By JACK MANGROVE
Gotta Love Fishing on the Noosa River!
The River has been a great place to while away a couple of hours this week, with some great results coming in. Flathead are again high on the score board with some good catches being taken from the shallower areas of the river. When you get onto a patch of flatties make sure you keep casting as the flathead are very social at this time of the year, and where there is one you will usually find a large female keeping company with a group of younger males. Soft plastics rigged with a heaver jig head will make sure that you are right in the strike zone for these delicious table fish.
Another great table fish is the whiting, and there has been no shortage of these in the river lately! The frying pan is one of the hot spots in this River, as well as the area between Edward Street and James Street along Gympie Terrace. Worms, pippies and yabbies are all great baits to tempt a hungry whiting, with the last couple of hours of the run out tide the perfect time for a fish.
On the beach things have been a little tougher with the wind over the last couple of days, but for those earlier last week there were some nice tailor up toward Teewah, the schools have been a little small as they make their way up to Frazer Island.
Offshore thing have also been a little tougher but for those with larger boats that have been able to get out to the wider reefs, pearlies, snapper, cobia, sweetlip and the odd very tasty coral trout have been on the menu. For those anglers that are planning a trip offshore over the coming week, please take the time to get the latest info on the weather as we are expecting some higher winds and larger seas.
On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
