Matty_M
09-12-2007, 07:56 PM
Went on an exploratory mission up a creek north of Mackay this morning with the aim of getting as far up the creek as possible to the brackish-salt/fresh interface where Jacks reign supreme. Unfortunatley after 2 hours of pulling the punt ova rock bars we were defeated by a log jam :'( , not far from our destination, at least we think, so we turned around fishless in search of another creek not to far away which we had a sneaky suspicion could produce the goods.
We arrived at spot x, this time making it to the salt/fresh interface at around 11am, we were thinking it was a bit late in the day when Trent got smashed by small Jack around 30cm in 50cm of crystal clear freshwater, you beauty.He got it on a laser Pro. I then tied on a the old faithfull SX40 which has produced in these situations previous, and was smashed by 2 yellowfin Bream to 32cm in the shallows all visible takes in the crystal clear shallows.
A couple of casts later after watching a few smaller Jacks follow out my SX i saw a big Jack appear from no where and smash my SX40 in only 2 feet of water and go straight for the sticks, a great battle eventuated and after a heart stopping minute the Jack was on board for a quick photo before being released. It went 50cm (TL) and was caught on my bream gear (Diawa sol 2000/Loomis4-8lb) 6lb string 10lb trace. Ended up with 3 more Jacks to 35cm, a Tarpon and and a good size Archer between us, all on Bream gear, all released to fight another day. Bloody awesome sight fishing, with all the takes and follows easily visible..
Cheers
We arrived at spot x, this time making it to the salt/fresh interface at around 11am, we were thinking it was a bit late in the day when Trent got smashed by small Jack around 30cm in 50cm of crystal clear freshwater, you beauty.He got it on a laser Pro. I then tied on a the old faithfull SX40 which has produced in these situations previous, and was smashed by 2 yellowfin Bream to 32cm in the shallows all visible takes in the crystal clear shallows.
A couple of casts later after watching a few smaller Jacks follow out my SX i saw a big Jack appear from no where and smash my SX40 in only 2 feet of water and go straight for the sticks, a great battle eventuated and after a heart stopping minute the Jack was on board for a quick photo before being released. It went 50cm (TL) and was caught on my bream gear (Diawa sol 2000/Loomis4-8lb) 6lb string 10lb trace. Ended up with 3 more Jacks to 35cm, a Tarpon and and a good size Archer between us, all on Bream gear, all released to fight another day. Bloody awesome sight fishing, with all the takes and follows easily visible..
Cheers