jack and muddie attack

[webby]

With this bloody wind keeping open waters shutdown, the neighbour jeff and i did a jaunt down the coomera/jewel ck late last night in his tinnie for a spot of crabbin and fishin, i cannot get my rig into some of these areas so a tinnie is the only way.
Have never been able to get right up into jewel ck or wasp ck before, but after last nite i'll be back.
Score a couple of good bucks, and would you believe even one that made a dillie look like a spiders web, left him in it till we got home, but took for ever to get him out of the mess.
Fishin wise mainly bream, but a nice tree trunk produced this beauty(pic below), and thanks to spike2 for putting me onto these berkley power baits as they account for most of the fish caught during the night.
Best jack i've pulled out of this river system, nearly beat your record Skales but not quite as big as your big sucker.
As for this bloke still swimming around down there. :-X
regards

[webby]

a fuzzy jack

[jeffo]

top stufff brian. what size power bait was that on? and colour?

[landy1]

awesome did you take up spikes relocation plan :o
cheers
Mick

[agnes_jack]

Nice fish there Webby.
Was the jack caught on the power baits too?


Tony

[Nugget]

Don't get Jewel and McCoys mixed up - Jewel is on the ocean side of the ramp, McCoys is on the up stream side.
McCoys is defined by EPA as a no fish zone from the mouth to the tidal limit.
There are big jack hiding up in there too.

Dave ><>

[webby]

Now you dont think i would have the gall to sneak into mccoys ;D
But for tony and jeffo, now im not big rubber fanatic, but always willing to try new tactics.
The ones we used last night were the powerbait 3' minnows in pearl/blue/shd and clr gold/blk bk, meet up with spike 2 one nite down the coomera and he put me onto to them, says there what he has been catching all his bream and jacks on, he gave me a packet and i brough some others.
Didnt try all the fancy jigging he showed me, but a more sedate version ;D, anyway they worked.
Think there ok for esturay work, could see me trying them on snapper or others, cannot be flesh baits for them.
Even tried some silver and white shads on mackeral, caught one, but most shads were bitten off half way, so some how you have to rig the hooks towards the tails of the shads, havent tried this yet, but will experiment one day just for the fun of it. one shad one mackeral ;D
Dont worry i wont be stepping over to the Dark Side in any big way, plastics are good for some and not for others, christ you see some blokes with bloody boxes and boxes of them and you can only use one at a time, what do they do with the rest, sit and look at them to pass the time of day ;D.
Bloody hard to break old old habits ;D
regards
.

[Zeeke]

;D we carry boxes and boxes of them so we dont leave anything to chance then we also carry 4 or 5 rods so we can setup for any type of condition or area ;)

Nice fish there Webby, bloody nice Jack!

Tim

[jeffo]

we do all of the above tim but all we seam to catch is tiny flathead and bream ;D

[jeffo]

well i catch the TINY flathead you get the bream and LITTLE flathead ;D... for all those that dont know what im talking about i got a 19cm flathead yesterday on a 3 inch dropshot ;D

[Zeeke]

your just bringing bad luck to the boat mate hehehehe..

Tim

[damons33]

you must be stoked brian shes' a goodin'. ;)
jeremy and i met tim and jeff yesterday on the maroochy river, tim showed us around the place and some of things to look out for in the river and how the fishing tends to work there. both of them are very serious fishermen and friendly good blokes to boot! it was pleasure to meet them and i look forward to doing some with them again- i got my first bream on a rubber with the guidance of these fellas(eco gear pad chu blue urine) and also with the info garnered from the ausfish forums. tim and jeffo are both great contributors to the wealth of info that eminates for these forums, little wonder it is so heavily hit with all this great queenslander good oil'
ohh i liked what you did the other day with the gps wreak locations brian. masters hold no secrets! the true pleasure in fishing is the anticipation and the participation! damon

[jeffo]

cheers for the kind words damon, and was tops meeting you blokes. pitty we couldnt find a few more fish though. thats fishing i spose. :D

[1337]

congrats on the nice jack!