By JACK MANGROVE
Noosa has been the place to be and with the weather gods being kind over the last week, offshore was high on the priority list for anglers.
Snapper are the prime focus for most offshore anglers at this time of the year.
Reefs like North Reef, Barwon Bank, Chardon’s Reef, Sunshine Reef and Double Island are all prime hunting grounds and with the pelagics due to start making their way north, bottom bashing will be the go.
Over the weekend pearl perch, morwong, teraglin jewfish, moses perch, venus tusk fish, squire and cod came from North and Sunshine reefs, Double Island and the Barwon Banks will have big pearl perch, quality snapper, cobia and big reds all hitting the decks.
In the river it has also been gold, or rather golden trevally, these great table fish have been monstering baits around Woods Bay, the river mouth and around the Sound.
Daybreak has been prime time with surface lures working well while the fish are feeding on the surface, micro jigs have also claimed quite a number of fish, another great trevally species is the diamond trevally and there have been some stonkers in the river over the last couple of weeks.
With fish touching the 80cm mark, these are a formidable opponent and take quality gear to get them in the boat.
Nice sized flathead have been in good numbers with the area up near the Tewantin Ski Run really starting to produce some nice fish.
The river mouth and sand bags have also been prime hunting ground with quite an array of quality fish from both including, tailor, large bream school jew, large flatties and trevally.
Over at the frying pan good sized whiting and quality bream have been on the menu.
On the beaches, Northshore has been fishing well with the stretch from Teewah up to Double Island producing some good fish.
Tailor have started to move up the coast with some good sized schools coming in on the high tide again early morning has been the most productive with large pillies, and fresh mullet the baits of choice.
