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General Category => Fishing Reports => Topic started by: LilDave on January 02, 2013, 09:36:47 PM
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Hi all, just joined and thought I might as well make my first post a report... Well a combine report really. We're pretty lucky in Nth Qld with a bunch of sweet and sour options close to home..... One of my favourite creeks has both.... But this year just gone I have become addicted to surface luring for jacks in the very lowest sections of freshwater here.
An average two hour session will see up to half a dozen sexy mangrove Jack come to hand, and atleast as many failed hook ups, a bunch of follows, spooks and even ignorance....
I tend to have most success on walk the dog style lures, and curl tail soft plastics burnt across the waters surface.
I'll put a few pics up in the am I reckon....
My other passion is fly, but my Sweetwater success has been limited so far, with a couple of jungle perch and spangled to my name, as well as one or two rat Barra (talking fresh only of course ;)).
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Welcome Dave looking forward to some of your JP and Sooty exploits (& Jacks of course). Cheers Pat
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Thanks Pat, good to see some familiar faces already.... This is a bit of heresy but anyway... Been having heaps of fun with these guys lately.
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Good colour for the age of those jacks, the local ones here are very light coloured at that size.
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Great pics Dave - looks like your giving the Berkley 3B's a bit of a nudge. You'll have to come up with a fly that mimics the walk the dog style and get into them with the twigs. Cheers Pat.
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Great pics Dave - looks like your giving the Berkley 3B's a bit of a nudge. You'll have to come up with a fly that mimics the walk the dog style and get into them with the twigs. Cheers Pat.
Like a Zara's Spook mate?
Actually, thanks for the reminder I have a couple of Shannon's Streamers at home that'd work (pretty sure they float)... and they should cast OK on the 4wt if not the #2...
Heading out tomorrow, but choosing the sour option with a young fella keen on learning a few basics of lure chuckin' :youbeauty
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On another note... Like I said before Fly has to be one of my greater obsessions! Though the wand hasn't been out for a while...
The following pictures have come from some Very SWEET waters not too far from home... and have culminated in two very nice little JPs.... My first actually came on a dead drifted woolly bugger, but the second came from the surface :youbeauty
And yes Pat... They came on the #2 :D
The spangled perch are just sexy! and Boy can they be aggressive!
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Nice fish mate. Gotta love those freshwater jacks and I reckon JP's are one of the premier and by far the most underated fish in FNQ.
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If we don't get some decent rain soon we might not have much of a Sweetwater fishery.... :Oops)
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King tides this weekend mean that my favourite sweetwater haunt will be sour Saturday morning... Fingers crossed, should mean for some good jacks .... Still no decent rain though.