Hunting Spanish Mackerel | Quobba Station | EP32 YR02

We finish up our time at Quobba with a couple of epic sessions off the cliffs chasing a few reefies and the wind finally plays the game to get the balloon setup out.
I get into my first spanish land based which was epic and we can't thank Lynn and Alan enough for their guidance and company!
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Music from Epidemic Sounds
Intro Song By - Alex Kehm
Called - Face (Instramental)
Song By - Loving Caliber
Called - The River's Gonna Cry When You're Gone (Instrumental)
Song By - Ooyy
Called - Springbreak

[@ondaroam311]

Fishing with old mate Stoney 🤙🤙

[@oldmate_adventures]

Haha he's a legend hey!

[@petern1702]

amazing well done nothing like enjoying and being in the moment - great to see you both just living life to the full and more -

[@oldmate_adventures]

Cheers Pete!! 👍 Yeah mate we try and giver a good hard crack!

[@JTAdventures79]

Quobba in May is all time

[@oldmate_adventures]

Seems to be mate! Not many crew around which was good also 👌

[@TheBaldandtheBeautiful]

Epic sessions off the rocks. Congratulations on your first land based Mackie. 🍻 🎣.

[@oldmate_adventures]

Yeah mate was great fun!! 👍 Time for a upgrade next year 🙌🐟🤺

[@steveblechynden104]

Outstanding "Old Mate"!...Gotta be happy with that! Keep the episodes rolling in Mate!👍

[@oldmate_adventures]

Cheers Stevo! Yeah mate had a solid week!

[@steveblechynden104]

@@oldmate_adventures Just curiously "Old Mate' are you using braid to a mono leader & if so what lb leader required at Quobba in your humble?🤔

[@oldmate_adventures]

@steveblechynden104 braid main line (40-50lb) mate with a 60 plus lb leader around 3 to 4m long 👍

[@steveblechynden104]

@@oldmate_adventures 👍

[@markthomas4594]

You two need a bigger fridge ,great flick look forward to more thanks for sharing your magnificent Adventures

[@oldmate_adventures]

Haha yeah it's a rare thing for us to have so much quality fish! Cheers mate much appreciated Mark! 👍🍻

[@russellhodkinson9855]

Still living the dream bro 🤙

[@oldmate_adventures]

Yeah Russ givin err a good ole crack anyway! 🍻 Getting any snapper action down south mate?

[@russellhodkinson9855]

@@oldmate_adventures tbh mate it's been quiet but with lost of small fish this year! Wish I had a week spare ATM I'd come up there tomorrow.... Good to see you an Kell anv a great time mate an catch up soon for sure 😁💪🤙

[@oldmate_adventures]

@russellhodkinson9855 arr bugga! Yeah mate we have scored some cracker weather up here this year so far and no shortage of a feed or 2. We'll catch up for a Hamelin Bay mission with the big fella! 🍻👍

[@craigdsilva8966]

Mate awesome content love a bit of LBG

[@oldmate_adventures]

Cheers Craig! 👍 yeah mate loved it, will be coming back next year and see if I can break into the 10kg + 🙌

[@Dstick1Spearfishing]

Wicked Video Jed and Kel, Hey, how did you ID a Moses Perch at 4:32? I was calling it a finger mark due to its back colour, darker horizontal lines. I'm no expert FWIW. Interested to understand the difference. The drone footage you got Kel was so good! Spell bound watching it! Nothing funny than seeing Jed sweating beads bringing in a macky, well done mate, look like you spent some jelly snakes getting it back onto the reef LOL! 🤣 Ripping fish, jealous as! 12:03 that is a ripper pic, that would be going into my screen saver album LOL , nice entrée! Hey Jed / Kel at 14:25 what lens setting is the gopro on? Is it wide or superwide any idea? Just trying to set my gopros up for up north. I think I have now just seen the most unlucky Baldie ever - Kel you needed some carry on music for that scene 😆. Al and Lyn well done! Thanks Jed and kel, it's Sunday night and I'm excited because we have +7 seconds of Daylight after Winter Solstices has passed and I am camped next to a heater watching your adventure. Thanks for the laughs, Stay safe, have fun! 👍🎣

[@oldmate_adventures]

Hey Dave! Cheers mate, yeah she was some great fishing there for sure!! Yeah we had caught a few smaller perch the day before, at first assuming they were Fingermark but on further investigation found they were Moses Perch. Fingermark are usually a lil more golden too. GoPro we usually run wide if on your head, 2.7k @60fps or if talking to it go linear with horizontal levelling. But just gotta make sure to switch it back. We have been having mass audio issues lately, it's been a constant battle! Ha yeah I'll have to screen shot the ole Tuna head for a photo for sure! Where you going on ya trip north?

