Deep Sea Fishing.

[tsorbaboli]

Dear fishraiders.

I recently purchased a boat (hainses hunter 530 breeze )that can handle the deep water but have no previous history going past botany bay heads.Could anyone give me a tip on where to start what gear ,bait,and pills to take?Im intrested in catching anything up to 15kg ,hope im not being fussy.

Any help would be grateful.

[netic]

Mate congrats on your new boat and welcome to the site,

First of all i would say before you venture out be sure of what your doing and what the conditions are for the day, Its all good that you want to go out but be sure you know how to handle bad conditions if they do appear.

Secondly we would all love to catch anything up to 15kg but it takes hard work, plenty of patients and alot of research. I have only passed the 15kg mark a few times and i have been offshore countless times, And all 3 times i caught my 15kg plus fish it was in the estuary.

Find out if you want to chase pelagics or go bottom bashing for some reef fish.

There are various different websites that give you GPS co-ordinates for good offshore reefs that can give you some good size fish.

You can also go to the various offshore FADS but there are unwritten rules to follow in the way of etiquette at the FADS. And if you dont follow them you will cop a fair bit of abuse.

But before you go out make sure you know how to handle your boat, i owned a boat for 2 years and went fishing nearly every week in that 2 years before i decided to start going offshore, and after well over 100 offshore trips i still dont know shit.

When it comes to boating always remember you got to learn to crawl before you walk

Good Luck

Edited May 5, 2006 by netic

[Brown Hornet]

Chk the GPS marks here.

http://www.fishraider.com.au/gpsmarks

http://www.fishnet.com.au/information/gps.html

i have a 580 breeze.. you will have some fun, they (haines) are great boats, they seem to handle to bumps really well.

if going offshore make sure you have a vhf radio

Tomorrow is a good day for a offshore bash. Conditions are perfect.

Websites i use to judge the conditions.

buoy weather.. good to judge wind and swell

http://www.buoyweather.com/wxnav.jsp?regio...zone=10&units=e

A US Navy site.. always blows me out the amount of swell down south

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WAM/all_spac.html

and of course the bom site

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN10023.html