1st Freo Mackie
Spun up this mackie on Sunday morning @ North Mole. Saw heaps of folks plugging away on the rocks and many boats around.
Skipper Catchalittle mentioned there are some bonitos around and needed a few for bait. So I took out reached for my mint Lucky Craft Blueshot 30. At 33g, this lure casts like a bullet and built solid throughout.
This lure comes originally with only a rear treble. Took that off and put on 2 trebles of the same size one on the belly and the other at the tail.
I cast and retrieved the lure a few times to familiarize myself with the action. At the 3rd cast I let the lure sank and twitched to back to the boat.
Twitch - Twitch - Pause. Twitch - BANG!
Thought it was a bonito initially cos it didn't put up the searing run typical of mackeral.
Anyway, when I saw what it was I nearly shit in my pants! Reason being I was using only 10lb Power Pro 8 Slick & 20lb Exceed FC leader with no wire!
Target was meant to be bonito but didn't expect a Spaniard to crash the party!
Luckily skipper was calm and managed to gaff the fish to my relief!
Needless to say I was stoked! First Spaniard off the mouth of Swan River!
Subsequent to that I caught a squid on Clone Stickbait and that was all for North Mole.
Rod used: Bayside Shooter 10-25lb
Reel : TD Fuego 3000
On a sad note, I probably left my black colour JM jigbait with a handful of jigs in them at the boat ramp @ Leeuwin Barracks. If any kind soul found it, please return it to me cos the bag was given by a mate from Taiwan many years ago. Have had it for 10 years now. It looks quite worn out and I am pretty sure it doesn't fetch much price on the 2nd hand market. It's sentimental value far exceeds its dollar value to me. It comes with many jig pockets with hard plastic bottom at bottom of the pocket so that sharp pointy jigs wouldn't pierce a hole in it.
soupster51
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Top fish
Top fish, good read. Spewen about the jigs though.
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Longcast
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Awsome effort congrats on the
Awsome effort congrats on the capture.
alfred
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Great catch!
Great catch!
bronzey92
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awesome
awesome fish man! congrats
flangies
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Not on X-minnow?! Good fish
Not on X-minnow?!
Good fish Eric
dkonig82
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Nice one mate - good to see
Nice one mate - good to see you getting into some Metro Macks!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Faulkner Family
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well done . gotta be stoked
well done . gotta be stoked but sorry to hear about the lure bag. hope you get it back but not likely
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
meglodon
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conditions look a bit tough
lol great metro mackie
Knot Big Enuff
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Great one mate - you're the lures/jigs freak Buddy
Cheers,
Hesh
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Uluabuster
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Flangies,The rod I use was
Flangies,
The rod I use was too heavy to cast out X-Minnow. Else I reckon the mackie/bonitos won't be able to resisit it!
Faulkner Family/ Soupster 51,
I am still mouring over the lost of my bag of babies. I customised most of my jigs so they are one of their kind and very personal to me. I can definitely ID one when I see it.
uncle
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good to see you got a ride out
well done on the mackie
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
evolicious
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nice fish mate well done
nice fish mate well done