[@oldmate_adventures]

I also find Super View sometimes becomes needed but can distort a little too much. I use Superview when diving to try and capture as much as possible because it's attached to my goggles and hard to check if everything is in view

[@Dstick1Spearfishing]

@@oldmate_adventures Jed, I was using 2.7k 120fps for my diving, but have wide on my googles and linear on my gun cam. I'm going to give the 4k 60fps a go for on land stuff and my googles diving on the next trip. I dialed my exposure back to -0.5 as well and that has made a difference and kept the IS0 100-1600 max. I believe the 800max might be better for what we do as well FWIW. I was wondering about the superwide as when you were fishing there was some weird things going on with the rod that made an almost fish eye look. I'm going to give the 10bit colour a whirl which is why I am going into 4k60FPS as I can not do that in 2.7k120FPS. Hell knows what size files I am going to get LOL. Will be trying some stuff out this weekend for SAG. I'll let you know. Cheers for the help! Stay safe, have fun! 👍😁

[@reddustadventures]

What a crackin week of Epic fishing. Some solid fishing. Freezer filled and memories made. Bloody Awesome guys 👌👌🍻🍻🎣🎣

[@oldmate_adventures]

Yeah cheers mate was a solid few sessions with the O G's of Quobba! Such good fun! 🍻👍

[@bryanpaynechefbrybry1067]

How fkn awsome was that week you had.. Super stoked for you both.. great to see the freezer so topped up... Spanish macky for days.. pitty the fkn taxman took his share.. but all in all a great mixed bag there Oldmate.. Hope that you both are okay.. My Saturday evening is now complete.. Cheers ledgends...till the next one cheers..

[@oldmate_adventures]

Cheers Mr Payne! Yeah was a epic time with the Quobba gang! Finally we were blessed with magic weather and conditions 🙌. Yeah it has been a few weeks since Quobba and we have just finished all the fish, was so so good! Hope ya well mate and take it easy 👍👍

[@wontstandstill1756]

Another great episode you two and love the new intro 😊

[@oldmate_adventures]

Cheers Paul! 👍🍻 Yeah still a working progress n needs a bit of tuning!

[@Oceanic_Adventures]

A good bit of fishing action there! And at least 1 march fly! I’m on my way there next weekend, between the blowholes and the station can I get through on normal tyre pressure?

[@oldmate_adventures]

Ha yeah those lil buggers seem to track me down everywhere! 😅 Yeah should be ok on the main track into Quobba, though I recommend letting them down to at least 30psi if you can. We were running on 18psi the whole week, was alot more comfortable👍👍. Happy trekking mate!

[@Oceanic_Adventures]

@@oldmate_adventures cheers, will do then

[@thumpergman]

Time to take that fishing gear and dinghy to king ash bay.

[@oldmate_adventures]

Lets do this! 🐟🤺

[@scale2tail]

You done well, mate. Freezer looks healthy hehe. Should keep you both going for a while. Think im in love with that location. Just wondering how you find the webber over the ziggy. You have had both now. We are just unsure what one we should get for our caravan? Well, both of you. Well done on the fly kill Kel 👌 and the filming hehe

[@oldmate_adventures]

Yeah mate we had epic weather which always aids for some good times 👌👌! That whole coast is pretty magic! Yeah thee ole ziggy simply just fell apart mate. Webbers seem to be easier to clean and grease tray also. Only downfall from webber is the hood isn't as high but we cook roasts on the rotisserie anyway. Cheers Nathan 👍

[@scale2tail]

@oldmate_adventures thanks. I did notice the lid looks lower. I believe rotisserie is the best way to go. Keeps them juices on the meat and what does drip adds smoke flavour. So good, yummm. Thanks again, mate. You both stay safe out there, especially on the rocks. We have plenty of rain here. So cold. Watching your videos warms me up a bit hahha

[@oldmate_adventures]

@scale2tail yeah mate rotisserie is the go to every time, so much more flavour! She's a nice 28c up here today though the nights getting down to 9c. Perfect all round!

[@scale2tail]

@oldmate_adventures sounds so perfect. Soak it all in mate 🌞👌

[@seantylerjimenez3767]

Legendary video! Keep it up! 🤙🏽🤙🏽 Can also ask where abouts in Quobba is this spot? Going there in couple months and wanting to avoid high cliff rocks especially cause we are new to fishing and that spot u went to seems to be perfect!

[@oldmate_adventures]

Hopefully the info I sent gets ya onto some fish mate! Take lots of sinkers and leader too! Lots of snags haha. Have a good trip Seano👍

[@olig369]

Great video, whereabouts in quobba is this?

[@oldmate_adventures]

Just north of the Homestead mate 👍

[@bruhfish6117]

hey mate, heading up that way pretty soon and trying to gather a few ledges to spin for mackerel. what was that ledge called that you where fishing when you got your mac? not really prepared to fish the 10ft+ ledges so i have been trying to gather a bunch of smaller ledge spots. cheers

[@oldmate_adventures]

Hey mate, it's just a super common spot very close to camp grounds. Though saying that the spot I'm told is usually under water with heavy swells hitting it. We just got super lucky as it was big tides with no swell at all so we were able to get to that ledge on low low tide.