Targeting mackerel with sabiki flies is my go-to option. Jack mackerel, whether alive and wriggling, freshly killed and still twitching, or very dead and frozen, thawed and butterflied, or cut into strip baits, often entices bites when nothing else works.
Jack mackerel, also commonly called yellowtail, tend to congregate near inshore structure, often close to where sand meets weedy reef, or in estuary and harbour channels and drop-offs where there’s a bit of depth and current. They also hang around manmade structures such as wharves.
At times they form huge schools that are easy to see on the fish-finder. Anglers can simply stop the boat over a mackerel shoal and drop sets of sabiki flies into it. At other times mackerel are harder to locate in
