Dolphinfish - FADS - 5/2/16
Hi Fishwrecked
Headed out early yesterday to hit up the fads. Keen to try and catch another of these speedsters and with the weather forecast, I couldn't resist.
As predicted, the weather was magic and we arrived at the fads at about 6:30am or so.
When we rocked up there was a boat there, which left as soon as we arrived. Thought to myself, no fish here. So we trolled around a bit for no return. As we did the birds became more and more active and then we saw dolphinfish free jumping, a fair way from the fad.
Trolling and lures were not working, so we killed the engine and set up a drift towards the birds, thowing out cubes of mulies and as well as a couple which were attached to hooks. Well it didn't take long and we had our first one on board!
Biggest problem with this method was the hundreds and hundreds of rat kings which were marauding everything as soon as we got too close to the fad. If we were a fair way away it was ok, but anywhere near the fad these things would destroy everything, leaving no chance of the dolphinfish to see the bait let alone bait with hooks in it!
Anyway we persisted and eventually ended up with 3 dolphinfish (inbetween a million kings). We hit up another 2 fads, but 1 had another million kings, and the other was dead.
Saw some big tuna jumping out the back of rotto.
On the way home we had a bottom bash, which resulted in 1 sambo, 1 breaksea cod.
Good day on the water.
Aaron Santos
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Great work mate and awesome
Great work mate and awesome under water shots.
Still trying to catch fish!
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Ben Derecki
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Great pics and that looks
Great pics and that looks like a load of fun on the light gear too, cheers for sharing.
Tarpon
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Excellent report and
Excellent report and pictures
Auslobster
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Nice report....
....when they're out in numbers, the mahi can be found hundreds of meters away from the FAD, and the little kings aren't an issue. How were the mutton birds? They can make fishing in the top ten meters nearly impossible!
Browndog
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Kings
Great photos Dave, love the underwater mobs of kings.
Remember, no broken rods means you weren't fishing light enough!
Cheers,
Browndog.
jayce
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Great Pics mate good
Great Pics mate good stuff.
Might have to give these FADs a crack this year.
Jason P
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Looks awesome, may do a run
Looks awesome, may do a run out there on Tuesday.
DM306
fullysik
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Great piks !! Thanks for the
Great piks !! Thanks for the report.which fad was the best producer?
Cheers ray
Hutch
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Awesome shots, love the
Awesome shots, love the quality