king of kings Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Hi Raiders, 1st post, bout time i start sharing my adventures. Went fishing anzac day with my mate and his brother. Plan was to go south as usual but with a bad weather forecast decided at the last minute to try north for a change and see if we could get into some different fish. Left at 10pm and after multiple wrong turns through thick shrub found the ledge at 3am. Only managed 1 slimie in the morning, put him out under a float and continued to collect yakkas. Didn't take long and my drag was screaming like i had never heard before, picked up the rod but too late, reefed. Now very excited we had 2 livies out and started spinning like mad. My mates brother casts a 65 raider and after a few winds hooks up in a big way, we knew this was no bonito or salmon and after about 10mins he lands his 1st mac and 1st fish on lure. It went 77cm and about 4 or 5 kg. Had a few more missed hook-ups on livies and some kings chase lures in but was pretty slow. My mate put out a small bonnie and had the same result as my slimie in the morning. So we definitely missed out on some good fish. Decided to start packin up when my livie i left out goes off and line starts SCREAMING , tighten the drag and knew it was a good fish, this time it didn't go deep just out and fast, was using my old shakespeare sigma with 55lb braid and 60lb fluoro, this usually handles average pelagics ok but now it was showing its wear and tear, could hardly turn the handle but after a great fight the fish tired and came in, landed the fish without gaffing as i planned to release. I was STOKED, especially to get it as we were packin up, always worth leavin a bait out. It went 86cm and around 7 or 8kg, wasn't a longtail but i was more than happy nonetheless. Will definitely be heading north more often now, time to get a TLD. Cheers BTW my username is not a claim but a goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooooled Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Top mac tuna off the rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Hooked Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 You should have called your self King of Mac. What a whoppa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of kings Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 caught bonito and stuff but never a mack tuna ! good fish mate where abouts are these rockss Cheers guys. This was at charlottes head near seal rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickman Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 top effort off the stones has seal rocks changed much i haven't been there for 20 years is there still only one shop when i was a kid my brother and uncle built bungwall fish co opp some great times were had at light house beach partying with the hippys cheers gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plankton Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I swim around Charlotte Head sometimes. Always see Mack Tuna there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of kings Posted May 7, 2012 Author Share Posted May 7, 2012 (edited) top effort off the stones has seal rocks changed much i haven't been there for 20 years is there still only one shop when i was a kid my brother and uncle built bungwall fish co opp some great times were had at light house beach partying with the hippys cheers gary didn't go into seal rocks itself just elizabeth beach, beautiful area though can't wait to explore more. plan to try seal rocks or treachery head next, heard there are some monster kings around there atm Edited May 7, 2012 by king of kings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erroll Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Wow, that is indeed a fair macT. Well done there mate. I'm sure that made the trip back a whole lot easier. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjc123 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 are mack tuna good eating ? Not great, they make a great bait for the reefies though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of kings Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 yeah , i filleted a bonito a couple of months ago for bait and it looked like such nice meat , any ideas about eating bonnie ? after being told by a friend to give them a go bonito are now one of my favourite eating fish. Missus and the kids love them too. I just fillet cover in some minced garlic and spices(morrocan goes good) and throw on the bbq, always get a good feed off them too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnierthanu Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 didn't go into seal rocks itself just elizabeth beach, beautiful area though can't wait to explore more. plan to try seal rocks or treachery head next, heard there are some monster kings around there atm I was up there last weeek , bloke got a 30kg longtail , did you see the 8ft bronze whaler cruzing around ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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