Deep water fishing

busumark · March 03, 2008, 14:54:48 CET

on the 14th we are going i think shanook. what did you buy? my friend this week bought the kristal fishing xl410 i an making a fiting for my boat so whem it is good weather and he can come with me we try it. i am not drinking a lot because otherwise i could tell you our secret fishing spots LLOOOLLL

shanook · March 03, 2008, 18:02:33 CET

hehhe will do my best to get u drunk then! I got the miya cx4hp, which can take 800/900 mtrs of 80lb braided. I am thinking of using 5 (4/0 circle) hooks and 2 (7/0 circle) hooks above them. Regarding mono i am going to use .70mm with swivels and .60mm for fergha but will crimp the top 2 hooks with .70mm. I have taken a look at the map and I saw a few places I think will produce some fish. Unfortunately the north is mostly mud and sand. Would have liked to find a more rocky bottom with lots of coral as that wont be fished so much with knuz.
If u have any suggestions let me know so that I do another rig. Anyways I have to do more than one as I like to have back up. will try jigging with the reel as well but that will be when we go out for alungi.

busumark · March 04, 2008, 09:08:59 CET

you will definatly need more than one rig and also some spare weights its very easy to get stuck between rocks and cimi. did you the circle hooks from malta? from where? my friend got 2 miya epoch x9 from ebay for LM270 but second hand. from mr.fish you have to order it and it costs about LM600. but to begin with the miyax4 is good you can fish easily in 400mt. make sure that the mono is not stronger than the braided.

shanook · March 04, 2008, 19:33:23 CET

got u busumark. Definetly i need more than one rig. when i go trolling i usually have about 30 lures. Imagine going for bottom fishing where its so easy to get stuck. Dont want to spoil a days fishing just not to have a few rigs ready. I got the circle hooks from Ta' Bormla. But will order a few hooks off the net. Bought the spectra braid from Zebbug. Now all I need is a boat (anyone has one for sale to match this type of fishing. EHHHHHHHH!!!!!!?

) in the water. We are a group of 4 boats and they are all on the hard.
Have u ever fished in deeper water than 400mts.... I suppose u get bigger fish from down there like giant groupers.

busumark · March 05, 2008, 12:23:10 CET

so i have to hurry than shanook to catch all the fish before you have your boat in the sea.LOL. deeper than 400mt you catch mainly muruni, gringi and hniezer.

shanook · April 27, 2008, 15:56:48 CET

hi ppl, we gave it a shot today as the call of the sea was tooooooooo strong after the winter months. We trolled west of GOzo but we must have had stagnant lures well after being laid up so long we first had to teach them how to swim so no luck there. then we tried bottom fishing but (excuses excuses) the undercurrent was too strong. we had an angle of about 30degrees on the line so we were dragging the weight behind us OH well we tried (at least i know how the electric reel works).
So there Busumark I didnt catch all the fish as a matter of fact I didnt catch ANY fish at all.
Hope if somewone went out faired better, mind u we didnt see any boats except for a 40' fishing boat.

skip · April 27, 2008, 16:29:07 CET

Did you go out on your boat or were you with Visa? Think it's still early days for trolling though interesting about the bottom fishing. Didn't think about currents etc

shanook · April 27, 2008, 16:58:59 CET

yes skip with Visa. We knew about the currents it was expected with the winds and rough seas we had the past ............ how many weeks LOL. We didnt expect alungi either, the sea is way tooooooooo cold. We tried out luck for an early tuna as where we were trolling used to be a migratory route for tuna. But no TUNA no PARTY......
My boat still on the hard....

busumark · April 27, 2008, 17:49:28 CET

ok shanook i will catch those fish that you didnt catch to-day

busumark · May 13, 2008, 20:33:15 CET

ernest of marsaxlokk has got mustad circle hooks for deep-sea fishing. they are LM0.20c each

shanook · May 13, 2008, 20:37:43 CET

Yes I had a look at the mustad hooks of earnest he has both light ones and heavy ones. No chance till end of May it seems that the weather wont settle down eh Buzu.

shanook · June 08, 2008, 16:31:44 CET

When are we going to seriusly do some bottom fishing....the wind just doesnt want to die down.
Kollu tort li nehhew il kacca ghax kieku bdawk it tiri lejn is semgha, ir-rih u is-shab jahsbuha darbtejn biex jersqu l'hawn, u kieku ghandna il kalma!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hekk jigrilek meta ttertaq qalbek tistenna...............

The_Gaffer · June 08, 2008, 22:56:55 CET

Just finished rigging up for deep sea. I use 5 hooks, with the 1st hook close to the light on wire and larger then the rest. Hopefully for a hanzir.

ramio · June 08, 2008, 23:09:47 CET

Hey Gaffer, I was suggested I use all hook traces in wire as I was told you get a lot of sawn off line. I made mine with 7 hooks once you go all the way down, with the top two bigger like you said. Do you think it will not be practical?

busumark · June 23, 2008, 20:33:31 CET

hi guys i am back to business after my terrible experience of the past weekend. this morning went deep-sea fishing and caught a 14kg hanzir and 6 nice gringi than it became a bit windy for deep-sea fishing and we left abaut 11.30. phoned gaffer he said he didnt do well. Come on SHANOOK when you are going to post you first picture of your first deep-sea fishing fish. Skip how can i attach a picture to the post