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Saturday morning, 3.50am, deckie arrives at my place, and makes suggestion of venue change. Hmmmm not bad, yes lets do it. Changed to Raby Bay put in, and up the Rainbow chasing some mackeral.
In goes the boat at around 4.15am at raby Bay, in an ever so soft SW breeze, barely moving the wind meter.
Out round cleveland point and across to SW rocks on Peel IS in an almost glassed out bay. WHat a morning, sun just poking over a couple of clouds on the horizon above Straddie. #Round SW Rocks and across Horseshoe Bay, what do we spy about 1/2km off The Bluff? You bewdy, a huge ball of bait fish rumbling on the surface. #
Over we go, slugs, trolled, tried absolutely everything, but nothing. Seems nothing was chasing them, or if it was they werent interested in our lures. #
We decided not to waste time on them and shot round the Paltypus and up the Rainbow Channel. Stopped at Myora light and out the back went a Halco lure on my rod, and the deckie shot out a silver spoon and a trailing handline. 10 mins later the deckie cries " I'm on"........ in comes the first schoolie mack..... 61cm and in the esky.
Nothing #then for the next 45 minutes, so we change plans.
Drifted with the run out and the ever so soft SW wind, floating pillies out the back.
My turn..........i'm on........ nice feel, using my el cheapo penn combo....which by the way does the job for me...... nice schoolie mack 70cm in the esky. #
5 minutes ater i am on again....... then again,.......and again..... 4 in a row for the skipper......
And that as Porky Pig says was ....."Thats all folks...
Not another hit, enquiry, nibble...nothing, nada,zip zilch. #
Thats fishing. We shot down the Rous and gave old Harry Atkinson a hot...... with not too much hope, as it is very unreliable lately. Absolutely glassed out bay by now, as pic below shows. Got to Harry, some boats there, a pod of dolphins, and not much action besides quite a few undersized squire. Actually you got hit and hooked one as soon as your lines hit bottom.
Now, heres the go....as soon as you threw the undery squire back in, you saw a white flash.........zoom.........got ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the dolphins chaesd and ate the poor little squire as they went back down....never seen anything like it before. Nature at its best i suppose.
Anyway, a brilliant day on the bay, some mack fillets in the esky, cant complain, wish weather was like that every weekend #
First pic Rainbow Cahnnel looking back towards One Mile.
Off Amity lookng at the South Passage Bar
Dolphin at Harry Atkinson reef
Me with 3 of my 4 macs...... and to answer your question, yes, the one in my left hand is just legal at 61cm.....
Deckie for the day Brad...only got one mac, but he had a ball out there....
And to top it off, heres a short clip of the trip home across a very flat bay round midday......... #
Well you are right. All evidence points to very glassy conditions and nice weather. Congrats on getting those schoolies. Incidently a little while ago I did a thread based on my same experiences with dolphins doing exactly what you described. I toyed with them to see how smart they were and deliberately left one small squire still on the hook and sent it back in the water. The dolphin sussed it out but didn't take it so it was smart enough to know it was still on the hook. Very clever indeed.
Poodroo
He who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
great day on the water nice feed
Great day to be out. Always the way great weather and im stuck working.
Good fish mate.
Jason
well done mate, i can't believe the day yesterday. I'm cursing ,couldn't fish yesterday , had to wait for a bloke buying my motorbike , sold the bike but missed that day. nice to see some macs . Good one
Nice Work!
It was certainly one of those days on Saturday.
Again well done.
Jim
Good stuff Mike nice report !!
Mark
Good work Mike and Brad...couple of nice macks there #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
cheers tim #
It was a post card of a morning Mike. Glad to see you and the deckie got some rewards for your efforts on the macs.
Cheers
Paul
Ranger 188VX - "Sweet Chariot"
Nice stuff Mike! I'm yet to catch a Mack and can't wait to get out there and give it a crack! So whenever you need a deckie for such a trip, shout and i'm there!
Take Care T
PS: Guys, correct me if i'm wrong but isn't the legal size on Schoolies 55cm and Spotties 60cm?
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