Fraser Island's 119lb Spanish Mackerel Interview with Doug Buhagiar

Doug Buhagiar is the man who landed that 119lb Spanish mackerel off the beach on Fraser Island in August 2015 on his Alvey beach outfit. Fishing Monthly caught up with Doug and he shared the experience and the tackle and techniques that he used to catch it.

[@FishingAdventuresDubai]

That's one monster croc brother. And to catch that from the beach js even more amazing. What a trophy. Hats off sir. 🏆👏

[@Will-pc9eq]

I dont want to be that guy in the comment sections but you probably should have let the GT go
Awesome mackerel

[@iii-fi3et]

congrats

[@ScubaChris]

Aloha Doug,
I do educational fishing videos in Hawaii (UA-cam as Scuba Chris). Great angling there mate! Been thinking of using a Alvey 650 in Hawaii for GT/shark/ray shore bait casting. Nobody has ever done that here. Was wondering if i can use any standard surf casting rod, or does it have to have a short rear butt like i've seen in a few UA-cam videos? Thinking my 11' Lamiglas Insane Surf might be good with a Alvey? Mahalo! Christopher

[@chuckchuckles1688]

gday chris i know it's been 8 years but yes you will need a custom low mount mod. for gt and stuff i definitley recommend a 651 size alve, they hold 900m of 13kg (30lb line)

[@madmullet1990]

AWESOME!!!!!

[@dougbuhagiar1691]

+madmullet1990 Thank you. :)

[@sharlenegates]

hey Doug did u eat the fish or a bit iffy in case of cigatera

[@CRN8091]

Sharlene Gates
You would hope so..

[@bigfish6259]

Caught a 76cm flaty at kingfisher bay resort jeti

[@kyk2454]

They sold one here in dubai for 50,000 dollars it was 50 kg

[@mohamedalmuhairi324]

Dubai moon island 120lb+ Kingfish

[@seqldfishing5254]

Whoo hooo kill everything.....why would you kill huge GT etc etc....

[@fisherman7834]

I was asking the same question

[@kylelouiselle1201]

Are you a hippie eat that

[@chuckchuckles1688]

they didnt brake any laws

[@ethana1017]

Mono or braid

[@rabbitskinner]

Ethan A mono for slide baiting

[@ethana1017]

Lee Winger why

[@rabbitskinner]

Ethan mono has more stretch, braid will pull out breakaway sinkers due to no stretch. you need biig grapnell sinkers for slide baiting

[@ethana1017]

Lee Winger ok

[@andrewfernandez6382]

That isn’t a mackerel that’s a king fish, mackerel have little yellow dots and kingfish don’t. Although mackerel are kingfishes cousins

[@FishingMonthly]

It depends on where you live. We call them mackerel in Australia. There is more to the world than America!

[@yellowgraoe2262]

Mate this isn't the same fish u catch in America u guys have the Atlantic Spanish mackerel while us aussies have narrow barred mackerel

[@mangoman2148]

I'm Aussie but once did a fishing trip off Florida and caught what looked like our Spotted Mackerel, only the skipper called them Spanish (nothing like our Spaniards). And what we call Tailor they call Bluefish.