South Straddie Fun

[Eddy1]

We had planned a trip at Barwon Banks, but the weather put paid to that. One of our other options was a trip close in off Goldy. Sam, Jeff and I headed out the seaway around 7.00am and immediatly scored a nice trev on a rapala, turned around and did the troll again and nailed a small spottie as we rounded the the nth wall. Could be a good day. We continued our troll towards Couran Cove and another 100m the red-head Lively got hammered and some unknown peeled off line at a rate of knots. Jeff took the rod and felt the weight of a good fish......gone, pulled in and the lure sported some impressive toothy marks. We headed down to Couran Cove and proceeded to land and lose a healthy number of medium spotties on pillies, great fun on light gear. We probably lost more that we landed...a switch to wire helped a lot, the size of the fish was improving but the bait supply depleted, we headed in to chase some flatties on sp's. The rain and wind picked up so we headed home early....great day out....ed

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[CFisher]

Nice catch there Eddy - just a quick note though, you caught a bunch of doggie mackerel not spotties. Dogs can be a little difficult to ID on there own but in a few of your photos the mackerel clearly have the large blotches rather than the smaller distinct spots of a spottie - a spotties spots will be present along the entire length of the body where as doggies blotches are often only visible on the back half of the fish - as per your photos.

Cheers
Andy

[Eddy1]

Thanks for that....saw some spots..so we thought they must be spottey macks???...am new to this mackeral fishing.....ed

[craigie]

Great Work Dave !!!!!!!!!

Didn't realise you were on Ausfish 8-) 8-)

Great to see plan "B" worked out well !!! Good haul of Macks.

Andy and I are keen to do the Barwons trip when the weather plays the game. Always next time.

I like your blue "Flathead Classic" esky, might have one of them myself

[Eddy1]

craige.....good to hear from you...can't wait to get out to the Banks...we'll keep an I on the weather....let me know you contact numbers...email..etc....
Love them sandies....mmmmm...did you get anything else??

ed

[grant6336]

Nice haul of mackeral there mate [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

nice haul of mackerel there fellas...Well Done #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim #:D

[craigie]

Ed,

Saturday was quiet, a few Crabs and a couple of Bonito. Andy thrashed the water to foam with the spinning outfit and metal lures, but couldn't get the Macks to play. The week prior they were going nuts, that's the way it goes :P
The Crabs above were caught on Friday, 4 pots left overnight produced 25 keepers !!

Cheers
Craig.

[Fisher4life]

were they caught inside the bar or outside the bar??

[Eddy1]

They were caught outside the bar....ed

[mat_anderson04]

hay mate nice catch there alot of macks coght

looked like it was a grate day out

chrees ando