By Mangrove Jack
Yet another perfect weekend for Noosa anglers to get out and take advantage of the wonderful conditions.
Starting with the Offshore seen, plenty of snapper have been boated from the close reefs. The low light periods with a high tide has been the key, as we keep saying every week burly is a great way to improve you catch rate, small cubes of pilchards tossed into the water at regular intervals will create a burly trail and help to bring the fish on the bite.
Another thing is to make sure you are staying over your mark as those that are drifting are getting plenty of grinner from the sandy patches. Try fishing micro jig and soft plastic as there is quite a few smaller fish picking at the baits, so fishing jigs and plastic keeps you in the game.
On Sunshine Reef there have been good numbers of squire sweetlip and the odd trout. Pearl perch have been in good numbers around Chardons Reef and North Reef along with cobia and jewies. Larger boats that made the run out to the Barwon Banks were rewarded with amberjack, snapper, gold band snapper, pearl perch, cobia, venus tusk fish, hussar and Maori cod. Tuna have also been at play with some nice fish boated earlier last week.
On the beaches there has been the odd jewie at night from the deeper gutters along the Noosa North Shore.
There are some good gutters north of Teewah which is where most of the jewies have been coming from. Those same gutters have also produced some nice tailor with the majority of fish taken at night or in the low light periods. Tailor is a great bait for jew so try whipping the sides off one of those tailor.
There are still some nice winter-sized bream coming from the beaches down towards Marcoola, fishing the coffee rocks has been the best areas, small fish style baits like hardy heads and white baits have been the go to bait.
There are plenty of dart and whiting around on the run out tide, freshly pulled worms and pippies are the perfect baits for the job.
In the Noosa River, the tailor have again been on the chew with the river mouth, Woods Bays and the Frying Pan all great spots to target them, trevally have also been in the mix with plenty of those 30cm to 40cm fish to do battle with. Fishing smaller surface lures like popper and surface walkers have been doing the job firing up the fish. Flathead are still in good numbers right throughout the system with Weyba Creek and the mouth of Lake Donella producing some nice fish. There have been some nice jew coming from the deeper holes along the ski run, taking a liking to plastics and vibes.
The odd winter jack is also around, fishing the structure at night seems to be the most productive along with using live baits like poddy mullet or herring, for the lure anglers suspending hard-body lures will also be worth a try.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
