Rotto/FAD 19/5
Hiyas,
popped out to the FAD yesterday. We were berleying with a few KG heads and frames, as well as mulies, but didn't really see any fish. Later John got a hookup, but the fish got off. I think after that John mentioned they were a bit scarce this year, so I stiffed my brother with the job of landing the next one.
He did good job, here is the fish!
We just couldn't get any bites after that, and eventually a couple other boats turned up, so we pushed off to try and troll around west end. On the way there, we got a couple striped tuna and a couple bigger bust-offs. Here is a snap of my brother with one.
The birds were really annoying us by now, snaffling our lures so we retrieved them and headed over to west end at a better pace. We trolled around, no bites though, we did see something weird floating and went over to check it out. It was a dead baby sambo with a halco crazy deep in it's mouth, yay for free lures!
Next we anchored up and berleyed up some ok looking skippy and other bottom fish, but then my brother mentioned he thought the bites were changing, then he got hit by something on the way down which gave him a bit of a ride before leaving with his gear. We looked over the edge and could just make out a school of quite large fish, so I popped a snapback over, and he put another rig on - his rig was stripped of all it's hooks, but I got something on the snapback which was a good ride. My first SP hookup turned out to be a small blacktip shark I foul hooked. Thats two out of two for me for foul hooking blacktips on John's boat. It was pacified, then brought aboard. After that we trolled along the south side of the island, but no action there, so we headed back.
Back at the washdown station we cleaned up the boat and next the fish. The surprise was this;
John's dolphinfish had 4 of the 5 KG heads we lobbed in and a few of the frames. Sure was a slow day for one fish to clean up like that. Last nite I had fish overload for dinner and it was great; Dolphinfish (thanks John) with a lemon tarragon sauce and Ventrisca de Tuna (oven roasted potatoes & tuna belly), both very tasty.
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Nice Dolly till
I like the fishing recipe tips too.
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Stomach contents
Always a GREAT idea to have a look - actual evidence on feeding habbits - straight from (behind) the hourses mouth!
Sounds like a great day Till with lots of excitement - on the water, it doesn't get better!
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till
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That's Auslobster's
That's Auslobster's Dolphinfish, he posts here occasionally. I was just the mug with the camera =)
Faulkner Family
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Good Story and fish. It
Good Story and fish.
It is always a bonus to get your bait (back) and dinner at the sametime LOL
RUSS
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Auslobster
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Tonight's dorado (the
Tonight's dorado (the spanish term for dollys!) was barbequed with a bit of olive oil and lemon pepper....magic!
PACEMAKER
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Hey Till were you at the
Hey Till were you at the Hillaries Fad about 10 am ??
Was probably me and Tapout you saw. We had no action out there so we headed upto a Tapout hotspot and pulled in a few Skippys and a nice size Bronzy.
Cheers
Terry
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STAAL LOVER
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when do the fads come out
only new to the site ! and to boating at a distance ! when do they pull the fads out I've heard several answers (all at once at a certain time or each when they can be bothered????)
and how do we add photos to comments???
has been interesting reading for the past couple of hours
always time for fishin'
PACEMAKER
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Fads
The Fads are usually pulled for the end of season about now however I know Hillaries Fad and the one out West of Rotto are still there, not sure about the others.
Cheers
Tez
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Auslobster
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The official Perth Game
The official Perth Game Fishing Club line is "during the week of the 19 May", which means NOW, but there is a rumour that since they have already lost 5 Fads this year (actually 7, they had replaced 2 that have since disappeared again), they may just leave the remaining one out there.
So I guess the real answer to your question is: Who knows? If you intend to head out there, just have a backup plan ready in case it isn't there!
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Good read
Good read that one. Greedy guts of a dolly, thats a fair bit of a feed he's consumed there. Well done guys.
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till
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Pacemaker: we were in that
Pacemaker: we were in that ali centre console, there were three of us. You guys were in a half-cab or something? Perhaps red? I think I waved your way, and got a wave back. There was another bigger boat out with a bunch of guys that turned up after you?
PACEMAKER
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Yep thats us
Yep that was us mate, in the half cabin Pacemaker Ensign 200 (white), that bigger boat was following us all over the show so we legged it from the FAD and headed over towards Rotto. Small world
Cheers
Tez
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