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JUMPINPIN Bo Sawyer

At the time of writing the water quality has been pretty ordinary, to say the least, but there’s still mulloway and flathead this past month and have got some quality fish in the boat. It’s been a challenge fishing with some of the windy days we’ve had, but thankfully in this awesome system there’s plenty of

hiding spots for us to wet our lines.

Let’s start with the bream fishing. They’ve been plenty of good-sized bream swimming around and the quality fish have been biting as well. I’ve been getting a few as by-catch chasing flathead along Kalinga and the Pin bar. I’ve been using bigger plastics and jigheads so

I can only imagine how many you can catch along here by using 2-3” lures and 1/8-1/4 jigheads. Bream are much shier when taking lures, so drop your leader size down (mind you I was getting them on 16lb leader, but you will get way more hits fishing lighter). If you’re a bait fisho then lightly weighted flesh baits, yabbies, prawns and white bait are dynamite. Thinner gauge hooks are also a good idea to increase your hook up rate.

Bring on the mulloway! Cold temps and light westerlies are my favourite when chasing the silver ghosts. They have been pretty active around the powerlines and at the mouth of the Logan, and there’s also been some big ones caught around the Pin bar. Sharks are a real nuisance when live baiting, unfortunately there’s not much we can do about this.

Deeper holes are another great option for mulloway and I’ll usually scan a few of these on my sounder when heading out to the pin just in case there’s a few hanging around. Live bait, such as mullet or yakkas are a great option, otherwise soft vibes or large plastics will do the trick. If I’m chasing them on lures I’ll spend more time looking for them on my sounder then actually fishing for them.

Flathead are still being caught in really good numbers. I’ve been flicking plastics for them out in the Pin bar and Kalinga Bank around the high while the

water is nice and clean. Then fishing in closer around weed edges and anywhere that has water running off it. Using 3-4” plastics and 1/4-3/8 jigheads will yield the best results if you’re willing to move around and fish a lot of ground. If you like using bait then either small livies, prawns or pillies will do the trick. Try fishing the northern lagoons, North Crusoe, Gold Bank, Whalleys Gutter and Eden Island, as well as Kalinga Bank and the Pin bar as mentioned before. Cold early mornings with little wind will produce VERY hot bites up on the flats as well. There’s been some nice whiting caught around the northern lagoons and Gold

Bank using live yabbies and sand worms. Whiting are more active in the warmer months but with so much bait getting flushed around they’ve still been biting relatively well.

That’s it from me this month guys. Don’t forget the King of the Pin competition has been rescheduled to the 22-24 July. It will be a fantastic weekend and competition so make sure to check it out. Brett from Jacobs Well Bait and Tackle has plenty of fresh bait available as

Bo with a nice flatty caught along Kalinga Bank.

been some cracking fish around with the majority caught around the higher parts of the tide.

I’ve been fishing for

Jarryd has been catching some great whiting in the Pin with yabbies. You can check out his adventures on Facebook ‘Caught on Fishing’. Benno with a stonker flathead fishing the flats.

Royce has been catching some very nice bream around the Jacobs Well area.

well so stop off and see him on your way out if you need anything. • To see more of my fishing adventures on Instagram, follow The Bobo Boat (@ thebobo_boat)