Couple of metro macks.
Took my bro out for a troll this arvo. He moved over from South Oz a year or so ago so this was the first trolling session he'd really done.
Looking at Seabreeze we figured we could head out late arvo and get a few hours under our belt before heading back at dusk. We shot out from Woodies at 3.30pm and had lures in the water by about 4pm half way between Carnac and Rottnest. We'd been trolling for about half an hour when we came across the first school of baitfish which never really seemed to disappear from then on, there were schools bubbling across the surface everywhere.
The seaweed was pretty thick and we could only run two lures because of it, it was a fulltime job retrieving the lures to pull the weed off. At about 5.30 we hit our first mackie on one of the new(er?) Halco 6m divers and Jay had a smile a mile wide, it was his first mack and it was metro. Half an hour later we got onto another on the same lure. Both of them checked in around the 1m mark... not huge but big enough for some fun and a feed or two.
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Faulkner Family
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cant complain about those
cant complain about those mackies. nice way to introduce your bro to ocal fishing. well done. gunna be feeding well
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kamo king
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Good fish nice way to spend
Good fish nice way to spend the arvo
Nice sounder shot mate you can see them feeding on the bait
wadetolley
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NIce
NIce work, intresting sounder shot.
Brody
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Good stuff, nice sounder
Good stuff, nice sounder shot too, plenty of bait there.
Goodz
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Good work Ben! Love that
Good work Ben! Love that sounder shot too, that's what you want to see!
soupster51
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Nice
Great way to spend an arvo with your Bro. You've got money in the back now.
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ealzee
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nice!
nice!
kill it??? eat it!!!!
BigV
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Very Nice
Well done mate, gotta be happy with thet effort!!
Always keen to fish
southcity104
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Lovely!!
enjoy the feed. I went the green curry mackie last week which was supurb!
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Ben Derecki
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Hahah, I was wondering how
Hahah, I was wondering how they'd go in a green curry earlier today. Thanks for the heads up Tony, will definately give it a crack.
I'm still planning on taking those placcies too mate, will try and get down this weekend. Am out all week.
barneyboy
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good onya mate
way to go. Love the sounder shot 2!!
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dkonig82
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Great fish mate - good to see
Great fish mate - good to see the makkies are around!
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quality guys, sick fish
quality guys, sick fish
winner winner chicken dinner
Tim
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Nice
Nice fish Ben.
Bait has been a bit hard to find last couple of trips out for us.
John_M
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Fished the same school around
Fished the same school around 5ish. picked up 2 macks as well
meglodon
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thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing the sounder shot with us oh and great mackies guys
Hebbs
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Couple of nice macks there Ben
Good to see you can produce the goods for the bro's visit. :)
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Ben Derecki
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Yeah thanks fellas. Those
Yeah thanks fellas. Those schools were thick and they were everywhere. Good fun.