Jacks

[vertico]

As Jeremy87 put earlier in offshore stuf, I dont normally fish the estuaries or bays much but I thought this report was worth putting up.

Headed out with matto and chased up some liveys before making the trek up the coast to where we were going to try crack some of these monster jacks. I havent caught a SEQ jack before and have only really tried one other night last week for nil result. Anyhow we arrived for the run out tide / slack water and waited for some action. Well the first few fish were the silver variety myself scoring a 35cm bream and matto something similar. About 30 - 40 minutes passed and i decided to cast my certate up near some structure with a butterflied poddy mullet. Five minutes later something gave one tap and then tried to run but the drag was nearly at max strength but this fish still pulled line as matto watched me trying to peg some more hurt onto this fish. After a quick but strenuous battle I brought a 59cm jack to the net. I didnt believe a fish could fish so hard more like explosive dynamite on your rod. Couple of photos and fish was released to fight another day. Next cast same spot and this time a butterflied gar. Tap then run but as again Iam straight onto it (as you Ive worked out with jacks now) and I drag a 55 / 56 cm specimen to the rocks. Again a couple of photos and another successful release. We also caught a 50 - 55cm cod but ran out of poddy's when the bite started to fire up. two words.
Very addictive.

thanks
sean

[snagking]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!
That is a monster of a jack!
Great work

[outsiderskip]

now thats a jack
cant wait till i get one
pete

[abbot_86]

top jack mate. what a beast!!

[backlash08]

nice work Sean - always makes up for crap offshore weather
Craig

[tailorboi99]

That's a horse mate, well done. Unlucky about the running our of Poddies section though :(

Tom

[stessco]

two big jacks would have put up a great fight!

[vertico]

yerh clee id be very happy to catch those sort of fish offshore :P
still yet to catch the elusive reef jack........

where are those kids selling poddy mullet j/k

sean

[BLOOEY]

Bloody nice jacks vertigo. Particularly for your seccond effort at them:speechless:. Crazy. I think you might be doing a bit more estuary fishing now after that introduction.
Good job releasing them too. I have kept the odd jack for a tasty feed, but i'm sure you have plenty of offshore species that are even tastier in your freezer. Ben

[Pistol_P]

Two big red mongrels there...

Great fish vertico.8-)

Pete

[tfish]

solid!!!!!well done

[Mike Delisser]

Bloody awwwwwwesome!

[Cervinator]

nice jacks there mate

congrats

cervi:)

[Greg P]

Small unit would be proud sean ;D;D8-)

[Bennywise]

Small unit would be proud sean ;D;D8-)

Yep, at least sean caught them......:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* ;)

[Lovey80]

Very nice fish there mate can you give away what river you caught them in?

Cheers

Chris

[Just_chips]

Top intro to Jack fishing there mate, makes it kinda hard to better that 59cm mark. Most people would be happy to hit 50 but now you need a 60cm fish to improve.

Kev

[cuzzamundi]

It took me 14 years to land my first jack...bastar@! Amazing result there! Location is the key, and you've most certainly got that part sussed. Well done.
Cuzza

[Didley]

Nice one Sean. I bet your going back there.

Dids

[Pete62]

Great work there fella, that second one has a gut on him, mad fun aren't they.


Tides r gonna b perfect down here this weekend, wife and son r gonna b away, daughter and dad teaming up to smash a couple, can't wait;D


Pete.

[-spiro-]

Sweet fish Sean'o
Atleast if you take your new passion on you already got a big tinny...lol

[skipalong]

awesome fish mate be happy with quality like that

justin

[matt__hill]

and i even detect a smile in the photos mate??
takes a river fish to make the big man smile. ahahahaha
nice work mate

[vertico]

thanks again matto, fish were caught in mooloolah river folks
so they are out there. canals hold a varse array of fish varieties.
sean

[Willdoe]

I've caught plenty of jacks in NQ but none that big. Congrats for releasing such a great eating fish.

You said you had livies. What is butterflied gar, I suspect it is dead with one side part filleted and folded back onto the hook???
Willdoe

[vertico]

take the back bone out of the fish including the tail
run your knife from the tail to the head then cut through the back bone abd back down the other fillet to the tail and pull out the back bone / tail.
one perfect flapping bait.
sean

[Dorado]

Wow Awesome Jacks mate! Well done!

[ddobson]

I have spent a lot of time chasing those red devils and with no hits even when i have a live mullet and the bait are being hit by all sorts of preditors. A lot of time with nah. Boy my patience is running low. Well done.

[vertico]

ive caught plenty of jacks up north but nothing of this size or fight. mainly 40 - 45 cm specimens in the johnstone river innisfail.
sean

[Nico.d.R]

take the back bone out of the fish including the tail
run your knife from the tail to the head then cut through the back bone abd back down the other fillet to the tail and pull out the back bone / tail.
one perfect flapping bait.
sean

great fish . with your bait do you hook it just though the head ? or pin one fillet back up to the hook and leave the other fillet flaping ?


I have spent a lot of time chasing those red devils and with no hits even when i have a live mullet and the bait are being hit by all sorts of preditors. A lot of time with nah. Boy my patience is running low. Well done.

lol i am ready to give up on jack fishing around here :-/

cheers