saturdays fishing
So , me my brother and 2 mate headed out on one of our mates boat to get stuck into some good fishing and take advantage of the good weather today , we headed out from the ramp about 4:45 to go to the fads , we started trolling from south of rotto for about 10k's with no luck at all , so we decided to head out to the fad furuno where there was about 5 other boats with us trolling , but not really getting much. first off my mate cought a small stripey , straight after that my lure got hit then his lure got hit and he hooked the fish , which turned out to be a 6kg YFT which was pretty cool , because we have never cought one before and it fought a hell of alot more then any other tuna.
After that a few more boats pulled into the fad and i could see some guys hooking fish on flys , as the trolling was getting really quite we pulled up near the fad to do a drift , and with in minutes we where getting slammed on mules by dollys , every cast would get smashed , between us 4 we must of got about 15 , not huge but still size although we didnt take them all we took just enough for us to have a feed and the rest were safely relised , these were really fun on pe 2-4 and there was heaps around and put on a good acrobatic show for us. after that we trolled for a little bit and ended up getting 5 stripeys in total ,the amount of tuna schools out today was unbelievable every couple of k's there was tuna and heaps of them. we pulled up to the barge and dropped half tunas down to see if we could get another big shark there because last time one bit through my mates 300lb trace, but no luck , neither where the 2 guys next to us getting much either.
we pulled up near rotto so my mate could do a dive and we ended up with 6 crays aswell , so all in all a few dollys few stripeys , 1 yellow fin and some crays not a bad day. i think next time im gonna try pe 1-2 to try land some dollys because there not huge atm , then after leave it for a while once they start getting really big , i also tryed to get some on plastics but only got hit twice and no hook up
Faulkner Family
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well done guys. looks you
well done guys. looks you had a great time out there. those dollies will go well for dinner.
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naylor_1
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was out at the furuno fad
was out at the furuno fad this morning too, we must have landed 30+ dollies in the hour or so we were there... mostly rats but we landed a couple that would have gone close to 10kg. We couldnt get them to take anything but unweighted squid. A few marlin were landed there this morning too i here
tomas23
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damn dude we had a big skirt
damn dude we had a big skirt out for marlin aswell but had no luck , we were using unweighted mulies and getting slammed every cast , we were only getting the 3kg rat ones aswell i would have loved to got a 10kg one damn
spanishmackeral
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pretty good days effort,
pretty good days effort, great write up too
Tony Halliday
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Good day boys,nice bit of YFT
Good day boys,
nice bit of YFT saahimi there to go with the dollies on the BBQ, can't complain about that.
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grayzeee
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nice little yft there.
nice little yft there. still on my to get list .
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.