Rotto Beach fishing- Any tips
Submitted by The_Wanderer on Wed, 2015-04-29 12:31
Hey!
Hoping for a few suggestions…. Heading to Rotto for a mates wedding this weekend and though may as well take a rod and some lures. Any suggestions on where to try for salmon/tailor? Haven’t fished Rotto shore based before so any tips would be appreciated! I think we are staying around near Bathurst light house. Oh and Before any one suggests pinky’s my Missus is coming with me!
Cheers
Ben
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Westy74
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Date Joined: 23/11/13
Go to the end the the main
Go to the end the the main jetty and drop a live herring in and watch. 20kg sambos will come from no where.....
lachieH
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Date Joined: 02/03/13
The natural jetty is great
The natural jetty is great apparently, tide too high for me to fish it though last year
Fishing the swan for bream, it's just an obsession
Meeuwissen
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Date Joined: 29/03/13
Squid,snook ,tailor
Outside the pub on the jetty on sunset you can get a few squid and snook at night.
Tailor outside kingston barracks at the natural jetty just cast a slice into the white wash.
If you catch the bus to riceys beach or stark bay you will catch skippy, parrot fish, wobbeygony, tailor i just stand on the edge of the reef and fish the drop offs with plastics.
Or catch rocks crabs and cast them out ;)
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grantarctic1
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This time
This time of the year the Salmon should be holding up on nearly every reef around the island.
The natural jetty is a good place to start, but as mentioned at high tide can make it too hard to fish.
I usually jump on a bike and start ridding the paths along the shorelines. Stop on top of any high ground and scope out the reefs near the shore. You only have to move a few hundred meters at a time to search out the next spot. You should spot small pods of salmon at most reefs, get down to them and flick a lure out. They can go shy after hooking a couple so I then move to the next spot and do it again.
The main jetty is a great spot for herring and squid and always worth a look if you want some easy relaxing fishing.