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A great time to be jewing it
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as live bait goes herring
relentless this winter, and there have only been a few days where it backed off on the 50-fatham marker.
Spanner crabs start to hit their straps this month, so you could do worse than drop a dilly inside Windarra Banks while you have a bit of a fish.
are probably the easiest to obtain on a small bait jig.
It’s a very lucky day if you can fish the shelf.
Mullet, silver biddies and prawns are great too, but much harder to procure in NSW where castnetting is illegal.
For deep snapper, work out an area where you can get a fairly long drift down a stretch of reef, as you can still work in a fair bit of cur- rent with float lines.
Hopefully you will be rewarded with a few big crabs on your return run.
Failing this, try some fresh mullet fillet or a beachworm.
In close is anyone’s guess.
Yes, jew love beach- worms in the river, even up as far as the weir.
This is especially true if a light southerly wind is blowing.
I’ve seen snapper come in as late as Oc- tober, so there is still hope.
Joubert’s Hole above the piggery was always a good spot to get a jew on worms, but it gets a fair hammering these days.
Spring northerly wind makes everything a lot harder.
But as it stands, it is very quiet on both the jew and snapper fronts.
It’s still definitely worth a go in a fresh though.
In a bit closer, Windarra Banks has been inside the worst of the current, so in a northerly you might need to anchor in this vicinity for a snapper, jew or kingfish.
Still, you could do a lot worse than to have a go on a nice day.
Offshore the upcom- ing months are always a bit tricky.
If the snapper and jew don’t play, you might still come home with a couple of moses perch and maori cod for din- ner.
A quick trip with the author yielded a top jew sh for Toby Hart.
The current has been
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