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[mackmauler]

Headed out with the B brothers, scott -alex, had to take some time crossing the bar, was glad I had the Oc ;

Took a fair while to get our first strike, much to my surprise, havn't seen it look that good in ages, In comes a nice spanish mackerel followed next by a kingfish, the locals pulled a few nice spaniards as well but it was far from hot action.

We headed out further to a nice upwelling and surfed the current line there for a while, took at least an hour for another click of ratchet and with such good conditions it was about time, The thrashing surface strike and severe head shakes soon revealed a very nice wahoo, Took me a while to get it to the boat, put up a very fine show, weighed about 30lb.

We couldn't get any shark bait, bait tuna were not taking the lures, shame to because as we were leaving Alex had a great berley trail going, hey Alex

Headed back to the bay, went up to Mud island in perfect conditions and found good longtail, I dropped one, and that was it, we put some good casts into the schools, but they were not on top for long, pulled the pin about then.

Cheers

[jaybee]

sounds like a nice morning mack, how do i get a job like yours,
cheers
joe.

[Lachie1]

Geez i hope the weather holds for the weekend and then i may be able to go out to ??? ???

Lachie

[Alex_B]

yes i'm the berley bucket
whenever berley is needed i'll just look down at the deck and in time out it comes, lol

Took me a while to get it to the boat

dunno bout that rob he was thrashing about on the boat lookin to take a peice from my leg in less than a minute,

thanks again for the great day out on the water, and that kingie as the best tastin sea creature i've sunk my teeth into. Shame we didn't boat a longtail, but meh. top day

Alex

ps. also thanks for backside brusing a great ride on that esky it twas.

pps. picture of the wahoo will be up this arv/evening if it was captured properly on the last frame.

[Alex_B]

there ya go, files abit big (like the fish) may take a while for those on dailup,

Alex

[mackmauler]

Thank Alex, Ill bring a few magnum spin sticks next time, we'll concentrate on the northern bay How many meters does that nice spin reel you have hold, ive got to do the maths to work out if the boat will go fast enough to prevent a spool job

Cheers
Rob

[Alex_B]

well if the gps says we were going 30km/h we shouldn't have too much trouble there unless the fish makes a major direction change. 100yds or so fireline and say 20yds backing. I must agree that when the weather is good it's definatly worth going offshore even if it means being seasick for a majority of the time

northern bay sounds good (would that be a bribe/redcliffe launch?), as long as there isn't to much extended periods of looking down

cheers,

Alex

[mackmauler]

15 kilo tuna do make a few direction changes, at the price of fireline it could be very risky

You should try a seasick remedy, a kwell the night before and 1 in the morning should work.

Bribie is the spot, not far to the shipping channel from there.

cheers

[Smithy]

Nice picture - you can still see his vertical stripes.

Only one hookup for us on the weekend on a Blue which spat the hooks after about 20 seconds in about 400-500m of water off the Gold Coast.

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Those wahoo eat any good Rob???

[mackmauler]

Smithy did you fish wide all wk end, by lucky strikes numbers during the week the inshore grounds had some good fish.

Dave, many seem to think they are the best eating of the mackerel species, I prefer spotties, the flesh is a little firmer on a wahoo, They go well with a bit of sauce of some kind, since there is heaps to eat and id eat about half a kilo for a meal it don't slide down to easy after a while, cut thin it is at its best.

[Smithy]

Lucky Strike got 3 on Saturday out wide south of Spot X. Viper got 4 on Saturday at Sullies and ended up with 5 for the weekend. I think they got heaps more but lost them. We did Spot X then headed wide at around 11:00 and spent the weekend out there. Plagued by Striped Tuna in close. We fished all depths over the shelf but mostly on the 500m line. We tried from NE of the Seaway to about 5 miles north of the Tweed Canyons.