By MANGROVE JACK
RIVER fishing in the Noosa River has been nothing short of outstanding over the past week.
Quality whiting has been coming from Gympie Terrace, the Dog Beach and the Frying Pan. Whyba Creek and the lake have also produced some great fish, some of them touching the 40cm mark. Yabbies worms and peeled prawns have all been doing the job well with poppers and surface walkers like the River2sea Skinny Dogs in the 65mm size.
Woods Bays has also been producing some nice fish. An early morning fish has been rewarding with quality trevally, tailor and large brim. Soft plastics have been the go here with the squidgy prawn range working a treat.
Heading up the Tewantin stretch of the river has again produced some fantastic giant trevally, plastics like the fuse prawn heads have been working well, also in the same area flathead have been feeding profusely with a number of fish over the 70 mark been caught this week.
Out on the beach, things have been sensational; most eastern beaches have held good schools of whiting bream and the ever-present swallowtail dart, and with the evening tight at the moment, jewies have been coming in to feed and have been well accounted for on the southern beaches around Coolum.
Larger baits, like a mullet fillets, bonito fillets and worms clumped onto a large hook are all perfect baits for jew.
Up on the Noosa Northshore, the southern migration of the tailor has begun. The fish are a little leaner now after spawning up at Fraser Island, with this they are hungry for prawns, mullet, bonito strips and, of course, a good old-fashioned pilchard.
It hasn’t been the best week offshore with most of last week seeing big swells and higher winds. The earlier part of the week saw a couple of the charters head out with some good results. Last Sunday was the prim day and angler headed out early, North Reef has been fishing well for moses perch, pearl perch, squire, grass sweetlip, coral cod, sea bream and gold spot cod.
North Reef has also seen some great schools of tuna, floater baits have been the favoured way of targeting these speedster’s of the sea.
Smaller craft headed to Sunshine Reef and were well rewarded with sweetlip and coral trout.
So On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
