catching mangrove jacks on s/p

[stessco]

g'day
i love catching mangrovejack on sp. but cant catch any on the sunshine coast creeks dont know why? when i went up to bundy we got 8 mangrovejack in 4 hours the biggest was 40cm no big ones, all caught on 6lb fireline and 14lb leader, with 1/8 jighead and all different kinds of gulps. what am i doing wrong down there?

[Why-ting]

Mate they are not as plentiful down here as they are up north. Wait for stinking hot days, high barometer and look for warm water. You have to put in a few hours to put red in the boat. Sometimes you just get lucky and put a few on the deck in 1 trip but there will be a fair few jackless trips inbetween. You have to put your lure infront of thir face so casts have to be on the money. I would also recomend you up you main line and leader when fishing snaggy areas as a decent jack will make short work out of that gear 9 times out of10

Hope that helps a bit
Cheers Whytey