By Jack Mangrove
In the river, the bream are still in great numbers, after talking to a few locals this is becoming another cracker season for bream.
Larger fish have been taken around the river mouth and the Noosa Sound, as well good-sized fish right the way along Gympie Terrace and the Tewantin area.
Fresh mullet strips and small fish baits like frog-mouthed pilchards, white bait and hardy heads have all produced some nice fish.
Soft plastics have also been working well with the smaller grub tails a real favourite, rigged on lightly-weighed jigheads and fluoro-carbon leader and worked around structure has seen some outstanding results.
Flathead have also been plentiful with a lot of oversized fish taken over the past week. Soft plastics and trolled hard body lures have claimed some great fish.
Fishing the run-out tide and working the drop off and sand banks where the big momma love to sit is the best bet.
Trevally and tailor have again featured on the hit list of a lot of anglers with some nice big eye and giant trevally in Woods Bay, make sure you keep an eye out for the surface action and have a rod rigged with a popper ready to go!
We are seeing a good run of tailor at the moment.
Both the Noosa River mouth and surrounding beaches are holding good numbers.
The Noosa Northshore has been really firing, with the winds dropping conditions were nothing less than perfect this week.
Good tailor were landed right along the Northshore with the high tides the most productive.
Pillies were the bait of choice as well as mullet and bonito fillet. Quality fish around the one kilo mark were common with a couple of larger ones amongst them.
Large winter bream were also in the mix with fish reported up to 35cm.
For the younger anglers, there have been some good dart and whiting in the closer gutters.
With the wind up for a couple of days last week, a lot of anglers opted for the closer reefs, but as the breezes and swell dropped, many larger boats did the run out to the Hards and the Barwon Banks.
Starting with Sunshine Reef, a good mixed bag of reefies were landed including squire, maori cod, sweetlip, and the odd tuna.
Jew Shoal also fished for pan-sized snapper and sweetlip.
With the closer reefs being the focus of most, a berley trail is a must as well as using larger baits. If you use only smaller sized baits the smaller fish will pick the hooks clean before the larger fish get a chance to have a go.
Chardon’s Reef has been productive with snapper, pearlies, moses perch, sweetlip and tuna.
Reports from North Reef include Cobia, Spanish mackerel, Pearl perch, Moses perch, snapper and tusk fish with the outer reefs have really been performing with big amberjack, snapper, pearl perch, big cobia and some serious cod.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
