queensland Mackerel season starts

[tugger]

A late report from december the 20th before the big swell hit the coast we were able to fish the palm beach reef with a couple of mates Alan and Nathan who is on the site here. We were the first boat out over the bar at currumbin early in the morning at 4am and first onto the reef so my spot i have fished for over 30yrs was vacant as i like it.

We sent some pillies out and started jigging for live bait when a few more boats started to arrive the more boats the merrier i believe as its like tailor fishing where you get more baits and burley in the water the better. The 2 boats either side of us started to pull mackerel in not long after they got set up so it was a matter of time till we got hit.

Nathan started to flick a metal slug around and as he the lure nearly at the boat a large spanish mackerel took it and cut him off leaving a hole in the water right beside the boat we got a good look at him so we were excited to say the least. Then all hell broke loose with the 3 baits out getting strikes and 2 spotties were away with screaming runs till they succum to the ugly stiks then gaffed and dealt with quickly by the preist.

With no baits left in the water i said to Nathan to tie another slug on and keep casting away while Alan and I got some baits out again. It wasn't long when Nathan was on with the lure and he was into a good fish taking many good long runs before we got a look at it and it was time to get the gaff ready for a good spanish mack.

This fish just beat Nathan best spanaird by 2 cm so he was a happy chappy then things went quiet around 0530 till we got a live yakka which we deployed and it was hit but no hook up. Only a few boats in our area got onto fish this day and only early then the swell got up a few days later which kept us beached till the end of the holidays.

January seems to be hotting up for the macks now as my mates have been giving me regular reports lately of cobia and mackerel so bring on the wavebreak island social

[dassa]

nice report mark again good to see you boys got a good feed atleast and I'm chomping at the bit for wave break.

cheers dassa

[crazywalrus]

Thanks Mark that has really wet the palate for Wave break.

[Shane69]

Well done mate.

Thanks for report

Im heading palm beach this weekend.

Hopefully hook on to spanish.

Hows the currumbin bar atm.

[Bi_polar]

They must be on up here too, yesterday I saw heaps of people cleaning spanyards down at the water at Cotton Tree

[Eug]

wicked stuff. agree with dassa and ted, be good to catch up wavebreak.

[tugger]

The bar is alright they removed alot of sand inside to straighten the run up i've had no problems with it

Well done mate.

Thanks for report

Im heading palm beach this weekend.

Hopefully hook on to spanish.

Hows the currumbin bar atm.

[Manni79]

that's awesome, well done

[Scope]

Nice report tugger, well done

[jgarner447]

Dude thats a nice spanish ......well done... im still yet to catch a mack off the rocks, i think ive hooked up to a few but they always cut me off

[mick fillet]

nice spanyard,great sesion