mackrek form around Ballina

[fishyfrost]

yeh i'm a lismore bloke usually go off ballina with a mate..... buying a boat sooon but :-) just wondering how the mackeral form has been and wen will they seriously start running? and where are the good spots

[HAZY]

Fishyfrost you made the fatal mistake of telling them your a cochroach,they will never reply to your thread now,but luckly there are a few of us on this site that slipped through the x-ray machine undeteced.


woody head is a good place to fish for mackeral from xmas time through till end of april same goes for evans head

[stonecold]

Fishyfrost, I'm only 20minutes down the road at Casino.
Word has it that there have already been a few spotties taken at woody. However the action won't really start to heat up until March April at Evans.

[onerabbit]

hi fishyfrost, im a ballina local, macks have been very hit & miss in ballina the last few years, more on the 32s than in close, stupid current, id go with the other boys to woody, they go off down there! let me know if you need a few starter marks for 32+ off ballina. muzz

[fishyfrost]

very nice pic onerabbit yeh i got a mate that has a few marks but if ya have ne that ya don't mind giving away i know alot of fishermen are secretive bout there spots haha would be a great start... i'm keen to catch some serious fish!!!

[lazeabout_4.5]

hey frost
does the guy live locally that ya buyin ya boat off he might have some new marks for us
john

[fishyfrost]

hahahahaha yeh john he lives in evans head so i guess most his marks will be off there..... we will see

[matti]

Hey local boys im from wollongbar!

[onerabbit]

hey fishyfrost, happy to supply anyone with a few starter marks, my advice off ballina is explore, ( & match out for sharks laying on the surface, full hit one, 1st time ever, wednesday morning 1 mile from the bar, my boat weighs around a tonne, stopped us dead at 23knts, 3 foot crack in my ####ing keel, damaged 2 month old motor.!!!) lennox 32 : 28.49.620 153.41.940 ballina 32 : 28.54.965 153.40.852 pippies( in close) 28.53.375 153.35.485 sth 32 : 28.59.613 153.39.825......if you want more out 1s let me know, & just a word on ballina bar, BE BLOODY CAREFUL, you have to cross 6-7 swells to get out, & if you can , dont buy something too small, cos it can get scarey coming home too. muzz

[onerabbit]

cod ground. muzz

[banshee]

Hey muzz,you should ask santa for a deck winch gota be better than lifting that brute with an overhead,and us lismore folk don't want your floged out 32 marks.............how about that Sambo mark lol.

[onerabbit]

hey banshee, i dont think a winch would be much good in 120fthm, too long to go down, 5mins freespooling. the marks provided before are just starters, all i had 5years ago courtesy of 250gps spots book, have other wider marks if anyone wants them, noone gets the sambo pin, caught that one in may with only my 13 yr old on board, 7 hook ups in 2hrs, only stopped 2. muzz

[banshee]

Yeh Muzz it's not bad but atleast 6 kilo short of yours I'd say,ah well gives me something to aim for.I find with the winches the best way to move the bigger fish is to use the swell to pump and wind,as the boat goes down wind up the slack,hopefully the swell will lift the fish ready for another wind.

[mackmauler]

the first one looks like an aj the rest samsons, no shortage of em, even 3rd world countries wouldnt eat em lol.

heres one to raise ya though.

[banshee]

Bloody Queenslanders.........always got to go one better.Nice fish Rob.