Rotto trip
Hi All,
Said last week I'd post how we went with our first Rotto trip, so here it is.
Launched at Point Peron at 7.30 on Weds with my mate Mike and we were off for a couple days. Spent the whole day finding ground in the 30's, 40's and 50's between Rocko and Rotto, we found amazing ground with 6-8m flares and no luck. The type of ground we'd expect first drop bag outs off Mandurah or Rocko. Finished the first day with only a small pink, black arse, sargents, scorpions and wrasse, all released. Entered Thompsons safely, beach penned up, had a couple cans, steak sanga at pub, happy. Pingers everywhere!!
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Thurs saw us do our first FADS trip, on the way out we tested ground, another black arse and we shot out deep. Trolled for three hours with no joy. Went back to the last FAD and 20 odd mutton pingers there, kept trying to work mulies and plastics and finally got two hits. First ever Dollies, not huge by any means but went to the island stoked.
Friday morning the weather was awesome.
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Tried a repeat trip to the FADS, saw divers taking a couple but we couldn't attract them on lines. Ended up trying for about 5 hrs when we came across a huge school of Dolphinfish jumping and running the surface. We tried to get them for another two hrs, at points we would have up to 8-10 fish swimming less than two meters behind the transom, beautiful to see but so frustrating. Headed off in still awesome conditions
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Left there to head back to Pt Peron and found a bit of ground in the 80's for a pink and black.
Couple of fish and a fun trip.
Cheers,
Ben
wez0062
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great fish & great report,
great fish & great report, love your work guys
Wez0062
rigpig
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nice work
mate, although the fish weren't there for you it looked like a great trip. It's great to get away with some mates for a few days fishing and a couple of coldies. I recently went up to Horrocks Beach with some mates and my boat and it was blown out the whole time, still managed a few fish from shore and had a good laugh with the boys..
sammy85
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Think we saw you out there I
Think we saw you out there I have the yellow hull yank boat. We were spearing
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ChrisG
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Good reportOften thought
Good report
Often thought that if we treated rotto etc like a trip up north where you fish hard for consecutive days and camp overnight at the islands etc that it'd be worth the effort/have some good fun
fishin mad
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Great trip by looks of
Great trip by looks of it.Nice boat you got there would had been ideal to do that in.
tim-o
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Top report
Sounds like a fun few day. Howd yous go on fuel, have enough onboard for the whole trip? A 'rude' 300 cant be too economical
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Shacked81
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Fun
Yeah was a fun trip, took the longboard skateboardsto get around and save room on the boat.
Tim-o, did about 400k's for about 300lts sitting on around 32 knots conditions were nice but
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And
And only one stack on the skatey!!