Mack on a yak
Submitted by mattyoga on Fri, 2012-01-20 21:47
Braved the wild and wooly weather this morning and headed to a far north beach and got this fella:
followed by ALOT of weed on trolled lures. He eventually went out as bait and got this fella :D
A bit too big to fit in the camera shot ! My first Metro(ish) mackie
I'm stoked, it was one of my goals for the year!
Measured him on the beach, he went 15kg and was about 120 to the fork
Water temp was 24 degs, I don't think it will be long until they are in central metro if they are not already!
chris raff
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Well Done mate ....would've been sloppy out there
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Goodz
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Aweeeesome fish mate! Even
Aweeeesome fish mate! Even better from the yak!!!
chrisp
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Great Mack!
Makes me wish id put a floater out yesterday rather than trolling through all that weed.
fishintruckie
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Mate now that is a top mack
Mate now that is a top mack from a yak!
beau
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how did you rig that up as
how did you rig that up as bait? did you troll it? thats one hell of a fish for a yak!
Ben Derecki
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That is an awesome catch MY,
That is an awesome catch MY, well done man.
greatrex
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its shameful i cant even
its shameful i cant even catch one on my boat. well done absolute ripper
aalfred
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mate thats a awesome fish
mate thats a awesome fish from the yak!!!! well done
ealzee
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Yeah straight up matey thats
Yeah straight up matey thats pretty impressive!
kill it??? eat it!!!!
soupster51
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Yakking
Great metro mac. From a kayak, even better.
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always late
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that just blows me away
Good on ya, getting out there on a Yak, impressive.
mattyoga
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thanks guys. I rigged the
thanks guys.
I rigged the snook with single strand 69lb wire going to an 8/0 circle - this went trhough the top and bottom lip of the snook, then rigged a stinger treble off of that connection and run that to the back of the bait. Then tied a ball sinker of the eye of the circle to stabilise and get the bait down a bit.
I was pushing into the wind at the time so was trolling pretty slow - about 2.5km/h. that weed sure was a PITA. good thing about that set up is that it does not get caught up on weed too much as the circle is pointing up and the stinger is on the top of the bait so most weed slides down the line and under the bait.
Sammy the Salmon
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Fucking awesome work! makes
Fucking awesome work! makes me want to head out there on my hobie and give it a run!
uncle
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excellent
bloody nice fish
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Joodles
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Impressive angling there
Impressive angling there mate. Well done!
Lamby
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Great stuff kudos
Great stuff kudos
dkonig82
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Respect on getting that from
Respect on getting that from a yak.
Would love to know just how far north it was ;-)
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Ashram
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Fantastic Effort
That is one hell of a capture and one you can be proud of for a long time.
Cheers