Big mackie at Mandurah today
Whilst coming into the cut at Mandurah about 1245 today I saw a guy fishing from the end of the south break water. I was watching this guy cast a mulie out and thought he would be lucky to get a tailor at this time of day. All of a sudden his rod loaded up and he was onto something really big, after making sure we where well clear of the break water we stopped and watched for about 15 - 20 minutes and to our great surprise a very good size Spanish Mackerel broke water right next to the break water.
Long story short it took two guys about 10 - 15 minutes to land this Mackie up on the rocks. All they had was what appeared to me to be a butterfly net to try to get the fish in. In the end one guy braved getting down and wet in the rocks and gilled it.
Who would have thought it a good size Spanish mack in the middle of the day of the Mandurah cut.
What next.
Swompa
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Now that's a cracker
Now that's a cracker
trymyluck
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cool,great effort, Im
cool,great effort, Im surprised more people don't use kites or balloons off the coast searching for a few as well.
grantarctic1
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Been a few
Been a few reports in the last two weeks of land based Mackies, nice catch for sure.
No one does it ( balloon or kite ) cause all you catch is boats. lol .
Cheers Grant
tim-o
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Sheesh, all reports are
Sheesh, all reports are showing them at the less likely of spots, stuff that old tales derive from, lucky bastards!
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MandurahMatt
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Hmm may have to try some
Hmm may have to try some tolling on the way in, I've seen some guys ballooning from the groynes over the last couple weeks, maybe they new something.
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beau
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Have seen some birds working
Have seen some birds working some bait around there before, not sure if anything is chasing them up though?
Brucesta
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One of the biggest Spanish
One of the biggest Spanish Mack's I've landed on my boat came from 4m of water so I can't say I'm surprisedsurprised
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