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Jewfish will be eating well presented plastics this month.
Muddies, jewies and jacks
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EBRUARY is generally one of the hottest months of the year in southeast Queensland. It can produce some wild weather, such as heavy rain and storms, so we’ll have to wait to see what Mother Nature feels like sending our way as the month progresses. At the time of writing, the rivers were still fairly brown from the
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recent rainfall. Though they are clearing up quickly and the bait is starting to go back into the rivers and creeks. Mud crabs were starting to improve and there were a lot of small prawns flicking around the smaller drains. Hopefully we’ll get a little more rain this month to keep the water slightly dirty. This helps to concentrate bait into a smaller area, instead of spreading throughout the entire system. Where there is bait, there will be fish, so concentrations of bait make things easier when trying to find spots where the fish are feeding.
Don’t let the brown water put you off fishing an area. To see how much salt is in the water, I always taste it as I’m pushing up the creek. If there’s salt on the top, there will be plenty of fish down deep in the holes. I also keep an eye out for any surface activity from baitfish such as mullet and prawns. When saltwater is pushing back into a system, mullet will be the first to follow it in. Also, keeping an eye on the sounder in the deeper holes will let you know if the bait is pushing back up. Small bull sharks will be in large num* continued P9
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Dom McCann landed a big mangrove jack when live baiting at night.
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