Today's efforts

 Had a pretty good day out today,  

Very eary start and straight out to the fads, drifting past and cast lures at the fads and the dollies were going nuts, taking any lure we cast, caught 4 for the table and released a few more and then left them bitting. Seen a small dolly getting airborne continuously chasing a small school of shit scared baitfish haha. Trolled between the fads and found a distinct water temp change/current line, 21 degrees one side and no fish, 21.5 degrees the other side and a heap of small mixed tuna, we got southern blue fin, stripped tuna and a Mac tuna. All pretty small, 30-50cm's. Left them and trolled into 45m's north of rotto without anything touching the lures (21 degrees the whole way). Slowly cruising up to a spot I've previously mark and see some action on the sounder, mark that spot, tie on a jig, circle back around and have a drop. A few big blobs on the sounder about 5m's off the bottom, I thought sambos. 1st drop and straight into the mouth of a big pinky haha, just lucky to be in the rite place at the rite time I guess. A few more drifts around the area for a few small picker fish. Pulled the pin and headed for home with a quick stop to check my cray pots, only 2 keepers this time, but re baited and dropped back down. 

All in all a great day in the metro, weather was bloody amazing!!

 


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Wed, 2016-04-13 17:21

 A pretty good day out by the looks of it. Good stuff, BTW, that pinkie is a hooter.

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 ripper

Wed, 2016-04-13 17:52

 ripper

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Wed, 2016-04-13 18:04

 Cracker day (and pink).

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Yep thats a good day

Wed, 2016-04-13 18:13

 Out Paul

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 Nice work Paul 

Wed, 2016-04-13 18:28

 Nice work Paul 

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 Few Species there mate!

Wed, 2016-04-13 18:34

 Few Species there mate! Looks rank out there....

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 Ripper pink, dollies have to

Wed, 2016-04-13 19:45

 Ripper pink, dollies have to be one of best looking fish I reckon

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 Good going there. Looks like

Wed, 2016-04-13 19:57

 Good going there. Looks like one of those dollies has been a victim of a cookie cutter. 

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Looks like it to me to

Thu, 2016-04-14 09:09

But would have to be a bloody fast one. Wouldn't have thought a cookie cutter would be able to get near a fast pelagic like a dolly.

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 Cheers guys. Yeah that pink

Wed, 2016-04-13 20:09

 Cheers guys. Yeah that pink is my new PB! And dollies are a great looking fish, but bloody hard to get a decent photo of when live haha.

 Ben, that was my guess too, pretty crazy looking wound. The skin on the edges of the sore/cut was healed but you could see the guts just sitting there inside the fish, cant understand how it wasn't all hanging out of the fish.

Condtions were tough out there, not every day you can troll the rotto trench in a 16ft runabout!

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 Awesome effort on what

Wed, 2016-04-13 20:30

 Awesome effort on what looked like an awesome day out there...well done 

 

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Wed, 2016-04-13 21:48

That pinkie is a ripper, nice. Did you get him on the scales? 

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 Cheers. Nah didn't get a

Thu, 2016-04-14 09:13

 Cheers. Nah didn't get a weight, I'd guess maybe 6 or 7kg, it was a pretty fat fish. 

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Great pic off pink

Wed, 2016-04-13 21:55

 Great feed. Well done.

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Great day Paul

Wed, 2016-04-13 22:01

 Well done. Ripper Pink

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Awesome

Thu, 2016-04-14 11:55

Bloody awesome work!

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Great day out on the water

Thu, 2016-04-14 15:18

 Nice variety of fish, couple of crays and a PB, doesn't get much better than that Paul.