queensland Armour Shads + Mud = Winning

[Keen-as-fisho]

After the poor effort up at mondy over the weekend then the news of slack working week I took this mornings window of opportunity to hit Mud is. The plan was to blood the new combo and the Pflueger salt I won at Mondy on some snaps. Well that plan went out, as I turned the bend to my first spot there was literally hundreds of birds and bait fish going ape sh!t everywhere so I got stuck into the chase casting all sorts of plastics but it wasn't until I rigged up the ever faithful 5 inch armour shad in the moibe colour that I hooked up to my first torpedo :woohoo: This was the first tuna that hasn't spat or straighted hooks on me and because I was using rope, 20LB braid and 30LB leader the fish came in with little effort

The fish were still going bananas around me so I took another cast and whack but this one cut me off so I dropped the rod and grabbed the Tcurve revo with the new pflueger salt attached and took a cast. The next fish was more fun as it was caught on 11LB fireline exceed and 16LB leader and it went nuts :woohoo:

After the fun and excitement of landing my first two tuna I headed back into mud to chill out with some Bream, but being clumsy I forgot to put my new combo back in the rack and the bloody thing bounced out (Daiwa Tierra with stradic 4000 and 20LB fireline) so there will be one happy bait fisho who pics that up one day, I wont say were it is though

So after that bit of crap I hit my bream spot only to find a group of bait fish being harassed by 8 or 9 school sharks hard in the shallows. I had my Samaki Zing ready to hit the Bream with a shiny new Pontoon21 Crackjack Carmen red MR48 and thought what the heck. Next thing I know the 4LB is going ballistic and I managed a meterish shark :woohoo:

I noticed some commotion a hundred meters away so went over to investigate, trusty armour shad at the ready and managed a few tailor around 30cm and a sweetlip. Headed back to the ramp to meet up with dad who I rang to bring a couple of knives and a sharpener for the tuna.

What a cracka day despite the 300ish dollars over board.

[Scope]

WOW! Mate hard luck on losing a combo, but you can't beat a day like that!!!!!

Well done!

[Manni79]

Awesome session mate, those mac tuna are good fun to catch !!!

Pitty about the combo mate, that sucks !!!!

[crazywalrus]

sweet stuff on the tuna mate. I feel your pain mate. Bad luck

[Freshy]

A good session minus the loss of the gear :ohmy:

At least you got onto a few...

[keen_as]

Great session mate, pity about the combo though

[RyanG45]

some nice fish there mate

i would hate to loose a combo unlucky

cheers ryan

[plugger]

nice going, those mack tuna taste like :sick: not good eating mate. make good skip baits for those big mud island bream though

[Do$tylz]

nice one Kaf. Good to see someone took advantage of the decent day today. And thank you for letting me live vicariously through you while I'm in the office

[Surfingant]

Awesome session Den, almost makes up for losing the combo.......... almost

[Keen-as-fisho]

nice going, those mack tuna taste like :sick: not good eating mate. make good skip baits for those big mud island bream though

They aren't to bad. My old mans a frenchy (from new caledonia) and does a bit of tahitian cooking so yeah they come up good.

[Hfisho77]

that must suck about the combo :whistle: but still awesome session.. so keen to hit the bay and chase some tuna now

[Dinodadog]

Nice session sorry about the loss

[fishing_teen]

nice sesh mate but bad news about the combo :S

[tomca]

so those fish work out to cost you about $170 each.

I was out before dawn working and was cursing you and your picture message.

BTW nearly got my leg chewed off last night :ohmy:

[Guest]

looks you had a baller of a session! bummer about your loss overboard but..

[eg_vtec]

mate that is some good fish! sorry about the combo though!

[Runty66]

wow awesome sesh!!! i went out on saturday and there were bird schools everwhere! but only could get little choppers..

are the tuna down deeper or something?? next time should i use a plastic?

[plugga]

nice stuff mate

Jordan

[darcy]

smoked mac tuna is meant to be really good...What lb leader where you fishing for the shark thats a mad capture on light gears.

[Runty66]

i think he said 4lb .. how long was the fight?? would of been sooo much fun

[Keen-as-fisho]

so those fish work out to cost you about $170 each.

I was out before dawn working and was cursing you and your picture message.

BTW nearly got my leg chewed off last night :ohmy:

haha which leg

[Keen-as-fisho]

wow awesome sesh!!! i went out on saturday and there were bird schools everwhere! but only could get little choppers..

are the tuna down deeper or something?? next time should i use a plastic?

On the surface mate. I was using 5 inch armour shads allowing them to sink about a meter then a shaky retrieve.

[Keen-as-fisho]

smoked mac tuna is meant to be really good...What lb leader where you fishing for the shark thats a mad capture on light gears.

I had 10LB tied on from the last Bassin trip, so just used that.

[Keen-as-fisho]

i think he said 4lb .. how long was the fight?? would of been sooo much fun

Couple of minutes for the shark

[Runty66]

oohh okay, so metal should get them? did you get urs out at mud? or more into the bay??that bait ball was at mud when i was there on saturday.. hitting it up for about 1 hour or 2 and only small Taylor

[Keen-as-fisho]

oohh okay, so metal should get them? did you get urs out at mud? or more into the bay??that bait ball was at mud when i was there on saturday.. hitting it up for about 1 hour or 2 and only small Taylor

I've never thrown metal slugs at them before but its worth a shot, use the small ones because the bait they are feeding on is only about 30mm long. Those two were caught about a kilometer away from mud toward moreton but they were everywhere.

[Runty66]

yeah thanks ohh on the eastern side?

[pantherman]

Lovely mac tuna mate.

Feel sorry for you losing your combo.

Hate that. :pinch:

[mick2me]

Mate first of all, enjoyed the read a pics, congrats on what sounded like a great sesh, but really sorry to hear about the loss of combo.

Cheers

Mick

[sweresy]

sorry to hear about the rod Dennis,

nice captures tho

[wesfish]

great day on the macktuna mate :woohoo:

[Keen-as-fisho]

Thanks guys. I've been searching around for the same or similar combo but cant afford it atm so it can wait. The mac fillets last night came out great, lightly pan fried with lemon, soy and fresh chillies on top.

[plugger]

Thanks guys. I've been searching around for the same or similar combo but cant afford it atm so it can wait. The mac fillets last night came out great, lightly pan fried with lemon, soy and fresh chillies on top.

i must have got a dud fish the, did all the right things bled, into ice slurry etc...have to get some recepies of you

[batman]

Awwwesome! fck I am so jelous!

Those tuna go like a zertec its been awhile since I loaded up on one so well done.