HUMIDITY STIRS UP THE JACKS

HI everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week. Lucky anglers made the most of the nice weather conditions last weekend and early in the week before we saw the rain and swell return to the Gold Coast. Let’s have a look at what’s been on offer.

Good conditions last weekend saw lots of anglers heading offshore chasing a range of different species. For the sports fishos a good run of black marlin has continued fishing around spot X and the 50 fathom line east of the Seaway, a mixture of trolled skited lures and live baits have been productive with many boats catching multiple fish. Spanish, spotty and school mackerel have been around in good numbers.

Anglers did well at Mermaid Reef, Palm Beach Reef, Gravel Patch and the local 18 to 24 fathom reefs off the Seaway. Local fisho Wayne managed to get his deckhand Greg onto a 115cm jewfish (see photo in Brag Board) while bottom fishing the 18 fathom area.

There has been a good variety of species including snapper, moses, tusk and trag on offer. WA pilchards, whole large squid, mullet fillet, tailor fillet and yakkas are all great baits to choose from. Hopefully the new SE wind change and increase in swell doesn’t hang around for too long.

Coomera Bait and Tackle customers scored a nice feed of Banana Prawns from the Powerlines and the Logan River around the high tide last weekend and early this week. Hopefully we get enough rain to push the prawns out of the river and they spread out more around Russell Island.

The hot humid days leading up to the SE wind change and rain stirred up the local mangrove jack population on the Gold Coast seeing some great quality fish landed in the Nerang River, Coomera River, Paradise Point, Runaway Bay and Logan River. Live baits like mullet, herring, silver biddies and whiting work well enticing a bite. For the lure fisho soft plastics like Zman MinnoZ or Storm So Run Joker Shads have worked a treat.

Coomera Houseboat Holiday customers have managed a feed of mud crabs and a few sand crabs this week. Some of the better spots were Tiger Mullet Channel both eastern end near the feeder creek on Crusoe Island and western end feeder creeks near the Kangaroo Island reserve sign. Also Eden Island, Cobby Passage, Kouryabba, Logan River, Cabbage Tree Point, Jacobs Well, Never Fails, Coomera River both north and south arms. The good run should continue after the predicted rain.

Brad from Brad Smith Fishing Charters reports on the Tweed River after the rain we have received combined with the new showers on the way to try finding and fishing the area where the dirty water meets the clear current on the run-in tide for trevally, and the lower reaches is the place for flathead and bream. A few nice mangrove jack have also been crunching deep diving Atomic lures.

Clint has been catching his customers some quality mangrove jack on his night charters in the Nerang River on live whiting. Daytime in the Broadwater Clint is finding his customers a good variety of species including flathead, whiting, tailor and squid.

Hope you all have a good weekend and get out for a fish, if you have any great catches or photos you would like to share, please email us and let us know how you went.