Metro mack
Submitted by beau on Thu, 2025-03-27 12:21
Been a great run so far, caught fish 3 sessions in a row. Have tried fishing the acres of bait balls out there for not a sniff, been doing much better fishing the current lines with not a skerrick of bait in sight.
Props to Glen for copping a treble in the arm whilst dealing with the first fish of the day on the very first pass, fished on to land another mack and pulling hooks on a few more, back in for the kids school run, dinner time then headed off to hospital 8 hours after the incident occurred. Too deep to even even consider the old braid wrap and yank trick!
Still early days, hopefully have a few more photos to post up in a few months
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mulloway_hunter
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some of the best fish to eat
some of the best fish to eat i reken carnt beat fresh mackie
beau
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Pictures not great at my end,
Pictures not great at my end, here's another of the treble
Brock O
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Yeah them slabs come up
Yeah them slabs come up looking pretty clean, nice fish Beau!
davewillo
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Some great fish and great
Some great fish and great eating Beau! That treble looks bloody terrible!
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uncle
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Excellent Beau, wondering where you were
great fun
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Adam Gallash
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Yep
Yep he's well hooked, you weren't losing him!
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josh catches nothing
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Depth/Ground
What kind of ground/depth do you look for? - I have dived most weekends diving rises in reef or dropoffs from rotto or hillarys, but have only seen 1 shark mack in probably 40ish hours in the water.
beau
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Nothing really consistent so
Nothing really consistent so far other than the current lines I already mentioned. Few from ~15m on heavy structure, some in the 20s off the ledges and the first picture was out in 30s and if you look in the background you can see the difference in water I'm referring to.
Faulkner Family
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Gotta be happy with that
Gotta be happy with that result. pity about the spat hooks and ouch . Good on him for not giving up . Dedication for sure
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Reefsta
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Great stuff
Inspired me to try when out last Friday, but no luck yet. Was fishing inshore, so didn't fish anything deeper than 12m. Trolled a mix of lures along current lines between Stragglers and the river mouth. Only managed a tailor on a deep diver out in the middle of nowhere as I crossed the shipping channel. Will keep trying though and maybe include a small tailor in the trolling mix.
beau
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Have done really well using
Have done really well using tailor in the past, I posted some tips and pictures on this post from a couple months ago
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/metro-spanish-mack-advice
Rob_Seed
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Been out twice looking no go yet
Very nice indeed great catch, been out twice now out of hillarys not one run yet... hrs so hours so far.... 9 not even a tuna for me... ha ha ha
Just one more cast