ginko Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Snuck out of the office at 5:01 and headed straight to local tackle store, who advised on the best beach, the second best beach, and, well, the beach I could get to given the amount of time before the tide came in. A box of best squid and away I went at top speed. I got to the beach (central coast) and damn, there was a guy with one rod, taking the best rip, and another rod taking the second-best rip, and, well, I took the next one along. Twenty minutes later, the guy's best-rip rod goes off, and it is some hell of a fish. He'd been fighting it for a good 20 minutes when suddenly my rod went screaming off I'd been instructed "do not strike too soon" ... After 3 seconds (feels like an eternity), I struck and was into a solid fish. The guy up the beach brought up his fish - it was either a shark or a ray (later on, I didn't quite hear what he'd caught, but it had gone back in the drink). Meanwhile, my fish was swimming to NZ, and I was down into my backing before I could gain the upper hand. But then the fish came in without too much trouble - and I washed it up on the second attempt with a beautiful swell hitting the beach at just right moment. And there on the sand, I could see a huge pectoral fin flapping up and down. Jewie! Woohoo! Finally cracked it after about 2 years of trying to get a jewie off the beach. (almost all in Sydney). I haven't been able to measure it up yet, but it is filling the bar fridge in my hotel room, and for sure, the PB will need updating. Details: Caught right at high tide, just before dusk, a few days before new moon. Barometer something like 1012 (a high, but falling). about 10 knots onshore wind, and ~1m swell. #7 Konan hooks, snelled onto 60lb leader, 110g star sinker, 30lb braid. The beach has rocks at both ends, and a reef straight out from the centre, and it is a horse-shoe shape - I was in the centre of the horseshoe. I had a really good cast - straight out into the rip, and a fair distance out, so close to the bit of wash of the back edge of the sand bar of the gutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvinching Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 congratulations mate! cracking fish of a lifetime! i bet more will come to u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishingGuy Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Solid Jew Mate!!!! Cheers, FishingGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchie18092 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Winner winner chicken dinner! Top catch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Well done champ! I'm tipping it's 108cm. A very prized fish from the beach! Congrats Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Great story and top work on the PB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryder Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 That's a great first Jewie. Congratulations well worth the effort. I hope the second comes quickly,then the third. There is nothing like staring at the waves, watching sunset, the stars, then THUMP. ZZZZZZZZZZ . Well done. Ryder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billseeker Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Nice jewie mate well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtBundy Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Nice work - hoping to join that club one day too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tseng Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Nice one!! I still trying to crack the meter mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan1000 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Mate! Congratulations! Cracker of a beach jew! What was your rod/reel set up? And standard running sinker rig? Cheers, and congratulations again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag117 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Dream fish mate, well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Spanner Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Fantastic work mate you should be really proud. Unfortunately for you from now on you will probably have a bug that gives you trouble concentrating on things like work and probably miss out on a lot of sleep planning and chasing more of them. There is something addictive and mesmerising about that silver on the sand as you now know. Thank you for sharing your experience with us and we wish you many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no one Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Bro!!! What a catch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulman Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 What a cracker, well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysinmexico Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Great effort mate for a quality fish, one of these years i will put in the time to try for a beach jewie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number1fisher Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Nice catch and from the beach too !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mii11x Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Nice one mate, isn't it great when a plan comes to an awesome end??? I'm yet to get a beach jew, hopefully one day I'll have a similar story to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikei000 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 That will give you another 10 years worth of patience I reckon! Awesome fish mate I've only caught a couple of little ones on the beach years ago and been chasing them since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregh1 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 What a damm good catch that one is!!! Good work mate!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zod Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Wow nice one ginko, my guess is 120cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI SLAYER Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Sick one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginko Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 It was a bit hard to measure, as I'd had to clean it at the beach, so the head was not quite in its normal position, but I estimate it was right on 1m. (Although I did like General Zod's thinking of 1.20m!) The cleaned fish (no guts or gills) weighed 10kg. I got 6kg of nice fillets from the fish, which looks like it will be 4 feeds for a young family. Re: Rod and Reel - a 12ft 8kg rod, and a daiwa windcast baitrunner reel. The rig set up was a ~50cm trace running straight to star sinker, then another ~30cm trace that runs along the line-to-sinker trace with snelled hooks at the business end and a swivel to run along the line-to-sinker trace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Well done and great report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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