Rock life
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Re: Rock life
I'll do a mix of responding and posting more photos and information.
I first saw this ledge as a very heavily photoshopped image on Facebook taken with a drone and disguised to make it difficult to find. After 'some time' of playing with google maps, I narrowed it's location (if it existed at all) down to a select few stretches of coast and after a week of walking along cliff tops in the middle of nowhere, i f---ing found it within 500m of a carpark which I had first overlooked.
The image was of a stairway cut into a cliff face with a small ledge and photoshopped beach underneath it. The beach didn't exist. The cut away was so narrow I had to go down sideways and there is literally nothing to grip onto. I was using my hands to wedge myself between the two walls as the 'stairs' have long since eroded away. The ledge itself protrudes only about 4 metres from the cliff face, and there is nowhere to climb back out if you get knocked in.
I caught nothing but reef species in close in nearly 40 hours of ledge time. About midday on my second day down there a massive dark torpedo shape swam past. I'm assuming it was a Great White approx 3.5m long.
This one is unbelievably dangerous to fish and should only even be approached in absolutely perfect conditions. For obvious reasons I will not discuss the exact location of this one.
https://youtu.be/Jes1aLOuAmo
I first saw this ledge as a very heavily photoshopped image on Facebook taken with a drone and disguised to make it difficult to find. After 'some time' of playing with google maps, I narrowed it's location (if it existed at all) down to a select few stretches of coast and after a week of walking along cliff tops in the middle of nowhere, i f---ing found it within 500m of a carpark which I had first overlooked.
The image was of a stairway cut into a cliff face with a small ledge and photoshopped beach underneath it. The beach didn't exist. The cut away was so narrow I had to go down sideways and there is literally nothing to grip onto. I was using my hands to wedge myself between the two walls as the 'stairs' have long since eroded away. The ledge itself protrudes only about 4 metres from the cliff face, and there is nowhere to climb back out if you get knocked in.
I caught nothing but reef species in close in nearly 40 hours of ledge time. About midday on my second day down there a massive dark torpedo shape swam past. I'm assuming it was a Great White approx 3.5m long.
This one is unbelievably dangerous to fish and should only even be approached in absolutely perfect conditions. For obvious reasons I will not discuss the exact location of this one.
https://youtu.be/Jes1aLOuAmo
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Kingfish : 61
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Re: Rock life
I was told about this spot many moons ago, I've been there for a look a couple of times but was never able to fish it.
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Re: Rock life
Whoa!! thats a crazy ledge alright..
did the stairway get cut into the rock walls specifically for LBG purposes, or was there another reason for it to be there?
did the stairway get cut into the rock walls specifically for LBG purposes, or was there another reason for it to be there?
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Re: Rock life
Specifically. There was another famous one that parks dynamited a few years back a couple of hundred km's away after two knobs got themselves in trouble out there.purple5ive wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:39 pmWhoa!! thats a crazy ledge alright..
did the stairway get cut into the rock walls specifically for LBG purposes, or was there another reason for it to be there?
I doubt i'll go back to this one, way way way to risky and the fishing was no better than off Cape Schanck. Cool place to go once though.
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Re: Rock life
I’ve kayaked past that ledge, stunning spot from the water.
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Re: Rock life
Good luck mateDougieK wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:21 pmHi All,
I had some pretty positive feedback and some pm's from a long post I made about rock fishing safety in another thread
( viewtopic.php?p=304136#p304136)
so I thought I'd try and share some pics of some of the rock adventures i've had over the past 4 years of LBG fishing.
In doing this I hope to generate some discussion about Victorian LBG, which is a relatively dead sport, some talk about safety, tactics, gear etc.
Every couple of days i'll post another image from my collection and hopefully inspire a few of you to get out for a Kingie / Shark bash this summer.
I'm going away for a couple of weeks so I hopefully can work imgur and the forum off my phone during that time.
