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    mackeral mayhem weekend

    Fished the shipping channel beacons saturday morning with peter and mr ausfish, mainly the 4 beacons and scored a few schoolies and a couple of spotties.
    Change of tide and the macks disappeared, so bottom fished the neilson withno luck, then it was trolling the edges of the shipping channel, with peter scoring the only hookup, on mann +30 would you believe a bloody great grinner
    Headed back to the 4's and only scored 1 more, before heading back to whyte is in a 25kt gusting 30kt n/easterly.
    Then it was over to phill to tow the sportfish up to hervey bay. saturday arvo.
    Sunday left urangan at 4am and ran into a stiff 20n/easterly all the way to roonies, chase a few boils, but could find a spottie, then we did some drifting over some nice looking reef structure, scoring 1 undersize red and phills catch of the reef adventure a 1.5m tiger shark, which he played with for awhile before busting him off.
    started heading back to harbour, when we saw another boil, and this is when the mayhem started, bloody spotties everywhere and i mean everywhere thousands of them, swimming around the bottom, we couldnt believe it, within 1 hour we had bagged our quota of 20 for the four of us.
    and could have boated a 100 .
    Cragie had the best fishing fun of his life scoring his first spottied and loosing a few slug to boot, but it was one mayhem hour with spottied coming or the side of rebait as fast as we could dong them and throw on ice.
    Rebait look like someone had been murdered on board withg blood everywhere.
    the rest of the boys will have there say, so heres some pics of the weekend.
    schoolie from moreton bay

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    Re: mackeral mayhem weekend

    spotties from hervey bay

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    phill anda spottie

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    cragie and his first spottie

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    OH great Brian. If I turn my head sideways, the Hervey Bay saltwater runs out.

    Phill
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    Re: mackeral mayhem weekend

    peter and his big grinner

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    Re: mackeral mayhem weekend

    Nice fish there guys. Plenty about. Good to see the life of the bays. Tasty Fish.

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    Re: mackeral mayhem weekend

    this ones for steve brown and how to catch a mackeral

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    s0 spots from the bay

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    Yes, Brian, even turning the pic sideways, I still have a bad hair day. The very close cut was the result of Friday night Xmas party............say no more.

    Rebait pushed us up the Fraser coast at reasonable speed despite the wind chop. The Mutton birds were around near Roonies and Craigie decided, that if there ain't no Spotties I'll snag a bird. A bit of ' Dr Harry " from I, and the thing took off like a startled Gazzelle.

    Once the Schools of Spotties were located, it was a madhouse, at one stage I couldn't throw a line in as I was deckie, being kept flatout. We dropped as many as we caught threw, bad gaffing, improper lifting or bite offs.

    The top slug for the trip was courtesy of " mackmauler " ( Rob ,), the homemade ones killed 'em. Best outfit was the 10ft Ugly stick and Penn 850.

    Good to see the Boating and Fisheries doing their bit at the Harbour as well.

    Top day, top crew and to top it off top place.

    And my fellow crew members, what about the talent at H/Bay ?

    Cheers Phill
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    geez i stuffed some of those up sorry fellas look sideways
    mr brown trying to dong a schoolie.

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    good to see a real mackerel mayhem report hervey at its best.. you wouldnt want to be anywhere else maybe henry can put you lot on the payroll for Qld tourism, hervey will be getting a visit thanks to that report, wash those spotties down with some xxxx it'll add another 10yrs to your life

    Rob

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    yes i have just moved to H/bay and loving the fishing up here its great.(but i would love to have a boat to get out)

    Woodduck

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    Re: mackeral mayhem weekend

    Webby, turned your pics around for you to save everyone having to turn sideways.

    Here is another couple of pics of the grinner pete caught on a manns 30+





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    ahhhh you all love rubbing that grinner in dont ya looks like you guys had a ball.

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