queensland Australia Day Mackerel

[Biggles]

Rumours of mackerel arriving at Caloundra didn't take a rocket scientist to work out what I was going to do today. My old partners in crime Lee and Terry were keen for our first get together for 2010, it's been about 8 months since we last hit some water together. We new that to get a spot at the Kings Beach ramp today we had to be there early, so it was a 4am start for us just before the sun starting peering over the horizon. I received a text from Lee around 2:30am that went something like this, I drank too much last night and am not able to drive, have fun. And then there were 2 of us.

On arrival at the ramp we saw Brian (paddleparra) and Damo (Stictho), who had similar ideas to ourselves. We all shoved off around first light and made a be line directly to the blinker, I wanted a snapper for dinner and I told Midget I wasn't interested in the busting birds for at least an hour (I lied).

We arrived at the blinker, rigged for soft plastics and started looking for a summer snapper. About 20 mins into our plastic session Midget says to me, (I'm finding it very hard to sit here when we could be out there), referring to to the turns going nuts about 200mtrs further East. No longer that said and the entire water round us erupted with Mac Tuna smashing the bait fish and that was the end of plastic fishing.

For the next few hours we chased and chased and chased busting fish everywhere but weren't getting many hook ups. We decided to give the Mac Tuna a miss and went looking for the schools of Spotted Mackerel who weren't anywhere near the main bust ups, and we found them, isolated and cranky.

Midget had some great fun with a very agitated shark that kept him very busy for at last 30mins. He wouldn't even answer his mobile when I rang to say every cast was a good spotty.

All up I acquired 9 spotty's for the morning, 2 monsters that knocked the slug from their mouth when they smacked their heads against the yak, somebody else had my gaff at the time whilst playing with his shark :mad1: We kept a couple each for a feed and let the rest go to keep growing big and strong.

Today was the best Australia Day fishing I have had for a while, thanks for the company Terry, sucked in Lee , lol.

Al

[Biggles]

Birds going nuts

[Biggles]

Rewards

[Biggles]

More rewards

[Biggles]

Not sure what I cut, lol.

[Biggles]

Midget loves sharks

[Biggles]

A happy Midget

[tomca]

And I ignored my 3am text message and Nickers had some derogatory remarks about the Midget.

Did the rock monster claim any victims today?

[Biggles]

tomca wrote:

Did the rock monster claim any victims today?

Only one fella that got in Midgets way when returning, he knows how to swear now thanks to Mr Midget :woohoo:

[tomca]

it is a boat ramp, not a wading pool after all. And I know how hard a yak can punch unfortunately

[Terry H]

The bloody idiot had himself and three of his kids lapping around across the Boat Ramp,

Where the hell am I suppose to come in? On the rocks?

His response "You're in kayak mate, you dont need a boat ramp"

3 nice spotties for me, and a 1.4m Shark to boot. Hurrah! Cheers for the day al, was great.

[tacklebox]

Nice report Al. How did you end up bringing the fish onboard without your gaff?

[Biggles]

tacklebox wrote:

Nice report Al. How did you end up bringing the fish onboard without your gaff?

Thanks Lizbeth, just grab him by the tail and hang on, to let go might have some severe outcomes on the yak :ohmy:

Al

[Malcolm]

Man you boys have some pills well done

[yoyo]

great stuff! ahh well, here's hoping for good weather this weekend and maybe a mack in the yak for me as well..

[yoyo]

hey biggles how far is it out to the blinker?

[Keen-as-fisho]

Looks like a top sesh fellas, well done.

[Biggles]

yoyo wrote:

hey biggles how far is it out to the blinker?

About 4kms fella. General rule of thumb, you need to cross the shipping lane, so if you see a freighter coming then wait until it has passed, no matter how good you are, you can not out run them.

Al

[tomca]

What you talkin' about Al? You haven't seen yoyo's super smooth legs!

not a place for mistakes, and they come either side of the blinker too.

[Terry H]

Just make sure the freighter is moving... If Al sees a ship its 'Keep an eye on that one'... Yep, he's anchored and hasn't moved in the last 1.5 hrs... :laugh:

Was a good kayak today. Went to the blinker, then out a little further (would be close to max distance for no EPIRB), then over towards Rapers and Currimundi Reef. Many kms travelled in search of some great fish.

Some great sights, like the water errupting all around my kayak with birds working hard. Too bad the tuna weren't playing.

Then we would have been in line with Rapers', but more towards Currimundi.

[yoyo]

yep freshly shaven down i could outrun that....3 day growth, no way..... ;-)

[tugger]

well done on the macks Al great pics from the yak

markBiggles wrote:

Rewards

[Do$tylz]

Killer session gents. I was gonna head out chasin the macs as well but 9pm Monday night I figured I wanted a sleep in on Australia Day

Is that the dude that you hit in the backround there Terry??

[Terry H]

Lol, I didn't hit anyone.

He was too busy swimming with his kids at the end of the boat ramp to be in this photo.

[Joel Eadie]

do we get a pic of the shark?

[THAKEENESTFLATHEADANGLER]

there some good lookin fish there mate did they taste good??

[Biggles]

THAKEENESTFLATHEADANGLER wrote:

there some good lookin fish there mate did they taste good??

Nah, had some for dinner tonight and it was bloody terrible :woohoo: don't try any as it will make you sick :ohmy:

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ok, I lied :blush: it is AWESOME :cheer:

Knowing Midget he probably left his in the boot of the car

Al

[Terry H]

Na Al, I had some Tuesday night. Was pretty good I thought !

But .... there were a lot of fillets. might take me a while to get through them all

[Bri The Pom]

Do they freeze ok Terry????.

[Biggles]

Bri The Pom wrote:

Do they freeze ok Terry????.

I vacuum seal all my fish Bri, without it all fish have a very limited life in the freezer.

Al

[tugger]

with mackerel the shorter they r on the line and killing them quick then bleeding ,iced down the better they r. i also wash the fillets in an salt water ice slurry they freeze and defrost like fresh always keep them cool Bri The Pom wrote:

Do they freeze ok Terry????.