score line not in my favour...

[nathank]

Hi all,
I have been a bit quite on here recently due to chasing tarpon (the big ones) man they are finicky.. well not having landed much to write home about at all.. i decided to go chase jacks again even know the tide wasnt ideal and wont be till about tuesday onwards.. anyway. the mullet i secured were a bit on the large side and a couple were more jew baits than anything, i kept them for strip bait anyway.
I had two rods with me this time one a bit lighter.. 8kg braid with a 10kg flouro leader albrighted to a 4/0 mustard big gun with a small ball sinker to the hook. this out fit is baited with a fresh dead mullet with a few nicks out of him.. the other heavier outfit..15kg is baited with a live mullet. Im about to cast it out and im thinking.. if a jack grabs this it will have to be 60+ to get it down.. anyway out it goes.
NOTHING at all for the first hour.. i mean nothing not even a tap tap from a bream. Then for no reason that i could figure out the bite just turned on in a massive way! The dead bait gets nailed hard and it scared the hell out of me (i was near asleep) a good sized jack is spoted after a hard tusstle and the hooks pull right as its near stuffed 4 foot away from me..damn!
over the next furious 45minutes i managed to get busted off twice and pull the hooks on another 3!! so the score line is now 6 to the jacks ..Nathan 0!
then all of a sudden the bite just stops back to absolutly nothing... the weird thing was that it was about mid tide and was the strangest thing.
As i was contemplating the dissapointment of the situation the baitrunner screams and the live jumbo mullet is nailed after well over two hours pinned to the bottom. This thing when hooked runs away from the structure and i know its not a jack... after a good run i manage to get it back to 10 foot off the shore in the shallows and its a good jew.. when your lucks down its down and the damn thing shakes its head like a barra and the hooks are thrown..
Im left shaking with a scoreline of 7 nill..
watch this space though im out tonight to even up the score!!!!

[wayno60]

lol......im sure you will..

Also the other night i went down to 007. Tide was all wrong but just wanted to see what it was all about. Tide was running out but still droped a few livies in on the north side...not a touch. around midnight the tide had turned and there was a few schools of travs busting up in the shallows. I pinned a dead bait thru the nose and worked it over the area like a you would a lure but still no takers.

anyway...

[carnster]

Impressive hook-up results, even if not converted, i must confess to being jealous and curious; in the past i have fished bond quite a bit, but did not see too many jacks mainly trevs and xos flatties. Do you know if the gates are opening now?

[oddbudman]

Good luck tonight. Top report.

oddbudman

[nathank]

carnster... got one jack last night i will post it up in a minute.. the gates opened for the first time yesterday and again when i went for a quick check this morning on the low.. i got there just as the first gate opened and the water was pretty horrid.. not a single bust up mate and a guy i see there all the time fishes it hard for the trevs.. he got a smallish big eye last night at thats about it for ages.. its just not the spot it was last year.. the two weeks prior to xmas last year was insane.. high tide with the gates opening into lake orr at night held so many big big trevors.. i got busted by one beast well over the 10kg mark.. here is one of the big eyes from the same session.. and before mangroves says so.. no its not on a mat... haha (mangroves please know im just jokn mate) hmm i cant put the pic on through here.. i will add to my other post.

[nathank]

ahhh... click edit then add pic... now i get it.