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End of winter – not the end of awesome action
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let you fish this style of retrieve.
run, no fun” applies. Use your time when there is no run to find bommies and aggrega- tions of bait for marks
with first light on a run- in tide proving to be the better time.
The stock hooks are very small and heavy, so switch these out for Decoy Twin Pike as- sists in 3/0 size.
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When chasing bream and whiting in the surf, try throwing small handfuls of berley around your feet.
This method can be adopted around North and Sunshine reefs as well as many other reefs in 40m-plus of water.
Davo’s Tackle stores and check out Oceans Legacy rods, Varivas lines and leaders as well as high-speed jigs and assist hooks from Decoy, BKK and Shout.
The wave action will carry this out to the gutter and help bring the fish on the bite.
Double Island, the Barwon Banks and the Hards are great places to try something faster paced.
The beaches have been popular with tai- lor anglers searching for the mighty green- back.
In the Noosa River, bigger yellowfin bream and dusky flathead are showing up around the mouth, with sizes of both fish reaching seri- ous specimen size.
Cory with a cracking atty caught on the beach us- ing a mullet strip bait.
High-speed jigging is an adrenalin rush very few forget.
Most anglers are find- ing the run-in tide after dark, the better time to target the bigger fish, with river mouths a popular area to fish.
With bream now wait- ing to spawn, it should be noted that any cap- tures reaching the mag- ical 40cm and above length should be photo- graphed and promptly released.
The act of dropping over 120g of lure into the depths, hitting the bottom and ripping it up appeals to amber- jack, cobia, tuna and trevally, along with any other pelagic speedster.
The perfect setup for big tailor involves a strong-scented bait such as salted bonito fillets on a two-hook strip bait or gang-hooked rig with bait wrap to keep your bait in place.
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The hit from a fish can be anything from a small bump to an abrupt Mack truck of a hit followed by huge head shakes and the drag-screaming run we all dream of.
This lets you punch casts out and know your bait will not fly off or get picked off in seconds by smaller fish.
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This is not for light 7’ snapper rods and 20lb braid.
Jewfish are still pre- sent around the Noosa headlands, Point Ark- wright and Yaroomba Rocks during the lead- up to a full or new moon phase.
Jigging rods and lines are measured in PE (line diameter), and PE3 (50lb) is the light- est anyone should try with this technique when big fish are pre- sent.
Fresh mullet has been responsible for most catches, with live beach worms the winner on the open beach gutters during the daytime for smaller bream, dart and whiting.
It is important to know that the thicker the line, the heavier the jig will need to be if current is present.
Chunky bream and tailor have been landed on the open beaches,
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