Jacks, Kingfish or Trevally

These aggressive gluttons are usually plentiful and even pestilent at times. Two species are common, the jack crevalle (Caranx hippos) and the longfin jack (Caranx senegallus). Jack crevalle, which reach 30kgs in these waters, prefer to patrol the lower reaches of the lagoon and the surf zone, while the smaller (up to 15kg) longfins often move some distance upstream in large schools, ravaging the bait shoals of herring, mullet and sprats. Spinning and fly fishing are the most exciting ways to targeting these fish, although a livebait set for other species will almost never be refused and is a particularly good technique for targeting the big longfins.