Late Jacobs Well report

[Surfingant]

Well with the lack of reports at the moment I figured I would put up a quickie from a few weeks ago. Shot down to the smell for a yakkidy yak and the water quality was reasonable so I thought I'd be in with a fairly good shot at something half decent. Launched at sparrow's and made my way to the mangrove edges opposite the ramp and started flicking a plastic around for not a touch, this went on for a little while before I got jack of that and decided to make my way to the Never Fail Islands. Now whoever named this Island was dead wrong because I failed, being a long paddle from home I had to get back in a hurry so I flagged down a passing jetskier. Tow rope hitched on and we were off and boy was it a fun ride back Anyway I parted company with the jetskier at Dinner Island when the tow rope parted ways :s , and decided to have a quick troll in the canals near there, but I would need a livie. Wetsuit and diving gear on and I was in looking for one, found a nice just under legal Mangrove Jack hiding under a pontoon and thought, you'll do!! An exhaustive chase ensued and after a good hour and a half I had my Jack in the live well :woohoo: Rigged up on a 10/0 circle and using my trusty Nordic/Stradic 1000/4lb flouro bream gear I started trolling, 3.5 hours later and I was starting to think about KFC when my rod goes ballistic! The jumping left me in no doubt as to what I had hooked up to and I settled in for the long haul. Well a good 2 hour fight later and I had finally worn out my adversary, I was tired but stoked, a first for me and the first of the species that I had heard of being caught there.

I really hope someone can help me identify the exact type of Marlin that I have captured, Black, Blue, Striped or a combination of all three?

Anyway enough rambling from me, I really hope you all enjoyed the report and pics

Cheers,

Ant

[rosstralia46]

Enjoyed the report and pics

Cheers Ross

Btw did u sell the marlin the fish shops love them and you can get a good price for em especially the undersize ones?

[crazywalrus]

haha

[Surfingant]

Yes I did sell the fish Ross why do you ask? It is quite funny actually because the shp I went to at Inala seemed to be quite excited when I brought it in. Don't know why.

[rosstralia46]

Cos I just castnetted a heap of bass and was looking to off load em somewhere

[Surfingant]

Ah I'll send you the details then

[rosstralia46]

Cheers mate

[Jords]

Pfft, liar!!

I know for a fact you caught that on the KFT, on a 1/20th and a 3" armour shad

[Surfingant]

Pfft, liar!!

I know for a fact you caught that on the KFT, on a 1/20th and a 3" armour shad

Dammit!!!! My super stealth ninja blackout didn't work.

[Keen-as-fisho]

An undersize jack you say, funyy that cause I troll them as well and have come up trumps a few times but on blacks

[Surfingant]

Really KAF? Well it must be a black then because it absolutely smashed that little Jack, I do hear undersized Bream go well on Jewies and sharks if you are keen?

[Keen-as-fisho]

Always

[Seiran]

At first look I thought it might be Makaira indica, the Black marlin.

But on a closer look it is most definitely Makaira pinoculus, otherwise known as the Pinnocchio, or long nose marlin

[Runty66]

Nice marlin there! just went down got me some butter bream from the local... sold em for 2.50 ea! here's a vid..

arhh took it down from the tube dw

but got afew $$$ so all gee.

[ellicat]

Looks like you got it just in time, with those big, black, ominous-looking clouds rolling in.

[uglyfish]

Lmao, nice fish mate..Did you keep the bill, the make choice toothpicks..

Is the said shop interested in fan tail bucks? Cos there a crap load of them about n $ are pretty tight at the moment, getting married in a week n a half..

[Do$tylz]

hmm.. i think I'll move this to the humour section... I guess the desired effect has been reached with getting a few people. But in the sense of saving confusion down the track.. I'll move it