Went out yesterday for a troll in search of the elusive Mack! Launched around 6.30 to be greeted by quite lumpy conditions due to a combination of seas and swell. Headed out past the reef and dropped the trolling lines in. Weed was a major issue with lures having to be brought in every few minutes but we kept on persisting. Finally after an hour or so we had our first hit. With only short burst of speed and no long run we knew that we got ourselves a tuna. After a few circles of the boat we got him in. Intially thought it was a SBT once in the water but after looking at photo's i believe its a longtail. (please confirm)

As we reset our lines we kept going heading towards the huge amount of birds working an area.

With this much commotion going it was hard to drive past without having a flick at the feeding school. So lines in and pulled up on the edge of the school and casted out towards them. Didnt take long for the stripeys to hit the lure.. Not the biggest of stripeys (3kg) but still good fun. Ended up fishing 5 or so school with a couple of fish landed in each school before they went deep. Ended up catching a little long nose grey amoungst the school which was a suprise.

Once we got bored of chasing tuna we got back on the mackie troll. Trolled for a good couple of hours covering various depths and over some spots we got them over last week but this was fruitless. Decided to call it a day and head back in. Pretty much as we brought our lnes we saw a couple of little splashes not far from the boat so out came the metals again. We both casted out and Double hook up!! After quite a longish fight on PE2 we landed a couple more stripeys but alot bigger this time (6-7kg)

No macks but a good day fishing none the less. Definately a good warm up for exxy in a few weeks.