Won't be long and will be back there again
All over 130cm and a coupla happy people!! Biggest was one we let go, est just under 20kg
We were letting them go after 3 for the boat.
Show us your biggest MACKEREL
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Agent86
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Re: Show us your biggest MACKERAL
A coupla nice ones from Bathurst on one of our trips last year in July.
Won't be long and will be back there again
All over 130cm and a coupla happy people!! Biggest was one we let go, est just under 20kg
We were letting them go after 3 for the boat.
Won't be long and will be back there again
All over 130cm and a coupla happy people!! Biggest was one we let go, est just under 20kg
We were letting them go after 3 for the boat.
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If there is water and it holds fish, then it is fun trying to fool them into eating what you offer!!
Especially when you can see them!
Especially when you can see them!
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JC
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Re: Show us your biggest MACKERAL
Not mine. Caught by my son on a Marabou Jig in the harbour near Larrakeyah Naval Base. 122cm
JC
JC
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AM
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Well done to you both great look.JC wrote:Not mine. Caught by my son on a Marabou Jig in the harbour near Larrakeyah Naval Base. 122cm
JC
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Stretch
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Got this one about 6 years ago while I was working off Heron Island (Gladstone).
Ill never forget it! I had just brought a tinny and we were taking it for a test run and a bit of a fish, we caught an iodine bream, cut a fillet off it and threw it out the back on a gang hook hand line. 5 minute later I was wresting this thing, thought it was a shark and was going to give it to my mate to have a play with for a while, he said I don't think its a shark, I think its a big mackerel! So I kept going, sure enough after about the 3rd time of getting it near the boat we saw it for the first time and could not believe what we saw! My mate gaffed it, got it in the tinny and we were amazed! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Didn't weigh it, a few of the old fishermen on the Island said it was over 30kg, a fish of a lifetime! Fed most of the people on the Island that night. For reference I'm 194cm and 110 kg.
AMs mate Andre the mad South African has great photo of a larger one he caught on a kayak at Fraser Island!
Ill never forget it! I had just brought a tinny and we were taking it for a test run and a bit of a fish, we caught an iodine bream, cut a fillet off it and threw it out the back on a gang hook hand line. 5 minute later I was wresting this thing, thought it was a shark and was going to give it to my mate to have a play with for a while, he said I don't think its a shark, I think its a big mackerel! So I kept going, sure enough after about the 3rd time of getting it near the boat we saw it for the first time and could not believe what we saw! My mate gaffed it, got it in the tinny and we were amazed! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Didn't weigh it, a few of the old fishermen on the Island said it was over 30kg, a fish of a lifetime! Fed most of the people on the Island that night. For reference I'm 194cm and 110 kg.
AMs mate Andre the mad South African has great photo of a larger one he caught on a kayak at Fraser Island!
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Here's the one I got off of the wharf a few years ago -149cm 22kg
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Fantastic Fish
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of water - I drank it!
Yours sincerely, The Opportunist!
Yours sincerely, The Opportunist!
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Tekka
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Taken off Cairns (Oyster Reef) on trolled wolfie. 20.5kg 1.34m
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Love the Bench shot!Tekka wrote:Taken off Cairns (Oyster Reef) on trolled wolfie. 20.5kg 1.34m
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Took him once caught this one thought it was all to easy.
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Heres mine from last year
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"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
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"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
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My best for the year so far.
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Couple from a few weeks ago out at Dundee.
One was 142cm 16kg, other was 130cm 17kg
One was 142cm 16kg, other was 130cm 17kg
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Best for the year
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Biggest mackie I've ever caught, not sure how long or how heavy but it tasted good. Caught during the buildup of Dundee after a pretty hectic morning of spinning.
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Here's one of three I caught last week...funny enough the biggest of the lot I didn't photograph 
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth".
John F. Kennedy
"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum"
Adlai E. Stevenson
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship".
Forster, Edward
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
George Orwell
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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