By JACK MANGROVE
NOOSA anglers have been spoilt over the last week with some outstanding weather giving the perfect opportunity to head out for a fish.
For offshore anglers, the local reefs have been producing with most holding good quality snapper. Heading for Sunshine Reef, anglers have been treated to sweetlip, trout, Mouri cod and tuna.
A charter to The Coffees on Sunday produced some great fish including sweetlip, Venus tusk fish, Mack tuna, squire, Moses perch and pearl perch.
Another charter headed to North reef and bagged some quality snapper and pearl perch.
In the river, the fishing has been equally good with the river mouth producing some nice luderick, tailor, bream and trevally.
The luderick have only turned up over the last couple of weeks and local anglers have had some good success with ‘Coolum Cabbage’ sea cabbage as well as peeled prawns.
Luderick dislike clear sunlit water, so the best results are usually on a cloudy day with the water slightly discoloured. The last two hours of the run out tide and the first hour of the run in tide around dawn or dusk, are the best conditions.
Good numbers of tailor have also started to make their way through the river mouth with the good old pilchard a favourite with anglers, fresh mullet strips and salted bonito strips baits have also hit the spot.
Good-sized elbow slapper whiting have been taken around Dog Beach and the Frying Pan, with freshly pumped yabbies the gun bait here. Woods Bay has again seen some magnificent trevally with golden trevally to 70cm taken this week along with giant trevally.
First light has been the prime time with surface lures doing the trick.
Upriver flathead have again featured prominently with angler preferring brightly coloured soft plastics, worked close to the bottom.
On the beach, the gutters along Noosa’s North Shore have been firing with some cracker bream over the 30cm mark as well as tailor and some nice swallow tail dart. Look for those gutter with a good outward flowing rip and work the area near there, as predator tend to sit in wait just outside the rip. A couple of jewies have also been in the mix from Northshore through the week.
In the Freshwater, Lake Macdonald has seen Bass tight in against the weed in Bass Bay and around Three Ways. Grub pattern soft plastics fished in and around the weed are doing the trick.
Best of luck on your fishing adventures.
