nal Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Last Friday arvo my family and I decided to head to a house on the Hawkesbury for the weekend plus Monday and Tuesday, and I had one goal, catch a jewfish. Friday Night was met with success and I landed my first two jewfish, just small soapies but I was ecstatic. Saturday morning was met with success too and I landed my third and fourth jewfish (still soapies). Sunday was met with a bag of flatties and a very big jewfish lost on light gear land based. Monday was slightly less successful with one small soapie jewfish landed and a very large stingray which fought like a jewfish. Finally, Tuesday wasn’t looking destined for fish, with our checkout due for 2pm I decided to take the boat across the eastern side of bar point to use up the last few yakkas I had. After 30-45mins of no action and our checkout time creeping up on us we were about to head in when my rod buckled. After a good fight I pulled up my best jewfish to date going 65cm, it then regurgitated a few prawns which I then landed a small soapie on 😂. Ultimately it was a great trip, landing my first ever jewfish, and a bag of flatties along with a couple mud crabs Aswell. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) Great fish Max, well done. Looks like a cracker of a day to be on the water. Edited October 26, 2021 by kingie chaser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Congrats on fabulous PB....Happy days! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsswordfisherman Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Well done Max and great report 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Sounds like a great trip! Congrats on the PB. cheers scratchie!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardgid Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 congrats , im sure first of many . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Ct Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 well done mate, cracker jewie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Great report. Well done. Super photo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHorse Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 great jew mate! always good to catch a new species! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nal Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 44 minutes ago, leonardgid said: congrats , im sure first of many . Hopefully! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Very well done Max. I have yet to catch a Jewfish so I can fully understand your excitement. bn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restyle Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Awesome jew and good effort setting a new pb, getting ever closer to the might meter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I notice that the Jewies swim bladder is in its mouth, would this fish survive being released? I have seen tv shows where anglers puncture the swim bladder...does that help? bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nal Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, big Neil said: I notice that the Jewies swim bladder is in its mouth, would this fish survive being released? I have seen tv shows where anglers puncture the swim bladder...does that help? bn Yeah I thought it was a bit weird that the fish suffered from barotrauma especially when it was only pulled out of 8m of water, but after about 30seconds in the water she swam off well, we then stayed in that spot for another 20mins and it never floated back up to the surface. I have never heard of puncturing it to get the air out as this was my first fish I ever caught that suffered from barotrauma, but I’m pretty sure she survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Nice fish Max, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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