Awoonga Jack

[Whitty]

I've just recently return from a trip to awoonga fishing with a few mates.
All up we ended up catching 12 barra and 2 jacks between the 6 of us, one jack was 50cm and the other
jack was 67cm,one of the bigest jack I've ever seen it looked like pupua new guinea bass
big and fat, this fish must be some kind of record for fresh water?

My mate Scotty caught the jacks trolling a barra classic at night time.

will post the pictures soon.



Whitty

[bdowdy]

looking forward to seeing the piccys , about time we started seeing some bruiser awoonga jacks. cheers bdowdy..brett

[Keechie]

do you mean jack as in mangrove jack or a different species?:-/

[Whitty]

Yep! Mangrove jack

[childers]

unreal ,cant wait to see pics,cheers

[Keechie]

Yep! Mangrove jack
i never new you could get mangrove jack in fresh water. thanks for that

regards,
keechie

[5Zigen]

Posting a pic for Whitty:). Nice fish dude!

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r177/civ11c/AwoongaJack67cm.jpg (http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r177/civ11c/AwoongaJack67cm.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)

[banshee]

So how hard did this beast pull,comparable or better than a river/reef fish?.........Imagine one of these up around the metre!

[wamjam]

:o Bloody hell, looks like there will be some posts on what jack gear to use at awoonga!.
wamjam

[Whitty]

My mate called it for a metre plus barra at first until it got to the surface and he seen it was a little bit short and fat to be a metre plus barra.

[Hardb8]

Go the Dog Bream!
Give it another 5-6 more years and I reckon the Barra will be taking a backseat at Awoonga to massive,Thumpin Jacks.I know I'd trade 10 metre+ Barra for 1 Jack that lenght :) .

[rossco]

Bloody hell thats huge, well done whitty.

cheers rossco

[Whitty]

Bloody hell thats huge, well done whitty.

cheers rossco


Thanks rossco I wish it was me that caught it but it was my mate Scotty how caught the fish.

Whitty.

[Lovey80]

Did the fish get eaten? Just wondering as jack are my favourite eating fish and for the most i cant stand fresh water fish. Would be great to know they chew just as good.

Cheers Chris

[Whitty]

Worst luck we did keep the fish to eat and it tasted just like freshwater fish. Not worth eating, stick to eating the saltwater jacks.

[Lovey80]

Thanks mate good to hear for the future. I'd love to see those horse jacks released into the salt for breeding.

Cheers Chris

[chrisallangler]

Thanks for the post that's awsome, as already said it may become a big craze, to go awoonga jackin' ha ha

Chris

[Q-Jacks]

thats awesome! barra and jacks best fish by far to battle

[NAGG]

Are they still actively stocking Jacks ..... ?

Nagg

[SLB]

i think awonga dam is the most highly stocked jack dam in aus. nice fish

[Bear001]

Niiiiice fish Whitty!!!
Thanks for the pic....I actually had no idea that grew that big!

[hellfish]

Awsome fish!! I've always been of the opinion that the stocking of juvenile jacks into such a large lake allready filled with millions of large hungry predators was largely a wasted exercise so it is great to see that some have made it to maturity. Imagine the atraction that would have been created by putting those few thousand jacks into a lake such Lake McDonald or Borumba or North Pine.

[Whitty]

Thanks guys and girls,

I am looking forward to my next trip to awoonga to try and catch some more big jacks and get some better photo's of these awesome fish.

Cheers

Whitty.

[tailorboi99]

Never knew Jacks go to fresh water!!! Cheers for that Whitty!

Cheers Tom

[woodsy76]

awesome fish very well done .its massive well done woodsy

[the_real_rumbo]

that looks like one fat jack there well done

[whiting-wizard]

nice fish mate i absolutely love jacks;D