queensland 2 trips to jacobs well for the weekend.

[sehrguht]

I hit up the area in front of and just inside the marina for not much action on friday night. Started with throwing a big live prawn out and getting belted and then bitten off on 50lb.

I did manage to raise one big eel which i later found out was a Hairtail about 1.2m long. The fangs on it were insane, probs 4cm long and looked razor sharp. Didn't keep it because i thought it was similar to a pike eel and i only got told later at the ramp that they are a nice white fleshed meat. Strange catch though considering they are normally found in 300m+ of water.

asides from that a couple solid runs that wrapped me around structure and caught a couple healthy bream in the cast net which i thought was a big school of prawns.

Dad and I went out in search of a feed of whiting from around 3pm till 9pm last night. couldnt raise interest from anything bigger than around 15-20cm. a bunch of squire and bream caught as bycatch but all were tiny.

Overall an interesting area which i will definitely hit up in the future.

no pics sorry.

[tacklebox]

you should've tagged along with us jeremy

any surface action on dusk?

[sehrguht]

On friday night there was a lot of big boofs on the surface all well inside the marina where we were told to get out of. i had a rapala shallow diver on and flicked that about a bit but it had no love.

Last night there was a few mullet jumping and im pretty sure some swarming prawns but i couldnt get close enough to get them. No big boofs or fish jumping that i saw.

I was awake till around 12 last night and decided i had better kick the flu instead of kayaking. 3 hours of sleep would have been painful.

Im keen for some kayaking next weekend if anyone is heading out.

Did you get onto the trevs?

[Angus]

Interesting RE the hairtail. Not the first one caught there thought.

I think it was Mack Attach and Cowfish who hooked a few there...

Nice work mate.

Angus

[Keen-as-fisho]

I caught one off the jetty beside the ramp about 5 years ago, they do actually taste really good.

A few trevs where caught this morning I will be back down that way in a few weeks. If you where on your kayak they wouldn't have told you to leave the marina :whistle:

[crazywalrus]

The Chinese love them. They call them "Dai yu" or "han yu pin yin". They rave over them. I have cooked them several times from china town. You quickly deep fry them and them cook them again in a sweet soy, ginger, garlic, sugar, and star anise. They are great. At 1.2 metres a shame to through back.

not my cooking but i hope to make it this good