By Jack Mangrove
With some good rain falling around the coast, it’s sure to give the river system a bit of a shake up!
Reports of good-sized buck mud crabs are on the move, with areas such as Makepeace Island and Weyba Creek being the standout spots to throw your pots, also few reports of sand crab coming from down around the river mouth.
Tailor are making an appearance in the river with the mouth and Woods Bays fishing well.
Fishing the Run in tide along the Sand Bags near the Dog Beach has paid dividends over the past week with nice size flathead, trevally, bream and whiting feeding on worms, nippers and prawns.
Land based anglers have been fishing soft plastic around Woods Bays, Weyba Creek and up towards Tewantin, and have been very productive over the past week with flathead coming in up to 70cm.
Another fish we are seeing more of in the river has been grunter bream or the barred javelin fish, these fish fight hard and are a great table fish.
Jack are also still in good numbers with the majority caught at night – fishing live baits has been getting the best results.
On the beaches, dart have been thick right up and down the coastline. Whiting have been in good numbers along the Noosa Northshore beaches with the fish coming onto the bite during the start of the run-out tide.
Good bream are also starting to show up, with Noosa National Park Rocks well worth a go.
Larger trevally have also come from the rocks first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening, with bonito fillets and pillies doing the damage.
Offshore, the wind, swell and the odd shower of rain prevented most anglers from making a run outside last week.
But as the wind and swell dropped last Sunday, we saw the in close grounds firing again.
Sunshine Reef, Jew Shoals and Halls Reef are worth a try for sweetlip, cobia, squire and other reefies.
Slow trolling baits like garfish, bonito and xxl pilchards have accounted for some good Spanish mackerel.
If you’re anchored up, a good berley trail will help keep the fish around the boat, floating pillies and livies on stinger rigs have also been chomped. There have been some great bait ball just outside the mouth with large schools of tuna feeding on them, long-tail and Mack tuna have both been taken in good numbers.
In the dams it is simply a case of less water more fish, even though we have had some rains the dams are still pretty low.
If you are fishing Lake Macdonald, fish the edges in the low light times with surface lures and soft plastics.
As the sun gets a little higher head to the deeper water with the fish holding at around 10 to 20 metres.
Up at Borumba, saratoga are actively feeding morning and night and have been taking smaller shallow diving, hard body lures.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
