Smithy
16-12-2007, 08:27 PM
Started off in close to get a feed for the boys straight up on SPs. This Squire and Sweetie were the standout. A few smaller Squire and a Flathead got in on the act.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/fishinclose.jpg
Got live bait at another spot. Watched the boat Jeffo was on choke on a Sail. Had a quick bottom bounce there then headed out near the shelf.
First drop was on this bump which comes up to about 225m.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/225m.jpg
3xdroppers, 1xclear, 1xyellow, 1xred glow sticks, 2xsquids, 1xBonito. Drop time was about 3:25.
Drifting along we got fish shows like this twice. Here and another spot we also marked bait up high or possibly schools of Frigates which we are used to seeing when we troll these areas.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/227m2.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/230m.jpg
And a few minutes into the drit and I got a tug on the line so it was tag team winding on the Reefmaster.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/fight1.jpg
Resulting in this. John holding it up. Hapuka or Bass Grouper? How can you distinguish? Anyone? It was on squid.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/johnvert2.jpg
We had another few drops on that spot and lost a Yakka there as well to a good bite. The Yakka survived a few descents up and back. They even survived 350m dropping. We had a quick troll to the canyon to check out the performance of my sounder. I forgot to do a few things to it so the power was probably way down but I still hit 600m. What was impressive was pinging 500m on the plane.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/planeclose.jpg
There was no real difference in quality between transducer bracket up or bracket down. I also forgot about the bracket once and took off and it didn't trip even holding good clean plane.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/fishinclose.jpg
Got live bait at another spot. Watched the boat Jeffo was on choke on a Sail. Had a quick bottom bounce there then headed out near the shelf.
First drop was on this bump which comes up to about 225m.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/225m.jpg
3xdroppers, 1xclear, 1xyellow, 1xred glow sticks, 2xsquids, 1xBonito. Drop time was about 3:25.
Drifting along we got fish shows like this twice. Here and another spot we also marked bait up high or possibly schools of Frigates which we are used to seeing when we troll these areas.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/227m2.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/230m.jpg
And a few minutes into the drit and I got a tug on the line so it was tag team winding on the Reefmaster.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/fight1.jpg
Resulting in this. John holding it up. Hapuka or Bass Grouper? How can you distinguish? Anyone? It was on squid.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/johnvert2.jpg
We had another few drops on that spot and lost a Yakka there as well to a good bite. The Yakka survived a few descents up and back. They even survived 350m dropping. We had a quick troll to the canyon to check out the performance of my sounder. I forgot to do a few things to it so the power was probably way down but I still hit 600m. What was impressive was pinging 500m on the plane.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Trips/Deep%20Dropping/planeclose.jpg
There was no real difference in quality between transducer bracket up or bracket down. I also forgot about the bracket once and took off and it didn't trip even holding good clean plane.