Michael Hatte

Cracking kings mate!!!! Good to see they are still around in the bay

This mack was caught trolling a garfish at Cobourg/NT in 2007, 19kg and around 1.2meters. Caught my first mack a day earlier around the 80cm mark using a garfish, saw numerous fish jumping all day and after chatting to the boys over a couple cans that night the plan was to hit it early... Up early the next day and started rigging up for a quick troll out around a coral bommie, 20mins into it we had not seen any fish activity and were thinking about heading in when all hell broke loose!!!!! I will never forget the sound that eggbeater made, the fish had to of stripped 100m+ of line in a couple seconds.. Magic stuff!!!! After a 5 or so minute fight we had our first glimpse of it, a couple more short runs and she ran out of puff and had her aboard.. That was my first trip up north and i was completely Blow away, Crossing off around 20 fish that i had never seen or caught... Just booked a trip to Weipa in with the same crew of people who took me to Cobourg, cant wait to get amongst it again!!!

Caught at Scotts Head/mid north coast

HA HA Not wrong had to get back there on sat, only landed a couple flatties on friday arvo when i saw you guys poll'n em...... Have you been doing any good around the bridges?

Braved the conditions on saturday to hunt down some jew around the Alfords point/Lugarno area of the Georges River. Started fishing at around 3ish noticed the tide had just about stopped running out so anchored up a couple boat lengths back from a nice drop off of nearly 3-4meters and started bombing the drop off with a 100mm shad type plastic. 5 minutes later felt a thud through the braid, i paused the lure but nothing.......... Quickly retrived the lure and put it back in the same general area and continued to work the lure, 10seconds into retrive the little 2500 series reel is scream'n!!!!! ooooh yeh definate jew hit... After a few nice runs and sloggin it down deep i finally got a view of it, only a little guy of around the 60cm mark but cant beat fishing lite. Fished for another 2 hours in the same area, boat traffic was starting to become a major problem. Thanks to the two guys racing there ski boats in a 8 knot zone Finally the boat traffic stop and was joined buy another couple boats fishing plastics. Just on dusk got smashed again and landed another jew which was just under 60cm but still top fun, the guys fishing beside me also hooked up on what seemed to be a better fish prob around 70cm mark. Quickly getting dark called it a night and headed back to the ramp. Lures used were, Squidgy shad 100mm-foxy shad and berkly pogy 4inch-anchovy. Worked the lures with a simple lift and retrive style