BIG MACS FOR BREKKY !!!

[Sportfish_5]

Scottie - Nice work there

Tidelines - Our Spanish mackeral are your king mackeral and your spanish mackeral are our spotted mackeral

Confused ?

Cheers

Greg

[nofrills]

ill start putting one in the wash tideline n see what happens.i fish buy myself a lot so the less lines in the water the better.im going out tommorow so we'll see what happens.
cheers scott

[Volvo]

Definetly Nice Fish....And nice Pics..
Onya

[Jay_S]

Hey Scotty,
Good on ya mate. (About time )
We went up that way for a fish yesterday arvo.
Got one big schoolie and a dirty mac tuna. Did you get them up or down or shouldn't I ask 8)
Cheers
Col

[flattymattyb]

Hi Scott,

great fish there mate, what a morning. was watching the tress outside work all day and thinking geez it would be good to be fishing today, I guess it was you lucky bugger.

Cheers
Matty

[nofrills]

THANX GUYS

matty i was thinkin about all the poor fellas at work guess iy was you

hey col all up mate ill see ya tommorow night

[spaniard]

Top work Scott.

Yes Iam spewing cause I was looking for them last weekend.

See how the weather goes this weekend or I'll see you at 1770.

[tideline_two]

from you post i assume yalls bag limit is 3 fish. for king mackrel our bag limit is 3. for our spanish mackrel (apparently yalls spotted mackrel) the bag limit is 15.

i don't mean to be a interloper but its pretty dead around here right now ..middle of the winter sucks! the water on the beach is 45 f right now. if you can get out to the gulf stream ,60+ miles offshore, the water is in the mid 70'sf. its just to danged rough to run that far this time of year! in the summer the water temps will top out in the upper 80's on the beach. bait everywhere! and the kingfish and spanish everywhere.
you said you were going to try some new rigs. we use one we call a steath rig when the kings are getting pressured and get leader shy.

2 #4 treble hooks 4 inches apart on 43lb. steel leader. then 1or 2 feet of 43lb. wire albright knotted to 5 feet of 30 lb. flourocarbon leader tied to the smallest black swivel you can find. tie that to your main line of course. sometimes we drop back to 28lb but you will have some fish bite off. tight lines!

[Jeremy]

Hi Tideline,

I never thought of connecting wire to mono with an albright, but I can see how it would work well. Actually, I only learn't the albright about 6 months ago and now use it on all my lines 4 kg and above. I still use my old double uni knot to connect 1, 2, and 3 kg lines to leaders.

Your rig is obviously used with live baits. Which baits do you use? Any pics?

Jeremy

[Daintreeboy]

Very nice macks them, great trip mate
Cheers, Mark.

[tideline_two]

we use live menhaden (kinda like shad, don't know if ya got thoses either.) cigar minnows are a great bait (they are a type of scad). big mullet are great if your looking for larger fish. teenagers can't really mess with a 1 1/2 mullet very much.cutlassfish or has we call 'em ribbon fish are a great bait for the big boys. they are a REAL shiny fish , i think yall got those.i've never seen a ribbonfish in the stomach of a king but they will eat the heck out of 'em . we troll those dead. no pictures. aint that 'puter savy . might get my kid to post some...lol menhaden are caught by castnet. probably one of the easiest fish in the ocean to catch with a castnet. they travel in schools by the thousands and thousands. cigar minnows we catch either with a sabiki rig or gols hook rig. mullet castnet. when they run in the fall the schools are massive. sometimes miles long.