Fishing Browns

[dinnerbell]

Gday Raiders.

Fished browns yesterday. Was hoping for a few blue eye or gem fish and then cube for fin. Set a bottom rig on the winch and when we wound it up it felt like there was nothing there. When it reached the top we had a fish that had swallowed the sash weight. We did not have a hook in the fish. It was a ribbon fish of about 5 feet long with a 1 and a half foot long sash weight in its throat. We could only see the very top of the sash weight. First time i have ever seen a ribbon fish. They really got ripped off with their tail fins. They have a very small tail fin compared to their body. They have some big choppers.

After this cubed for 1 albatross tangled in our lines. 1 strike and a missed hook up and a long trip home in the dark.

Love going wide and fishing the bottom as you see some unusual and very tasty fish.

Does any one know if ribbon fish is good eating. We kept this one as it was dead after choking on the sash weight.

[Penguin]

That def is unusual, a Ribbon fish on a sash weight.

That gives me an idea, paint my sash weights high gloss silver and

attach a hook to the top end of the sash like on a jig.

[Ray R]

G'day mate, thats is one unusual catch, sinker eating fish, I wonder if he's full of lead..

Congrats buddy..

[warnie]

Hi Dinnerbell

Of about one of the only fish to be caught at browns and considered undesirable for the dinner table

as they are worm infested........you have much better chewing options on tap available

However I am bit bias though as Ribbon Fish (frostfish) are highly sought as baits for targetting mako

shark and when sending back down from whence they come they rarely make it back....

Cheers Warnie

[dinnerbell]

Hi Dinnerbell

Of about one of the only fish to be caught at browns and considered undesirable for the dinner table

as they are worm infested........you have much better chewing options on tap available

However I am bit bias though as Ribbon Fish (frostfish) are highly sought as baits for targetting mako

shark and when sending back down from whence they come they rarely make it back....

Cheers Warnie

Gday ungry warnie.

Thanks for the warning about the worm infested critter. I guess anything that eats sash weights would eat just about anything. I wish i had of known about them being good mako bait as i seen 1 big mako caught in a boat next to us at browns yesterday and am sure there would have been more than one there.

Cheers Dinnerbell.

That def is unusual, a Ribbon fish on a sash weight.

That gives me an idea, paint my sash weights high gloss silver and

attach a hook to the top end of the sash like on a jig.

Gday Penguin

You might just be onto something there but i would not like to be jigging at browns for too long. Although painting the sash weights in fluorescent paint couldn't hurt.

Cheers Dinnerbell.

[Jewdreamer]

Still a bad day fishin.... better than a good day mowing the lawn!