Caloundra/pummicesne Passage

[Jords]

I am stayin for a bit at Caloundra with my gp's cause i am now on holidays:) . There is a jettey and a pontoon jetty about 100m from the hotel that head slightly into the pummicestone passae. There are a few pike around of the pylons that i am planning to use as live bait for shovelnose and similar. any1 know of any other species i should try for????

[jeff f]

pumicestone passage and live pike just screams jewfish to me jords. jewies love the strong smell of pike so even though it's a little early in the season you could be in with a chance. good luck.

[Jords]

Awsome

Should i fish them as strips or as livies???

might freeze a few for big tailor bait later in the year??

[Cowfish13]

Do you know how to butterfly the fish. That is how you get the big Jewies

[jeff f]

Jords wrote:

Awsome

Should i fish them as strips or as livies???

might freeze a few for big tailor bait later in the year??

pike dont live very long as live baits so i start cutting at the tail, up along the backbone to just before the head on both sides then put a large hook through the head from between the gills to out between the eyes, this way they hang in the current and look pretty natural

[Jords]

ok thanks

I might try for squid because there is a floodlight on the jetty but there probably arent any around anymore

[roobs]

trevally, if it's the jetty i'm thinking of. you do catch big jewfish there- also flathead. you can jig up herring for live bait there as well- there's always plenty. i've seen some monster bream caught but usually when it's buggery cold. caught my first ever golden trevally in the passage- good memories of childhood fishing!

[Tim a]

Its not bongaree is it?

[Jords]

Not too sure - will have 2 ask mum

There is a relatively deep channel beyong which is a big, shallow sand flat that stretches for a long way. I was there a couple of weeks ago and caught a greenish vertically striped fish which may have been a juvenile luderick?????

looked kinda like this but quite black/green tinge with green stripes

Post edited by: Jords, at: 2007/03/31 19:25