I need to have a crack out wide next year .shit that sounds like along ways off.well done
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Longole
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That looks like one of those
That looks like one of those snake mack / oil fish things - great photo BTW. Let us know how that works out for you hehehehe. Nice scampi, would be interesting to drop a trap down and see if you can get them in reasonable numbers.
deepwater
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nice fish
Nice feed there guies ,so spuwing i had today off and was kicking around the house all day ,bugger
nice ruby there
jeff
grayzeee
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awesomethat ooglie pic is
awesome
that ooglie pic is excellent
are those langoustines??
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
MattMiller
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Well done
That's a hooter Ruby, some good feeds coming up along with the Red.
alfred
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The stomach contents are
The stomach contents are scampi, they are pretty yum themselfs.
Top Ruby there Adam.
grantarctic1
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Awsome catch
Very nice feed , I had no idea we had scampi in western australia. Learn something new every day.
Here's a link with I,D and info
http://www.daff.gov.au/brs/fisheries-marine/info/fishery_status_reports_2008/chapters/north_west_slope_trawl_fishery/north_west_slope_trawl_fishery/biological_status
sarcasm0
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Nice
Its shitting down with rain here in Beckenham, I have two more days of tafe, one day of car service, pack, say goodbye, etc and im on my way to Exmouth.
Im sitting only metres away from a wood fire in socks. trackies, shirt and a hoodie with the hood on. I can almost feel the sand beneath my toes and see the turquoise water.
Seaquest
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Nice Ruby guys. Surely that
Nice Ruby guys. Surely that luck is not starting to run out Tim. Snapped braid and sharks.
Conditions look great. We haven't had a good day down here in ages. Been crap winds just about ever day this month.
Reefmonkey
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Awesome
Totally different weather form the day before ay? Killer ruby and flash pics too
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Pete D
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Now that is quality Ads - a
Now that is quality Ads - a big Ruby with entree
You just keep trying Tim.
Cheers Pete
southcity104
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great ruby!
If only us southerns could get some decent weather! arrrrh!!
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Spicey
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Some great fish there
Some great fish there fellas.
That oogly looks alot like the Oneline Snake Mackeral shown below.
http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=8703
crasny1
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Great Ruby (and others)
And certainly it knows how to feed well. Those are definitely Scambi, which the Exxy trawlers do get at a price every now and then. They taste bloody nice, and IMO the best of the shelled critters. And in Europe I think the name is langoustine for Scampi.
Awesome and pity about the shark.
I wonder what we would say if a shark tasted like a red!!!!!!!!!!!???
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crasny1
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PS
Boys I just Googled snake mackeral, and if it is what the South African's call snoek you just have to smoke it. Smoked snoek is a delicasy in SA and my old man would die for some smoked snoek. I wasn't fond of it as a kid and have had some on a visit. It's a very oily flesh, hence good for you, but not my total cup of tea.
Just thought I would throw that in.
Neels
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Alan James
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I don't think it's the same fish Neels
Snoek are what we over here call barracouta.
nev
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Scampi
Yes they are very good eating . Had a friend from Hull fishing for them 25 years ago fishing for them 130nm off Freo. Don't think it was a very viable fishery , very deep water and lengthy periods winching up. He showed up at a Barbie at my place one day on a warm Saturday avo with a box of tails.. Very Tasty with a few beers! nev
Browny
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The colour in that ruby in
The colour in that ruby in the 3rd photo is just stunning!!
Would have pulled like a horse too!!
great fish!
I just love Exmouth: Its a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem!
Jordan496
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Great fish there lads looked
Great fish there lads looked like a top day out
the ooglie is the"barracouta" caught plenty back in sa extremely unusual to see them up there considering they hardly exist part perth
harro
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hooter ruby
found the gold mate !!! thats a horse , hows the 1kw tranny work in 350m ? adam very curious mate
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Adz and I have the same 1kw
Adz and I have the same 1kw transducers and they give great readings down to those depths on 50khz and only running gain up to 4.0
Mine faded out past 500m at trolling speed (7-8kts) but if I slowed down it would give a decent picture still
DazSamFishing
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nice sesh there lads. Tim,
nice sesh there lads. Tim, seems you are a shark magnet at times hey!