Lately i have been having a lot of trouble trying to catch something decent , so i decided to try something different and organised a trip up to noosa for the day with brandon h and nuggstar .
i hit the road at about 3.20am and picked up my deckies on the way to noosa , we got to the ramp in the noosa river around 4.45am and headed up towards the sheridan to chase a few trevs , we tried poppers , hard bodies and soft plastics as we drifted around with the leccy not much was happening untill nuggs hooked up to a pair of mangrove jacks, not 2 fish , my sunnies
, caught them on the way threw on a cast (i had them on my head
) , sorry nuggs i had to tell em lol .
not long after the sunnies went in brandon had a flick under a moored cat and got a little bump so i skimed my 2 inch prong underneth gave it a couple off twitches and whack im on , i was getting pulled all over the place and i thought i had hooked up to a trev (what i was chasing) after a few more dives for the bottom a nice little 41cm jack made its way into the net
i have been trying for years to get a legal jack and have only ever caught one that was legal (55cm) and that was 10 years ago on bait , so i was stoked when i got my first legal jack on plastic and in the middle of winter . I reackon we might have woke up a few locals with the yahoos
It went a bit quiet after that so we fished some rocks and canals and nugg showed us a few spots that he knows of and we ran into hoedaddy while he was onto a nice little GT .
we had a look at a few more spots than decided to see what it was like out the front , after a bit of pushing of sand bars we found the chanal and headed for the bar (not the pub) and it was flat , which was good because i have never crossed a bar before so it was easy we just followed a boat out and all was good .
When we got out the front of the rocks we gave pistol pete a ring and he kindly gave us a mark to check out , but we didnt end up going there because i wasnt sure if we had enough fuel to get there and back so we drifted along the front off the rocks for a while with no luck so we headed back in to chase some whitting with poppers on the way some bloke got a nice star gazer . We had a few chases behind the poppers but the whitting didnt want to playso we went back to some off the earlier spots we had fished in the morning , brandon mannaged 2 bream from the canals than we ran into a young fella taking a picky of a tarpon where we were chasing the trevs earlyer so out went the gladiators , brandon casts out lets it sink , while it sinking bang his on , this thing was giving him some curry and again we thought trev but wrong call it was a 52cm tarpon sweet PB for brandon , we went straight back to where the tarpon come from with the leccy and i cast out let it sink for a while twitch twitch let it sink bang , im on thinking yeah tarpon or GT , got a flash of colour and had to have another look to make sure , it was my second jack for the day it was 40cm
we tried a few more spots to give nugg a chance of getting somethingbut we ran out of time and sun light so we headed of for our drive back to brighton .
all in all it was a great day out on the water and the fish were a bonus , thanks for showing us around nuggs had a good time and we will have to do it again soon mate .
ps. all fish were released apart from the second jack which is dinner
cheers nico
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