By JACK MANGROVE
Noosa’s looking good for Easter.
The last week has seen some sensational captures and with Easter fast approaching things are looking good for anglers.
The river mouth has been a hive of activity with some nice mangrove jack and jewfish being caught on live baits, soft vibes and soft plastics. Fishing close to the rock wall has been the trick and with the incoming tide, jack are hitting bait as it is brought in on the tide. Mixed catches of trevally and tailor have been taken on small metal slugs, also on the incoming tide. The Dog Beach and sand bags are still seeing plenty of good-sized whiting both on baits and surface lures. Woods Bay and around the current line has had some good trevally as well as good-sized bream and the odd jack. Gympie Terrace will be busy with family’s fishing over the break and they will be well rewarded with bream whiting and flathead. Up river jacks, flathead and school jew have been taking prawn profile soft plastics. Drifting down on the outward tide has been a successful way to catch a feed. On the beach, the southern beaches like Peregian and Marcus have some great gutters at the moment, a well-timed evening fish on the incoming tide should see some nice jewies with large flesh baits like mullet or salted bonito as well as local squid perfect for the job. Up on the north shore, big schools of swallow tail dart have been hitting every bait that hits the water, great fun for the kids with the odd good one among them.
On the reefs, it’s been a field day, pelagics and reef fish have been hitting the decks, Sunshine Reef has seen longtail and yellowfin tuna along with spotted and spanish mackerel. Small slugs matching the bait they are feeding on has been doing the job. Trolled surface baits and lures have also been picked up by the pelagics. On the bottom squire, moses perch, coral trout and sweetlip have all been on the chew, soft plastics, live and dead baits fished hard to the reef have been getting good results. One of the charter boats did a run up to Double Island with good results, pearl perch, venus tusk fish, moses perch, mowong, hussar, coral bream, amberjack, spotted mackerel, mahi mahi and cod all managed to make their way into the boat. North Reef has also seen good numbers of spotted and Spanish mackerel, with a good mixed bag also from the bottom. On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures.
