Thread: Deep fishing Spaniards

Now you mention that Steve about the River 2 Sea minnows, I have used the Manns Stretch 20's for reasonable results at Double Island Point near Fraser Island.

I'm usually trolling a section of the point where there is a bommie just out from the headland and the depth is only in the 35ft range depending on the tide.

So I guess that puts the lure in the bottom half of the water column and well within site of the Macks.

I might invest in a few jigs for xmas as there is some good water to the north of Coffs where I usually fish, that holds good numbers of Sambo's, AJ's and Kings when the Macks aren't running.
Got into a few of these a couple of weeks ago on my plastics outfit which gave the little 4000 sized reel I have a rather toasty warm drag!

10m water is pretty shallow... we normally troll the 20m contour about reef pressure points and bait schools. Along the 20m contour I wouldnt bother with a real deep diver, XRap 30 would be the deepest I would run.

But out at the ribbons working the drop (80-2000m) is a different story.
Its in these deeper waters that the R2S downsiders excel.

In 10m water I would run a pair of Halco Laserpros, or a laserpro and XRap 20.

S

My other thought was jigging the likes of the Halco Tremblers. They work well in the top half of the water column accounting for quite a few fish, so I figure dropping them to the bottom then cranking flat out back to the surface should achieve reasonable results.