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Mackerel making reels scream
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er days, we can cover a lot more ground and hopefully find better bites with more fish.
once before with what I would call a reason- able result of a nice red emperor, barcheek coral trout and a hard fighting chinaman fish – which should be ex- citing.
Mackerel are warm- ing up and there’s no better sound than a reel screaming when that line is being stripped off at what seems like a hundred miles an hour.
Inshore has contin- ued to produce reason- able numbers of bar- ramundi and mangrove jack – given the water temperature is still a little cool – along with the ever-present estuary cod, bream and even a nice cobia, though it was slightly undersized.
They’ve made a few appearances around the loader lately, tak- ing queenfish that un- lucky anglers have managed to hook-up to and doing it in spec- tacular fashion.
We look forward to a more consistent bite as the temperature rises because there are still a few slow days to be had, but that’s fishing, I guess.
Leaping clear of the water with a meal in their mouth and alert- ing the angler who was just hooked-up to said fish, which is now that much shorter – that’s if what’s left actually stays on and isn’t hit by another one of these speedsters.
Until next time, may the wind stay low and the fish count high.
Jessie with his rst ever sand bass (often confused with barramundi), enjoyed an inshore day with mum Natalie.
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Offshore has seen a few hard-fighting trevally being caught on far north Queens- land jigs, as well as the usual quality coral trout and nannygai, even a nice green job- fish.
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