Raider collab round 2

[dirvin21]

got a message from James saying he's in the area, no other option but to make time for a session, the aim of the day Jacks and GTs.

The river was looking great low tide with first push of the run in, and small trevs busting up along the edges, excitement building. James started out with a small plastic and me a 68mm tango shad, wasn't long before James got nailed by a above average GT but unfortunetly missed the hook-up. We kept the casts going with my aim of a jack continuing, I landed cast after cast along the timber for nothing but a small flattie, and then out of nowhere the brutal hit and run I know well, it was quite a fight the fish taking some solid runs but with plenty of pressure a flash of red

the fist pumps, high fives and chants were going, a beautiful 47cm satan, 

with that James changed tactics to try for a Jack, he put some good casts along the edges didn't take long for a take we were hooping for a small jack but ended up with a nice flattie

We moved to a new bank continuing on our jack quest, working some timber another solid take this time a flash of silver 

a nice GT, 

along the next bank the bait was thick on the trees but nothing chasing it then a perfect log with small butterfish all over it I got blown away but a big red beast, nothing like loosing a $21 tango shad.

Re-tyed we continued on working the timber, another take and a dark flash I first thought small jack but turned out to be a small cod

After a couple of missed trevs we did a quick run upriver looking for some more trevs, we hit the tree where James got his first GT last time and we weren't disappointed a saw the flash of solver come out and eat his lure 

A nice GT and a new pb for James well deserved he worked hard for it, we had a few dropped GT's along that edge, put a few casts with a small crank along a gravel bed looking for bream

a reasonable bream, but with time running low we shot back down river to hit a couple of bait filled trees to see if the trevs had moved in once the current picked up, I pulled the hooks on a GT thinking that was it James kept casting while I put the gear away before heading in James gets hit this time the hooks stuck James had quite a battle on a locked drag

another nice GT for James to finish the session, we didn't get a lot of fish but great quality certainly made for an awesome session.

Hopefully the start of a memorable jack season 

cheers for reading 

Dave  

  

[Little_Flatty]

Nice work. Looks like you're finding bigger and bigger Jacks!

[scottyboy]

Jezz Dave you really are the master of your domain. By the photos I would have thought you were in central Queensland some were not mid north coast NSW. Great to see you mentoring younger raiders . Keep up the reports mate.

Cheers Scotty 

[big Neil]

Looks like the place is firing Dave. Great write-up and quality pictures. bn

[rickmarlin62]

SATAN   AAAAHHHHH

[Centrepin]

Dave,

Great to hear you are back at them and getting some fish.

Congrats on the satan and so good to hear the bream are in presence.

 

Thanks for posting,

 

Geoff

[Rebel]

Great report and Super photos.

[James Clain]

Thanks @dirvin21for the great day out getting onto some awesome fish and loosing a few as well . 

Here is the video of this great day out showcasing all the highlights!

 

 

[big Neil]

Another great video James. bn

[61 crusher]

Well done on round 2, another great report photos & video 

nice jack Dave that sure would’ve got the heart pumping 👍