Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Jacobs Well Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 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.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Next tide
Low 1:34 pm model
Air / High
18 °C / 22 °C
Wind
NE 7 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Jacobs Well is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings clear skies, wind NE around 8 km/h, rising pressure near 1019 hPa and a high of 22 °C. Tides: high 7:11 am and 7:12 pm, low 12:36 am and 1:34 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:41 PM-12:41 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Fair
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Fair
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Tie on: Soft plastic on a 1/4 oz jighead · Small hardbody, shallow diver · Squid jig, size 3.0 · Fresh pipi or worm on a small hook. Prime windows: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM, 10:41 PM-12:41 AM, 3:53 AM-4:53 AM. Warmer at 25 °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 (04:49), sunset (18:11), 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 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:41 PM-12:41 AM; minor 3:53 AM-4:53 AM. New Moon, 0% 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.
Mon
LOW12:36 am-0.38 m
HIGH7:11 am1.19 m
LOW1:34 pm-0.19 m
HIGH7:12 pm0.71 m
Tue
LOW1:04 am-0.35 m
HIGH7:47 am1.19 m
LOW2:17 pm-0.22 m
HIGH7:48 pm0.58 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp18 °C
High / Low22 °C / 16 °C
WindNE 7 km/h, gusts 16 km/h
Pressure1018.6 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain9% cloud, 39%
Sunrise / Sunset04:49 / 18:11
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °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 Tuesday 10 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 2 today.
Best day this week: Tuesday, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:41 PM-12:41 AM
- Minor period
- 3:53 AM-4:53 AM
- Sun
- 04:49 to 18:11
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 39%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
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. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
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. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
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. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
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. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
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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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 22 °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 dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 24 °C, wind to 32 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 28 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 24 °C, wind to 24 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, the snapper closure from 15 July to 15 August, the Spanish mackerel closures in February and March 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, Cabbage Tree Point and the Logan mouth along the same shore 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. Jumpinpin is a shifting ocean bar: cross it only in good conditions and with local knowledge.
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 the bay 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, the snapper closure from 15 July to 15 August, the Spanish mackerel closures in February and March 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. Southern Moreton Bay needs no licence; the bag limits and the marine park zones are the rules to learn.
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: Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
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
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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