The drones look neat, but where I fish on the west coast it is shallow for a long way out. Example 2km off shore is only about 11 to 13 m deep. The drones I have looked at only have a range of about 800m (please correct me if wrong) and while that is ok at the moment because the fish are in close. Later in the year over winter basically the further out your hooks are the better the catch.
That photo above was taken in the middle of July. First set was a 25 min run and only got two snapper and a couple of KY. Rebaited and put in two lithium iron battery's which gave me a run time of well over 30min sending it out about 2.5km. We could not believe our eyes as we pulled it back in. That big one is 23lb and a lot of those others were well over 10lb.
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