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Wily winter jacks
* from P18
lures around early in the morning, then float pilchards and pike into some rocks and fallen trees.
timber and mangrove edges a go next and I boated a jack in the high-30cm range and lost a good one.
Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t on our side and we had a 25-knot southeasterly wind and showers to deal with.
The next spot was a rock bar and Phil got the fourth and final jack in the mid-30cm range.
This didn’t seem to worry the jacks, with Shaun landing a good fish within the first hour of fishing.
By this stage we were cold and wet but still happy we landed four jacks in very ordinary conditions.
Hopefully I can get a chance to chase a few more jacks during Au- gust.
The author with an average winter mangrove jack.
by MELISSA FROHLOFF
Smoky chicken pizza
Ingredients
• 2 smoked chicken breasts, cubed
• 1 tbsp barbecue sauce
• 1 tbsp tomato relish
• 1 thin & crispy pizza base
• 1/2 red onion, finely sliced
• 100g black olives
• 50g white mushrooms, sliced
• 25g red capsicum, diced
• 250g three cheese blend, shredded
Method
1. Preheat barbecue or oven to 220C.
Prep time: 15 min | Cook time: 25 min | Serves 4
2. Place pizza base pizza tray or stone.
on a
3. Mix barbecue sauce and tomato relish together and spread on the pizza base.
4. Top with smoked chicken, red onion, black olives, capsicum, mushrooms and sprinkle with three cheese blend.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until base is crisp and cheese is golden.
It measured bang on 50cm, which is a good- quality fish for the area we were fishing.
So far the flathead season hasn’t been great around Brisbane, but hopefully it fires up a bit later and more fish show up during August and September.
The action went a bit quiet after that, so we dropped anchor on a rubble patch and drift- ed some baits into it.
That’s it from me.
Shaun was on again, landing a small jack, while we all hooked a few bream and cod as well.
Get out there and en- joy the good weather and clean water.
We gave a bit of fallen
I hope to see you on the water.
Nigel Benfer trolled up this nice athead on a pink Lively Lures Micro Mullet.
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