Rotto overnighter report
I’ve been trying to jam as much fishing into this uni break as possible and last Thursday and Friday were looking like another opportunity. Once again my mate who is over from the east came along and also my Grandy, After watching me pull a meter plus dhu last time my mate was pretty keen to catch his first sized dhu. Plan was to fish Thurs then head into rotto for the night and have a quick fish the next day as we had to be back at mid-day. We hit the ramp at 8 and lines were in just after 9 and it didn’t take long for my pirate to get hit, Lost a bit of string on PE2 and was pretty confident to call it the first dhu of the day and not long after a nice 7kg dhu hit the deck,
The fishing was a tad slow and i wanted to head out to a deeper spot i found a few weeks back so with the last few drops approaching my mate lifted his game and finally hooked up to a solid fish, It fought harder than most big dhus ive seen so there was a chance at a sambo but after a few mins my mates new PB dhu at 95cm hit the deck and he was stocked.
We then headed out and it didn’t take long for the pinks to come to the party with a few around 70cm joining the esky.
My grandad then managed the first Radient cod ive seen and after a quick clean up we headed into rotto for the night.
A very lazy 8am wake up and a few eggs later we were back in amongst it and i was keen to put a few new spots into the GPS. After a bit of sounding the lines were dropped my grandad hooked up to the first fish of the day which turned out to be a monster baldy that went 65cm.
A bit more sounding and fishing for little result till again my grandad hooks up to a much larger fish that took literally all he had to give and he was stocked with his Pb dhu at 90cm.
A quick clean and we headed back to the ramp in pretty good conditions.
cudbfishn
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Conditions look sweet. Great
Conditions look sweet. Great report. There seems to be a few dhus around lately.
cudbfishn
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southcity104
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Killin it milsey!!
Its great to see or west coast fishery in top condition!!!
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Ben Derecki
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Fair dinkum, the sooner Uni
Fair dinkum, the sooner Uni starts the better...
Nice fish bro. Killing it (and us).
Paul G
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Would have been cold out
Would have been cold out there overnight .Some good fish for the effort,well done.
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meglodon
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bottom photo whale breaching????
is the bottom photo a pic of a whale doing it's thing if so how far a way was it
Lamby
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Smashing it Milsey, then you
Smashing it Milsey, then you have to head back to uni & stare at skirt all day! Jealous
beau
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You is da man!
You is da man!
Batty
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Well done
Your Grandad looks stoked with his catches, good to see that, 65cm Baldie NICE feed there !!!
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soupster51
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Nice
Great stuff mate. With the new fishing regs Dhus will be a pest and need culling........
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fishmad69
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Mate great to see a young
Mate great to see a young bloke and his Grandad get out amonst them. He looks like he is having a fat time with his Grand son.
milsey
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Cheers guys, Im pretty lucky
Cheers guys, Im pretty lucky to still be able to go fishing with my grandy as most of my mates dont have the same plesure. I will say he wasnt all that happy about getting the dhu up for a pic tho hah.
And yer that was a whale, it wasnt breaching tho more thrashing around. Very strage and after one clipped us a few years back we try to stay well clear.
dkonig82
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Smashed it again mate, good
Smashed it again mate, good work.
Re: the whales, how did it clip you? Just swim into you or on a jump? Always been one of my big fears getting sunk by one of those bastards!
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milsey
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Trolling in exxy and one
Trolling in exxy and one popped up on port about 5m away then one on starboard then one from basically under the boat and as it came up gave the boat a tail slap. Almost gave my grandy a heart attack and me also for that matter. Had plenty of close calls since but none have hit. I get more scared in the dinghy as one nick and were in trouble.
hunterdive
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Miles you're killing the pig
Miles you're killing the pig mate, There had been some quality lately mate, very jealous of the the time you have to fish, the freezer must be stocked