Well today was the day. After 20 + hours over the last month, i thought i would give these "elusive" macks one last shot. Headed off to rotto at sun up, not confident, not expecting much at all to be honest. It just wasnt my year i thought, hit a patch of area which i had been getting told by numerious people they were picking up the odd mack, Lures in , teasers out, and the shit talking began between a old friend and i.

five minutes in , noticed on the sounder a nice ledge in 24m, turned the corner, speed up for the slak line, and BANG short corner is peeling line like no tomorrow. deckie grabs the rod, i started clearing the rest of the deck, after two largest run, i called it for a mack but just didnt know what type. 10 mintues in i finally see colour and its a spaniard, out comes the gaff, and with my luck lately i knew i had one shot all it was all over and catch ya later mackie. Gaffed him straight through the head.First ever matro mack boated,fish went 10.5kgs. Stokkked!!!!

Re-set the lures, out to the ledge i marked,and bang again right on the turn , right when there was slak line and i increased it the speed. I picked up the rod a diawa Sealine SLD-30 (old i know) screaming like no tomorrow, and then all of a sudden, it started going at me, and for around 30 seconds i couldnt wind, there was no tension anymore, the reels drag just shat itself!! so i said F*** it, this is not ruining my day, and fought the fish by hand, with no gloves, and burning mono going through my hands constantly, 10 minutes later to my dispise in a way, but also stoked in a way as its a species ticked off the list now, a small shark mackeral appears.. photos and back in the drink he went.

Things went quiet so we trolled off to west end, for zilch in the next two hours. made the call, with high tide approaching, i wanted to be back where we were originally. Right back in the spot lures out spreed of teasers, this time we past right over the ledge for nothing, hmm.....headed out a tad deeper to a current line i saw, and BANG! Triple hook up, It was mayhem on the black pearl, with only two guys on board, three fish hooked, two teasers out.It was full on, Ollie lost his first, while i was still fighting the fish on PE2 gear.Ollie after clearing the teasers, grabbed the third rod, and he was still on. After around 10 minutes being gentle on this fish i had boated my first metro mack weighing in at 10kgs Yeoow!Ollie boated his as well.

Fort the next 1.5 hours we were in absolutely mayhem, constant double hook ups/triple hook ups, it got that full on we had to put the 3rd rod away, and at stage we werent even getting time to set the witch doctors in the water. We ended up landing on board 8 macks and a sharkie. Numerous macks were lost boat side (all in all we got 12 to the boat)when we started fishing lighter line class's for fun!

So after all it all finally payed off, and the frustraitons over the last month over. Im one happy camper. All the cards were in my hand today and for a change it felt good!Ive added a couple flicks, i used three of the same fish to show everyone the satisfaction and joy of what this morning has brought to me,my summer goal was a metro mack, and finally on the last day i was going to dedicate to trolling for macks it all payed off! Today was one of the most memorable days on the black pearl to this date.

pretty good for being at home cleaning the boat by 12 pm

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