Hi Malcolm – as a newby to fishing up here, I really appreciate your articles – nice balance of good solid info and the juice/excitement to keep at it – Having been to the shoals 3 x recently with not much action, I realise I am at least not alone. The weedbeds seem to be…
We shot across to the Weedbeds for a quick fish again Sunday morning. It really is a great spot to take the family when the Mackerel are on. We initially headed over to the deeper water off Long Beach to float some Pillies in a burley trail, but a stiff early morning breeze made things…
I have had a load of people ask me about lure selection and technique for trolling the Weedbeds for Doggie Mackerel. So I thought I would post up a bit of information on what works for me. I tend to approach trolling for Doggie Mackerel in exactly the same way I would Spanish Mackerel, just…
should have driven over the top of them Mal! Nicko.
As most readers would be aware, I recently had the opportunity to replace the 130hp Yamaha Saltwater Series 2-stroke on my Cruise Craft 575 Outsider. The 2-stroke Yamaha was simply costing too much to run, and really restricted the range of the 160lt underfloor tank. At a fairly modest cruise speed of 25knots, the Yamaha was averaging about 1lt…
Aftern a morning on The Strand Sunday looking at near perfect conditions in the bay, I decided to take Tania and the boys for a run in the Cruise Craft Monday morning. I had heard reports of the water temp dropping on the weedbeds and bait in good numbers. So I figured the Doggie Mackerel…
Missing a few is always going to happen. But after your second post I would be guessing 4lb isn't giving you enough pressure to set the hooks?
Hey Malcolm got em on 4lb to awesome fun Cheers Paul
Hey Malcolm , Hit the weedbeds this morning did everything you wrote about pilchards , burley fished the run out tide ended up with 6 doggys and 1 spotty lost another 3 beside the boat 2 bite offs and missed about another 20 hits is this the norm?? Cheers Paul
landed a Cobia 8.5kg at the shoal and released a 6' sharkie