A few mackerel from the last 3 days
Had a mate coming to Broome for the first time. He talked about coming last year but never got around to it.
I said to him what would you like to target and he responded I wouldn't mind getting into some light gear mackerel.
So with the water temp still at 29.3 degrees I thought it would still be too hot for them but was going to give it a good crack as he was here for 5 days that would be enough time to get into some.
So Sunday we headed out just off cable beach and started trolling, not much bait around and then wanted to hit up some marks that I have caught good flag and blue bone the fish were there but so were the Sharks we hooked some great fish but they didn't last long till the Sharks got them.
So after 5 fish were lost and my mate getting frustrated I though we better move. So we kept heading out further towards some barges I could see a few other boats in the distance.
As we were getting closer towards the other boats there were flying fish and Gardies everywhere. At this point I was getting pretty excited as we found the bait and the tide was just about to turn.
When we got to the spot it was mayhem I have never seen so many mackerel in my life hundreds upon hundred of school mackerel bait everywhere sailfish free swimming. There we 3 other boats that looked like they were all targeting the sailfish so looks like all the mackerel were there for us to target.
In the lures went and in the 5 minutes I landed a big spotted mackerel then from there we were averaging a mackerel every 15 minutes.
My mate got his spaniard on the boat that he was after and another 2 not long after where I just kept getting the spotted mackerel. Might have had something to do that I was running shallow diver and he had a deep diver.
Wasnt long until we had a our bag limit. Most fish were around 110cm and 7-8kg.
Chris
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Meeuwissen
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chris
lost the fish of the day.Would have gone 14kg easily.
The sailfish were so close to us we would have touched them I was feeding them milkfish and hooked one on a skirt with a gardie on it but spat the hooks straight away. I had never targeted them before and was happier observing then putting a hook in one.
Got back to the house iced up our catch and had a beer to celebrate.
Yesterday we went back to the spot the mackies were there but wouldn't touch the lures plus it was very rough so couldn't troll at the right speed. Luckily I bought a block of mulies and after losing a couple of fish myself and Chris managed to get busted also. He finally hooked up on the lightest rod on the boat and after fighting the fish for a long 10 minutes it came boat side. Another one for him and he was stoked .
As the tide turned the fish switched off and we had a rough and wet ride back home in 15knots ese winds.
Total catch 4 spotted mackerel and 5 Spanish Mackerel and 3 big queenies.
I think it's fair to say Chris will be returning to Broome fairly quickly.
Regards from the seafood catcher
Jm
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Boyce
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awesome catchbet they would
awesome catch
bet they would have tasted awesome
Yewiefish85
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Nice, although they are
Nice, although they are broad bar mackerel (grey), normally get
them down here (Hedland) around Christmas time
Meeuwissen
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yeah my bad
They are broad bar we think there was also the narrow bar in there too but didn't land any. Greta eating either way.
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dodgy
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Narrow barred are the
Narrow barred are the spanish.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Meeuwissen
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There is one narrow barrow barred in the photo the
one we got yesterday with its head tilted.
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luke george
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3rd last pic is a
3rd last pic is a Spanish/narrow barred if I'm not mistaken
Krusty
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Nice day out with good
Nice day out with good results.
Like LG said that the third last pic is a spanish.
Thanks for the report and pics.....well done
My fishing spots are so secret........... even the fish don't know where they are !!