Long way for 3 fish!!

 Weather looked good to have another crack at the deep stuff. So steamed out the 36 nm from Mandurah and got to an area we have fished before and picked up Nanny's and a few other bits and pieces, but no Cod. Greyband are the target species, but we are still to tick that one off. We managed a crackin' Nannygai at 63cm and a just size Pinky before the Nor Easter picked up outwide. Couldn't hold bottom even with 64 ounces of lead!

Decided to troll back in and check out some new ground in the 90's. By the time we got there the wind had dropped off nicely. Took a sounder shot as I haven't come across bottom like this. Any ideas? Especially the middle section.

Managed a very nice Baldy but fish shows were few and far between.

Long day on the water for 3 fish but beats working eh!!

Especially coming home when it's like this.

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Wed, 2016-05-11 13:31

 Gee those nannies are good on the plate, probly close to my favourite fish.

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Cracker baldie and red!

Wed, 2016-05-11 15:14

Cracker baldie and red!

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 We all no those trips but we

Wed, 2016-05-11 15:17

 We all no those trips but we wouldn't have it any other way  

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Sounder Shot

Wed, 2016-05-11 19:23

 Looks like hard ground full of crevasses and holes. My experience is that you often do well without actually marking a lot of fish so always worth a drop!

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36nm

Wed, 2016-05-11 20:41

 36nm that's f/a, we went all the way to Cervantes for 1 60cm snapper yesterday haha. 

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 I just spent 45 hours flying

Wed, 2016-05-11 21:01

 I just spent 45 hours flying to west Africa and back for 2 fish....

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Nice

Wed, 2016-05-11 20:48

looks like a nice day out.
The ground from about 88 - 94m looks like that all the way south from rotto.
Definately worth a fish as we have caught some of our biggest dhus from those depths

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Pic

Wed, 2016-05-11 20:53

Heres a pic from a similar depth west of Point Peron.

Something about the ground in that depth

 
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Cheers Tim

Wed, 2016-05-11 22:14

 Yeah we worked about a mile in that depth range and the bottom was like that a lot. Good to know good Dhus come from it. The Baldy come from there so you would think it is good hard bottom. We were thinking maybe limestone pinnacles but didn't get snagged.

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 Yeah i got ground like that

Thu, 2016-05-12 06:56

 Yeah i got ground like that north of rotto in that depth.

Can be real snaggy some days but holds fish.