queensland Finally got me a Jack!

[max pwr]

Had a session after work last night at the usual spot at the Coomera, got there a bit before the farmer and using 6lb braid on my 1000 sedona reel with a cooked prawn and jighead. Third cast and Bang!! the reel screamed and managed to land my first jack on the gold coast in years. Super stoked! Went 46 cm on the bragmat.

The fishing was awesome last night. Got 2 flatties 42cm each. Couple of 30ish bream, 40cm trevally, 6 or 7 catfish 50cm plus ( cool fun on 6lb braid ) .

Cut up one of the flatties as bait in a big long fillet and managed a 86cm bullie on that. Then the farmer caught a MASSIVE eel going 140cm, one very very angry sucker too! Amazing how strong the bugger was. Geoff kept it and filleted it and is going to try eating it, the flesh looks really good and we've been told by some people they're good on the chew, we'll let you know.

The water quality is getting back to how it was before the rain and heaps of surface activity all night so at least all the fresh hasn't shut the place down.

[Do$tylz]

Nice man I need to get myself back into this night fishing biz... haven't done it in ages.

Any pics of the jack was he nice and dark? or brightly coloured?

[Genesis]

Thanks for the report I have been wondering how all the fresh has been affecting the fish but happy to see that its not. Might give that area another night session soon.

cheers

[dassa]

Good work on the jack mate I got first earler this year and there good on the tooth.It' look's like I migh5t have to do a few trips sth of a night very soon my self.

cheers dassa

[max pwr]

Yeah got a pic but its on my iphone and not jpg so can't post it. Nice bright golden red and had stripes running top to bottom but they faded pretty much straight after i netted it. Awesome looking fish, gonna be dinner tonight.

[eg_vtec]

awsome stufff man. im still to catch my first jack this season haha

[max pwr]

Got an app sorted on my phone to convert pics to jpg so see how this goes.

[Bluevien]

Nice fish, great session and well done on your first. I think it's gonna be a good season for them. There's some stormy weather coming so hoping to plan a session around it.

[rosstralia46]

nice work mate wheres this spot

[Stunned Mullet]

Nice Jack mate. Did you fish near the M1 bridge or further up the river. Just trying to work out if the fresh is affecting the fishing down the end I like to fish. Cheers mate.

[hooked_on_trout]

Never heard of cooked prawn on a jig head?

Did you fish it like a bait or a plastic?

Nice fish BTW, Cheers

[ellicat]

I often use bait on a jighead....

as I'm often too lazy to change the rig :pinch:

[loveit]

Nice one mate, that sounds like a good session. You did well to stop that Jack on 6lb. Were you working the bait or did you have it sitting there?

[max pwr]

We are fishing up near to sanctuary cove, the water under the m1 is still chocolate milk but further up foxwell rd the water is clear as. WE use a no.3 jighead 1/6 oz and always woolies cooked prawns, best bait ever. Anytime we switch to a sinker/ leader rig we never catch stuff all. It was an accident as I set up the farmer one day with my sp rod and he got sick of using plastics so stuck a prawn on the jighead and started reeling in fish after fish. I think because the fish pick up the bait, feel no resistance from a sinker or anything and just swim off with the prawn and bammo, they're hooked.

Have tried using the prawns as a sp when the current is slow and it works the same but generally the jighead drifts a little anyway with the bait so just cast and leave it alone. The jack smashed the prawn probably as it hit the bottom.

we've caught trevally, cod, jew jacks, whiting, bream, flatties, moses perch, rays, eels you name it the cooked prawns are the gun bait for sure. But only when using real light line and a 6lb trace, switch to a 10 or 15lb trace- no bites.