Went out to the ICW yesterday morning, had a premonition and for once I guessed right.  I started off just before sunrise with a jerk shad on a jig head looking for snook, nothing doing.  Just after sunrise I see jacks busting the seawall like tsunami, threw the jerk shad and had a strike but no hook up.  As fast as the fish came in that's how fast they left, that's what jack fishing is. I tie on a 3/4 oz kastmaster, good lure for distance and fish chasing bait and casted towards some nervous water.  Bam I get a strike, too my surprise it was a beautiful silver snook, why my phone didn't save pic I don't know, it clicked, lol.  A few minutes later maybe 50 yards or so I see more nervous water, now it's jack, not big but still an excellent fight especially from that distance.

 

The same exact scenario happened this morning but more intense.  Caught 1 snook and 4 jacks about the same size as yesterday's,

Edited February 14, 201511 yr by SirSnookalot

My wife and I went down to the keys in November and had a great time catching a few jacks and other species. Fighting the jacks on both spinning and fly gear was a ton of fun. Unfortunately, she caught some larger jacks than I did.

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Those jacks look like they are built for speed.. Kastmaster are sweet baits, done well with them in Puerto Rico as well as Tampa..

Hey that's a new phone you got! That's what happened...

That's a nice jack she is holding.

The key to catching jacks or any fish that is moving fast chasing bait is to cast not where they are, but where you think they will be.  So often by the time your lure hits the water they are gone.  Jacks come in all sizes, they catch little ones 2-3" and use them for live bait, and there are 40 pounders roaming around too.

 

These phones are tempermental, I've got all the "bugs" worked out on kit kat.  Everytime a new OS comes out there seems to be a ton of bugs.  I think the camera episode was just an anomaly, only time it ever happened.  Nice feature with camera it's voice acitivated, just say "shoot".  If it wasn't for the larger display I liked my Motorola razr maxx better than this s4.

This morning I blew it, all my fault as I didn't heed my own advice.  Had about 6 or 7 groups of jacks coming in, time wise longer spacing between groups than the last few days.  I casted into them instead of ahead, by the time the lure hit the water which was only about 15', they half way to the Bahamas.  I wound up only with 2 about 6# each.