Don't have a favorite spot as I haven't caught one yet 20hour zero did get bitten of this morning hit the leader below the knot probably hit the leader from the bubble trail.so I would say I near caught one ..good luck

18-30m water near a drop ofof atleast 2-5m, troll at 6-8 knots with a deep with with flashyness on it ( chrome pink, king brown bontio etc) rapalas do well for this as they go 8m. sebiles deep divers  (44ft) are very good too. flashers will incrase ur chances and seeting a berely trail in your trolling area will also increase ur chances. time on water=fish. west end does well. back of covs on the drop of does well too. always have wire atleast 3 feet. ( if another mack hits the front of the lure bam goes the lure) try use as little swivels snaps etc. just makes a bubble trail that macks will hit and also some times destroys the lures motion. btw sharks love shiney things more then macks do :)

But 30 mins floating mulies around high tide got me tangled to two macks of which I boated one.

4 trips out of Mindarie for 7 macks and 2 yellowfin. Early morning fish been caught in closer between 14-20m. After 9-10am fish been out a little deeper in 20-25m. Halco 190 2.5m diver has been the pick of the lures. Around 1.5 to 2 hours trolling per fish.

no macks on the troll, just a spottie mack on a floater

Yesterday start trolling at 7:30am, First fish 11:15am, three fish by 11:45am, then trolled through to 1:30pm. To sum it up 6 hours of trolling with 3 fish caught in a half hour period

2 hours from sunup,no fish,plenty of folks having ago at mindarie

4 hours yesterday on 3 mile on spots that have produced every trip in past month for nada.We even resorted to a anchor and burley with a shedload of old mackie frames for nothing.We did have a rather large shark hookup on dusk however which ended predictably.

You need to put a LOT of work in this season to get rewarded!

 finally succeeded yesterday after a failed session out to the club marine fad went to west end and managed to land one that just cracked the meter mark. finally.

 Weed @ 3 mile was a killer today

Gave up this time around.

Never mind the weed and no Mack a great day!

Yep, ive put in 9 hours in the last few weeks trolling for mackies on the 3mile between ocean reef and mindarie for 0 mack's so far. As uncle said, theres no bait out there and the water temp has droped a little. Alot of weed out there too, almost constantly clearing the lines at times. Theres a few small bonito out there though, so a lure to match those colours might increase the chances ;)

But i heard a bloke got a shark mackeral (not the right species) rather close to hillaries today 300 meters out

1hr @ West End mid morning
3hrs @ 3mile this arvo.

Sweet FA

we got 4 yesterday and saw about another 80 or so not even joking ranging from about 60cm to about 30kg!!! we got 4 for the boat this was diving up north near jurien :P. also saw tuna up to about 20kg in a school of 12 in 8m water and some smaller tuna in a school of about 25 in 18m water. missed 3 macks over 15kg due to lack of spear range ( they were flighty and everytime i shot it dropped short couldnt close enough :( 2 other guys missed about 3-4 each aswell and another guy got a 20kg. 10 hours on the water for that, but that was all spearfishing :)

got a few metro on sunday. refer post for details. they are definitely around

 Hey guys

I have done plenty of trolling up north(exy) for mackies but never tried here. Well we went out on the weekend on Sunday and got a double run of Mack's just of Parker pt near rotto. 25m. Smallest was 1.1m he took a 2m gold 160 laser, the other tool a 2m 190 king brown. We gave the single strand wire a shot as we heard this is harder to see, or the equivalent of fluorocarbon for wire. Seemed to do the trick. The guys at Campbell's make them up an are pretty cheap. We were also running a couple of teasers and a few lines. We got those around 930 after trolling for half hour. Trolled the rest of the day for nothing though. We saw boats with mackies on around us too so must be in the area. Goodluck

Nothing at west end on Monday.. Tough going with alot of weed.

one nice striped tuna and one missed hookup on a mack, shitty glass conditions until the sea breeze came in ,trolled to yanchep and back,water tenp. 26 degrees,plenty of small tuna around, now crap weather again

wind wouldn't drop, shitty 24 degree water, 26.3 on monday!   no bait, no tuna,   put the pick down, nothing caught, anchor rope snapped, went back down the line and found all the rope floating so after a long effort got it all back with anchor, went trolling up to yanchep,nothing,went to pull the boat out with my sons car, left keys in ignition and it auto locked!!!!!!!,lucky the window was down a bit,we put 2 crab bait holders together[wire] slipped it over the knob pulled it up and went home,4 hours trolling for zilch, should have stayed home today

Managed to bag to macks on Monday out off the 3 mile mindarie way,heaps of bait water temp

Average found a ledge pushing bait up with the incoming tide second pass over it got nailed. Find the

Bait find the fish 

2 hrs trolling west end yesterday afternoon for nothing....word was the mackies fired there first up early on in the morning... today and yesterday. Mind you we found a patch of bait getting worked yesterday between garden island and rotto, which resulted in one small mack species, and a couple other hooks up.

7.5 hrs trolling the threemile for 2 hooks ups one solid, which we lost around a cray pot,,,,other strike didnt stick after the first run. No bait at all on the three mile,trolled ocean reef to two rocks saw lil smudges here or there on the sounder. No tuna nothing just another day of bad luck with fish! still weather was glorious this morning

My apprentice got one with his old man just past the markers out of Hillaries.

