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Great effort guys, good to be rewarded occasionally, well done.

Thats a lovely bag of Flatties Yum'o!

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Hi Luke, I have a 585 as well however I run the 600w transducer, I can also pickup the bottom at browns @ 500 metres as long as I'm going less than 3 knots. Trolling at 8 knots I will loose bottom at around 300 metres.

Great effort Dave. Thats a very nice haul, the Gemfish look a good size plus a top Blue Eye. Gee winter Dollies whats the world coming too.

Bummer about the trolling Penguin, you put in some K's. At least you got a couple of fish for the table, hide those Binoculars next time.

It sounds a pleasant day and top feed as well, some lovely tasty snapper.

Thats a nice haul of fish Nudge well done.

Chris, havent tried that one yet as I have a little bit of blue to get through but the fillet looks very nice.

CFD and myself reckon the other fish is a Richardsons Boarfish, check out Amonline.

Iain what a top photo of the Marlin and a great capture on 15kg. Congrats you put a lot of hard work in for that fish, It is murphys law if troll anything less than 24kg thats what they take over the shelf. The temperature break sounds awesome .5 degrees I bet that first run was a long.

Hi Frantic I'm just in the process of doing mine now and i'm using a lite oil called super lube, its worked for me, a little is better than a lot though.

Roberta they are nice blackies, Yamba is a great spot, dont forget the Illuka side as well, it well worth it.

I just wanted to remind everyone who has boat insurance, that if you have selected a layup period which is through winter you need to advise your insurer that you are using your boat at any time during this period, or insurance while on the water or intransit could be void.

Oh yeah I have 12kg of fillets sitting in my fridge, I dont think it will take anymore. I thought you didnt like fish

Fishlexic they are YUM'O they have a steak like texture.

Another mid week adventure saw me at the ramp ready to go at 7.00am, I was hoping to get amongst the Yellowfin and was meeting up with another boat at Browns. Conditions were great on the way, with the occasional school of Striped Tuna busting up just past the Plonk hole. At Browns water temp was around 21.5 but the water was pretty dirty full of plankton, there was already 7 boats working the area, and most appeared to be bottom fishing. I cubed for a couple hours for nil result and none of the other boats appeared to be having any luck either, so I decided to drop a line to the bottom. I had my trusty Daiwa SLT50 loaded with 80lb braid and away we go. On the way to the bottom Coastal Patrol were calling me, so once the sinker hit bottom I quickly gave them a call back, as I was talking to them the rod started to curve quite dramatically, so a this point the tug of war begins , around thirty minutes later up pops a nice Blue Eye . This picture is of the fish inside my Watto's 210 litre cooler. After dealing with the fish I decided to do another drop “much to my arms disgust”. Once on the bottom felt some more tugs and up we come again, this time with 2 smaller fish of which I’m not sure of the ID? That’s it for the day, if I was going to do anymore deep water fishing I’m buying an Alvey, it took a while to fillet the Blue Eye each fillet weighed around 6kg. I weighed the fish at home and the Blue Eye weighed spot on 20kg. The bait was fresh whole squid tied to 14/0 circle hooks, sinkers were 3kg

to Fishraider FishDrought Well done on the flatty, keep the reports coming and ask lots of questions, it a great site.

That a top Jewie Frizzy, well done on your first.

Great Bream there Sneddo, got some great colour about him.

Top report guys, sounds like a very pleasant day on the water.

Great report Mako, thats a good feed of fish there. Looks like the conditions were good as well, did you use the coke bottle sinkers?

Well done Dan lovely Bream and the razor fish, Googley's is the only place I have seen them on the North coast, it is a top spot.

Accruing browny points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mako concrete in the 1 litre PET milk bottle is ok as well.