I don't mind providing information for anything other than a select few locaitons, but that goes without saying. A few of these pics peeps will have seen before if you've been reading my reports for years, but hopefully the newer members can get some thing out of it for themselves.
Hope you get a few
Stay safe mate
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Re: Rock life
Lol, did you even read or is this just your generic automated reply to each thread? :rofl:smile0784 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:56 pmGood luck mateDougieK wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:21 pmHi All,
I had some pretty positive feedback and some pm's from a long post I made about rock fishing safety in another thread
( viewtopic.php?p=304136#p304136)
so I thought I'd try and share some pics of some of the rock adventures i've had over the past 4 years of LBG fishing.
In doing this I hope to generate some discussion about Victorian LBG, which is a relatively dead sport, some talk about safety, tactics, gear etc.
Every couple of days i'll post another image from my collection and hopefully inspire a few of you to get out for a Kingie / Shark bash this summer.
I'm going away for a couple of weeks so I hopefully can work imgur and the forum off my phone during that time.
I don't mind providing information for anything other than a select few locaitons, but that goes without saying. A few of these pics peeps will have seen before if you've been reading my reports for years, but hopefully the newer members can get some thing out of it for themselves.
Hope you get a few
Stay safe mate
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Re: Rock life
What a spot.DougieK wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:57 amI'll do a mix of responding and posting more photos and information.
I first saw this ledge as a very heavily photoshopped image on Facebook taken with a drone and disguised to make it difficult to find. After 'some time' of playing with google maps, I narrowed it's location (if it existed at all) down to a select few stretches of coast and after a week of walking along cliff tops in the middle of nowhere, i f---ing found it within 500m of a carpark which I had first overlooked.
The image was of a stairway cut into a cliff face with a small ledge and photoshopped beach underneath it. The beach didn't exist. The cut away was so narrow I had to go down sideways and there is literally nothing to grip onto. I was using my hands to wedge myself between the two walls as the 'stairs' have long since eroded away. The ledge itself protrudes only about 4 metres from the cliff face, and there is nowhere to climb back out if you get knocked in.
I caught nothing but reef species in close in nearly 40 hours of ledge time. About midday on my second day down there a massive dark torpedo shape swam past. I'm assuming it was a Great White approx 3.5m long.
This one is unbelievably dangerous to fish and should only even be approached in absolutely perfect conditions. For obvious reasons I will not discuss the exact location of this one.
https://youtu.be/Jes1aLOuAmo
Looks absolutely awesome
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Re: Rock life
Hmmmmm yea that really didn’t make too much sense...smile0784 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:56 pmGood luck mateDougieK wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:21 pmHi All,
I had some pretty positive feedback and some pm's from a long post I made about rock fishing safety in another thread
( viewtopic.php?p=304136#p304136)
so I thought I'd try and share some pics of some of the rock adventures i've had over the past 4 years of LBG fishing.
In doing this I hope to generate some discussion about Victorian LBG, which is a relatively dead sport, some talk about safety, tactics, gear etc.
Every couple of days i'll post another image from my collection and hopefully inspire a few of you to get out for a Kingie / Shark bash this summer.
I'm going away for a couple of weeks so I hopefully can work imgur and the forum off my phone during that time.
I don't mind providing information for anything other than a select few locaitons, but that goes without saying. A few of these pics peeps will have seen before if you've been reading my reports for years, but hopefully the newer members can get some thing out of it for themselves.
Hope you get a few
Stay safe mate
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Re: Rock life
Lightningx wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:20 pmHmmmmm yea that really didn’t make too much sense...smile0784 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:56 pmGood luck mateDougieK wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:21 pmHi All,
I'm going away for a couple of weeks so I hopefully can work imgur and the forum off my phone during that time.
I don't mind providing information for anything other than a select few locaitons, but that goes without saying. A few of these pics peeps will have seen before if you've been reading my reports for years, but hopefully the newer members can get some thing out of it for themselves.
Hope you get a few
Stay safe mate