queensland Stocked Jacks - whats the pattern?

[Feral]

All this talk about Mangrove Jacks lately, makes me wonder about the Dams that have been stocked with them. You hear very little about them getting caught, I dont know of anyone who has \"cracked the pattern\" and regulary targets / catches them.

I know a bloke who picked up a 50cm Jack at Awoonga in October, but it was by-catch on a squidgy pro casting at snags for Barra. It's certainly not a way they are normally caught (well lots of people fish for Barra like that, not many Jacks reported caught though).

Its just got to be a matter time, look at how winter Bass fishing changed when everyone twigged they schooled up on the flats in deep water in winter, before that the word was you could not catch bass in winter!

Now there appears to be a pattern emerging for Barra in winter, southern edges of warm shallow bays is the place to be in winter.

So who will crack the Jack pattern in impoundments?

[Cowfish13]

Interesting topic this:dry:

I saw a picture of an Awoonga Jack and it was really fat when compared to the wild ones. Same sort of thing as the Barra get.

[pcsolutionman]

feral I think its just that there has been very few stocked, around 2000 in Awoonga from memory thats compared to the 16 million barra

Lee

[Feral]

I think they put in a few thousand a year Lee, (I'll look into it) but they rarely show up in the catch, like only a few a year. (They do find them when they do the electrofish checks, so they are not just dying off).

I reckon that sooner or later one of these gun fisho's is going to get sick of trolling for big barra, and start hunting the Jacks!

[Feral]

Just checked, to date just over 13000 Jacks released in to Awoonga.

[pcsolutionman]

cool still alot of barra compared to jacks, that and alot of people that fish awoonga and some of the other dams just troll the deep basins, the jacks will be up in the sicks. I wonder what the survival rate is

Lee

[jeff f]

most of them probably wind up inside barra

[Feral]

Well interestingly enough, there are a couple of blokes on Fishingtales site who are starting to get a few Jacks out of Awoonga, have a look at this one, they got 2 this size a night or two ago. [img size=460]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Awoonga_Jack_AFO.jpg

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[MichaelJ]

thats a good jack!!!

[Angus]

That is fat.

Its an interesting point Feral.

Im only assuming but i bet its heaps more expensive to get jack fingerlings... Otherwise imagine a dam with majority jacks But then again how much bait would need in there hahaha.

Angus

[Plastic Man]

man thats a good jack lucky they were using barra gear

[Dan23]

I wonder if the fat ones like that go as hard, or even harder?

[faulked]

Dan23 wrote:

I wonder if the fat ones like that go as hard, or even harder?

thats like putting you and i up for a rce to a burger mate id have to of missed out for a few days before id be hungry enough to beat you :laugh:

[Dan23]

ha ha, you're not that much bigger than me.:laugh:

[pcsolutionman]

Great jack but would be good if they were still in there hey :)

Lee

[Feral]

He didn't say whether he released them or not.

[pcsolutionman]

the one in that pic looks pretty dead to me.

Lee

[Cowfish13]

Also, the fact that it is on a steel table make it look even more dead to me:D

[Feral]

Probably - but thats what the dams are stocked for!

Just saw he has also posted on Ausfish, where he said they ate it. Apparently he did not like the taste of it.