Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

[greenie.77]

Headed to the gold coast today with my bro to brave the conditions and smash a few jacks on poppers and frogies. The weather as you can see from the pics was terrible, but the fishing was sensational. Landing five jacks, getting smashed by two while losing our fav poppers, and grabbing a trevor along the way. The best jack went 44cm but the two we lost were 50 or over.
Using 2lb strene and 6lb traces we were always up to our necks deep in it when it came to pulling in the biggies.
Spot x has fired twice for us now recording 11 jacks in two sessions.
Here are some pics from the days events. All were released.

[Dorado]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Hey well done mate. Always great to see somebody getting into some quality fish in the adverse weather conditions we're having at the moment. I bet they were tons of fun to get on such light gear too. Great Jacks!

Cheers,
Dorado

[Pistol_P]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Great effort in such horrible conditions.

Looks like it was certainly worth the effort.

Pete

[plaztix]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Nice work on 2lb

Gotta admit i'm a little skeptical though

The cold weather probably was on your side though as most of the Jacks are probably a bit sluggish at the moment. Was this the case? cause a 44cm Jack on 2lb is very sporting indeed.

Good results in any case and i mean no offence by my skepticism.

[croangler]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

top fish guys

[greenie.77]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

plaztix we have found fishing rock walls and on the surface with poppers the jacks find it hard to bust you off compared with fishing snags,we would never fish snags with that size string. And we fish for bream as well so it is all sport.

[JJT]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

6lb leader dats an awsome effort mate top notch report
regards jason

[eotbmg]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Congrats mate fantastic to see a report during this crap weather
Are they river to sea bubble pops???? What type of retrieve do are you using on the poppers???
Cheers
Ben

[greenie.77]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

sorry plaztix it is 8lb leader my mistake. If you enlarge the photo of my brother you can see that the leader is this size.

[geoff72]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

great effort guys. Goes to show you can get jacks in any weather. Top marks.

[ffejsmada]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Good fishin there greenie well done!!!

What's that black plastic you were using??? Unweighted by the looks of it???

Cheers Jeff.

[greenie.77]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

it is a river to sea bubble pop very slow action 3 pops and stop then go again the black plastic was used by my bro and is normally used in the fresh for bass it is a frog immatation, not sure what it is called though

[alleycat]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Mate you boys obviously love your sport and you released all your fish, i dips my lid to ya, well done fellas, true sports.

[nuggstar]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

the black frog is called a buzz frog, top fish greenie and bro

[mickstar001]

Re: Rain, windy and PLENTY OF JACKS!!

Nice work Greenie, you forgot to add the Gps location tho???

Mickstar