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WJewfish running hot this season
ELL, the winter run of spot during the day and think to jewfish in the estuaries yourself the jew won’t come there along the far north coast because jew will literally beach
Just Jew
by TYE PORTER
of NSW has started in earnest, par- themselves at night to get a feed of
ticularly at Iluka and Yamba at the mouth of the mighty Clarence River. Every year, large schools of jew- fish move into the lower reaches of the estuaries to feast on the vast schools of flat-tailed mullet that move downstream each year to
– will see jew busting on any given night, and if you have a boat fish the mouth of Mobbs Bay at high water.
mullet in the dark.
One of Mischa’s mates from Yamba
breed.
What you need to realise is that
On the Brunswick River, don’t overlook the mouth of the trawler harbour on the southern bank or a little upstream from the north wall on the northern side.
told us of a nice school of flat-tails laying adjacent to one of the road bridges in that area, so we went for a couple of night-time drives and were duly rewarded with a fish each night.
this event is not limited to the Clar- ence River as the Evans, Richmond, Brunswick and Tweed Rivers also see the same action to either a great- er or lesser extent.
On the Tweed, the spots are end- less as flat-tailed mullet congregate around any wharf, drain or rocky structure – so get out and do the ground work in your own area.
While the mullet were using the bridge pylons for cover during the day, the couple of nights we were there the jewfish came in, smashed into the poor old mullet and drove them on to the shallow mud flats.
At Evans Head the Bream Hole on the southern side of the river holds big numbers of flat-tailed mullet during winter, and in turn jew regu- larly come to feed during high tide at night.
The greatest assess you have at night when searching for jew feed- ing on mullet is your ears, because once they start feeding you will be able to hear them from a mile away.
Mischa was standing on the mud flats in his waders on one of the nights and had jewfish busting into the mullet between him and the bank. I chose to cast lures from the bank for nil reward, however such is fishing and I am just as likely to snare a fish next time.
At Ballina on the Richmond River just about any spot accessible from the bank – from the sailing club upstream to the Burns Point Ferry
Don’t use torches to find mullet at night because you should have already done the groundwork and found where the mullet are laying during daylight hours.
The T-piece at the beginning of the Yamba breakwall has been lousy * continued P45
Mischa with a nice longtail tuna taken from the Iluka breakwall on live garfish.
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Land-based guru Ted McLean of Ashby with one of the few long- tail tuna taken from the Iluka breakwall this season.
Do not see mullet laying in a given
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