With the new moon towards the end of last week anglers were out in force.
Starting on the beach, the Jewfish anglers have been doing well on the new moon with plenty of quality legal fish being reported on the evening tide, fresh mullet, clumps of worms and tailor fillet have been the prime baits, speaking of tailor there are still a couple of rouge larger fish being taken around Double Island.
Just inside Double Island on the Rainbow side some good whiting have been reported with some fish over the 35cm mark, freshly pumped yabbies have been the gun baits. Inskip has also seen plenty of action with the flathead and trevally on the chew, there have been some reports of school mackerel for those doing the long cast with stick baits and slugs, letting them sink is the key.
It has been tough offshore with those annoying southerlies, most anglers have been holding close.
Doing the troll with deeper diving lures has been very successful, hugging the coastline has been the best approach as these fish are feeding on mullet, tailor, slimeys and yakka’s so trolling a larger lure like the Nomad DTX Minnows in appropriate colours has worked well. North Reef has been alive
with spotted mackerel along with spanish, the bottom is also fishing well on the morning tide.
Out of Noosa Laguna bay has been a hive of activity with plenty of tuna on offer, smaller slugs still seem to be the popular choice with anglers, try to keep the profile small so the Hard-core slugs from TT are perfect for the job.
Fishing the edges of the schools is the best approach and if you can get to the north of them, they should feed in your direction.
Anglers around Noosa are reporting that there are still plenty of good trout on Sunshine Reef. Fishing hard to the reef is the key so a big ball sinker right
on top of the hook will get those baits right in the strike zone.
Tin Can Bay and the Sandy straights has seen plenty of action, the mouth of Kauri has been firing with some big trevally and school mackerel.
Big Micks has been good for a feed of tuna, spotted mackerel and some good sweetlip off the reef and drop off.
Back in Tin Can Snapper Creek has seen some nice GT’s along with some bigger bream around the moored boats and out front of the marina.
Carlo has been good for some bigger jack and some nice flathead. Fishing the sand banks opposite Carlo has been a great place to chase trevally, fishing fast moving slugs, micro jigs and small plastics and retrieving at speed has been the most successful approach.
For the whiting anglers there have been plenty on offer around Pelican Bay, fresh worms and yabbies have been the better baits, for those that love to pop for them there are plenty of larger fish prepared to chase a surface lure.
In the Fresh with the water temperatures dropped a little with influx of fresh, in Borumba and Lake Macdonald and the bass bite has slowed a little, fishing the edges with smaller surface lures may work but most fish are holding deep, soft plastics worked through the schools is probable your best bet.
The Mary has got a far bit of colour in it at the moment so darker coloured lures are working better, alternatively spinner baits with plenty of action have been getting the fish.
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