Black Jew advice

[nipsta]

HI All im hitting stanage bay in july and my goal is to target a jew or finger mark . If you have any good advice for me i would relaly appreciate that on technique rigs what to look for on the sounder .
Cheers

[nipsta]

is there a special tide ETC

[honda900]

Don't know about stanage bay, but up north, we fished the top and bottom of the tide, when there was little water movement (some places had an eight meter tide), caught a bunch of both fish, simple paternoster rig with pilchards, squid and mullet.

Regards
HOnda.

[nipsta]

Don't know about stanage bay, but up north, we fished the top and bottom of the tide, when there was little water movement (some places had an eight meter tide), caught a bunch of both fish, simple paternoster rig with pilchards, squid and mullet.

Regards
HOnda.

Are you using heavy leads tjo to get down or light ?

[Nicko_Cairns]

mate I've seen plenty of footage of them smashing them in the NT, simple paternoster with enough lead to get down there, exactly like you'd do off the reef normally.

[nipsta]

mate I've seen plenty of footage of them smashing them in the NT, simple paternoster with enough lead to get down there, exactly like you'd do off the reef normally.

Cheers yeah i think thats what ill do to even whack one out with a gulp on it and see

[Dan5]

Mate I've found slack water on the high to be best with some decent run either way.

Pattenoster rig with the hook wanting to be roughly 750mm above the bottom......sinker depends on run ofcourse, we will use up to 1lb snapper leads........I like fresh fish fillet something like Blue salmon is good if you can get it but good squid will do.....shark flesh works well also.

I use a 70-80 lb Scnieder leader and let them have a chew for a bit.....they have a very distinctive bite......more like a knocking coming through the line and the bight seems very subtle for a fish of it's size.

Ledge's and wrecks seem best up here but I have definatly found them on knobbly hard bottom when looking for Goldies......Also caught my fair share when trolling for Barra on hard bodies......

Good luck getting your first Jewie........I still remember mine even though it's been just over 20 years now.

Dan

[nipsta]

Thanks dan . I have coaught the jew down here in the rivers but different type of fishing to wrecks and areas up where the current flies . But cant wait to crack my first black jew hopefully i can get one at stanage thansk for the advice with definetly use some of that . Now bring on july

[tailorkid]

hey nipsta,

my family has fished stanage a fair bit.

we always fish at slack water in the 40m holes or in an area about 18m deep with a gravely bottom. its not far from the ramp.

always fish with squid, paternosta rigs and 6/0 Kendal kirbys. we have caught black jew, fingermark, blueys, estuary cod and sharks. lots of sharks!

only ever use enough lead to hold the bottom.

if we get live bait in the cast nets we generally do a lot better with them than the squid.

watch the tides!

hope this helps

cheers, joe