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Fishing the browns


rikkigilbey

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so yesterday morning i got up at 03:20am ready for the day ahead at the browns. it was my first time there and so i was extremeley excited.

i nice and brisk cycle at 4am to my host for the day, GAROUPA's house saw me getting pulled by the police for having no lights on the back of my bike, typical! not a good way to start but they let me go with a slapped wrist so wasn't too bad.

so we arrived sorted out the gear and headed out from botany. we trawled some lures once off the shelf only to land a few striped tuna but it was still exciting as id never had any tuna action before, and watching it nail the lure on the surface was an epic sight.

so anyway we arrived at the browns greeted by glorious conditions. we baited up the bog alvey set ups and dropped them down over the underwater mountain. within minutes we were into fish, mario let me bring up the first one, a Gemfish and a nice one to!

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with the next drop i was given charge of one of the reels and again withing minutes boom! we was in again!

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this time landing and massive blue eyed cod, AMAZING! i was so stoked, couldnt stop smiling.

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we continued to drift for the day and reached our catch limit of gemmies and landed a few more blue eyes.

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was an epic day and so chuffed to finally get out on the boat.

big thanks to GAROUPA for taking me out i had an epic time, and now have enough food to feed my house 10 times over. amazing. :) smiles all round.

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so yesterday morning i got up at 03:20am ready for the day ahead at the browns. it was my first time there and so i was extremeley excited.

i nice and brisk cycle at 4am to my host for the day, GAROUPA's house saw me getting pulled by the police for having no lights on the back of my bike, typical! not a good way to start but they let me go with a slapped wrist so wasn't too bad.

so we arrived sorted out the gear and headed out from botany. we trawled some lures once off the shelf only to land a few striped tuna but it was still exciting as id never had any tuna action before, and watching it nail the lure on the surface was an epic sight.

so anyway we arrived at the browns greeted by glorious conditions. we baited up the bog alvey set ups and dropped them down over the underwater mountain. within minutes we were into fish, mario let me bring up the first one, a Gemfish and a nice one to!

post-19135-082513200 1311656968_thumb.jpg

with the next drop i was given charge of one of the reels and again withing minutes boom! we was in again!

post-19135-089943100 1311657003_thumb.jpg

this time landing and massive blue eyed cod, AMAZING! i was so stoked, couldnt stop smiling.

post-19135-003646200 1311656980_thumb.jpg

we continued to drift for the day and reached our catch limit of gemmies and landed a few more blue eyes.

post-19135-068863700 1311656994_thumb.jpg

was an epic day and so chuffed to finally get out on the boat.

big thanks to GAROUPA for taking me out i had an epic time, and now have enough food to feed my house 10 times over. amazing. :) smiles all round.

There are some serious fish fillets there mate. I'm all geed up now for a trip there on Sunday.....can't wait either.

Chris

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well done :yahoo:

thats a nice feed there and well earned doing it the ol fashioned way by hand.

conditions out there look great...

with the good water this w/e im sure it will be a carpark out there looking for tasty ooglies like those...

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Awesome catch fellas, sounds like you had a blast.

how long did it take to get to the mountain from botany?

Cheers, PREDATOR

cheers mate yeah we did, i cant wait for a next time :) err about an half hour of cruising and and the same trawling.

Gilbey

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I love to see other fishos catch nice fish as much as catching them my self, what sort of weight , trace, hooks, and baits where you using?

we were using about 2kg weights, paternosters rig with baby octopus for bait, mono trace around the 100kg mark i think, and circular hooks. lost a few sinkers on the snags but the rig were set up to lose them and not the rig.

Gilbey

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we were using about 2kg weights, paternosters rig with baby octopus for bait, mono trace around the 100kg mark i think, and circular hooks. lost a few sinkers on the snags but the rig were set up to lose them and not the rig.

Gilbey

thank you gilbey, i will keep that in mind.

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Congrats mate! Nice haul!

Interesting contraption used to catch those deep sea fish - It looks half way between a fixed hand line and conventional rod & reel. I supose it would be a lot easier on the back pulling up those monsters from the deep :biggrin2:

Well done,

AC

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