FFF Seadogs - Round 5 - Mackerel Maulers

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Dundee long lost cuddles this week before the wind !


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cuddlescooper wrote:Come on Curt, Play fair. :rofl: You have set me a challenge this year. To try and catch a mac on 7.6m tides with 15 knots of wind blowing constantly. What do ya reckon the chances are of getting one?
dirty water , ruff wind chop / stupid fish that will eat a kitchen fork with trebles on it .

About normal , expect a 120
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Looks like you fellas need some encouragement ... here's my Dundee mackie ...
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Got up this morning to hook the boat up with my old man to land a macky and my tow ball got stollen. :evil: I hate that..... So made a quick call to my cousin Dimi and just my luck he's on holidays :bow:
We launched and dinah beach boat ramp around 9 and made a quick trip to east point on a small patch of reef to get livies. :catch: weather today was great thank god seen a lot of fisher man out chasing a feed. Got our bait keen and confident to get another picture for this comp we started to troll. Out with the teasers rods and lures and made our way to the front of lee point. No birds heaps of bait on the sounder no mackies. :| stopped at a lil rock/reef donno what it was but was on the sounder and was holding bait dad calls to stop and try it out, packed up the gear anchored down and started to fillet the livies seemed like the right thing to do. Shortly after bang my dads line peels our first mac 8) 10 seconds later lost it no wire trace devastated. Then mine goes for a run same deal :banghead: Dimi my cousin gets a hit not so big or peeling line is bring up what was a tricky snapper half way up chomp only the head had survived. This was no good. I rig up with wire trace a running sinker, a strip of stripy on again :naughty: macky a beautiful 69cm Spanish mackerel. Not much after that one but got a few pan sized trickies for a feed and my dad had a good time
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Matt that's a nice Mackie ,wonder how big it is now after 8 months growth, :)
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Matt that's a nice Mackie ,wonder how big it is now after 8 months growth
Careful or I'll start posting trout!
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Is that ya pet budgie up front
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ponyplay wrote:Is that ya pet budgie up front
He brings his own Mack hunting Falcon up from Tas :D

Matt I noticed you,ve got GPS on that camera(thanks for the mark) have you ever checked them out for accuracy?
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You are welcome for the mark, but I think you'll find the school has moved :catch:

Never checked the accuracy of the camera GPS. Must be hard for the charter boat boys to keep their marks secret now.

The bird is a tern that I have trained to find fish schools, will be a story about it in a future NTMAG.
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Good fish DF140A and a good yarn to go with it :mrgreen:
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Been 25knt wind this whole month(thanks ponyplay).dropped to 15knt so went for a quick run out jigging,found plenty of macs but the sharks ate anything that took a while to land.here is one the daughter got to the boat.103cm on a 40 gram raider jig.cheers
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And the curse continues,,,,May the sea lice of a thousand fish nibble his privates :twisted:

and a good mack there Sullo :mrgreen:

Don,t think there will be any last minute pics from here ,blowing 20knts today, :surf: :surf: :surf:
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103cm
Caught on the troll with a red and white deep diver
yesterday at Melville
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onya Aaron, :mrgreen: ,Looks like a tie with you and Sullo for 1st place
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Well Pony, looks like you got your wish and the wind has done its thing. I still think the macs have gone on holiday with the Barra. I'm buggered if I could find a decent fish and its not like I didn't try despite shiit tides and conditions. I caught a dozen macs for the month but nothing bigger then 83cm from a day at Dundee. May have dropped one bigger fish but will never know. Congratulations to any one who scored a good fish for the month. Aaron looking like a dark horse in the comp. 8)
Dundee 83cm mac.JPG
wow, an 83cm mac.JPG
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