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Tips for catching a Christmas feed
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a few anglers have re- ported barramundi as by-catch.
Clouser Minnow are going to be the best bet for making your cast count.
a few black marlin making an appearance out wide.
Good size estuary cod have been on the chew and mixed in with de- cent Queensland grop- er.
Mud crabs have been a little slow this month, with most fishers say- ing many are just un- dersized, though with full shells.
Inshore wrecks such as the Taipan Star have been the go-to for cobia recently.
Snag bashing the up- per reaches of Teebar and Kauri creeks with hard-bodies and skip- ping soft plastics under structure has also been producing quality man- grove jack.
This is good as they’re only a few weeks away from being legal, so muddies for Christmas maybe possible – sand crabs are a little patchy from all accounts.
Using slow pitch jigs or 5’’ jerk shad style soft plastics have re- sulted in anglers getting buckled by good fish.
Reports have come through of large num- bers of both longtail and mack tuna along with school and spotted mackerel in the Straits.
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The bait has been small, so 10-15g Halco Twisty lures or a 1/0
Pelagics have turned up too, with solid catch- es of cobia, amberjack and kingfish using live bait and knife jigs.
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Cheers and tight lines.
Des with nice snapper from a trip out on Keely Rose.
The trick is to try and get past the tea-leaf trevally – that can hang around in plague pro- portions at times – and if you do there’s a good chance of getting a few nannygai or jewfish.
Ashley Head holds up a reef mangrove jack caught out wide.
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Queenfish have been on the chew in the Great Sandy Straits and 1m models are being caught.
Offshore fishos were treated to quality catch- es of coral trout, with a mixture of slow pitch jigging and live baits around the Pinnacles ensuring success.
Well, that’s all from me for this month.
Live baiting around Inskip Point on a big- ger tide with lightly weighted bait has been working.
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Catches of tuskfish, snapper, redthroat em- peror and nice reef mangrove jack have been coming from fur- ther afield.
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