Name: Mangrove Jack

Scientific Name: Lutjanus Argentimaculatus

Minimum Size: 35cm

Bag Limit: Nil

Best Bait: Live herring, whiting (whole, live), Mullet fillets, live poddy mullet, tailor flesh, whole WA pilchards and brightly coloured (especially pink and orange) deep diving minnow lures.

Habitat: Found in both estuaries and reef waters along the Great Barrier Reef and QLD Coastline. Young members of the species live in rivers and creeks, around snaggy banks, rocky ledges underwater adn in deep holes, until they reach 3-4 kilos in size and migrate to the sea.

Name: Mud or Dusky Flathead

Scientific Name: Platycephalus Indicus

Minimum Size: 40cm

Maximum Size: 70cm

Bag Limit: 5

Best Bait: Live whiting, fresh mullet fillets, prawns, lures and white prichards.

Habitat: Sand and/or muddy costal beaches and rivers along Queensland SE coast.

Name: Sand Whiting

Scientific Name: Sillago Cilliata

Minimum Size: 23cm

Bag Limit: Nil

Best Bait: Sand Worms

Habitat:

Name: Trevally

Scientific Name: Carangoides Chrysophrys

Minimum Size: Nil

Bag Limit: Nil

Best Bait: Metal slugs, deep diving minnows, live whiting, squid, pilchards herring and garfish.

Habitat: Long-nosed trevally are found along the Queensland coast from Cape Moreton north, in estuaries and reef waters.

Name: Yellowfin Bream

Scientific Name: Acanthopagrus Australis

Minimum Size: 23cm

Bag Limit: Nil

Best Bait: mullet fillets, mullet gut, chook gut, prawns, yabbies, white pilchardand blood workms.

Habitat: Found predominately from south-east Queensland to north Queensland, yellowfin are caught in estuaries, along surf beaches and off open healands.