A mighty fine capture.

[ffejsmada]

After just getting back from a very wet and flooded trip to Hull Heads in North Qld, I was champing at the bit to hit my local waters and get some fish again.

It had been 3 weeks since I'd fished at home and was unsure of what had been happening, so I took along one of the local river rats to tune me in again.

We went to our local haunts where we landed 2 lizards, a nice bream, an undersize jewie and a ripper mangrove jack, all on lures.

The jack was a PB for Chris, it went 54cm. Caught on 4lb braid with 12lb leader, it was an excellent catch. The jack took a Daiwa shallow running minnow which was cast into a patch of jumping jelly prawns. It ran hard and fast, at first we thought it was a good GT but there were no head shakes, then we thought it was a Queenie but it didn't jump. We had no idea what it was until we saw a flash of red...............you beauty, a jack.

A great catch, a lure caught estuary jack of 54cm is a mighty fine fish.
Especially on 4lb braid. Oh, and the fish was released, making it even sweeter.

Cheers, Jeff.

[struktcha_man]

very nice catch mate

cheers

[Pistol_P]

Great fish...well done to Chris.

Teach that young fella how to smile will ya...!!

In every picture he looks like he is about to wet his pants...

Pete

[Didley]

Nice one and on 4lb all the better.

[happygilmour]

Fantastic effort on 4lb string!!!

[Livebait]

Great catch on only 4lb, nice to see it swim another day aswell... welldone

[gecko]

Looks like a stunned mullet next to the jack, lol.

great catch on 4lb line, and 12lb leader is pretty light for big jacks too.

Andrew

[Leighton]

Great fish...well done to Chris.

Teach that young fella how to smile will ya...!!

In every picture he looks like he is about to wet his pants...

Pete

against Jeff's rules to smile in a boat
Nice fish Chris

[ActiveAngler]

Jeff,

That is a great fish mate and I was told the Jacks are moving around in North Queensland at the mo.

Speaking of Jacks I was down in Tewantin near the ferries the other day and two blokes there were fishing in that deep hole aroujnd where the ferry crosses. He hooked on a live gar fish - around 15cm long , threw it out and got busted up with in 1 minute....

The amount of prawns that were in the shallows....incredible.

Great capture mate and nothing like a big mean ass Jack on light gear!! What a quality and healthy looking fish also.

Cheers - Benno.

[ffejsmada]

That Jack was caught 200 yards from where you were staying on Noosa River Ben!!

There's a fair bit of coffee rock around the ferry at Tewantin. Coffee rock and Jacks go hand in hand.


Jeff.