Coomera River

[toadie]

Went down to a pier at Coomera behind Dreamworld fishing with the kids.After about 2 hours down there and not even a nibble on my live bait i decided to try prawns.Not even 5 minutes in the water i had my first bite.I fought whatever it was and after 20 mins of fighting i grew impatient and ended up losing the fish.Almost lost a full reel of 12lb line in the process.It just wouldn't stop running.Managed to land a small bream shortly afterwards then decided to pack it in cause it was way too windy and there was alot of boat traffic in the spot where we went to fish.I think my 7 year old had the best catch of the day.She managed to catch a passing ski boat.If she manged to wind it in does that mean she gets to keep it ::).All in all it was a good day and the kids enjoyed themselves.

keep on fishin
toadie

[LizardWizard]

hmmmm, that big run on a prawn sounds suspicious of a mangrove jack to me.

yep! they do take frozen prawns, i remember doing this at Currumbin creek 5 years ago, now im waiting to catch my second jack, i could be waiting a long time :)

next time you will need to load your reel with clothes line cable wire, and bolt a pillie or whiting head to the end, set the drag to none (what drag :) ) so when it hits you can skull-drag it in.

im not far from the river (100 mts) so think i will go play for a while :)

[gogecko]

So that would be the floating pier about 2 miles behind Dreamworld, next to a park and boat ramp? Or the deck under the M1 freeway bridge?

Both are known jack spots, but the first spot also holds jew and small sharks.
Yes, ante up on the gear is the right call.

Andrew

[toadie]

The floating one bout 2 miles down from dreamworld.

[gogecko]

Yeah, thats a good spot, especially at dusk or dawn. You shouldnt be losing a whole spool of line tho. Keep the drag on tight to the point where you can just take a half turn of spool when you pull by hand as hard as you can pull.

Sounds like you had the drag setup for a bream and you got hit by a jack or small shark. Was he fast and zippy, or slow, heavy and strong?

Worth going back to that spot. You can castnet from there for herring as well.

[toadie]

It was fast and zippy.Took off like a bat out of hell.

[gogecko]

Jack lives here.

[Jiggit]

it definetly leaves that memorable question in your head doesnt it..... my cousin lives down there and is taking me for a fish there this saturday night where hunting jew and jack, but very keen for a lizard as we wait for the tide, if anyones willing to reveal a few good spots ill definetly sound them and post any good pics if succesful.... cheers

[LizardWizard]

it definetly leaves that memorable question in your head doesnt it..... my cousin lives down there and is taking me for a fish there this saturday night where hunting jew and jack, but very keen for a lizard as we wait for the tide, if anyones willing to reveal a few good spots ill definetly sound them and post any good pics if succesful.... cheers

i was fishing of the jetty yesterday and last night, in afternoon at about 3 pm i caught a 60cm flathead (my biggest ever :) ), using 4lb fireline, 8lb leader, and berkley gulps pumpkin with green fleck turtleback worms, then about 2am this morning, i helped another guy net a 47cm mangrove jack , he was using mullet gut as bait. the mullet gut they were using also caught them a 1m pike eel.

at night i was using mullet and got no serious bites, but did feel a few times that those damn mudcrabs were dining on my chunks and whole poddies, the tell tale dead-weight, then release, gives them away.