catching mackeral!!

[maggot]

hi all,
i am thinking of going out near an island surrounded by deep water.
I was wondering how best to catch the good size doggie mackerel
eg lure techniques and baits to use

thanks Sean.

[mackmauler]

Doggies of good size are down deep mostly so get your rig down there, 50-80 gram slugs retrieved erratically will get them.

[theone]

MACKEREL




just a hint

[Barrymundi]

Hi,

A method is to drop metal slices like, Bumper Bars or Riaders down to the bottom then start a high speed erratic retreive. Faster the better.

or cast the metal slices away from the boat and start a high speed erratic retreive.

Another method is to troll a deep lure like a Halco Crazy, DK Lure ScaleRaza or one of my favourites a storm Big Mac.

You can also troll a range of Bibbless lures or rigged trolling baits like wolf herring.

I find that it is important to have the drag set soft and the drag to be very smooth. I use a Penn 8500 on a Gary Howard 8Kg stick for Mackerel fishing.

The fish will normally take a good run then come in reasonably easy. If you happen to hook a spaniard it may take 2 or 3 good runs before tiring.

Gook Luck

[Volvo]

Or another thing you can do is anchor up where the sounder shows good bottom or activety,cast a Pille out attatched to a set of ganged 6/0-7/0's attatched to aprox 8" of wire trace if your going to leave rod set,attatched to coupla meters of 70/80lb leader,attatched to your mono lol,set ratchet ta wake ya up if any mackeral come a visiting and then bottom fish for other species .
Cheers

[krazyfisher]

pillies on a gang of 3 5/0 30cm wire trace put it out in the run. if there is not much run use a float and the higher the sun the lower the mackeral mostly anyway