Hey Guys and Girls
Bit of a quick report of the action up here. We went out Monday morning to hunt down a few Spanish Macks and christen the new boat with a bit of blood. After 30 mins we were at our spot and the lines went out. After coming over the ledge the show of macks on the sounder was awesome and about 5 seconds later when the lures came over the ledge they were smashed. We had several double hookups. I was fishing 20lb gear and my mate 30lb, the sharks gave us a bit of curry as you will see in the photos. My mate had a small tuna hooked up and was bringing it in when tuna went deep and all of a sudden it seemed it was on steroids. We both called it for a shark but after a while a Spaniard came to the surface with chunks missing and about 10 sharks under it, I quickly gaffed it and got it in the boat. We were pretty stoked as its the biggest mackerel we have ever caught, pity about the missing bits!
We were about to call it a day when I hooked up on another big mackerel and boy did it take off! About 15-20 mins later a lovely big 47lb spaniard was boat side, with no chunks missing! I was happy to land it on 20lb line and thinking back probably could have done it on 14lb no worries. Good practice for the comps coming up!
We managed to land 12 mackerel ranging from 12kg-22kg and several tuna. I also managed to catch one of the sharks that were eating our macks.
All in all we had an awesome days fishing.
Cheers
Sam
This is the biggest whole one!
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