Soft Plastic Jew On Monday

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Hi Guys
Me and Benny J went for a drive down to the Richmond River on Monday to flick a few plastics around. We arrived at the ramp at about 5 and after a bit of a drive noticed that there was bait everywhere. There were quite a few trevally working bait but we were specifically fishing with larger plastics so they weren't really an option. We concentrated on the Deeper water and Benny scored the first fish, a flattie of 65cm. We got a few more around the 50cm range. The wind really started to blow up with the run in tide but we persevered with the softies and I pinned a nice jewie at about 930 on a 4 inch Atomic Shad. I hardly knew that it had picked up the plastic it took so softly. All the fish were spewing up heaps of bait so they were not really feeding. We were both briefly connected to jewies later in the day but dropped them, probably because they werent really hitting them properly and as the weather really started to get foul Bennie got a good size Tailor. Other than the weather it was a good day on the water and a worthwhile trip.

Good Fishing Roderick.

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A close up

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The Rig ready to head home

[MJ]

Nice one Rod. I also tried for jewies at the Pin, But without any luck. Cheers Mike.

[shut_up_and_fish]

nice fish mate..........i lived in that area briefly and tried in earnest to nail a jewie but had no luck.........looks like you may have been up around the ferry??

[MJ]

For jewies do you do the slow lift and drop or quick jerk with the sp's. Thanks. Mike.

[JB]

Good fish rod, how long does it take you to get to the river from tweed?

JB

[stunnedmullet]

Nice fish Rod. May just take some sp's with me this weekend
I have the same boat, wish I caught as many fish as you do in yours. Stability awesome
The mullet

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JB
About an hour

MJ

Yeah mate slow lift and drop,I dont shake shake the rod at all. Try a few different methods on the day. Most important is the sp must do the right thing . Mustnt fall too fast or too slow. I constantly change jighead size as the current speeds up or slows down.

[gogecko]

Yes, Im changing sinkers and jig heads a lot more often, since I saw your 'snap on' setup Rod. Thanks for inspiring me. I found some snap on swivels which I use to change jigheads, and I found a running sinker 'quick change' which looks like a spring wound around the line.

Changing sinker wieghts more often now that I dont have to tie knots, and its helping me keep contact with the bottom.

No jews in the mid reaches of the Coomera yet, maybe they are at the river mouth after the fresh.

[Scott15]

nice fish rod, got a few against ya name now, well done

[jackash]

Top stuff Rod yet another awesome fish. What sort of water depth was that in?
Cheers
Jackash

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Ash

It was in about 26ft of water just before it dropped down to about 35ft. The fish ate the lure right on the bottom .

Cheers Rod

[foggy]

Well done mate. You seem to have those jew sorted out down there. We only fluke ours

[Point_Blank]

yeh it was a good day rods we worked hard but in return caught a nice fish if only there were biting properly then we may have landed a couple more.

cheers
benny j