First Metro Makie and he was a Horse! (PE-3)

I was taking the mrs for a romantic little trip to rotto, when i decided to throw a few hard bodies off the back. It was blowing too hard for a bottom bounce, so i thought i'd do the rightie and swing around West End on the way to Geordies. I hadn't had the X-rap in the water for ten minutes when my reel started screaming zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, my first thought was I'd hooked a craypot, then i noticed the rod was thrashing about wildly. I quickly put the boat in neutral and grabbed the rod holding on for dear life. The mrs was a good sport and reeled in all the other lines.

I can't remember how long it took to land because it all happened too fast, all I know is that he really didnt like being anywhere near the boat. Once again the mrs was a star and nailed him under wing with the gaff, he measured just shy of 160cm. I probably should have trolled over the same ground a few more times, but I was so stoked with just the one. I retired to Geordie's to fillet the beast and crank up the babyQ........giddy up!

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Mint. Your missus can deckie

Sun, 2012-02-19 14:32

Mint. Your missus can deckie for me anytime

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Great way to open up the

Mon, 2012-02-20 09:54

Great way to open up the metro mackie acount mate well done! It would have to be getting close to 20kg's i reakon. Nice boat too.

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 thats one nice mackie. what

Sun, 2012-02-19 14:43

 thats one nice mackie. what is the idea of getting your missus to pose with the fish , you realy trying to make us all jealous. woula put one hell of a fight, the fish that is. well done , gotta be stoked openning the account with a monster metro mack

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Thumping metro mac! Awsome

Sun, 2012-02-19 14:44

Thumping metro mac! Awsome stuff.

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i can explain!!

Sun, 2012-02-19 14:46

She's so small she makes it look big!!  heh heh

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Haha that's what she said

Fri, 2012-02-24 11:54

Haha that's what she said :-)

Great fish mate - well done

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Nice Mack,Nice boat, Nice

Sun, 2012-02-19 14:49

Nice Mack,Nice boat, Nice missus...Happy days.

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what a screamer!you gotta be

Sun, 2012-02-19 15:16

what a screamer!

you gotta be happy with that

 

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Sun, 2012-02-19 15:25

A great metro mack, Whether she is small or not.

 

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Awesome

Sun, 2012-02-19 15:33

Gotta love the 'west end'. Good fish and pics mate and BTW, how good are x-raps? :)

Time to get a bigger esky!

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jealous as, and the fish was

Sun, 2012-02-19 18:51

jealous as, and the fish was pretty good to.

had an xrap and halco in the cambells limited sparkle/chrome red head with black stripes out today west end and was the laser pro that got the hit today, no hookup though, but did see more on the sounder :(

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I just wrote "new measuring

Sun, 2012-02-19 15:46

I just wrote "new measuring device" on the list of things to take on my trip in April

Hope the missus doesn't read this....

Cheers

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1 thing not nice

Sun, 2012-02-19 15:57

nice boat , nice fish , nice missus , but whats with the barbie

looks like you have cooked a goodyear on it before the fish !  haha

very nice metro mack.

 

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Bloody

Sun, 2012-02-19 17:10

 Bloody skin got stuck!

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Well done!

Sun, 2012-02-19 16:26

Very well done mate. What a ripper!

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 Awesome!

Sun, 2012-02-19 16:43

 Awesome!

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very nice macko

Sun, 2012-02-19 16:53

well done,monkey off the back as well

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Very nice.

Sun, 2012-02-19 17:38

Very nice.

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delicious!!! well done

Sun, 2012-02-19 18:14

delicious!!! well done

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Full package

Sun, 2012-02-19 19:01

 Nice work, still hunting in the Pilbara for one around that size!

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Definately a top effort!!

Sun, 2012-02-19 20:53

 And a nice mackerel as well. 

I don't know if I would be bothering going mackerel fishing for the day.

I reckon I could think of better things to pass the time! Haha

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very nice!

Mon, 2012-02-20 05:40

big mack!

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What Fish???

Mon, 2012-02-20 20:38

What Fish???

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Awesome catch! A missus who

Wed, 2012-02-22 10:14

Awesome catch! A missus who is smoken hot and can gaff a fish.

 

 

 

Oh yeah. Nice fish too.

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Thats shocking

Wed, 2012-02-22 10:20

Putting that fish next to her, It should be me lol 

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