Another Jack thread

[ffejsmada]

Haven't posted a report for a while but I thought I'd share a new method I've been putting into practise.
I've been fishing for jacks a bit differently this season. Different to the "fish the snags" method.

I've been finding good dropoffs with hard current flow. This provides a lot of bait eg. prawns, baitfish etc. spilling over the dropoff into the mouths of hungry predators.
I might add that this is all over sandy bottoms, no structure. Just goes to show that Jacks are a pretty active fish and like to cover the flats on certain tides.

I've been doing okay on the red fellas this season but scored my first 50cm fish on this method last night.

Fish was released to fight another day.

Think outside the square, Jacks habitat areas other than snaggy country.

[UndersizeBreamKing]

Thanks Jeff, it doesnt surprise me really. Most people, myself included would just fish snags for them and get comfortable in continuing that. Always good to learn new tactics
Nice fish by the way too...

[BR65]

Nice fish Jeffo, in the yak as well, and nite time, and on a arti, you like to stack the cards against ya!
I yakked for em on Thursday arvo, nearly swore off lures and on to bait, nearly.

[spaded]

interesting! surely its more of a night time thing you wouln't chase them there in the day would you? that is a cracker mate

[Bracey]

Thanks for sharing Jeff, a nice look'in specimen caught using an effective technique.

Any by-catch using this same method?

Dave

[Chamelion]

Nice going jeff My PB was off a sandy bottom in about 16'. Not so much a drop off but fairly rutted.

[SuburbanFishoCairns]

Absolutely agree! Same over the muddy sections too.. i.e., areas where a gutter might spill over a flat, seemingly featureless muddy bank.

I'm inclined to think that they prowl around a bit more than we might give them credit for as well. Especially at night.

Beautiful fish mate- well done.
Yet to take one on a lure!!

[gecko]

Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing the technique. Perhaps they got overconfident and ventured further afield cos they thought youd given up on the red fish, lol.

Nice 50 from a sandy bottom.

cheers
Andrew

[DEANO68]

nice fish jeff, good to see you still playing in the river now and then...

[mangajack]

I agree Jeff, most of my jacks are well away from known snags, yet I still find myself casting towards them in hope. I think that jacks are quite similar to flathead in thier feeding techniques, they sit quietly in a feeding lane waiting for dinner to be served by the currents. It does not need to be deep water that holds them like this either, a merging of two shallow feeding lanes will produce the same predators in quite shallow water.