Went out wide the other day with good mate Aaron Mcloy. Initially we thought a feed would be good so we spend ages trying to get a feed of bass/blue nose. On the 5th drop we finally got one. We had noticed a pillar of bait up to 80m off the bottomand loads of other sign but a mirrad of drift errors and a gemfish and shovel nose shark things took awhile.
After that we deployed a bait 320m down and we didnt have to wait long. 10 mins in I noticed a small tap on the rod, Aaron said I was dreaming. 5 minutes later tap tap tap - and he says "mate your dreaming" - "again i reply how could you not see that!?" Im messing with you he replys - sheeshh man having me on? this is serious i reply.
Soon the fish takes the bait and we let em run for quite some time, slowly pushing the drag up it feels like its gone no weight?... hmm..... back to free spool....waiting waiting oh hang on there it is drag on again and yup were hooked up. The fish is very heavy, and makes a couple of medium fast charging runs and we dutifully begin to follow. over the next few hours of we make some small gains when the fish is swimming up usually 50-80 m off the bottom before charging back down against drag and really it goes where it wants, hangs out where its comfortable and nothing really changes apart from my legs start to hurt.... TBC