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Helped pop a Jack cherry

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Hi all. So I teed up a session the night before Christmas eve with a Facebook mate. His been trying hard for a long time to get an SEQ jack on a lure, so I thought we may as well go and have a crack at getting the monkey off his back.
We set out around 4:30am and launched in Nerang, the air was warm, skies slightly overcast, and not a breath of wind.
We made our down stream to one of the many rock walls lining the river, and began casting top water baits.
A couple of casts in, my little zip baits fakie dog got smashed from hard up against the wall, but the fish spat the hook.
3 casts later bang, this time the hooks stuck, and after a few tense moments (hoping the 6lb leader would hold up to rubbing on the pylon,) a lovely juvenile QLD groper was in the net.
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After that, I landed a couple of bream in the mid 20's.
We were getting plenty of interest on our lures, but the fish were swiping at them and pushing them away.
After a while we moved further down stream and Reggie put in a cast that bounced of a rock and as soon as his lure hit the water there was a big commotion, the short fight ensued and he had his first jack on board.
At first we thought he had Moses, but after netting it and seeing the smile on his dial there was no mistake. It was a Jack.
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We continued fishing top waters until around 11:30am, and the fish were all to happy to keep having a crack them. Reggie missed a big GT and a couple more jacks, I suspect my missed fish were bream. Some were taking 4 or 5 hits at the lure before turing away.

Looking forward to hitting it again soon.

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