Fads today
Submitted by mr_dhuie on Sat, 2010-03-13 15:57
went out at 4.30 this morning in the new jackman and berleyed up at garden island until 7:00. caught a few skippy and gardies...(good bait!) we then decided to head out through the islands. we sat on 5 for 10 minutes deciding what to do. we headed out to the southern fad. there was 2 other boats out there and we trolled for a good 3 hours but all we caught was little tuna(like 40cm). didn't see anything else and we worked it for quite a while before calling it quits.
Has anyone else had some luck at the fads? i heard so far that it has been a pretty bad season?
cheers
Jack
mightymouse
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Hey MR dhuie, what was it
Hey MR dhuie,
what was it like today out behind rotto after lunch ??
chrisp
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Went Yesterday
Same story mate..Have heard of a few dollies a few weeks back at fremantle sailing club fad though.
bungeye
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na mate
na mate we headed out there yesyerday tried 3 fads,trolling,casted some lures around no luck at all ,,got a couple of leather jackets off the bottom ,,had luck closer in the 40-50m mark ..saw quite a large school of tuna south end of rotto but they disapeared as soon as we stated up the boat ...
till
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FSC was underwater today,
FSC was underwater today, just the reflector was sticking out. Didn't see any fish caught, only saw millions of tiny tuna. Pretty sure we were first onto All Marine, but it was dead quiet there too.
mikestan
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was out there too
the water was the roughest ive seen in a while(ha ha not) it was so flat very little swell. heaps of small tuna out there but no dollies at any of the fads. you want to try for the mulloway i did hear about a 22kg and 19kg being boated with in ten mins of each other out that way(horses)
scottnofish
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yeh we where out there today
as you say there was heaps off little tuna we managed 4 bigger ones around 3 to 4 kilo then headed in and manged a nice pink and jason and mike landed at 22 and a 18.5 kg mulla each
mr_dhuie
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same ol'
yeah, that's a bit of a pitty to do the travelling and come home with little tuna... a few weeks ago we were catching 10-11kg bluefin tuna on the 5 fathom :o yeah mighty mouse... was pretty flat all day.. it picked up a little bit at about 3:00. we are going out today with winches to try get some hapuka and ruby snapper! :)
Tigh82
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Dollies
got into dollies a few weeks back. Plenty around but shut down when people went into the fad. Found dollies on the two fads we went to. Boated about 10 and plenty of hook ups. Went on Friday though and same story as everyone else, heaps of small tuna. They will be back and hopefully will be ready!
mr_dhuie
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ah sweet
ah sweet mate... were they the southern fads or more up at hilarys/ rotto?