The weather held strong this past week, but there was a slight increase in wind and swell towards the weekend, causing some choppy conditions along the beaches for a few days, which thankfully settled for a window of opportunity over the weekend.
The swell is expected to get a little bumpy over the next two weeks, so when venturing offshore or being around the beach and rocks, be sure to pick your optimal time frames.
Offshore the reefs continue to provide an amazingly diverse range of fish with quality snapper and pearl perch being dragged up from the deeper reefs 10-15nm east of the Wide Bay Bar.
Red emperor, tusk fish, job fish, sweetlip, hussar, cod and cobia are all being caught in good numbers and sizes.
Inshore reefs saw numbers of schools and spotted mackerel as well as longtail kicking about.
The mac tuna were still hanging around Inskip Point with queenies also popping by occasionally.
Flathead and whiting can be caught on the flats upstream from Teebar Creek mouth.
Try targeting these guys on the outgoing tide.
Flathead will be sunning themselves in the shallows and are likely to strike a well-presented bait or soft plastic like the Zman Grubz or Powerbait Fantail shrimps.
Natural colours are a win for me but greens are proven more than effective when targeting large lizards.
Trevally have been hanging around the points and moored boats with squid and whiting also around the boats.
Give the micro jigs or really small slugs a go here and you will clean up on the trev’s as well as entice the whiting.
Again beaches saw a rise in swell and winds at the back end of the week but all the usual suspects were about if you had a long enough stick to point at them. Saturday saw a break in the swell and had bream and whiting schooling in the gutters.
Tailor were around but in smaller numbers than last week, however, most of them and the fisho’s had moved into the rivers.
The rivers have really been on fire and with the full moon on Saturday it may be worth pumping a few yabbies and going for a flick after dark in pursuit of some river monsters.
In the fresh, not too many people are keen on the cold mornings and evenings and I can’t really blame them.
But if you are brave enough to head out to Borumba, the bass are schooling in the deeper pockets so a deeper-diving crankbait seems to be the most effective.
Toga seemed quiet this week but a few nice ones were caught hanging around the surface before winds picked up.
In the Mary, sooty’s and perch took a liking to small soft plastics like grubs and shrimps while the bigger fish wanted something a little bigger and shinier to demolish.
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