{{+1}}Check list – offshore deep water dark side fishing{{-1}}
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From the year 2000 and up until we moved to Gladstone in Central most of my fishing was with fly. Since moving to CQ my fishing has been quite different and with "tongue in cheek" I have basically called it fishing on the dark side.
As it has turned out I love it and have spent a lot of time resurrecting and building on my salt water fishing skills from before the year 2000.
This post is my check list of the gear I take when fishing deep offshore water. I basically do two types of fishing in that environment:
- Fishing structure such as channel markers, bombies, wrecks and reef bottoms for big fish like trevally, queenfish, mackerel and tuna or table fish such as red throat emperor, grunter and fingermark. I fish for these species using 3 classes of lures: metal slices and other chrome lures, both proprietary and my own manufacturer soft plastics and of course vibes.
- For one reason or another fish are not always around the above structure and a good fishing plan is to move around. On those moves we often troll between positions. The other time we troll, hard bodied lures and more recently my own soft plastics, is when tides are running toO slow or too fast.
FISHING BAG
This is a Plano 3741 3 compartment lure box. Compartments:
- Metal blades
- Soft plastics
- Trolling lures + jigs and vibes
This is a Sistema kitchen box that I nicked from the kitchen cupboard and as well as holding a wet box of gulp soft plastics also holds a range of elevator and other heavy jig hook set ups.
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