Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

[greenie.77]

Headed to the gold coast today with my bro to brave the conditions and smash a few jacks on poppers and frogies. The weather as you can see from the pics was terrible, but the fishing was sensational. Landing five jacks, getting smashed by two while losing our fav poppers, and grabbing a trevor along the way. The best jack went 44cm but the two we lost were 50 or over.
Using 2lb strene and 6lb traces we were always up to our necks deep in it when it came to pulling in the biggies.
Spot x has fired twice for us now recording 11 jacks in two sessions.
Here are some pics from the days events. All were released.

[Dorado]

Hey well done mate. Always great to see somebody getting into some quality fish in the adverse weather conditions we're having at the moment. I bet they were tons of fun to get on such light gear too. Great Jacks!

Cheers,
Dorado

[Pistol_P]

Great effort in such horrible conditions.

Looks like it was certainly worth the effort.

Pete

[plaztix]

Nice work on 2lb:o

Gotta admit i'm a little skeptical though :-X

The cold weather probably was on your side though as most of the Jacks are probably a bit sluggish at the moment. Was this the case? cause a 44cm Jack on 2lb is very sporting indeed.;D

Good results in any case and i mean no offence by my skepticism. ;);)

[croangler]

top fish guys

[greenie.77]

plaztix we have found fishing rock walls and on the surface with poppers the jacks find it hard to bust you off compared with fishing snags,we would never fish snags with that size string. And we fish for bream as well so it is all sport.

[JJT]

6lb leader dats an awsome effort mate top notch report
regards jason

[eotbmg]

Congrats mate fantastic to see a report during this crap weather
Are they river to sea bubble pops???? What type of retrieve do are you using on the poppers???
Cheers
Ben

[greenie.77]

sorry plaztix it is 8lb leader my mistake. If you enlarge the photo of my brother you can see that the leader is this size.

[geoff72]

great effort guys. Goes to show you can get jacks in any weather. Top marks.

[ffejsmada]

Good fishin there greenie well done!!!

What's that black plastic you were using??? Unweighted by the looks of it???

Cheers Jeff.

[greenie.77]

it is a river to sea bubble pop very slow action 3 pops and stop then go again the black plastic was used by my bro and is normally used in the fresh for bass it is a frog immatation, not sure what it is called though

[alleycat]

Mate you boys obviously love your sport and you released all your fish, i dips my lid to ya, well done fellas, true sports.

[nuggstar]

the black frog is called a buzz frog, top fish greenie and bro

[mickstar001]

Nice work Greenie, you forgot to add the Gps location tho???

Mickstar

[simool-awiad]

five out a seven aint bad on the light gear mate,top stuff!:thumbsup: i was only just going on about fishing for jacks in the rainy weather in fish-on`s post .must have inspired you guy`s to get out and have a go.hope i did anyway.:vrolijk_1: i would have been out there myself if i didn`t get called back to work.:'(

[plaztix]

sorry plaztix it is 8lb leader my mistake. If you enlarge the photo of my brother you can see that the leader is this size.

Gotta be happy with that all the same.

Boating a 44cm jack on 2lb main line is a top effort.

Good to see your efforts paid off ;)

[the gecko]

Nice pics......Thats a great result on light string in this weather. Youve encouraged me to get out there too. Thanks for sharing the report.

Do you just use a loose hook on the frog, or did it come out during the fight? Have you thought about a worm hook? They are often used with unweighted plastics.

cheers
Andrew

[codz22]

Some top fish there mate nothin better than takin fish on surface lures especially jack. I release all my jack as well there just to valuable to keep

[Tetsuo]

Good to see I'm not the only fool that fishes in these conditions. I wish I was getting the same results! Nice work!