Yellowtail Kings
Hi All
Went out weekend before last to the back of rotto, to chase some yellowtail kings.
Have only caught one before, so thought I would target these during the ban, after a mate caught a few in the weeks previous.
When we arrived we threw the lures out for a quick troll, even though its early. You just never know I guess. We saw some birds working so went over for a look and cast some lures at them, only to have some little rat kings follow the lures. Didn't hook any but was good to see some anyway.
Went back in a bit closer to rotto and anchored up. Threw some burley in (old whiting heads) and also cut up some old mulies and put them into the scaling bag to start a slick.
Once the burley was in we put in a couple of soft plastics about half way to the bottom, and a whole mulie on another rod, again about half way down.
We were only there for about 5 mins, before first rod went off and belive it or not, it was a dhufish! About 47cm or so, and he was sent back for a swim. As the dhu was going down the other rod went off, to be a yellowtail of about 55cms.
After that, it was non stop action for about 3 hours catching kings from 55cm up to 80cm. It was a lot of fun of the light gear and jeez do they fight hard!
Little video attached if you want to waste 5 mins. :)
Bodie
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Date Joined: 05/11/07
nice work, conditions
nice work, conditions sucked!!!
I woulda bene ripping my mate if he had over screwed up landing the 1st fish then busted on the spool on the next! that doesnt get let go easily!
Krusty
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Date Joined: 27/11/15
Looks like a great way to
Looks like a great way to spend a few hours during the ban
My fishing spots are so secret........... even the fish don't know where they are !!
Percula
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Date Joined: 23/09/08
impatient
Got stuck into my mate all day, and all week!!
On top of stuffing up those 2 things, he didn't land a size one so got stuck into him about that as well!
opsrey
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Date Joined: 05/10/07
Good vid and good fun
Meeuwissen
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Date Joined: 29/03/13
awesome vid.
was this near west end? have to get into a few myself.
Down the Line
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rob90
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Date Joined: 06/02/13
Sweet vid. We seen that
Sweet vid. We seen that turtle off ocean reef in 35m that saturday morning the barnicles on his shell give him away.
Hi my name is rob............. and I'm a........... fishaholic
Percula
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Date Joined: 23/09/08
Thanks
yeah west end of rotto is the place.
Fisheagle
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Date Joined: 04/02/12
Great day out
Always a decent pull with the kings
Fisheagle Ed
https://www.youtube.com/user/fisheagleed/videos
Foxy
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Date Joined: 14/03/06
YTK and Kings
A bit of fun to be had with YTK and tuna just on FFB too.
Fish_Hunter
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Date Joined: 18/01/15
nice video guys
conditions look spot on
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