Metro Macks and tailor 26/2/12
hello people
Well decided yesterday arvo around 3pm that I should really take the boat out today for a spin and make sure everything is working fine before I go to exmouth next tuesday. I wasn't too fussed if we caught nothing I just really wanted to make sure everything was working fine(which it wasn't). Anyway we lazly put the boat in the water and started cruising out when I said to the other guys we might as well do something different and try catch a tailor. Well we flicked a few stickbaits around the edges of the reef and I was quite supprised when duffy hooked into a really nice fish, almost boatside and it spat the lure, eeehhhh no fuss we will go back round I said. Another cast in the same spot and Duffy the hack hooks up again landing this fish. The one he lost would have been bigger but it was still good to get one in the boat. We flicked a few more lures around landing about 5 in total and loosing some more. If we had of stayed longer I imagine we would have caught more. Anyway we decided to head over to rotto and have a quick troll around some reef I caught fish at last year. I litterally didn't even get the fourth rod in the water before my 8mt "Plebhead" took off, I was spewing because I hate redheads with a passion but because it was overcast it was a contrasting colour that stood out. The fish wasn't massive, maybe 10kg but I was really suprised at how hard to fought, normally I don't like catching macks because I reckon they hardly fight but it really suprised me. A change of spots to west end and again only a short troll before the 8mt"plebhead" went off again. Duffy was on the rod and brought a nice looking mack boatside, I thought it was just another tiddler untill I had a good glance and realised it was a really good fish, I got straight to the gaff and gaffed it in the head to make sure it wasn't going nowhere, a bit of thrashing around and we had a bent gaff and 22kg mackie on board. Duffy was pretty stoked to land is first mack and it was a good size at that, we trolled for another 45mins after that and then had a major electronics failure so decided to head back in, ended up finding the earth to the electronics had come free which was a releaf. being back by 12:30 was nice also. Anyway herés a few pics.
The Hack
Andrews baby
another for the hack
nice tiddler
The Plebhead HUNTED hard for this fish
Nice teeth hey?
A tailors tooth lodged in my lure
cahal.dahm
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farout! you boys are killing
farout! you boys are killing it!
Mr x
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1st pic with the talior
1st pic with the talior looks sik nice catches man
tyrone86
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Ohhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhh
Yet agian a pleb head and Duffy the hack on the plum hammerhead looks like a good day out ay
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Nice
Some great photos there. Catch a mackie off a cliff with a shark on its tail and see how hard they fight. I agree in the boat if you leave it in gear sometimes they come straight up ready for a gaff, I suppose they don't realise they are in trouble as they are still moving
soupster51
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Mack
22kgs is a solid mack. Great work Luke - top fish.
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Metro mackie hunter!
Metro mackie hunter!
Paul G
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well done Luke We it the
well done Luke We it the water a first light and guess what nothing maybe I will give rot to a go some good macs there and good size tailor well done I be dropping into the shop this week .
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Great maccie boys!
Great maccie boys!
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damn you
great session by the looks you know you had a great one when people are talking about the maccies and not writing about those tailor hahaha
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ca11um
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sweet fish there guys!!might
sweet fish there guys!!
might have to go and spear some macks some time!!
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good effort there on the
good effort there on the macs.
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tim-o
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Nice macks esp 20+ kg in
Nice macks esp 20+ kg in metro, good tailor too. So thats why you werent workin today (came in yesterday and returned today) Intersting lure that pink thing, looks like a jig. Must be a reason why duffy likes those redhead lures.....
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old salt
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Great stuff,Hope they cooked
Great stuff,
Hope they cooked up well
hmm smoked tailor or baked int the oven yummos.
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fisho-ron
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nice luke, gotta get out
nice luke, gotta get out there myself and try to get a metro this year.
what was the weed like?, last time out for us it was impossible.
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barely any weed, had to wind
barely any weed, had to wind one lure in with weed in all our troll time
winner winner chicken dinner
Goodz
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Love the pics mate, what
Love the pics mate, what camera/lense are you using?
Great fish too, solid tailor on the stick baits there and that's a ripper mack to duffy!!! One of the bigger metro macks I've see caught.
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Great work guys
awesome fish. cheers Pete.
FishOn570
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Nice fish for a bunch of
Nice fish for a bunch of Hacks.... good work!!
Jeffree
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That is sooooo plum
That is sooooo plum
not all asians keep undersize fish.
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what a day for you. only
what a day for you. only giving the boat a run before exxy. yeah right. just happened to have all that stuff with you. well it paid off. a few nice little toothy critters and finnishing off with a monster one.
glad you got the prob fixed in the tub.
well done guys
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dkonig82
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What an awesome session -
What an awesome session - good work!
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great photos lucas and some
great photos lucas and some good fish for the hack duffy well done boys
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Goodz, Camera is a Canon 5D
Goodz, Camera is a Canon 5D mk2, lens I was using yesterday was the 16-35mm wide angle.
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Certainly takes a good pic!
Certainly takes a good pic! gotta love the wide angle lense, whilst slightly distorting the true size of fish it really does make the photo that much more eye catching!
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Nice one guys, great photos
Nice one guys, great photos
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i would frame up that
i would frame up that Hammerhead stickbait! Now it's a lure with character!