Metro Macks! Their still there!
We had a troll out behind West End on Tuesday the 5th for mackies managed a couple of hits but no hook ups, had a small window of opportunity with the weather Sunday morning the 17th so we decided to have another go at the Spaniards. Leaving Cockburn boat ramp at 5.15am we headed out to West End. Just south of west end we pulled up to get things organised the conditions were abit dark and gloomy heavily overcast and the water abit messed up with the light SW wind water temp reading 24.7 degrees. Got Yvonne behind the wheel while I set the rods and get my home made witch doctor (nick named the Moylator) in the water for its virgin trial. With my rod set I had just place the second rod into the holder and about to get the witch doctor in the water when my Live Fibre rod buckled over and the Tekota 700 started screaming after a good 10 minute battle and a couple of blinding runs my first metro mackie was on the boat!..Followed by some very loud Ye Ha's and a big squeeze for the girl.
Off we went again heading north out from west end not much happening that way so we decided to loop back and follow our track back to the mark where we got the first mackie my rod running a silver white red head X-Rap and Yvonnes rod a bluewater F18 white red head and now had the home made witch doctor in the water which was working a treat some really good flashing even in the overcast conditions. We had not gone far past the mark on the plotter when caos hit both rods were hit at exactly the same time, there I was trying to give Yvonne advice trying to fight my fish and keep it hooked up and get the witch doctor out of the water one handed when and as I could. After a good fight Yvonne had her first mackie at the boat but unfortunately threw the the hooks with a head shake. The fish I had on didn't want to know anything about coming near the boat it wanted to stay down deep and every time we got a glimps of colour it was off on another run eventually coming down to a slug out from one side of the boat too the other after about 15 minutes my second metro mackie was on the boat with on very shakey angler....With the first fish caught at around 7.15 and the second fish landed at around 8.00 and the conditions starting to get alittle worse we decide to head back into the sound and try Sulphur Bay GI for some squid we picked up 16 rather well sized squid in about an hour and a half and headed home to the ramp.
All in all we had a great day out 
Chili squid and mackie steaks! Oh Yeah!
PattyT
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Great work mate, the home
Great work mate, the home made witchdoctor looks the goods. Bet you had a pretty good feed as well.
fisho-ron
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well done mate.maybe have a
well done mate.
maybe have a go this weekend myself???
big john
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First
Great stuff De-Crais, top work on the macks and good first thread on fishwrecked.
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Faulkner Family
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well done. pity the good
well done. pity the good ladies mackie didnt want to play any more. well done on the feed of squid as well.
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Dirt
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first macks on de -crais
good to see de-crais ticking of another metro species,well done to you and yvonne bud
Lucky Tim
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like the sounds of that
like the sounds of that feed, nice work on the metro macks.
A-SALT-WEAPON
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well done mate
we were out there as well trolling a few skirts around try to pick up one of those beasts on sunday. must have been k or 2 south of you
got three striped tuna would have been happier with one of those mackies at least wood have had a feed.
good stuff.
spanishmackeral
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well done on your first metro
well done on your first metro mack mate, good to hear theyre around aswell.
A-SALT-WEAPON
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witch doctor
what did you make your witch doctor out off? may try and attempt that myself
looks like a good job you did. i reckon it looks a lot cheaper than buying one.
NightWolf
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its a block of wood with
its a block of wood with cds/dvds on it pretty easy realy
PilbaraBrad
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i like the teaser, good job
i like the teaser, good job on the macks too!
De-Crais
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Block of wood .....
It's not as easy as you think! You have to get the weights right for it to tow down under your prop wash!
SamC
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Yep well done, good macks
Yep well done, good macks theyre for sure
Agree on the teaser, not as easy as just a block of wood
Cheers,
Sam
A-SALT-WEAPON
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still keen
still keen to no how you did it
De-Crais
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Cheers Guys
Cheers and thanks for all the positive feedback! Deano we gotta go get some dhues!
A-Salt-Weapon check your messages for some info 
Cheers
dkonig82
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Yeah that teaser looks like
Yeah that teaser looks like it would do the job.
Good work on the makkies!
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biggerfish
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Nice to know they are still
Nice to know they are still around good looking witch doctor I'd keep an eye on the rope where it attaches to the witch doctor I made my own last year and after using it a dozen times the eye wore through the rope and I lost it I'd probably attach a large swivel onto the rope where it attaches to the ring that's what I'm doing to my next one
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