Chasing YTKs and Sambos off Rotto
Hi Guys,
just quick report from Saturday’s fishing. with the ban on we decided to head to rotto to see if we could catch a YTK. We anchored up and started burleying the water and it didn’t take long for the fish to start biting, wrasse, sweep, footballers, then from out of now where one of the rods got smashed and after a long fight on 20lb gear we pulled in the biggest buff bream I have ever seen, i feel a little embarrassed posting a photo of a buff bream but I have never seen one that big. Then we started getting a few skippy around the 1kg mark, one of which I put out as a livie under a balloon. Not long after the tide change I was drifting a small squid head down with a hand full of cut mulies and I had a strange bite and as I pulled the fish in it didn’t really fight, as it got close to the boat I could a beautiful YTK but as I saw it, he realized he was hooked and then my reel lit up and the fight was over in a few seconds. Then as we were packing up the skippy under my balloon was hit by something really really big, I pulled the rod from the holder and just hung on as whatever it was pulled drag like it wasnt there, then snap. The moral of the story is bring some heavier gear. We then headed north and found some nice ground to try some jigging for the first time. I have attached a you tube link if any wants to see our efforts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CcMnK4svKk
Andy_b
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thats a donkey
thats a donkey
pricey10
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That's a fricken big buffalo
That's a fricken big buffalo bream!
Karratha. WA
Dreamtime
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hahaha
your name would be on the record board for years if u measured it lol. not sure i would want my name next to a buffy though. but that thing is a bohemoth.
snapper_seeker
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Great work!! Big buffie and
Great work!! Big buffie and big sambo good fun during the demersal ban
Leemo
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absolute donkey, put a
absolute donkey, put a saddle on that thing!
bludgin' since 94'
chrisp
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Wow!, pity you cut the top of
Wow!, pity you cut the top of your head off or it could have been the first shit fish in POTM..That photo actually makes it look good.
JohnF
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I still recon it deserves
I still recon it deserves POTM entry.....what a horse! Love it, something a bit different.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Wes F
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Big Buff bream
They do fight hard never seen one that size B4. Will done to ya young lass with the sambo, also a very good size. Looks like a very pleasant day on the water.
Old fishermen never die they just smell that way.
tim-o
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Dija get a pic on the brag
Dija get a pic on the brag mat, straight to the record holders that one, never to be beaten. Good to hear about the kings, you know how to getem now......
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
sea-kem
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Good vid there.
Good vid there.
Love the West!
meglodon
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that is one monster
that is a hell of a monster buff the maggots you could bread of that would be bigger than pythons
Brock O
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Nice Report Rex
Nice Buff bream and top team effort on the sambo.