queensland W.T.C.A. Grand Final!!

[chubbstar]

Hey Guys'n'Girls, Well todays the end of my 2 weeks of fishing bliss:( But damn what a 2 weeks it has been with many firsts for me.

Last day- Pine River

Up early again and in the water with Jason at around 5:15am. We went and cast netted some bait for the Crab pots. After about 45 minutes we had enough bait for the pots and a bit of a fish. We set the pots and started fishing nearby to keep an eye on them. After being baited by pickers for about an hour I got smashed with a nice drag screaming run into a snag:( After a little bit of stuffing around I pulled the fish out:woohoo: and it started pulling drag again:blink: .

Jason was on the phone to his wife while I was fighting the fish, Then we seen colour and all hell broke loose :laugh: :laugh: . The wife was told in half a second " GOTTA GO, TALK LATER!!" and the landing net was Grabbed. We boated a nice fish, photo's were taken and the Fish was set free to fight another day!! Another first for me and I'm 1 happy camper!:woohoo: :woohoo: . The photos will show why. Jase has them and will post them shortly;)

A BIG THANK YOU TO JASON!!!! for puting up with me over the past 2 weeks. I've had an absolute BALL. You're a fkn Top bloke and I'm happy to call you my friend;)

To the rest of you, thanks for puting up with my ramblings over the past couple of weeks:blush: .

Jayson..........The partys over, the cats back..

[kevinchen19870316]

let me guess. ur PB cod?

[pinkey]

Nice one mate, looking foward to the butter bream pics .

[shortie]

jack

[kriso]

im bettin jack, and your reports have been an enjoyable read for me while im stuck at work so thank you.

[chubbstar]

Would it help if I told you I was using 6lb braid with 8ld leader?

[Dan23]

Gotta be a Jack to be that excited

[kevinchen19870316]

chubbstar wrote:

Would it help if I told you I was using 6lb braid with 8ld leader?

er.........

i'll say.... a big ... mud crab:P

[ellicat]

Mermaid - it's gotta be a mermaid.

Oh hang on - you wouldn't have thrown her back .... not on the first day the wife was away anyway:P ....hmmm now I'm confused.

Probably a Jack.:woohoo:

[pinkey]

A MASSIVE CRESENT PERCH

[chubbstar]

OK OK ENOUGH!!!

It was a 9" across the shell male Muddie:blink: :woohoo: :woohoo: .

A great catch, the leader was RS after though..:dry:

Jayson

[faulked]

well guys the suspense is over heres a pic [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Abandoned_Old_Holden_Car_on_Mereenie_Loop_Road_Australia_Photographic_Print_C12662711_AFO.jpg

[faulked]

but really it was red

[MichaelJ]

your posts have been a good read to chubbstar

and u had a better day in the pine than me i lost my castnet:angry:

[faulked]

here we go again [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/jasons_jack_AFO.jpg

[faulked]

one more [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/jaysons_jack_AFO.jpg

[faulked]

lucky last [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/close_jack_AFO.jpg

[kriso]

thats a ripper for your first one mate good on ya for hangin on to it woulda been a great play

[ellicat]

faulked wrote:

but really it was red

How sunburnt is chubbstars thumb LOL (in the picture that's no longer there:S )

Great way to finish the fortnight guys. Is that your first MJ ?

[chubbstar]

Yeah mate my first Jack:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Jayson

[ellicat]

You're a good fisherman mate. I can't remember how many times you've posted "I want an xxxxx because I've never got one and then a week or two later you're putting up pics of you and an xxxxx.

Good work. Are you interested in chasing a Murray cod with me during flood time ? lol

[chubbstar]

MMMMMM never caught a Murry Cod before. Yeah I might give 1 a go:P

But honestly though, I've read every bit of info about Jack's that I can find. What, where, when, how and why, and then just by dumb luck catch one:laugh: When it hit I thought it was "Just another Cattie ".. :laugh: :laugh: You should have seen us when we realised what it was :woohoo:

Jayson

[Bommie]

nice one well done

[Dan23]

Good stuff Chubbstar. Out of interest what sort of tackle were you running?

[Rocket75]

Great fish mate. You two make a good team, pulled some lovely fish over the last couple of weeks ( and put in a lot of hours!:woohoo: )

Was that jack pulled out of the wrecks near the bridge?

I want one:P

Rocket

[reef_raider]

thatd be it because u can see the wreck in the background

[chubbstar]

It was caught on 6lb sufix braid and 8lb fluro leader, a running to the hook ball sinker a bit bigger than a pea and a lang shank #2 hook baited with a dead fresh Prawn.

Yes Rocket it was caught at the wrecks mate.

Jayson

[Troy_79]

Great fish mate i was up there today and only managed a toadie and a cattie

[Rocket75]

I am sooo glad to see that came from the wrecks!

After being smoked there a couple of times I needed assurance that it might have been jacks...know we know for sure...there's jacks in them there wrecks.

I know where I am going in the not too distant future:woohoo:

Top stuff Chubbs (and Faulked the net man!)

Rocket

[chubbstar]

Thanks Rocket and others for the kind words.

Mate that system would be teaming with jacks and I'm planing on finding out;) I have a few tricks up my sleaves to try, Like I said earlier I've read as much info as I can about jacks and some of the tips should work well there. A shallow boat with an electric motor would be awesome up in some of them creeks.

Some deep hole Jigging should work a treat also:) .

We'll have to give it a go together some day, Rocket;)

As for that one today, I was very very lucky it didn't head for the wrecks. Because I would never had stopped it, as it was it crossed up most of our lines. The speed and power was very impresive.

I had plans on killing and eating my first Jack. But after geting it in the boat and seeing how beautiful it was I couldn't kill it. I dont think that I'll get to taste one that I catch now:blink: . I was hooked on Jack's before I caught one, But now I'm even worse:blush: :S :laugh:

Jayson

[Troy_79]

did u get anything in the pots?

[chubbstar]

Everything in the pots was very small:( We got a couple of Bream in the pots as well:blink: Under size though, Theres a lot of jnr fish there. When cast netting we caught a lot of very small Bream and a few 3-4" Threadfin:blink: . My camera was had flat batteries and Jason was balancing up the front of the boat other wise I would have taken a pic. Damn it just hit me I caught my fisrt Threadie today as well as the Jack:blink: We wont talk about it being so SMALL:P :laugh: :laugh:

Jayson

[Rocket75]

We'll have to give it a go together some day, Rocket +

Sounds like a plan! Hinze this weekend for me, and you will be grounded now the cat's back :silly: , but Feb will be bloody hot I reckon, and that sounds like Jacks to me!

Rocket

[chubbstar]

yaaaay your on mate;)

[pcsolutionman]

great stuff mate hope there is plenty more to come for yah

Lee

[Mack_attack]

faulked wrote:

lucky last [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/close_jack_AFO.jpg

Really pretty colours on that fish.

[faulked]

gotta say jays its been a great couple of weeks cant wait to do it again pity that work is calling you but no cash no bait as they say ill be waiting eagerly for you to get some time again so we can keep trying to drag some jacks back out of that wreck

[Brian D]

faulked wrote:

here we go again [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/jasons_jack_AFO.jpg

Yahoooo now that's a way to finish. congrates chubs, nice fish.

[geebz]

I havent heard of any threadfin being caught in the pine ?? But if there are some smallies in the surely there are some bigger ones aswell.

[Dinodadog]

Well done what a way to finish up

Dino