Anyone fished rotto lately?

Im  Thinking about pulling a few small deep divers / skirts for SBT off rotto west end on saturday. Anyone on here been getting them. Launching from hillarys cheers


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 Plenty around. We bagged out

Thu, 2023-08-17 12:01

 Plenty around. We bagged out on them in the 30s out from hillarys pretty quickly last week. Plenty around as soon as you cross the 3mile.

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I usually go west of hillarys and out through the gap in the

Thu, 2023-08-17 12:09

 reef there.  Will start pulling lures from there then. What lures did you find did the damage?   deep divers / skirts or the good old 40g halco twisty?

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 I run a deep diver one side

Thu, 2023-08-17 12:28

 I run a deep diver one side a shallow runner other side a bit further back and a small skirt shotgun way back. When one goes off keep driving, the school stays together so you'll get a double or triple. They will follow hooked fish to the boat so you can usually temp stragglers if you have a spare rod. Don't rely on birds or surface action to give them away either, any tiny amount of bait down low is worth a loop over. I pulled out the bream gear last time and it was great fun.

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Thanks for the tips mate will do as you have suggested out there

Thu, 2023-08-17 12:49

 hopefully we pick up a few on the light gear! cheers

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we have picked up a few over

Fri, 2023-08-18 09:22

we have picked up a few over last 2 months, 2-4 kg and the majority on skirts, we trolled in the 25-30m mark from parkers to west end, got most around parkers - trolling 6-7knots and had the skirts out quite far
good luck - we wont be out for a few months :-(

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 Have been out the past few

Fri, 2023-08-18 10:22

 Have been out the past few weekends from Hillarys, usually head north past 3 mile into the 30's.

Prior weekend got 4, but no baitballs so just random fish I think.

Last weekend went south and got zip.

Exclusively use Skirts as much less chance of weed, which was shocking in <25mtrs last weekend. 

 

If the weather holds I'll go tomorrow for another look and burn some fuel.

 

 

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 We often get some nice YTK's

Fri, 2023-08-18 11:06

 We often get some nice YTK's of West End. I haven't fished there since autumn but they are pretty much always around. SBT's are like the posts above said - there are where you find them! We have caught them anywhere from 40m+ into about 12m straight out from the gap at Hillarys.

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