20kg+ Mackie
Submitted by sideshow on Sat, 2014-02-15 10:29
Went down to the E shed yesterday arvo looking for a spot and saw a massive spanish mack laying on the deck the bloke who caught it was saying it went over 20 kilo
and it looked about 1.5m. This is the second one in 2 weeks that I have seen and have heard of a few others from there now.
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StevieP
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yep saw the pic on FB
yep saw the pic on FB absolute horse..
thefishwrangler
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nice fish. one of my mates
nice fish. one of my mates has a son who caught a 50kgs mack i have seen a photo of it and i nearly fell over. it was caught a few years ago but what a monster fish. i would love one half the size:-)
tim-o
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CRAZY!
CRAZY!
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Finatic
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50 Kilos!! Now that would be
50 Kilos!! Now that would be a sight. I was lucky enough to work on the Mackeral Islands in the fishing resort and did manage to see a 34 kg monster taken which was an absolute horse. It made the four blokes holding it look like little kids.
spinksy
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Saw an article
On the news last night about some people that got crook for a week after eating spanish mackeral. Some toxic thing that is fairly rear .but not to eat any over 10kg
scotto
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Yeah, but nah
Ciguatera poisoning. EXTREMELY rare in WA (2 recorded cases ever), to a point that it's not even worth contemplating as an issue.
They get it a bit in Queensland and NT, and it gets passed on when a fish eats an already infected fish, hence bigger specimens of fish prone to carrying ciguatera.
I've heard you can get cig test kits to test the fish before you eat it. Popular with spearos that nail 15kg + coral trout, etc.
Redchoppa
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Ciguatera
I lived on on island in the Coral Sea (Willis Island) with unbelievably good fishing and diving off the beach onto reef or the reef drop off...red bass, coral trout, jobbies, many species of trevally and all hungry and has only been fished by a few. Unfortunately also a ciguatera hot spot so none of the trout that were plentiful landed on the table. I had to eat fish out of the freezer.
sunshine
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Sounds like you manned the weather station
Used to talk to them on ham radio
Redchoppa
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VK9WI
Yep, but there was no ham radio, all digital during my time. Ham operators would expedition out there and set up stations, happened every few years. Desirable as Willis was it's own country in DX terms I believe. I could understand why you'd get to place like that and hide in a tent talking to someone miles away when an ocean full of hungry (ciguatera laden) fish was literally metres away.
Auslobster
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With macks...
...and other predatory pelagics like barracuda/wahoo/dogtooth, it's less a matter of ciguatera and more a matter of mercury poisoning...same reasons, bigger fish consuming greater quantities of contaminated prey, toxic buildup, etc etc.
And like ciguatera, slim to none chance of problems in WA waters...
kingfisha1 (not verified)
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were do you see the photo?
were do you see the photo?
bitten
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the one in my avatar is
the one in my avatar is nearly 50 kilos
crasny1
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Are you talking
about the one you are holding up?
If so I question that. Caught heaps of macks off Dampier, largest I got and I thought it was a horse with a pregnant whales girth was 22kg approx (calculated from lenght) AND that was way bigger than the one in the Avatar.
I would gestimate that at 15+kg, maybe 50lb.
Not wanting an arguement but a 50kg mack would be a sight for sore eyes, and take a few blokes to hold up above shoulder height.
EDIT: Oops - typo. The one I estimated was 32kg not 22kg. Much the same as in the photo below.
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FISH-ON
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yeh I saw it he caught it
yeh I saw it he caught it baitcastin live scalies
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mjohns
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I was thinking the same
I was thinking the same crasny
crasny1
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This one is 32kg and a horse
Caught by Tim LB from Wagoe
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sideshow
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This is closer to the size
This is closer to the size of the fish Im talking about, the girth was about the size of a football around the head/gill plates maybe bigger. I couldnt have put but my hands right around it by a mile
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crasny1
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That is a serious mac
landbased up north. Doing that at the humble E shed is astounding!!
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sideshow
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I just wish it was mine
I just wish it was mine hahaha
It was the biggest mack Ive ever seen the guy was all secretive about it so unfortunatly I couldnt get a pic he was even reluctent to show my mate and I
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crasny1
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LOL
Probably caught up north, defrosted and displayed at E shed, Just to piss the locals off
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sideshow
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Haha
Haha
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paul83
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That is an impressive
That is an impressive spanyard Crasny
Pick it up, put it down....
crasny1
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Not Mine mate
Wanted to show a BIG spaniard and that was Tim's posted on here some time ago. As mentioned above did get a similar one off the boat in Dampier but at work (
) so cant find my own pic.
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Chris fish
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his 38kg one the next year
his 38kg one the next year from quobba makes that one from wagoe look tiny!!!
always looking for a new challenge!!
crasny1
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Why do people talk up a fish that is nowhere near that range
Someone posting above been guilty off that before:
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/40kg-spanish-mackerel-caught-coral-bay
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Rig
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lol
ha ha things get bigger over time
COASTALJOY
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50kg +
I have a photo of a 50kg + mackie I dont know how to post it but can attach to an email now for someone who knows how to post it up. so people can see what a horse mackie is. pm me if you would like the photo in email, fish was caught 22 years ago, old film photo scanned but still clear
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COASTALJOY
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onto it
Had the pm already, I hope it works
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catch.fish
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COASTALJOY's pic
Here you go mate, that is one serious mack hows the girth on it!!
crasny1
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Now thats a Mack
Makes my 32kg one look like a pup. Wow
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Awesome spaniard.
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crasny1
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Now bitten
Have a gander at this one and compare it to the 15kg odd one your holding up.
All off us are fisherman and like to inflate our catches a little, but claiming something that anyone in half the know will see as wrong just irritate me.
I suspect your scale was in lb mate.
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COASTALJOY
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I didnt catch it
Was not me that caught it I took the photo, just wish I did catch it. I dont think I would ever beat it or see another this size in my lifetime. My biggest caught pro fishing was a 29kg trunked fish weighed back at the jetty.
The fish in the photo was caught at black rock north of coral bay.
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kirky79
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That is enormous!!! My old
That is enormous!!! My old man had one caught on his boat out from Coral Bay years ago up on the photo board at the pub, for years that was big but no where near that one!! About to send a screen shot of that one to him. Thanks for getting it on the site.
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Thanks for sharing that
Thanks for sharing that Coastal. That is a stonka!!! Makes all the boasters and bulls$%$##$rs honest
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paul83
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Makes me feel less of a man
Makes me feel less of a man to say the biggest spanish mack i have caught is 7kg, but it can only get better i suppose.
Pick it up, put it down....
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I had the best fish of the
I had the best fish of the trip to karratha until i hooked a little tacker and asked Lisa to reel in the rod next to me. As her lure skipped to the boat this bad boy smashed it. 20.2kg!!!!!!!! WTF
She got the biggest of the trip! Should of cut the friggn line lol
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uncle
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I remember a 103 lb
caught off the rocks at quobba on a ballon, saw the pic in the Carnarvon rag
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