Anyone had any luck getting Blue Fin Tuna around Rottnest lately?

Thought I'd go out for a troll? If so, what sort of size are they ATM?

 

If not, any stripes or Macks?

 

Cheers


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Friggen millions of them off

Mon, 2016-01-04 14:27

Friggen millions of them off Hillarys/Ocean Reef yesterday busting up all over the place.

We had fun for an hour or so casting metal slugs at em, we all got one or two each. Mix of SBT and stripies, all pretty small but fun on light gear.

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Cheers

Mon, 2016-01-04 14:33

Cheers JohnF, hopefully if they are off Hillarys they'll be around Rotto too :) 

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Trolled a 7m Halco and a

Mon, 2016-01-04 14:40

Trolled a 7m Halco and a metal spoon around west end yesterday. Saw fish amongst the pots at west end but with a sleeping baby and an unimpressed wife I couldn't get closer to investigate.

Certainly were a few birds working though just not the right time for me to play properly

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 yeah schools everywhere out

Tue, 2016-01-05 09:01

 yeah schools everywhere out from Ocean reef, mixture of stripies and SBT's popped up around the place. Not too skittish the last couple trips out.

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Cool stuff

Mon, 2016-01-11 11:49

Is this a regular thing, as in most years ? I got a taste for longtail tuna in the NT and would love to get amongst them down here. SBT have a few options for the table ? Longtail seems best as sashimi which I'm very partial to

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All water temp dependant. Can

Mon, 2016-01-11 13:38

All water temp dependant. Can be here one week, gone for the next 3 years.

We got a good run 3 years ago and a few long tail on the 3 mile.

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 My friend got a sone long

Mon, 2016-01-11 21:49

 My friend got a sone long tail tuna off 3 mile

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We got some southern blues

Tue, 2016-01-12 09:08

We got some southern blues and stripeys off rottnest on the weekend. Getting bigger than weeks gone by, still not huge though.