James Clain Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 For this years Penrith Panthers Fishfest competition my buddy Trent and I decided to target jewfish. Last year was spent spending an entire evening sitting on the beach at Wisemans ferry without a single bite. This year with the help of my boat we headed down to Spencer to try and get better results. We launched the boat around 7pm and stayed out until 12:30 this allowed us to fish a significant part of the high tide change out in the middle of the river. We used a 4 rod spread, 2 light rods (8lb line 1/0 circle hook) running small Hawkesbury prawns and 2 heavy rods (20lb and 50lb) running squid and butterflied tailor on double snell rigs. Early on we managed a couple small jewfish and a couple small flatties. As the night progressed with the full moon beaming down on us we managed to land 5 quality jewfish. All of these fish were caught on the light rods. Among pike eel and stingray bi-catch we also lost a number of good fish to hooks pulling and being sawn off by what we think were sharks. Trents biggest went 73 centimetres and my biggest went 70cm. Please enjoy these photos and the youtube video linked below! The youtube video showcases some of the incredible action we had! Ps: Trent won biggest jewfish of the com p!! - Tight lines 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little_Flatty Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Nice work James and Trent. Well-earned rewards after a fishless session the night before. Congrats on the competition win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Great fish, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Good work. It makes you happy when the jewies are legal sizes. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 (edited) Congrats lads, great to win a comp and always nice to get legal mullos! The vid was good fun too! Edited February 26 by jenno64 additional comment:) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkin Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Well done fellas! Some very nice Jewies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 when it's on, it's on! well done lads 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Sydney Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Some spectacular fish there well done James! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Awesome work guys ! Congrats on the win ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie_fisher Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Congrats awesome fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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