A great week of fishing has been had, the small seas and light breezes combined with the lead up to the full moon definitely turned on the bite for both inshore and offshore species.
With great access through Mudlow rocks at present, anglers that fished Rainbow and Teewah beaches on the low water bagged quality whiting and dart from most of the drains.
There were quite a few tailor landed as well since the last article although size was down and they were what would class as choppers (1-1.5kg fish).
A few fishers spun metals across the isolated patches of coffee rock along the coloured sands stretch picking up trevally.
One angler doing just so picked up a cracking barracuda as by catch.
A worthy battle on light spin gear.
The Inskip point sinkhole at the northern end of the Sarawack campground for months now has been a magnet for baitfish schools.
Its comes as no surprise that some great predatory species have been lurking in the vicinity.
This last week there have ben reports of big mackerel, jew, trevally, tailor, XL flathead and the odd barra being spotted or landed.
Several reports of 1-2 small Black Marlin lurking and harassing the bait have also been noted.
Slide baiting or ballooning live baits out in this area would definitely be a worthwhile exercise.
In the straights it’s jacks, jacks and more jacks.
Loving the big moon tides they have been extremely active this week.
The Rainbow Beach Amateur Angler (RBAA) held their most recent club comp and there were some cracking fish weighed in and on display. Club member Darryl Wandery had some solid fish over 50cm from the local creeks using big fresh flicker mullet and single 4/0 Black magic DX point hooks.
If you havent used these hooks, drop in to Gardiner Fisheries and check them out.
Fine wire yet extra strong, these teflon hooks are a game change on jacks offering superb penetration on hard mouth species.
Burley makes a big difference when chasing jacks.
Burley an area you have selected for a solid 15 min before even putting a bait in the water for jacks, they will go crazy for it and it gets them pretty fired up and in the mood for a feed.
Some good blue salmon have been showing up around the piles at bullock point.
A little trick to targeting these guys is to try working blades on the surface or just subsurface with little splashes.
It’s pretty explosive watching them smash them.
Offshore, Snapper and pearlies have been the main stable with the odd big trout and grassy sweetlip thrown in.
Being the full moon phase run out wide has been a bit of a issue so most fisho’s stuck to the closer ground.
Stay tuned to see what the new moon at the end of the month brings.
