Newcastle and port Stephens fishing.

[linkrobbo]

Hi everyone,

just wanting to hear from the people that fish these areas for snapper and king fish, what 1kw transducers are you all using? Was tossing up between the tm265hlw or the tm275lhw and keeping the 3 in 1 for the swallow stuff.

I have never fished up there before but may be moving in the near future, and from having a look around it seems like you’d be lucky to get in depths past 60 to 80m between Newcastle and Broughton island?

any info would be sweet cheers.

[rickmarlin62]

Imo  unless your wanting to fish the shelf i dont see the need for a 1kw    most current model sounders work efficiently to 150 mtrs at least i have hds with 83 200 and read in 200mtrs  you just need to change your settings   most of the fishing i do up here is in less than 100mtrs   i mostly fish shallow  i hate winding up in 90mtrs

[Scratchie]

Good response Rick! 
I would say 95% of all fish caught in the area are in depths of 5-50m. This includes marlin with the inshore run! 
 

cheers scratchie!!! 

[rickmarlin62]

Spot on jeff  i only fish 90mtrs  off swansea or norah for kings  occasional  perch n red   apart from that i like poaching your reds at broughton  hahajaha

[linkrobbo]

Cheers fellas. 

So the 3 in 1 will do the job? Was just worried about detail and separation really.

[rickmarlin62]

With fine tuning we read gemfish in 480mtrs with 50/200 on hds5