Fads
Submitted by greatrex on Thu, 2013-01-24 21:46
Hey I'm heading out to the fads this weekend and just want to know a few things
1. What's the limit of dolphin fish I can keep?
2. How many tuna can I keep?
3. What fads have the fish been at mainly?
Cheers people
grayzeee
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From 1st feb you can keep up
From 1st feb you can keep up to 3 mixed pelagic species per licenced fisho (2 currently)
500mm min size on dolly's , no size limit on tuna
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
till
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1) ATM 2, mixed bag of
1) ATM 2, mixed bag of pelagics but how many fish do you need though? Dolly doesn't really freeze well.
2) The only tuna worth keeping are SBT and YFT and they are part of the combined baglimit of two. You can keep heaps of striped tuna if you can work out what to do with them ...
3) They are pelagics and they move. More often than not they're not even at the fad, so be prepared to troll the area, not just the spot.
beau
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Stripeys make great burley!
Stripeys make great burley! We had a big school of pinks under the boat in minutes
sea-kem
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The Dolly's need to be
The Dolly's need to be treated with care. And as Jamie said don't freeze well at all. Cooked fresh theye are the best fish I've ever tasted.
Love the West!
till
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Thanks for the
Thanks for the reminder.
Yes, they are a very soft-fleshed fish, and bruise easily. Combined with the fact that they go utterly mental when you get them on deck, it can lead to both ordinary fillets and release specimens.
Consider having a wet towel to cover their eyes on deck, better still release them boatside.
scubafish
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Old tail,
Herd a old tail that if you put the fish on a 4or5inch piece of foam it will sit quietly for you,it's the bashing on the deck that stirs them up because they cam from a neutral buoyancy environment they don't have any understanding of weight.Haven't tried it out fully yet.
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snappermiles
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one hit with the batton to the head usually slows them
then bring into the boat cut there throat and bleed them then straight onto ice!!! beautiful!
ALL FISHERMEN ARE LIARS EXCEPT YOU AND ME! AND IM NOT SO SURE ABOUT YOU!
scubafish
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Or yeh, the rubber mallet
Or yeh, the rubber mallet quiets them down too.
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