JACKpop

[Far_Canal]

Went out to a hotspot of mine in the coomera tonight and landed a nice jack (42cm). I won the fight, it was neck and neck the whole way, he nailed my river to sea popper and bolted for the pontoons in about 1.5 secs and i then heard the sickening, gut wrenching noise of 20lb leader ripping barnicles off the edge of the pontoon as it grated along the bottom edge . At this point i started to get that funny feeling in my stomach of panic cos i knew it was a jack, so i lowered the rod and ripped him out as fast as i could and then i had him in the boat. Stoked, the fight was the main highlight. Such a good feeling when you win a mongrel fight with a big jack.

I was using a 4kg live fibre texalium spin with 10lb fireline and 20lb leader

[jackash]

Thats awesome!! Gotta love pulling fish out of the snags after a few scary moments... especially a fish of that quality. Well done.
Cheers
Jackash

[scarby]

healthy looking fish. good catch mate.

[fieldy]

Well done

[barraboy2]

Great colour

[brentasauros]

yer..good..story..and..nice..fish..

[JT]

Nice fish JACKpot, they do give an awsome display of power when they hook up don't they. Well done on extracting him from the snag. We went for a quick before work session yesterday but had no luck. How was the water clarity when you went out? The water when we fished was the colour of a Caramel Latte (yum ) and I would say the main reason for the lack of action.

Cheers

John

[ShaneJ]

Look at the colour of it Nice!

[StevenM]

Nice, would have to be the the best colour I have seen on a red devil for a while.

Cheers

Steven

[keen_as_mustard]

Nice fish Jackpot - don't they hit those poppers hard?

How do you find the Texalium rods to use? They look like good rods but are more expensive than a lot of quality graphite rods, which has always put me off.

Marty

[last_cast]

Jackpot,

Nice fish there and good report. What leader were you using? I am looking for some 20lb to match up to my 10lb braid and yours seems to have stood up well.

cheers

[BrandonH]

Nice catch!! I wish we had as many Jacks up the pine as you have down there

Anyways congrats on a great fish on a popper!! if you don't mind saying how long were you working the poontoons and boats before you got the hit?

cheers
Brandon...

[caught-ya]

nice jack there,

and nice colour too!! [smiley=devilish.gif]

[flattymattyb]

Hi Jackpot

great fish mate, those river to seas seem to be going alright atm. Hope theres many more to come. I don't think it gets any better than having the hit a popper it certianly is addictive.

Cheers
Matty

[cuzzamundi]

beautiful jack mate. well done!

cuzza