Cockburn sound & Rotto
With the weather looking pretty good Saturday, we decided to try for a few squid in the morning then head out deeper looking for some bigger fish.
Squid were pretty easy to come by, once we found one we found a few, got 25 in about 2 hours or so. Quite a few cuttle fish about too!
First squid
a couple more
Bright colours were doing the damage, orange and pink being the most productive.
Moved out deeper once the wind had backed right off.
Was a little quiet to start with, i started with plastics and jigs, getting a few hits on the plastics but nothing real promising. The bait boys were just as quiet so at least it didnt look too bad
After a bit of moving around we found some fish as the day went on, HEAPS of swallow tail (not sure why but these guys always show up this time of year, just before winter?)
Found a little flare on one of my older lumps and managed 6 dhu's in 2 drifts.
First reasonable one to Carl
Second one was to me! (been a while since I'd caught a reasonable dhu, always put the deckies onto them but not myself!)
Managed a couple baldies and black ass too, nothign huge but easily legal
Picked up a couple small sambos, then scano got his arms stretched on PE3 by this guy. He was hoping it was the mother of all pinky's or dhu's as he'd not put anything in the esky at this stage and was copping a bit of flack over it! But we all knew what the result was going to be with the long rungs away from the boat.
Fish of the day to Sean
Pretty good conditions and sunset on the way in! all in all a good day on the water!
Glacier Bay
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Very nice ,,,
Made the mistake of heading out wide to early and no fish on the bite in a number of locations so headed back in to calmer water... an hour later it turned into a mill pond but to late in the day to head out wide again so came back empty handed... good to see someone had some luck
Glacier Bay
Goodz
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Good trip Bodie, did you get
Good trip Bodie, did you get that dhu on plastic/jig or bait? :) awesome conditions!
Bodie
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Sadly, on bait, after hours
Sadly, on bait, after hours of jigging and plastics! :(
Think i need to watch some others and their techniques with jigs!
Goodz
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You just gave up too soon
You just gave up too soon mate! No doubt if you'd had a jig down at the same spot and the same time you would have still scored that Dhu!
You can watch me jig anytime, though I can't guarentee you'll gain anything from it. haha
RMac
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great dhu
We found it was a bit slow early as well on saturday - only managed two smaller but size dhu's in 60m.
Were you guys out a bit deeper? Ive only had the boat for a year but have done most of my fishing up north so im still getting used to perth offshore, any help would be appreciated!
Bodie
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Mate the most productive
Mate the most productive depths around the metro area would be 30-45m for dhus. Not saying you dont get them deaper, as you do get plenty shallower, but these seem to be the most productive.
We spent more of the time in 32-42m of water. Small lumps only rising 1-2m
There is a line of coral that runs behind rotto, from 6 or 7 mile south to a 3-4 mile north. depth are kinda 40-60 depending on location, quite heavily fished tho so if you can find ground outside this coral you tend to find more fish.
RMac
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Thanks
Thanks for the info mate appreciate it