3 trips trolling so far behind the three mile and bagged out at around 30 kgs tagged and released weed , but i will keep trying until i find the secret

Two hours south from Hillaries yesteday....nada. Did see one good bait ball 10 m deep with arches.......

Trolled for two and half hours out from Mindarie through to Hillarys. Water depth of 27m-24m for approx. 5 smallish schools of tuna (longtail suspected) in between. Landed 2 one on a 160 DD 7m+ red head and one on a 190 crazy deep gold with brown back (I think it is called a king mack). Used 60lb single strand wire and found that the schools were generally piss farting around and not really feeding properly. Having said that I did find a few patches of large amounts of bait fish but mainly on the bottom.

Cheers OX

 have spent a lot of time trolling seeing very few bait schools(More some days than others and only in the last couple of weeks) Yet tackle stores get complaints that there was a small amount of time that there was no mulies in stock.Some fishos must think the bait catching crews and tackle stores have Harry Potter working for them.

i finally got my first metro mackie, i personally think that the tides played a major role rather than the locations. 8hrs trolling for 1 fish this yr but im feeling a percentage increase now that i know wen to target them! everywhere mentioned is worth a shot but record your tides :)

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i know where your talking i think marc....herd some reports of macks that have been landbased caught and they are not NOR.

of mindarie no fish, no bait, no tuna water temp 23.5. bugger

Yeah, me too Uncle......out yesterdya for a few hours trolling, no hits......water temp 22.8 at 3 mile.

Game over man......

Had a small spaniard jumpin outa the water 3 or 4 times tryn to hit a small popper (water wasnt that clear and the lure had only one w hook) when I was trolling for tailor along the beach around pipadinny on sat, couldnt believe I missd the hook up would have been gd fun on light gear. Water was 22.something

2 hours out of Hillarys today for zip.

Water temp 22.9 - 23.4 @ 3-mile.

Saw sweet FA for an hour, then thought I'd go and try my luck jigging when (within a minute of leaving 3 mile) I drove straight through a 80 diameter bust-up which we stalked for over 40mins.

Constant simmer, with intermittent bust-ups & boils -

Birds would move in and they'd pop up simmering 50m away or so.

Trolled past it, through it plenty of times and got zip.............

Then parked next to it casting red-heads, twistys, X-Raps etc over the far side and even right into the guts of it ............ and got zip.

Oh well, boat had a nice spa - and my boy loved the action.

Wish I took a screen shot, it was f-ing massive, and there were some big arches underneath.

I left thinking "F#ck me - if I didn't get one then, I'm never going to !"

Crunts of things !

Then on our way out past rotto had a bird dive right in front of the boat, stopped, spun around and sounded a narrow plume of bait extending solid from 5m to the bottom @ 35m.

No arches, and no surface activity (other than the 1 bird) - so was hard to track and eventually lost it.

Temp 23.5C out there.

Should have stuck to bottom bouncing.

Had one of my Overhead rig's reel shit itself after the first hour too (2nd hand Sealine - never again), so had to make do trolling the shallower lures with a PE6-8 Demon blood Spin rig - which got a ridiculous wobble / shimmy happening.

trolled 3 mile for a couple of hours in the tinnie for two chunks of weed. saw a few arches on the sounder but no joy. didn't see any bait or birds at all. then went and had a bottom bash which was entertaining with pretty much a fish a drop, but pretty unproductive quality wise, although we did end up with some good skippy and a blackarse.

other notable points from the day were - the unguarded trinided and g-loomis rod that hooked a sufficiently sized fish to take it over the side in 15m, the trailer jockey wheel handle that sheared itself off on a lump in the driveway, and the esky lid that mysteriously vanished on the trip back...(p.s. my old man was responsible for all 3 of those cock-ups)

 on saturday mixed in with a fair few tuna.Another crew have picked up 5 over the last two weekends out of Hillarys.The skipper out of Hillarys thinks they are on the way back north(His words not mine)

the weather channels say la nina has gone,I guess all northerners will be heading home,will try again thurs.

Ive caught 2 in 2 trips not trolloing just burlyen and floatin out scalie macks both have been in the 30m mark straight out of scarb and hilarys one was over 10kg the other 9kg

I'VE NOTICED THAT had a nice 9 inch live snook out last week, never got touched

 Lots of hours for no fish this year. Had a school of big Mack's swimming around our sea anchor while we were jigging for dhuies. After a panicked change of outfits they had vanished and no trolling could bring them up. About 18kms off Two Rocks. Spent time at usual haunts around Rotto and no luck - no signs if anything on other boats. Water temp low compared to last season, more weed, no baitfish but will try again this weekend!

no luck did see a few deep schools of bait 24 degrees on MY sounder, not looking good, did catch a black tip shark in the berly trail[released]

I did get 25.5 2 weeks ago, sunday was 23.5 today 24, there is a current moving back north today

put in an hour today out behind 3 mile, no weed ,birds or bait ,nearly 24 degrees, no macks, did get some xos skippy[eating full mulies] amber jack and sambos,probably lost more then we caught,crewie was sick so left them biting