Mahi mahi dolphin fish pro#

Over head set ups work best but jigging rods with 12000 spin gear works well too. Fish find it harder to see when trolling into the sun.īest colours: pink, purple, blacks and lumo. As you will always get more hook up towing away from the sun. Try and always line you tow up so you are heading away from the sun. So set your lures at the right length so ensure you get the best out of them. You want your skirts sitting at the front side of the waves created by your wake of the boat.įish will only hit the lures at the bottom of the waves. But you will be able to tell if they are skipping or not. You want to troll your skirts between 6- 12knts depending on your skirts. Cut face skirts still catching more off our shores then most other skirts. Trolled skirts are still one of the best ways to catch big Dollies. But you might want to go to a 30lb – 80lb 5ft rod with a 15-25w over head for the big Dollies on live baits. A 17lb – 40lb 5-7ft rod with a 5000 – 8000 spin reel will work well for dead baits. You want 30- 80lb braid to 40-120lb leader. But you may have to pull out the bigger gear when you find the bigger dollies. So 15- 30lb braid and 20- 50lb leader is all that is needed. A lot of the time the dollies around the FAD’s are only small to medium. Set up always depends on the size of the fish you are fishing for. But you really need to find a school for them to work well. Skipping gar: also works when trolled past the packs or FAD’s. Again on an unweighted or light weighted set up will often score the bigger dollies out of the pack. Live yakka’s, slimmies, squid, pilchard and scad’s. Livies are still a very effective way to score dollies. A whole unweighted dead bait can also be very deadly on these gold bars of goodness. Once you have found the schooled up fish. Bag and size limits for mahi mahi:ġ10cm or greater a bag of 1 max combined bag of 10Īn unweighted half or whole pillie can often get the fussiest of dollies to bite. Summer is the best time to catch dollies off our coast as they migrate south after the warm to cold water buffer zones. Normally when you find one they will have mates nearby.ĭollies can be found in most current lines, spawn lines, around floating objects such as drift wood, bread crates, Palm fronds, floats, buoys, markers, FAD’s, drum line and trap lines from close reefs out to the shelf. They prefer to hang in schools with a large bull as head of the pack with his Haram of cows in tow. These numbers increases as fish length increases and they spawn very frequently once matured. Producing about 58,000 – 1.5 million eggs per spawn. Estimated to only live to 2-4years and are highly fecund. Their estimated growth is up to 25kgs and around 210cm after two to four years. They usually grow about 1kg in the first 6months of their lives and can reach about 10kg after a year.

Lifespan and movement:ĭolphinfish are one of the fastest growing and shortest lived fish in our waters. No wonder they go so hard once connected and put up a great fight. Fast moving speedsters that can reach speeds of up to 50 knots or 92.5kms an hour. They will fly out of the water after flying fish and will even quite often catch bait mid air. They are as comfortable in the air as they are in the water. So a quick pic as soon as you catch it will show off their amazing colours.ĭollies are one of the best fighting fish off our coasts, as they are aerial acrobats once hooked and are super fast. Fishos are often disappointed with the colour as it fades really fast once out of the water and dispatched. The bright yellow belly, electric blue/ green top and bright electric blue spots all over it are so charged up when first landed. As they migrate down our coast and chase the warm water boundaries.

Mahi mahi dolphin fish pro#

Locally we have all the government implemented FAD’s, pro fisherman trap lines and drum line which hold schools of dollies off our coast each year. We are so lucky to have the dolphin fish fishery we have in Australia. Your fish of the month is Mahi mahi……… Mahi mahi ( dolphin fish) Corphaena hippurus Written by Anthony Coughran from Fishing Fun Gold Coast A comprehensive guide to fishing for Mahi Mahi.