Eli caught his first ever giant trevally on a Magbite Snatchbite Shrimp 4” soft plastic.
Keithy travelled all the way from Longreach and was rewarded with this nice mangrove jack on a private charter with Brad Smith on the Tweed River.
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Warren went whiting wading and was rewarded with a new personal best.
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Broadwater Guide by CLINT ANSELL
mangrove jack, big bream and trevally on Samaki Vibelicious and Pontoon 21 hard-body lures from the Tweed River when the water wasn’t too muddy. You can guarantee that autumn and winter fishing will be epic after a wet summer. The Gold Coast Broadwater has produced a tremendous variety of species over the past month. Big summer whiting have continued to feature on my wading flats tours, while in the channels my usual tactic has been drifting and jigging Samaki Vibelicious 70mm soft vibes and Ecogear ZX40 lures, or using live yabbies on baitholder hooks with running sinker traces. The fish encountered have included summer whiting, winter whiting, flathead, flounder, squire, grass emperor, grass tuskfish, tailor,
trevally, bream, tarwhine and more. The trick in the Broadwater is to fish the channels north of the Seaway during a neap tide or close to tide changes and during a bigger tide or in the middle of tide flows, then fish south of the Seaway and up the Nerang and Coomera rivers. This is when you can drift at a moderate speed and hold bottom without getting snagged too often. It pays to remember that fish will know where best to locate themselves to have a good chance of ambushing their prey and getting a feed. If there’s not enough flow, the bait doesn’t get delivered to them, and if it’s running too hard, they spend too much energy holding their position. We are big fans of the new range of Samaki * continued P25
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