Hi All,
Decided to give the mighty jewfish a crack on friday night.
Got to the local spot, the conditions were good, very calm, was a bit late so was fishing about 2-3hours into the run out tide. Using fresh squid strip with a 3/0 hook and 20lb leader.
As the night went on I finally got a solid run, from what I read so far, jewies play with there food so your meant to let them run a bit before strike. So when it started to run I was a bit hesitant to strike, after the second run I striked, but ended up losing the fish. When i got the bait back, the bait was still there no teeth marks just a bit scrunched up?.
There was a another fellow fisherman there targeting jews also, his advice was that I should of striked hard first go when the fish went for the first run as it was very solid and woke everyone up.
So now Im left gutted and confused, should I have striked straight away or should I have waited even longer before strike.
Many thanks.