Shark Mackerel

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Shark Mackerel are one of the mainstays of the reef, and catch plenty trolling along the reef edges. This video shows some quality fish caught on our recent Hardline 2009 trip, with heaps caught. Sharks are always present and took their share, note some decent bitemarks, but that's fishing. The Rapala X raps are top lures and well worth having one in your troll pattern. Shark mackerel are quite a common bycatch when targetting spanish mackerel on the reef, keeps in fun, and can catch one every hundred metres when on the chew. Shark Mackerel are found througout the Great Barrier reef and grow to 11 or 12 kgs. More generally caught about 5 or 6 kilos though. They fight hard and are good eating fresh. They do have an iodine smell which does put people off, but fresh people were coming back for seconds, so well worth a try on the table.
Always have a floating pilchard out when bottom bashing, and any shark mackerel in the area usually won't say no.
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cheers Greg
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Sports

Tags:

• Shark
• Mackerel
• fishing
• Spanish
• Charter
• game
• trolling
• mackeral

[dstick1]

Nice work boys, cheers for posting it!

[Reefari]

Was some good trolling for Shark Mackerel, plenty along the reef edges, but the Spanish were a bit quiet, which we were really after,

Cheers Greg

[flatbikkie]

top stuff'greg...when's the next one..

[Reefari]

Off fishing again tomorrow, but will have another soon,

Cheers Greg

[Benno074]

Top shelf Greg...ive been patiently waiting for an upload...you guys pin anything else that day???

Cheers for the vid mate.

[Reefari]

HI Beno,

That was over a couple of days, out wide, the Spanish Mackerel were quiet, only got one 15 kg model. Got a few GT's on poppers and plenty of Red throat, reef fish,

Cheers Greg

[Benno074]

i had to watch it again :P

[simonelouise]

Some nice Shark Mackerel, Look out for those sharks LOL!!

[robdogg2020]

that's quite impressive!

[Reefari]

Will see what I can do, Keen to do some more Barra Fishing, they're getting quite a few about 1.20m in Kinchent lately, a mate got 4 in an hour just recently,

Cheers Greg