With some terrible weather once again this week there haven’t been any reports of fishing offshore, and with winds topping 50 knots and swells reaching up to eight metres, who can blame them?
However, those who snuck out into the bay were rewarded highly with great pelagic fish getting around and putting on a show.
Big queenfish have been schooled up on the sandflat drop-offs lately.
Plastics have been doing the trick either burning or hopping through the schools of queenfish.
Zman Streakz in 3.75 inches matched with a 3/8 or half-ounce jig head has been the trick to getting those fish to bite.
Another amazing sports fish that has been on the bite is the giant herring.
Good numbers of these things always start to come through from this time of year until late September.
If you have never caught a giant herring, these are amazing sports fish that have the wildest fight as they scramble, drag, and jump like crazy.
These fish can be found schooled on pressure edges current lines and drop-offs.
The best way to target these fish is with either plastics or little metal slugs, winding them back through the schools as fast as you can.
Teebar ledge has also been a favourite this week with lots of grassy sweet lip, tusk fish, estuary cod, squire, bream, mosses perch, and even the odd jack and barra lurking around.
Up the creeks, things have been slowing down a fair bit on the jack and barra front but they are still there.
The best way to catch the jacks has been live mullet or fresh mullet fillets, otherwise, garfish and whitebaits have also been productive.
The Barra have slowed down a lot but persistence has been the key, so keep casting until you get an eat.
The 7 inch Molix RT Shads have been working a treat for those better barra.
On the outsides of the creek’s sandbanks, we have been seeing good numbers of good-sized whiting getting around.
Fresh worms and freshly pumped yabbies are always the best baits when fishing for whiting.
Some bigger flatheads have also been found around the flats getting picked up by anglers either fishing for whiting or throwing some plastics around the flats.
The freshwater scene has been on fire.
With a little bit of clean water getting around in the upper reaches of the Mary and the little creeks feeding into it, the bass has been feeding hard.
The MMD BonySwim works a treat for clear water bass as it’s so realistic they will keep coming back for more.
Plenty of big 40s to 50s bass were getting around, with the biggest reported for the week going at 55cm.
Most bass have been caught on spinner jigs, with a nice little 2.5-inch plastic on the surface, being the go in those low light periods.
Alongside the bass, plenty of toga and sooties have been caught, as well as the odd Mary River cod and yellow belly.
With the beaches being hard fishing because of wind and swell, Borumba has been the scene over the weekend.
Good togas are still getting around in the dam with plenty of 70s being caught.
Little jerk baits and little surface lures have been the most productive.
Plenty of little bass are being caught as well, using jerk baiting in the weed edges.
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