Land based Sp. Gts'n'jack

[Matthias]

Last week there were some late night runout tides, and following the full moon I had high hopes for a jack.

Me and a mate fished sp and were into fish straight away. We caught a number of small Gt's and my mate scored a few pan size flatties for tea. The Gt's were smashing our sp's and my mates 8lb line was getting worked. The trevs got bigger as the night wore on and it was great fun.

I hooked my biggest Gt and as I was fighting it my mate hooked a thumper which went straight under the bridge. After releasing my fish he was still having trouble. We couldn't figure out which side of the pylon the fish was hanging on. After a few more tense moments and a bit of harassing from me he pulled the fish out. He thought it was a gt and asked me to pull it up but I knew it was a jack. He beached it to where I was waiting and after a few pics it went back. At 49cm it was his PB jack and he was happy as. His leader was absolutely munched from the pylon....lucky bugger ::)

We used a mix of sp including berkley 4" minnows, Manns Grubs, Atomic 3"shads and squidgy flick baits. Also had one of those new storm jig heads bend out on a really good fish. I threw the rest of the packet in the bin. >:(

Pete.

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better pic of jack

[Murph77]

Nice fish guys. GT's are always a heap of fun on Sp's and light line. Good work extracting that Jack from the pylons too, that doesn't happen to often once they reach home

[84mick]

you got some quailty there mate! Looks like your trying to hide your fishing spot :P
I still havent had a luck with SPs at night >:(

Mick.

[yellahunter]

well done again guys,

great fish so far from tweed this season.

do you guys ever fish the currumbin creek, i wouldnt mind meeting up for a fish one night

[stokesy_86]

great fish mate,

stokesy

[flickflack]

Nice pics Pete, top effort for land based. I thought I fished a lot with not much sleep but you guys are giving me a good run for my money. ;)

[DaMaGe]

Wow, nice run of fish, good results for good tide and moon.

[Matthias]

84Mick- Mate I always catch better quality fish at night on Sp. Keep at it. You have to rely on feel rather than eyesight but you get used to it.

Yellahunter- I fish Currumbin a bit, but don't seem to pull as many fish at other rivers. PM sent.

Rod- Lol. I fish too much. :D

Pete.

[keen_as_mustard]

Pete,

you certainly know how to pull fish from the Tweed - I am making a concerted effort to learn how to fish the Tweed this year, so hopefully will see you out on the river one day

great fish...again

marty

[simonpp82]

Good stuff pete. kinda wish i had gone down now! Just been too tired from getting up early for work every day... ahhh who needs sleep!??

[geoff72]

you guys are doing some good stuff down there at night,awesome fish,would have been a blast. lucky to get that jack out, well done.

[jackextracter]

Nice catch guys you always know there is a jack around when you keep catching trevs most of the time when i fish for jacks if i get a trev or two i know its a good chance for a jack.

[gregdeeth]

great fish pete,
was wondering when i see some more of your reports, heard youve been doing really well there lately.