salmon pffffft please
well ive been lucky enough to join the metro mack club and it wasnt a solo sesh.
fishwrecked member wickky deckied on my boat and ChrisG brought his boat along as well.
we made plans to head to two rocks sunday and head out around 9am hoping the wind would ease. was lumpy early but eased a little through the day.
pulled up on my first mark chris made the call to move 100m south and we would keep in touch with fishing glory.
first mark seemed to have a bunch of baitfish hugging the bottom so over went the "new jig", not really set up as liked being first drift, i was dicking about sorting eskies etc not paying attention. once organised i started to retrieve jig to reset drift when i was smashed on the way up. leader shredded to pieces ( a few hefty swear words ) i cut rejoined and reset with another jig, hesitent it may have been a shark or worse yet a NWESTER we moved back to start again.
set up drift baitschool on sounder over goes the jig 2/3rds of the way to the bottom bail arm still open, line starts stripping of my reel (damn thats going down fast) flick the bail over to see the drag light up like never before, screaming in ecstasy zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. i was hooten and holerin yewwwwww fish on boy.
damn that first run was intense on 15lb stradic 4000, once it started coming to the surface i started to mutter the word mackie or tunnnaaaa, a few more really good runs diving under the prop and around the sea anchor up pops mack daddy, clean gaff shot from wickky to just under the gills and bam my first mack let alone metro mack ON JIG measured at roughly 115cm
gave the same mark a few more goes, chris tried to tow a few lures over the area to no evail.
moved onto a few marks wider for 3 baldies all sized 2 to wicky one to me, one was to close so over it went, chris had moved further south and scored a sensational dhu and a tidy baldie leave that for him to tell if he wishes.
on the way in tried the mack spot to find them still there, a few drifts over the mark only provided one 440mm snapper released and a few hits on the jig with big teethy scars in the metal 
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cheers for the read lads.
thanks to wickky and ChrisG for the day
ps pic didnt turn out to well, something wrong with phone camera
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fish 06
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Top Fish
Top fish there Gilly
well done on your metro mack
uncle
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nice fish gilly
we arnt all lucky enough to snag a mack, nothing wrong with having fun with salmon, imagine how one that big would go
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eheheehhe i didnt think a
eheheehhe i didnt think a bite would come that easy uncle, just salmon crazy at the moment so thought id lighten the mood a little. wouldnt mind a crack at the salmon just dont think i would go out of my way to find them. would probably change after ive caught one though
Hutch
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Agreed, wouldn't mind if
Cracker of a metro Mack there Gilly, gotta be happy with that
sea-kem
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Nice one Gilly!
Nice one Gilly!
Love the West!
tim-o
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Mack Daddy
Poor stradic haha. Baldys and dhus, man good day for the 2 boats in tryin conditions
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Nice size mack Gilly.
Nice size mack Gilly.
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Rosie
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Mint fish gilly!
on ya mate
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Jason P
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Awesome fish, looks like
Awesome fish, looks like mack for dinner.
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Great fish Gilly!
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Screaming in ecstasy ,
Screaming in ecstasy , dicking about , hootin and a hollowing and up pops Daddy mack ..I hope you didn’t scare Wickky too much lol .. good fish and the pic looks alright to me , well done ..
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Good one Gilly Poor
Good one Gilly
Poor Stradic.
ChrisG
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Ripper day out - thanks for
Ripper day out - thanks for letting me tag along in my boat; two boats within cooeee cover a lot of ground.
green with envy of your metro Mackie.
despite the howling wind, it turned out to be a good day for all with everyone catching a decent feed;
personally satisfied with a dhuie over 800 and a baldie for the day.
happy to catch a salmon with you one weekend - hard to beat a 4wd-access-only beach on the south coast, big camp fire, swags, plenty of grog and camp fire food....oh and wet a line when motivated between beers
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All I read there was fire
All I read there was fire grog fishing yewwww
azza1
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Awesome Mackie mate
Awesome Mackie mate
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yeah my stradic needs a
yeah my stradic needs a little TLC, spanish mack a cobia and a bunch of demersals have made it work hard, seems to be holding up well but so happy with that.
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Well done mate
Can hear the screams from here. And the good old Stradic cries in pain again, but stands up to fight another day. Well done.
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JohnF
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Nice one Gilly, you did
Nice one Gilly, you did better than me.....
I had all but given up on a metro mac this year until Sat when I hooked several on the surface.....last one was seen mid air with my stickbait in its mouth.....4 snips offs and I spat the dummy and went home.
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Cheers for the trip out
Cheers for the trip out mate. Turned into a nice day. Got my first baldie and broke in the new rod! Win win!
And that mackie on jig was awesome!
Not sure what happened to that photo, definitely not the photographer
Cheers Zac
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i think the lens was dirty
i think the lens was dirty or wet, no probs but.
baldie on placcy as well x2