Went out this arvo to see if I could get any big jacks. Started out at a spot collecting bait and managed to get quite a few MJ mullet baits plus a couple of biiiig mullet. Headed down to the jack spot and started fishing. Fished with a Atomic Prawn for a while while waiting for the tide to get to where I wanted it. Had a couple of awesome hits from Jacks on the SP but no hookups. Started fishing with the baits. Wwas quite slow to start off with, with a only a couple of small jacks and some pikies.



I was sitting down (as you do when it's a bit slow) and suddenly my rod loads up but not the kind of brutal hit you get with jacks. I stood up and with the rod now fully loaded it started to peel off line at a rate of knots. There was a nice boil on the surface and I thought surely it wasn't a barra (barra are pretty rare at this spot) but after the next run he blitzed out of the water with some nice headshakes and I saw it was a nice barra of around 80cm. He got me in the current and pulled more line then on his next jump he backflipped and cut me on his rakers.



I tied on a new hook and by this stage I'm down to my last mullets, the really big ones. I got out one of my 9/0s and put on the bait. I looked at it and thought nothing is going to hit it as it was an absolutely horse of a mullet but I threw it out anyway. It only lasted about 1 minute before it got annihalated and it took off down the creek. This one didn't feel like a barra as it pulled line at a massive rate of knots without jumping or slowing down under a massive amount of drag. I just looked at my spool as it quickly started to empty and I didn't even get a turn on the handle before it went slack. Hooks pulled.



Mullet suggested barra as it was completely scaled and had no evidence of a toothy critter like jack or shark but the fight was unusual.



Bait went out again and it only lasted about 20 seconds before it got inhaled. Same deal as with the last fish it absolutely screamed off and I didn't even get to turn the handle, just as I was about to be spooled it busted me off on the rocks. Only had a few wraps of line left lol..



Had one more bait but by this stage it was completely dark and with no light (didn't have a torch) to re-rig I decided to head home.



A very interesting afternoon and would have loved to know what those big runs were, don't think I've ever been smoked like that before. Don't have any pics unfortunately but just thought I'd share my exciting afternoon.