Yep CR is Jim from Galaxy II.
Yep CR is Jim from Galaxy II.
Yeah internut that's me and if your keen to try again let me know and we will join in, whats you next boat your planning on?? the boat you have now is a raise raiser and produces the goods especially with the blues.
Cheers Jim
Well done on a very memorable catch!
and thank you for sharing too!
cheers
jim
Will let you know if we go out again Jim. Just got involved in a new business venture so boat being sold for some cash injection. Well that's the plan but very hard to let it go. Been a great boat. Will be looking at another boat within 12 months and all going well will move up to a launch, 35' - 45'. Love the fun of a runabout but want to be able to sleep on board, spend a few nights at Fraser or maybe even Cairns in October/November!
Well done Fellas great work!!!
LOVIN THE GOOD TIMES FAMILY AND FRIENDS LOVE THE SPORT TIGHT LINES PEOPLE.....
Well done guys - I am certainly interested in an overnighter out there for a broadbill - let me know if you get a time planned as the shelf is my favorite place and night time would be great
When you say Broadbill grounds 200m + - there is a of of ocean 200m+ - are you targeting shallow country near trenches?
I expect you don't burley just drift? In that wind you had you must have been drifting at some speed.
Thanks for sharing - I like new methods and species
Cheers
Trev
@Trevelly. We got this one just on the inside of the drop off so estimating 280m mark but we were seeing good bait and marking fish from 180m onwards. I had the sounder off at the time and as you said the drift speed was very high which may have been in our favour with the ground that was covered so not sure how far we had travelled when we hooked up. I know by the time we landed it, had a few minutes to rest the smiles etc we were 6.1nm from where we started and that was with a drogue out for the first 20 minutes. I'll give a hint here that the thermocline was high in the water column and we were marking decent size fish consistently from 180m on to out past the drop off at 360m which was as far as we went. Marking single fish every few minutes to pairs of fish right on the thermocline. Once the moon started to get lower on the horizon we stopped marking fish and our baits were left alone by the squid from this point (another hint). We did try to get a cube trail going at dawn but we were still drifting too fast for it to be effective. Gave up after an hour but this is also something I want to try more.
I always thought winter was a better time to target the broadbill. Not sure why, thought I read it somewhere. You would be more likely to get a good period of settled weather suitable for drifting around overnight well offshore.
I agree about better fishing for swords in winter. The only reason we went out was because I have the boat on the market and I am not sure how soon I will be getting another so it was really now or never. We did look at the water temp charts though and saw that some cooler water was supposed to meet up with the warmer water around about the shelf area. It never eventuated and we had 28deg. Even now that body of cooler water is close if not on the shelf now. Who knows maybe we were simply extremely lucky and it was the only one in the area but we may have been on the very leading edge of that cooler change even though we did not enter it. It was another factor that made us attempt it. We were a little disappointed at the water temps when we got out there though but in the end it made no difference that we did not hit the cooler patch.
Out of interest, in my research the last 6 months or so what is referred to as the Brisbane area is one of Australia's biggest commercial catch rates of Broadbill. This include the sea mounts further out (a lot further out). Most of these commercial boats head out from Mooloolaba. Little too far for us but I am sure some of the bigger rec. boats could do it and I believe have tried in recent years. I'm in if any of the bigger boats are looking for crew!!!!
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