queensland We Finally Meet Mrs M Jack

[pancakes_and_haggis]

We'll having been sent away for the last two weeks of the company callendar year to Townsville, what better place is there to pack the lure boxes and reels to have a flick for jacks.

Arriving into townsville airport something didnt feel quite right, Lure boxes, leaders, soft plastics box, two reels.............. dam rod sleeve still sitting next to back door!!!

We,ll wether that was done purposely as a dam good excuse for a new purchase or if i forgot it by misteak :evil: you guys dont need to know!! :silly: :silly:

Quick trip to the local fishing shop sees a nice new Samaki Zing 8-15 lb comming home, thought id go abit heavier as no point buying a 4th 2-5kg rod!!

So loaded with a nice smile across my face i set out to fish a nice snaggy part of the Ross River, right on last light, a few big surface boofs convinced me to throw out a brand new zippin ziggy in gold, righ into the middle of the snag walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, BANG! strike, nothing. Dam thing went straight through my 20lb rockfish PE. not happy to see that lure dissapear.

So decided to change tacktics and started throwing around a gulp prawn, only to have it nailed third cast in!

A short fight on my locked drag saw me land my first ever wild Barra. Quick Snap shot and back he went!

Things went quiet so decided to hit up a different spot near Pallerenda, arrived around 8 ish and literally got carried away by mosquitos! lasted 4 casts and ran back to the car!!

Tonight I loaded up the bushmans spray and braved it back to Pallerenda to my spot.

Started out with a brand new Crackajack, first cast nothing nothing nothing untili was about to lift it out of the water, WHACK, BANG, SNAPPED ON A ROCK!

after throwing multiple hardbodies with not much further sucess i decided to revery to the good old squidgey wriggler 120mm fully endorsed from Mark ( plastic fantastic)

a session is not a session without a baby cod!!

first cast in few hops and BANG, jesus did this fish smash the living day lights out of it, soon as i hooked it i knew it was Mrs Jack, boy was she not int he mood to see the surface, after a good 5 minutes with locked drag, a few hairy moments and abit of rock jumping i managed to land her on a nice mud flat.

Few happy snaps and back she goes, lets hope she makes another keen fisho as happy as she made me tonight !!

Cheers for reading

Callum

[PlasticFantastic]

Top stuff mate and good to see you getting into some Jack's

, they're not bad those wrigglers either I've been braining the Tarpon on the 100mm version lately so they'll catch anything. Now you've just gotta catch a Jack locally.

Cheers

Mark

[blockah]

good stuff, some nice fish there mate. :woohoo:

[eg_vtec]

great trip !! well done on the jack and barra!

[Carter]

Awesome callum, top work!