"The Jack Marathon": Online Competition

[EZY]

G"day to all, well had one last shot at a jack over the weekend but to no avail. Over the past 4 weeks i have been hitting the coomera river, mostly the canals and main bridge pylons with a varied selection of fish including, jacks between 20 and 40cm biggest being the one i weighed in. Most of the jacks have been getting done in on the infamous Z'man Minnowz, either pink/chartruse, motor oil and white pearl all in the 4" size and rigged on a tt's snakehead weedless jighead 3/0.

Of course the usual hunting ground for these little red devils was the "cragyest little spot you would never cast a lure into" , but utilising the weedless set up was well worth the effort with not one lure lost to a snag.

The Flatties were still around willing to play, with quite a few pan size models being landed, a feisty little cod around 45cm who "bricked me" quite few times until a heavy hand removed him from his "hidey hole".

Some small trevally either big eye or gt" (not sure of species) have been hanging hard along the rock edges of the canals hitting small baitfish and carving along the edges chasing jelly prawns.

During the start of december i found myself on one weekend fishing with both cboy and brissy yakker down on the coomera once again

brissy yakker working the pylons

and having been smoked on a big jack under the m1, i decided to upgrade the gear i have to 30lb and yet still being "Smashed" quite a few times by BIG Jacks i think i will have to upgrade again for the next season, they truly are an obsession. EZY

What's not to love about summer dawn's?

[Angus]

Well done everyone that competed.

I should have a chance tonight to officially wrap it up and announce winners. Ill need to get input from the sponsors for the other categories as well.

Cheers.

Angus

[Angus]

Region: North

Length Of Fish 1 (cm): 42cms

Length Of Fish 2 (cm): 36.5cms

Length Of Fish 3 (cm): 32.5cms

Photo Jack 1:

Photo Jack 2:

Photo Jack 3:

Report:

Well Better late than Never!! Cobiaaddict a mate Bryan (who waited too long to register for this competition doh!!) and myself headed up north of Brisbane for a weekend of Jack fishing! Although it wasn't as good as previous trips we still managed 12 Jacks between us for the long weekend. We also managed 2 Barra, a grunter and numerous baby cod and flathead. Unfortunately day one saw me catch a Jack and I left my bloody comp form back at camp! lucky I caught another 3 the next day All my fish were caught on my new second hand Reel I picked up when I was in Japan a couple of months ago. A Shimano antares AR! beautiful reel which I matched up to a rovex airstrike 8KG rod. I was a little dubious about the rod to begin with seeing it sells for as little as $50! but was quite impressed, I even managed to "snag" a couple of decent sized Rays which came to the boat quite easily.

All Jacks over the weekend were caught on 4" plastics fished weedless except for one which hit a hardbody, there would have been a good 6 fish which didn't hit the hooks due to being weedless, better that then loosing heaps to the structure!

Angus, I hope I have laid this post out correctly! let me know if it needs work.

Cheers

Brandon (aka S-K-I-P-P-A).

Additional Pics from Weekend:

My first Jack not counted.

Nuggs 45cm Jack:

Nuggs pretty Jack:

Toothy Jack:

Pooping Jack!:

Guys people always winge and ask why we do not allow external photo hosting on the site... This is a great example. I cannot verify this entry.

Angus

[S-K-I-P-P-A]

Sorry Angus, I did check that it was working at the time of posting.. Anyways I will re-compile the post shortly.

It appears that my entire Jack album in Dropbox has disappeared:/ Anyways I have re-posted my entry below with pictures uploaded to your site (it wouldn't let me do all 12 in one go?). Sorry for any inconveniences.

Cheers

Brandon

[S-K-I-P-P-A]

Region: North

Length Of Fish 1 (cm): 42cms

Length Of Fish 2 (cm): 36.5cms

Length Of Fish 3 (cm): 32.5cms

Photo Jack 1:

Photo Jack 2:

Photo Jack 3:

Report:

Well Better late than Never!! Cobiaaddict a mate Bryan (who waited too long to register for this competition doh!!) and myself headed up north of Brisbane for a weekend of Jack fishing! Although it wasn't as good as previous trips we still managed 12 Jacks between us for the long weekend. We also managed 2 Barra, a grunter and numerous baby cod and flathead. Unfortunately day one saw me catch a Jack and I left my bloody comp form back at camp! lucky I caught another 3 the next day All my fish were caught on my new second hand Reel I picked up when I was in Japan a couple of months ago. A Shimano antares AR! beautiful reel which I matched up to a rovex airstrike 8KG rod. I was a little dubious about the rod to begin with seeing it sells for as little as $50! but was quite impressed, I even managed to "snag" a couple of decent sized Rays which came to the boat quite easily.

All Jacks over the weekend were caught on 4" plastics fished weedless except for one which hit a hardbody, there would have been a good 6 fish which didn't hit the hooks due to being weedless, better that then loosing heaps to the structure!

Angus, I hope I have laid this post out correctly! let me know if it needs work.

Cheers

Brandon (aka S-K-I-P-P-A).

Additional Pics from Weekend:

My first Jack not counted.

Nuggs 45cm Jack:

Nuggs pretty Jack:

Toothy Jack:

Pooping Jack!:

Barra:

[Angus]

Much appreciated.

It is why we don not usually allow external sources on the website. This sort of thing has happened before. Uploading them direct is fool proof

Angus

[Angus]

Results

Congrats to everyone who placed and well… Anyone that got out and chased a jack over the course of the event. The Northside took the bragging rights in style with a 43cm victory… This was probably due to a lack of the 3rd entry for team South.

North Total: 133cm

1st: cody123800 52cm

2nd: S-K-I-P-P-A 42cms

3rd: Tunafreak 39cm

South Total: 90cm

1st: snapperbasher 50cm

2nd: ezy 40cm

3rd: Unawarded

Best Report: Ezy was awarded this category for his well laid out overall event report. Well done mate.

Would all winners please PM me addresses for postage.

1st Place Team North: $150.00 Fish Head Lure Pack & a Nordic Stage Favorite 732 8-16lb

2nd Place Team North: $100.00 Fish Head Lure Pack

3rd Place Team North: $75.00 Fish Head Lure Pack

1st Place Team South: $150.00 Fish Head Lure Pack & a Nordic Stage Favorite 732 8-16lb

2nd Place Team South: $100.00 Fish Head Lure Pack

3rd Place Team South: $75.00 Fish Head Lure Pack

Best Report Relating To An Entry: Freak Fishing Assassin Kayak (RRP $595.00)

A massive thanks to all our sponsors!

Cheers.

Angus

[EZY]

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: thankyou very much angus, duncan (fish head) and freak kayaks will be making the most of this. yes yes yes ezy

[cody123800]

Thanks so much to angus and all the other admins and to all the sponsors for putting in such awesome prizes. didn't except to win anything. :woohoo:

[snapperbasher]

Well done to everyone who competed!

A shame South couldn't cough up a third fish but it has been tough locally for the jacks so far this season.

Thanks Angus for putting the comp on it was a great concept!

Thanks to all of the sponsors also things like this couldn't happen without sponsors. They are all great prizes too.

Cheers Lochie.

[S-K-I-P-P-A]

Thanks Angus and everyone involved with the forum!! also the sponsors for the awesome prizes!! very happy with a second place and I will be sure to post reports for fish I catch on my new lures

Well done everyone who took out a place! hopefully next time we will have a few more captures!

Cheers

Brandon.

[Angus]

FYI...

With my Vacation Care schedule it has been impossible to get the PO this week.

Next week on Monday things go back to normal and I will get everything off the winners then.

Cheers.

Angus