With some fishable mornings last week plenty of anglers headed out to try their luck.
Double Island again featured this week with some great reports of jew fish on the chew, a couple of quality snapper were also in the mix along with tusk fish, moses perch and pearl perch.
Quality live bait almost assured you of some better catches so make sure you take your bait jig set-ups to collect some yakka’s or slimes.
Those who choose to run a floater rig need a fair bit of weight on the nose to get the baits to sink through the water column.
The Pelagic’s are really starting to show up now with plenty of tuna and mackerel in the bay.
Look for that bird activity and you will find the fish.
Most anglers are casting slugs like the Halco Twisty in the 20 to 40-gram size.
Casting to the edges of the bait schools and not into the middle of the school will see you get more casts in and not spook the school as quickly.
Tin Can has been a hive of activity with plenty of holidaymakers enjoying the area.
With the early morning run in tides plenty of whiting have been taken on the banks,.
A great way to target them is to walk and cast.
Fishing small poppers and surface walkers have been very popular with the lure anglers.
If bait is your thing, nothing beats yabbies and soldier crabs.
Kauri Creek has again featured this week with plenty of jacks taken.
With the storms last week these fish tend to fire up in these conditions.
Fishing the rock bars seems to be where most of the action has been with live bait the best producer.
Trevally numbers have been good with some nice GT’s taken on the big incoming tides around the creek mouths.
On the beach, tailor are still being taken between Teewah and Double Island with most fish taken at night.
There is plenty of traffic on the North Shore, so keep an eye on the kids as they move up and down on the beach.
Whiting numbers have been good, along with dart and the bigger models seem to be on the high tide.
Inskip has been manic with plenty of campers taking advantage of the conditions.
Trevally numbers have been good as the fish feed on the bait schools moving through the channel.
Fast-moving slugs and plastics have claimed some nice fish.
In the Fresh, the Mary is still flowing pretty dirty so reports of bass and cod have been pretty quiet.
Borumba on the other hand has been going off with plenty of nice bass and saratoga taken.
The dam is at around 80 – 90 per cent so the bays near the wall have been very productive.
Small sub-surface lures have been ideal on the toga along with surface lures first thing in the morning.
Frog profile plastics rigged weedless have also been claiming some nice fish.
Bass numbers are also very good with plenty of fish around the timber.
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