Nice catch, must of been a good fight.

They've been schooling up all over the northshore. I caught one a few weeks ago and my brother and nephews have caught a few. I was kayaking near the sea wall and all of a sudden it was like grenades were going off around me. Too bad I had forgotten my pole.

Nice man. My buddy speared one off the lakefront about that size last year. They definitely get in there. I bet that was a fun fight.

They fight very hard... And I have seen more people mistake this fish for a tuna..

lemme tell ya how to cook it.

Take the jack meat and season it with salt, pepper,garlic,onions,ect ect.. get a cedar plank board and place jack meat on it, place in oven or grill and cook till you think its done, you then throw the jack meat in the trash and eat the cedar board..


Great hard catch ya got all the same.. keep fishin..

Nice fish caddy !

I bit hook line and sinker Travis ... Good one

Lmao........^5 on dat recipe!!!!!

nice jack, those are fun to catch. I never caught one in a while, hoping i can hook on to a big one like that this weekend! I got a new smoker for christmas and read they are good smoked so i'm looking forward to trying them smoked. anyone ever tried them smoked?

Great catch. People who dont keep them just dont know how to prepare them. Give that to any asian and it becomes a 4 course meal.

@ vanshornsby, get this... my neighbor went fishing in Hopedale, LA the very next day and in between a few reds and a few black drums he hooked a 20 pound Jack Crevalle (also on shrimp). Brought it home to show me and we both just laughed. What are the chances? LOL... And with mine from the lake, what does that say about the salinity of the lake? All that talk about freashwater intrusion, Ha.

Salinity doesn't really affect jack fish as much as you'd think. They're like a redfish in that they don't require much salinity to survive. I've seen them in bayous on the west side of the lake that are basically fresh.

got me a nice 25lb jack yesterday out of whiskey pass fishing on plastic jigs. Fought like a beast! I'll post my report later. Can't wait to try cooking him up!

Nice one! If you don't mind, what kind of rig/bait did you catch him with? Thanks.