Hey fellas thought I'd post a quick report on our trip. Tackled the bar crossing early sat morning without any dramas. Went and fished a heap of points gathered from the net. Got a good size sweet lip, smallish mussar, undersized Maouri Cod, and a few little reef fish, nothing to get excited about. Fished the channel back inside tin can on the way back to camp on dark. Had a good play with some big sting rays, got one gummy shark and was snapped off by something big with sharp teeth.(the one that got away). Sunday saw us head outside again with similar results lots of small stuff but nothing to keep. Went out to the 19 mile but had trouble finding any good structure and trouble getting to the bottom (50m) with the gear we had. The bar was pretty messy on our trip back in as we came in on last of run out tide but had no dramas.
All up we had a good weekend, found plenty of waypoints but struggled to find any good jump ups and structure to fish. The Northstar sounder didn't really cut the mustard as it only showed good imaging at idle, I'm presuming the bubbles from the prop provided too much interference and we were left with a full red screen and depths of 800m + whenever we were traveling above walking pace.
We still have a lot to learn about offshore fishing, but a bad days fishing beats a good days work every time.
Thanks again for the advice and pms u guys sent thru.
Bluey