By JACK MANGROVE
With the wind over the past week, a lot of anglers in smaller craft decided to give the river a crack rather than venture offshore.
For the larger boats that did make the trip offshore, those annoying winds tested the resolve of a lot anglers.
Some days were better than others with some great results from Sunshine and North reefs.
We saw some sensational cobia, wahoo and mackerel come from North reef with floater pilchards working well.
The bottom bouncers also got some great action with snapper, pearl perch, and tuskfish also hitting the decks.
Soft plastic and micro jigs also worked well on the bottom dwellers. Down on Sunshine Reef, good sized sweetlip and coral trout were the order of the day.
In the river it has been all about the trevally.
From the ski runs all the way down to the mouth, trevally have been on the chew, good sized golden trevally, diamond trevally, giant trevally and cale cale trevally have been accounted for with surface lures working well in the low light hours, morning and night and micro jigs and soft plastics for when the sun get a little higher.
At the river mouth good quality bream have been temped with strips of fresh mullet around the rocks and along the beach.
There have also been some nice whiting around the dog beach and sand bags area with live bloodworms, yabbies and peeled prawns all doing the job.
Along Gympie Terrace, nice whiting have been keeping kids happy as families enjoyed the long weekend.
On the beaches, North Shore has again been producing some nice fish with a good number of quality flathead taken.
Fish over 60cm are not uncommon.
Winter bream are really starting to come on now along with tailor and dart, pillies on ganged hooks and fresh mullet on a snelled rig having been the favoured baits.
Anglers who look for those gutter on low tide and fish the tide in should be well rewarded.
