60cm jack club!

[84mick]

Well what a trip and a half!
The day started off like crap, overcast, windy, cold showers at times and I was ready to tell Steve not to bother coming down after work... (thank god I didn't)

The target species was going to be bass but with all the rain around we decided to give the tarpon ago with the forcast being sunny When I got to my herring spot they were not there either was mullet or glassies Couldn't find any bait to net at all which put the pressuse on big time!
Steve arrived just before dark and I had the burley trail working well and catching a couple of mullet on light gear for fun. A couple of drinks later Steve gets a quick run and a tarpon jumps and spits the hook mid flight. A few minutes later my rod goes flying into the drink like no tomorrow and so did I! Somehow I magaged to grab it a few metres out from the bank only to pull in a little bloody butter bream! Good bye mobile.
A few more pickers and Steve dropped what we called another tarpon, time to get serious. Not long after that and a few pointers for Steve, he hooked up to another tarpon and landed it, his first! Congrats mate.
OK I really get serious this time my 4lb(mono) outfit gets a screaming run and I was on! Run after run this thing had us guessing the whole time, going by google it would have had about 60-70m of line out I could just lift it on the light gear, could not belive the weight behind it. After about 15min I landed my PB jack at 62cm! WooHoo
The rest of the night is a blur.... I think Steve landed a 69cm flattie and a small bream (sh!t fish )

P.s all fish were released too!

[tunaticer]

Nice jack there Mick and well done on the 4lb string!

Seems jacks really like the light lines and sometimes are quite manageable on the dental floss.

[sarg]

What a cracker Jack!!

Top work on the light string too

[jackextracter]

Nice jack there and welcome to the club...

[cuzzamundi]

Absolute ball tearer, mate! And on 4lb at that! Not many can land a jack that big on that gear. Really well done.

Cuzza

[.:::stotty:::.]

Solid Jack their, well done bud

[Fish_gutz]

Thats a fat mean looking jack ,congrats on a top effort and even better on the light gear. Cheers Andrew

[LostNearBribie]

Excellent. Can't wait to chase the jacks again.

[Barry Ehsman]

Excellent Jack on light gear mate well done..

Cheers Baz

[brisbane_boy]

cracker fish mick, must of been a clean spot to not get reefed thats a lot of line out for a jack

[fnq joey]

What a ripper mate....
top stuff

joey

[childers]

Horse Mick , gotta be stoked with that ,

Cheers

[Maxibon93]

you can tell a keen fisherman when he sacrifices his mobile to save his rod

[jim_bream]

Happy Days! Good work, esp on the light string. Mobile's are replaceable, a missed jack aint!

[littlemac]

thats a top jack and a great efoort

well done

cheers

brett