Jew Fishing SE Qld...Anyone got any info?

[VoodooChile78]

Hey

I am very keen to chase Jew/Mulloway but have no idea where to go to chase them, I usually fish Sunshine Coast/Noosa and around Brisbane.

I know they are around...seems the southerners tend to chase them more than us Qlder's.

Has anyone got any tips? locations? advice?

Cheers

Mike L.

[marlinqld]

Dave's column in yesterdays Bayside Bulletin says there are jew around the holes at the mouth of the Logan River at the moment.

Mike

[yalta]

cod hole in maroochy river using live mullet.. the boat ramps at noosaville under the lights . noosa river mouth near coast guard.

[Jeremy]

landbased or boat? estuary or offshore?

Look through the reports sections. There have been quite a few jewies caught at a number of locations recently and you will get alot of info that way.

Jeremy

[VoodooChile78]

Hey all,

thanks for the replies...well since I am boatless it would have to be shore-based either Estuary or Surf.

Any advice on how to get them from the shore would be a huge help...I have heard they go worms pretty good as well as live poddy mullet...what rigs work best?

Cheers.

[ida]

try a floating bait (mullet or choppy)works for me

[Freeeedom]

I've put this up before but here it is again - hope it helps.
Cheers Freeeedom

The most consistent location for producing big jew that I know in SE Qld is the Noosa National Park headland. The gates to the picnic area are locked at night, so you park outside them and take the walking tracks around the headland. The first little point is called the Boiling Pot. It's only a hundred metres from the car park. I've heard of jew being caught there but the water is not very deep so I always went further on. You walk about a kilometre around Ti-tree bay and you come to Dolphin Point. The rocks there are fishable and I have taken jew there. Another kilometre or more takes you around Granite Bay and a smaller bay called Winch Cove to the start of the high cliffs. This is called The Fairy Pools. This is a top location with easy access and deep water right at your feet. I have caught everything, including many big jew here. Through the night you can fish for bream in the washes where the waves break past the point or jew in the deep water off the front. At dawn you'll take tailor. As the light improves you'll often take mackerel (spotty, school and spaniard), cobia, yellowtail kingfish, tuna and various trevally. Smaller baits will also account for big dart. You need to watch the sea and don't try to fish if a big swell is running, although winter is usually calm up here. The cliffs run from the Fairy Pools for 6 or 7 hundred metres to the end of the headland, which is called Hell's Gates (you'll see why when you look down from the top). There is good fishing on both sides of the gates, but the northern side is better, with much deeper water. The climb down isn't easy but is usually worth it. You'll catch the same range of species as the Fairy Pools with the addition of snapper and sweetlip in the deep water at your feet. Landing fish is always a bit difficult at these locations because you are quite a bit above the water and there are few places to wash up a fish. You either need a long gaff, strong line or time to manoeuvre the fish to a suitable place to grab it. For the jew I use big firm baits cast out and left to sit during the night. Whole squid and large yellowtail pike are the preferred baits on 4 ganged 6/0s. Pilchards are OK but a bit soft. There are lots of pickers (butter bream, happy moments etc) around in the daylight but they disappear at night. Often these big baits are taken by submarines headed for New Zealand which are unstoppable - sharks I guess. You might come back with only 1 or 2 fish, but they are often fish to remember.
A couple of other places that are regular jew producers
- the Southport Seaway (needs a boat) where they are frequently taken on live baits.
- the rocks and beaches around Point Arkwright (the first headland at Coolum). This is much easier to get to than Noosa being only a 50m walk down from the carpark. It's a nice reefy area which holds the jew at night, but you tend to do a bit of gear because of the amount of rocks. There's good breaming there at night in winter and some tailor at dawn at this time of year.