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PTlenty of variety on the Gold Coast
Vince hooked a lovely school mackerel on white pilchard bait.
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HE Gold Coast Broadwater has been fishing re-
Broadwater Guide
by CLINT ANSELL
markably well and has had a great variety of fish on the bite.
I have never seen this many though – we’ve had large numbers of schoolies feeding every day for weeks now.
their first year of life. You will rarely see them busting the sur- face, instead this fish prefer to hold near the bottom and round up
School mackerel nor- mally appear in the southern Broadwater at this time of year be- cause they begin their annual migration from the north.
They are voracious predators and reach 50cm – legal size – in
baitfish.
We’ve caught up to 60
A school mackerel caught on a Pro Lure V35 blade in Ayu Coffee colour.
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easily caught with white pilchard rigged on small gang hooks and a small ball sink- er, just heavy enough
a day on silver 20g and 35g Samaki Flash lures. The best way to work them being to drop the lure straight to the bot- tom and then crank it to the surface as fast as
you can.
School mackerel are
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