Landbased school mackerel in Moreton Bay

[Daryl McPhee]

With low tide late in the afternoon and the wind light from the NW it was an opportunity to head to one of my landbased spots at Point Halloran and have a fish for chopper tailor. It would only be a short session but I expected it to yield a feed. The session started off with a trifecta of grinners. The first tailor soon followed a legal fish but no monster. It looked like I would be going home with just the one fish when the line took off. I assumed it was a very solid tailor but was puzzled that there was no aerial display. I was beginning to realise that whatever it was quick and I was trying to work out what it was. What a surprise when after several more quick runs I got a glimpse of it, a nice little mackerel. There was some more shenanigans from the fish as I coaxed it up onto the bank but it was safely in the bag. Great fun on light line. Not long after that I picked up a better tailor around 43 cm. That was it though for the afternoon, an hour and half fishing had only produced three fish, but it was a good feed with a surprise thrown in. Again it goes to show that you do not need a boat to catch fish in Moreton Bay. There are a plethora of landbased spots that can produce fish if you put a little effort in to understand them.
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[Moonlighter]

Nice fish on your birthday Dazza! Well done. Nice piece of beer battered marckerel for dinner, yum!

cheers

Grant

[Horse]

Love your work Daryl. You certainly pull plenty of quality fish out of spots the rest of us drive past

[Daryl McPhee]

Thanks Horse! I think there are fish at virtually all locations, it just takes some time to work out the when.

[jim_bream]

Bagged the same off the seaway on the GC last week. Nice surprise, along with a small bonito.
Nice work!

[cuzzamundi]

Great stuff, Darryl. I've seen schoolies in the past whilst diving the reefs off Redcliffe. Even smaller Spano's, too. One set of reefs is well within reach of a good cast - never tried, though. They are there, for sure. Great capture, especially being land based!

Cuzza

[Daryl McPhee]

Yes Cuzza. I use to catch a few schoolies off the Shorncliffe Jetty in my teenage years. They'd show up for a day or so and then be gone.

[snapperbasher]

Well done Darryl!
we used to catch schoolies every year on the Ekka holiday in August off the gunn jetty at manly...only the occasional one was legal though..

[Daryl McPhee]

August use to be the best month off the Shorncliffe Jetty as well. You could never rely on them, but they were always welcome.

[drpete]

Yeah round show time they used to come in out front of Hilliards Creek there at Ormiston. You could catch em like whiting for a day or two then they gone......