The worst bycatch of all

[James12345]

Went out on a house boat from wisemans ferry over this Australia Day weekend... Over the 3 days of fishing we caught about 20 eel, 30 catfish, a flounder and a few legal flatties. I also managed to get a couple of micro Jews around the 30cm mark :/

I have been trying to improve my pb jewy which at the moment stands at a pathetic 47cm... And on the Sunday night I though I had... We had anchored up around spencer which is a good hour up river from Brooklyn bridge... We had found a channel about 20metres deep... I had managed to grab a few yellowtail during the day and had kept them live for that night. As the night wore on the faith along with the number of "livies" decreased and I was left with one DEAD yakka at about 1 in the morning... I pinned the yakka through the shoulder and casted him out on my baitrunner 8000D into the slack top of the tide... It didn't take long.... Zzzzzzzzzzzz went the drag. I struck. I hooked up and it was on.. The fish had a surprisingly strong first run and at this stage I thought it had to be the elusive big Jew. As the fight entered its 5th minute the fish tires and surfaces not far from the boat... Expecting to see silver I was met with an almighty estuary stingray... My shoulders dropped.. The things head was about 800mm wide and the tail was gigantic. I cut my leader and he swam off unharmed

What an anti climax

But I am getting closer to the metre Jew

Persistence Is key

Edited January 28, 2013 by Fishhunter123

[erroll]

Could be worse mate. In caught an ugly catfish in my mud crab trap at the mouth of the lane cove river yesterday. Keep at it.

Edited January 28, 2013 by erroll

[Day's Fishin]

That's fishing for you. Mangrove creek at spencer is full of rays so not unusual to hook up to them there.

Regards Jeff