Wagoe Pics
Its been a year since our last trip to Wagoe, the last time we went the swells and wind direction wasnt doing us any favours. We were keen to give it another go as the weather report was looking good with nice eastly winds blowing. This was also going to be our first time ballooning so anticipation was high.
Day 1: When we arrived we headed straight down to the reef, the fishing was slow.. we caught a couple of bream and a couple of skippy to 1kg, then we headed down to the beach area to settle for the night and to try and catch the elusive mulloway. We had a couple of false alarms during the night with a couple of small sting rays and a four foot reef shark.
Day 2: We woke up to find that we had nice eastly winds blowing, the winds were due to change directions by noon so we got straight into ballooning. A couple of hours went by with still no hits... As the ballooning rig was about 400m off shore I decided to wind the bait back in. After a couple of winds... my reel came to life with a quick screeming run. After a quick 10-15 min fight the mackie was gaffed.
Pretty stoked with the catch as its my first mackie.
Here are a couple of pictures we took... Mackie was aprox 19-21kg quite a fat fish...
Cheers Justin
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Looks
Looks like a productive trip.
Any story to go with the pics?
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Faulkner Family
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cant see any pics. dont know
cant see any pics. dont know about anyone else
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
maxxeman
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No see picie!
No see picie!
jng
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Sorry, try looking at it now
Sorry, try looking at it now
Faulkner Family
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now i see them.nice couple
now i see them.nice couple of fish there. good size tailor
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
maxxeman
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Ah now can,nice fish
Ah now can,nice fish guys,and big complement on PFD worn while fishing the surf!
Goodz
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Nice fish! Love the Hilux
Nice fish!
Love the Hilux too :)
DazSamFishing
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Top fish from the beach.
Top fish from the beach.
Kingfisher549
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Wagoe
Great pics, heard lots of fish caught over the weekend at Wagoe with the easterly allowing good ballooning conditions.
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jono.s
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Awsome fish from the beach
Awsome fish from the beach Good tailor:)
Simmo Ryan
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Good Tailor Mate
What that go on the old brag board? Pushing 60cm?
FISH ON!!!!!!
Bodie
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nice fish boys!! Good to see
nice fish boys!!
Good to see people lettting down there tyres too!
scere_182
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awesome effort
cant go past wagoe definetely a favourite location of mine.
nice landbased mackie for sure.
how'd you go with the swell there. fish the reef much?
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jng
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simmo ryan- Yeah didnt
simmo ryan- Yeah didnt measure it, but deffinately pushing the 60cm mark... put up a good fight.
Scere- The swells was pretty low, so that made fishing the reef a little bit easier, we got couple of bream and skippy of the reef.
Deffinately a great landbase location to fish...
Cheers for viewing
Justin
ruste13
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man i wish it was that flat
man i wish it was that flat last time i was there!
how long was the mackie dude? did you weight it?
Gully
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Nice mac and tailor - top
Nice mac and tailor - top stuff
smicko
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Nice!!
Top effort boys. You get some thumping black bream along that stretch when the swells down, worthwhile targeting on lighter gear and plastics.
soupster51
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Nice Mack
Solid Mackie from the beach. Great effort.
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Lamby
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Great fish, top stuff
Great fish, top stuff
Dale
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That's a hooter of a tailor,
That's a hooter of a tailor, good stuff.
Cheers
Dale
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l/b
Quality l/b fish Justin and as the others have said, good thinking with the pfd. Pays to be safe.
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