queensland Early Season Jacks

[Cowfish13]

Got onto a couple of Jack's recently down on the Gold Coast amongst the canals. First was mid August by Rory. Went 41cm. He was stoked haha (First ever). On a Manns Stretch 5 or 10

Got a second one today. Was a pretty slow trip, but we managed a few Bream, Flathead and Tailor, then on the way back, I got smashed once. It dropped it, then got smashed again and eventually landed this 36cm Jack. My first from Brisbane. Not bad for 4lb gear with 6lb leader haha

AFO Reppin'

And the little Zipbait Rigge Deep - A little worse for wear!

[Angus]

Great colours on that second one your Brisbane one mate well done!

Nice Yak efforts for sure!

Angus

[Cowfish13]

Yeah, they showed up well in the second picture Dunno why, but it looks kinda dead in the first picture, which was taken before the second picture :dry: But both were successfully released

[jeff f]

they are beautiful fish in those juvenile stripes

[yoyo]

That first one looks like it's covered in gold leaf! sensational stuff.......

not sure i recognise that first canal though, is that around near sanctuary cove...?

[Leighton]

mmm Jack...top work , what lure is that and what depth does it run?

edit, I just saw Zip Bait, what depth though?

[Jeryl]

awesome effort guys really welldone!! keep the jack rolling hhehehe

[Do$tylz]

well done man. Thats awesome to have caught them so early... its barely even season for them.

Did you catch anything else down there??

[Cowfish13]

yoyo: Pretty close yep

Leighton: It's the Zipbait Rigge Deep 35F. Dives to about 1.4m, when trolled with light line. But casting it would probably get to about 1m, maybe a little deeper if you wind quickly. Pretty good little lure. Works well around the Gold Coast in that colour

Here's a link for it. It's colour 021 http://tackleware.cart.net.au/details/2650490.html

Do$tylz: Today, we got 2 Flathead (both 40-45cm) and 2 small Bream. We also hit a school of Tailor all around 10cm! I got 5 in 5 casts, then stopped to target some real fish haha. It was pretty slow going today, but usually we get heaps of bycatch (mostly flathead, bream and cod) which we don't bother taking photo's of. But I reckon during summer it will go off

[Mack_attack]

hey henry, here are a couple of slightly better than average fish that got a photo, but yeah plenty of rats of all species do frequent the catches...

47cm flattie

40cmish cod

[free2rome2]

Hi Will,

Nice Jacks you got there.

I really envy you guys, you have such nice rivers to fish.

In Malaysia, we have the pits... it's all rubbish here.

Unless we go into the rainforest and reserves but that takes days...

Keep them reports coming, man.

Cheers!

[Dinodadog]

Well done some nice fish there, might have to get motivated and go chase some jacks this summer

[pinkey]

Nice fish there, how was the fight on bream gear? more similar to a cod, big bream or trevally? speaking of trevally, any around?

[Brian D]

arrrr the things to come, yahoo, good report

[Cowfish13]

pinkey wrote:

Nice fish there, how was the fight on bream gear? more similar to a cod, big bream or trevally? speaking of trevally, any around?

Nothing like a Cod; they 'wobble' too much haha The Jack I landed (and others we've hooked) have had the power and speed of a Trevally, but the fighting style of a Bream. So, they'll go fast, but not for too long, and they'll hang under the kayak for a while after you've got them out of the structure (this time, a large rock).

re the Trevally; none. Which was disappointing because that's what we were mainly targeting :S

free2rome: Judgeing by your report, you've got some great fish up there, but yes, we are extremely lucky down here

Thanks guys

[Angus]

Great cod picture. Fantastic colours.

Well done again gents.

Angus

[wesfish]

some really nice pics of great fish!! top stuff cowfish

[mick fillet]

some quality fish there cowfish.awsome markings on the brisy jack ay.