Reply With QuoteWell done i was too lazy to get out of bed! maybe tonight i'll pluck up the courge to venture out into the cold
Had planned to fish with a mate last night but he had to pull out at the last minute. We were going to start at about 8pm, but I was a bit ho-hum about fishing on my own so procrastinated in front of the PC until 10pm when I finally caved in and went out for a fish.
Went to spot A which is a spot that is either very very hot or very very cold, tonight it was very very cold. I caught one bream for about two hours fishing. I decided to call it quits but had a change of heart when I was about 3/4 the way home... I pass my maroochy jewie/grunter spot to get home, so it's easy to cave in haha.
Anyway, it was very quiet for the first hour and a bit with only one bream landed so I decided to use up what was left of my defrosted prawns and then head on home... I got to the last few prawns when things started to heat up (tide had just started to run out), I had a heap of bites but they were all quite small.
I was about to cast out one outfit when I saw another in the holder bounce slightly, I figured it for a baby bream but picked it up anyway. There was another light tap, barely worth striking at but I did anyway, call me impatient.. Well, all hell broke lose. It was quite clear from the outset that it was going to make up for the well past legal jewie I lost at my feet the afternoon before. After an exciting fight I landed my first jack for the 10/11 season. Honestly, I don't see myself topping it too easy either.. It's all downhill from here.
The very next cast, on my second last chunk of prawn I caught a healthy 30cm grunter.
All fish released in good health, though the jack had to keep a little jewelry.
Oh, the jack was caught on a pflueger asaro 3-6kg, pflueger medalist 6035, 15 or 20lb braid (cant remember which) with a 12lb leader. Very impressed with the rod, it's the first significant fish I have caught on it.
Well done i was too lazy to get out of bed! maybe tonight i'll pluck up the courge to venture out into the cold
Oh yeah love the jacks. That would have bent the pflueger up nice (how much power have these light flick sticks got!) well done on deciding to go it on your own
Matt,
Top effort, love reading your reports except they make me miss the coast even more.
Dave
nice catch good to see a local river producing
Nice one bud not a bad sized jack would of been great fun nice dark red colour.
well done
Beautiful fish mate. Should've ate the Jack
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Cracker of a Jack - that's awesome!
Chamelion, thanks mate, you almost motivated me to go out in the dark, in the wet and cold and........
Nah bugger it. You deserve all you get mate. Struth is that the time? Good night.
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Great jack Chamelion....
Bet that was a welcome suprise!
Cheers
Jim
Well done mate.
Spending tomorrow looking at houses up that way.
Can't wait to explore that river...
Cheers and thanks.
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nice fish well done mate
bron
love that red big toothed jack what a bottler good onya mate
cheers Hilly
was wondering have u ever got a jack on a lure chemelion? what type of lures do u use?
or are u a bait fisho? bait jacks are ok, lure caught are more satisfying
nice fish
Heretic.
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