In Tin Can Bay/Rainbow area it’s all about those big flathead.
The banks just up from Carlo Island is a great place to start.
Trolling hard body lures is perfect for targeting those bigger fish, it also helps because you’re covering a lot of ground.
Bright coloured lures in pinks and greens are ideal, try and use lures around the 60mm size with a depth of around 2.5m.
For the bait anglers the good old frogged mouthed pilchard is the perfect bait on a set of smaller ganged hooks.
Down towards Inskip the trevally have been in good numbers and this will only improve as we move into those big spring tides, cast fast moving slugs and plastics around the creek mouths and the drop offs, these fish will hit hard and fast thinking it is a fast-moving bait fish.
Summer whiting numbers are also improving with Pelican Bay Point and inside Inskip all seeing fish, worms’ yabbies and prawns have all bee prime baits.
Another species we are all targeting over the warmer months is mangrove jacks, Jacks love structure so jetties and pontoons around Snapper Creek are a great place to start.
The upper reaches of the Kauri is also prime grounds. Jacks are opportunistic feeders so a run out tide and lures cast close to the structure should see some results.
Suspending lures like the Berkley Pro-Tech Bazz baits or the Lucky Craft in the 70mm are perfect for the job.
These lures will suspend and stay in the fishes face for longer.
On the offshore seen, plenty of larger craft made it out last week with some good successes reported. Off the bottom some good snapper, trout, cod, parrot, and jew have all been taken.
Large soft plastics like the Zman Scented Jerk Shad and slow fall jigs have been outstanding on the trout.
Fished hard to the reef is the way to go so make sure your drag is locked up tight as these fish fight hard to get back to their reefy homes.
Sunshine Reef has been the pick if you are hunting coral trout, with most of the reefs producing summer nice snapper.
For the bigger models head to the deeper offshore reefs like the Barwon Banks, Hards or the Reefs off Double Island.
This Season shaping up to be great for pelagic’s, spotted mackerel, school mackerel and even the odd spanish are starting to move into the northern areas off break sea.
With some good schools of baitfish off the coast over the last few weeks this will make our peace of coastline perfect for pelagic’s and with the warmer water currents it will be perfect for the start of the season.
On the beach; early mornings and late evening on the rising tide have been a prime bite time, bream, whiting, dart and flathead are all in the gutters.
Quality baits like fresh mullet, cured worms, prawns and pilchards have been producing the fish.
Make sure you hit the beaches at night in search for the odd jewfish.
Fishing baits like fresh mullet strips on a 6/0 snelled rig and bonito fillets on the same hook setup should see you landing a quality jew.
There have been some bigger one around but most fish are around the 80cm mark.
Prime spots have been just before Double Island on the North Shore side, the Noosa River mouth and Beaver rocks up near River Heads.
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