Tailor
Excellent
The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
Jacobs Well Fishing Report
Updated Fri, 25 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
The southern Moreton Bay channels: the Pimpama and Logan mouths, Jumpinpin bar and the Stradbroke back channels, with whiting, bream, flathead and the jew of the Pin.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 6:30 pm model
Air / High
18 °C / 22 °C
Wind
E 10 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Jacobs Well is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. Today brings a mixed sky, wind E around 10 km/h, steady pressure near 1030 hPa and a high of 22 °C. Tides: high 6:22 am and 6:30 pm, low 12:12 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 18 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Bream
Fair
Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
Flathead
Fair
Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
Mulloway
Fair
The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:25 PM-12:25 AM, 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Similar at 22 °C with likely rain: fish ahead of the front. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Queensland has no general fishing licence, but rules and permits apply. Queensland fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing bream here? Check the size and bag limits with Queensland DPI before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Jacobs Well today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:33), sunset (17:43), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM; minor 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Full Moon, 99% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Fri
HIGH6:22 am0.70 m
LOW12:12 pm-0.42 m
HIGH6:30 pm0.99 m
Sat
LOW12:53 am-0.53 m
HIGH6:55 am0.80 m
LOW12:53 pm-0.49 m
HIGH7:05 pm0.96 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp18 °C
High / Low22 °C / 16 °C
WindE 10 km/h, gusts 23 km/h
Pressure1030.4 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain39% cloud, 57%
Sunrise / Sunset05:33 / 17:43
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~18 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Jacobs Well
The best day on Jacobs Well this week looks like Thursday 1 Oct, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today. Every day is scored by the same engine as the report above: pressure trend first, then wind, sky and season. Pick a species and the plan for that day changes with it.
Best day this week: Thursday, 1 Oct — good at 4/5, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.
Today, 25 Sept — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM
- Minor period
- 4:55 AM-5:55 AM
- Sun
- 05:33 to 17:43
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 57%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Jacobs Well: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; August to September on Fraser Island
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
When to come: the Jacobs Well calendar
Activity by species and month for the southern year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 18 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataThu, Sep 24
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 22 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Wed, Sep 23
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 23 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Tue, Sep 22
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 24 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence; permits apply on some waters and the limits and closures do. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by Queensland DPI and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Queensland licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Line fishing at Jacobs Well needs no Queensland licence; the size and bag limits, the crab rules and the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning apply, on the pages linked below.
About this water
Jacobs Well is a coastal town in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Jacobs Well: the full guide
Jacobs Well and the channels
Jacobs Well is the village on the western shore of southern Moreton Bay between the Logan and the Gold Coast, with the ramp and the channels running out through the islands to the Jumpinpin bar between North and South Stradbroke, the Pimpama River and Cabbage Tree Point to the south, the Logan mouth to the north and the sand banks and back channels of the islands. It is a channel village on the bay, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates. Moreton Bay and North Stradbroke Island have their own pages.
Species and seasons
Whiting fish the channel banks and the Pin sand all year and are the village’s fish; bream fish the mangroves and the channel snags; flathead lie on the banks from spring to autumn; mulloway are the night fish of the Pin bar and the deep channels; tailor run the Pin in winter; mangrove jack fish the Pimpama snags in summer; mud crabs work the channels under the pot rules; and the bar gives snapper and mackerel for the boats that cross it. The bar is dangerous and the local knowledge matters.
Where to fish it
The Jacobs Well ramp and the foreshore put a boat into the channels, and the banks off Cabbage Tree Point and the Pimpama mouth are the whiting and flathead water on the run-in, with the mangrove edges of Kangaroo and Short islands the bream water; the Pin bar and the channels behind South Stradbroke are the jew and tailor marks for the boats that know them. The Logan mouth to the north is the crab water.
Reading this report here
The islands shelter the channels from the ocean swell, so the wind is the story inside: a south-easterly chops the open bay and the back channels stay fishable. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Jacobs Well, labelled as a model, and the channels run hard on it. Pressure and sky build the score at Jacobs Well; the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
Line fishing at Jacobs Well needs no Queensland licence; the size and bag limits, the crab rules and the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning apply, on the pages linked below. The ramp and the foreshore are public; the DAF rules are in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Jacobs Well?
Whiting on the channel banks, bream in the mangroves, flathead on the banks in the warm months, mulloway at the Pin at night, mud crabs in the channels.
Do I need a licence at Jacobs Well?
No. Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence; the limits and the marine park zoning still apply.
Is fishing good at Jacobs Well right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- The written guide on this page
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Readings refresh on a 30-minute window. The full method, with every figure and its source, is on How our reports are made. Something wrong here? Tell us and it goes in the log with the date.