With some pretty horrendous offshore conditions last week, the offshore crew pretty much left it on the trailer.
Unfortunately beach conditions were not much better so with this our report this week is more based on the protected waterways.
With quality mangrove jack in most of the creeks in the great sandy strait’s anglers are spoilt for choice.
Fishing the top of the tide around the rock bars of Kauri Creek has been a hot spot for jacks.
Also try casting Zman plastics rigged weedless into snags as you work your way up and down the creek – this has claimed some trophy fish.
Trolling hard bodies have also been a great way of getting stuck into some of those notorious mangrove jack.
There are some great lures on the market but one of the standouts with great value for money is the Berkley Pro-Tech in the Bazz Baits.
This is a suspending lure that comes in a couple of different dive depths.
Soft plastics have been working a treat on the flathead.
Especially the prawn profiles, good sized flathead and school jew have been cruising the bottom so make sure you have a heavy enough jig head to keep you on the bottom, set yourself up on the outgoing tide and simply drift your way back on the tide.
When you catch one make sure you work that same area prolifically is there fish tend to nest up at this time of the year.
Up around Inskip and the current line have been a go to area for the early morning angler.
Some good-sized trevally, queenfish and the odd tailor have been feeding on the large amounts of bait brought in on those big spring tides.
Surface poppers like the Lucky craft G–Splash has been one of the standouts for those working the surface when you see those tell tail bust ups.
As the day progresses switch to a deeper diving hardbody or soft plastic, for those of you that just want to put fish in the boat then the good old live bait will just about guarantee you a feed.
Alligator Creek mouth and Bullock Bay have been producing good numbers of whiting, live worms pealed prawn and yabbies’ have been some of the favoured baits.
Also casting over the flats with a surface walker style lure has been a great way to bag an elbow slapper.
Crabs are also starting to come online as we move to those warmer months.
Make sure you have your details on your floats or if you are tying off to a tree make sure your details are above the water line.
Remember to only keep the bucks and only four crab pots per person, with a maximum of 7 crabs per person and a maximum of 14 per boat.
Fisheries are red hot on crabbers but if you do all the right things, you won’t have a problem.
The Noosa River has also been outstanding, anglers are seeing good size jacks up between the lakes.
Trevally are also in good numbers along with jewfish.
The deeper holes seem to hold the jew with the Samaki Vibalicious a favourite.
The jacks have been firing around the mouth of Weyba creek.
You may also find yourself hooking into a few flathead bream or even a stonker diamond trevally, try the larger size Zerek Live Cherabin, these are rigged weedless so you can really pitch them into the structure.
The areas around the dog beach have been a great spot for families with plenty of smaller whiting, bream and flathead to help keep the kids entertained, small hooks on a running sinker rig with small baits of prawns, yabbies or worms should see the kids catching.
In the Mary River there has been plenty of activity downstream from the weir, anglers have been doing the slow meander down river in kayaks, water levels have definitely dropped over the last month with little rainfall in the catchment areas.
Smaller bass have been plentiful along with Saratoga and sooty grunter.
Unfortunately tilapia are still in big numbers which is a shame for our pristine waterway.
Spinnerbaits have been very successful with smaller chubby style lures also working well.
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