boys - there is a story behind this mack and also a nice little (i'll post the dolly separately).
The bloke in the pic, an old salty mate of mine, caught these two fish on a 60lb hand line would you believe (hence the gloves).
We all went up with $$$$ of gear ready to do some serious work - he rocked up with a little box of gang hooks, half a dozen weights and two hand lines (plus a carton of the cold stuff....)
anyway all was going well some big hook ups on tuna and some good bottom fish but really bugger all compared to previous years - he just sat there and watched us mucking around with flashy lures and trolling big kms......he had a couple of shots at us like "is that all thats here now & im not convinced about those lure things & lets just go have a beer"
Then my best mate stood on a lure and got a treble from a CD18 in his foot, and whilst i took him to exxy hospital to get it removed, the other two blokes just hung around in the boat just outside the Tanta's channel waiting for us to return.
Old salty put a floating mullie our on his 60lb hand line about 50m off the back of the boat and bang a dolly; he continued to bottom bounce and did ok but another half an hour later - bang this mackie!
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CBKINETIC
Posts: 62
Date Joined: 14/11/11
What an absolute stonka.Well
What an absolute stonka.Well done
till
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Date Joined: 21/02/08
That is certainly a horse!
That is certainly a horse!
grayzeee
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Date Joined: 09/07/09
oh yeah!
oh yeah!
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
UncutTriggerInWA
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Date Joined: 05/09/08
Great Fish Chris
A beauty!
Vince.
Work smart and fish often.
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PattyT
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Date Joined: 15/08/10
CRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKER
CRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKER!!!!
fishing fanatic
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Date Joined: 01/05/09
huge!
how big is he? very nice mack man, making me miss our local macks down here :(
ChrisG
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Date Joined: 30/12/11
didnt weigh it
didnt weigh it unfortunately, plenty of fillets came home thou :)
...... just on a floater out the back whilst bottom bouncing........always gotta have a floater out!
dkonig82
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Date Joined: 06/07/10
Nice bloody mack!
Nice bloody mack!
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.
spanishmackeral
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Date Joined: 05/01/11
awesome fish!!
awesome fish!!
Mohican
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Date Joined: 20/12/11
thumper ,good work.
now thats a ,Mack...
tailor marc
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What a cracker!!!
What a cracker!!!
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ChrisG
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Date Joined: 30/12/11
boys - there is a story
boys - there is a story behind this mack and also a nice little (i'll post the dolly separately).
The bloke in the pic, an old salty mate of mine, caught these two fish on a 60lb hand line would you believe (hence the gloves).
We all went up with $$$$ of gear ready to do some serious work - he rocked up with a little box of gang hooks, half a dozen weights and two hand lines (plus a carton of the cold stuff....)
anyway all was going well some big hook ups on tuna and some good bottom fish but really bugger all compared to previous years - he just sat there and watched us mucking around with flashy lures and trolling big kms......he had a couple of shots at us like "is that all thats here now & im not convinced about those lure things & lets just go have a beer"
Then my best mate stood on a lure and got a treble from a CD18 in his foot, and whilst i took him to exxy hospital to get it removed, the other two blokes just hung around in the boat just outside the Tanta's channel waiting for us to return.
Old salty put a floating mullie our on his 60lb hand line about 50m off the back of the boat and bang a dolly; he continued to bottom bounce and did ok but another half an hour later - bang this mackie!
Old prick neva let us hear the end of it........
soupster51
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Date Joined: 29/11/06
Lesson
There's a lesson in that somewhere. LOL. Cracka fish.
The best reason for doing what's right today is tomorrow.
abeldog
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Date Joined: 12/04/10
A Cracker
You can't beat the old know how.
"People See Things As They Are & Ask Why???
We Can All Dream of Things That Never Were and Ask Why Not!!"( RK )
aalfred
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Date Joined: 13/06/09
What a horse! Awesome catch
What a horse! Awesome catch mate!
kamo king
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Date Joined: 30/08/09
nice fish mate that would
nice fish mate that would have gone hard, some people just have the gift