Fads west of rotto
Submitted by Andyroo on Tue, 2016-12-06 17:05
Afternoon gents. Been fishing around the west for a few years now, but this Sunday we are hoping to head out to the fads for the first time. Noticed some interesting area around 20kms west of rotto while playing around with Navionics on the iPad.
Suppose my question is, what can we expect and tips for fishing the area.
Will be trolling hard lures and skirts, and also drifting using fresh whole whiting/herring and fillets plus fresh squid
any info is appreciated .
Oh and boat is 28ft Whitley. Cheers
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dodgy
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Water is still a bit cool and
Water is still a bit cool and nothing of note on the fads yet by the reports Ive heard.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Mattyb84
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Give it another month mate
Give it another month mate be kingfish and dolphin fish everwere and tuna/ wahoo if ur lucky Marlin
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Colt_Striker
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Got back from a morning out
Got back from a morning out there today, water still only 20.6 deg & no bird life
Tim
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Wondering
resurgence
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FADs thoughts
I haven't heard any reports of fish on the FADs yet. I'll be heading out to the trench on Sat so will probably check out a couple of the FADs on the way out.
If there are dollies there, I've found small metal heads with plastic skirts or feather type lures in pink to be the best. Sometimes sinking stickbaits will work.
Also a chance of juvenile yellowtail kingfish hanging around, they can be fun on ultralight gear.
Noxious
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Going to hit the FADs this
Going to hit the FADs this weekend, may push out to the trench if the weather permits. Probably do some trolling at the FADs (and between them), and may jump in for a look. Tossing up the idea of doing some cubing too.