By Jack Mangrove
Over the last few weeks there has been some quality fish landed in the Noosa River around the Tewantin Stretch and Munna Point area.
Soft plastics and hard-bodies have been proving the success as well as surface poppers and walkers.
Whiting have been in good numbers around the Frying Pan, Gympie Terrace stretch, Munna Point and the dog beach with the preferred bait being live beach worms using a size four longshank baitholder hook.
Though if you want to have some fun have a go chasing the whiting on surface lures, smaller light weight lure on light lines has produced some real elbow slappers.
Though the water is warm, the trevally schools have been present throughout the Tewantin Ski Run and Woods Bays.
Using surface lures early morning and late afternoon has been very successful and as the sun gets a little higher soft plastics fished in the deeper sections low and slow has been getting results.
With the water temps being what they are, the mangrove jack have really been on the chew right throughout the Noosa River.
Preferably, try and use live baits like herring, poddy mullet and biddy bream using a snelled 4/0 hook set-up fishing around heavy man-made structure like bridges, jettys and moored boats, and natural structures like fallen trees and undercut banks.
Though the wind hasn’t been in our favour for the past couple of weeks, the beach fishos have been getting some nice fish while braving this weather.
Reports have mentioned the odd tailor caught fishing the deeper, cleaner gutters right along the North Shore.
Good numbers of good sized of whiting, dart and flathead have also been taken from the gutters along North Shore and the eastern beaches during the day which the kids and you will enjoy.
With a bit of luck, we should see the wind drop over the weekend and anglers will be able to head offshore.
There has been a bit of swell so the bar crossing was a bit tricky. You don’t have to go far, with good numbers of spotted mackerel in the bay they were happy to take slugs and trolled lures. A good spot to try has been Little Hall’s Reef.
Spanish and spotties mackerel have also been in good numbers around Chardons and North Reefs, best to concentrate your efforts around the southern ends of the reefs, floating ganged pilchard has been doing the trick, a secret weapon to increase the bite rate is to add a tinsel head over the pilchards, the flash and colour attracts the fish in the clear water.
Long tail and mac tuna have been seen feeding in the vicinity of Laguna Bay and Sunshine Reef, the tell-tail sign to look for is dive bombing birds, 30 to 60 gram silver slugs and 4-5 inch jerk shad style soft plastics have been working a treat.
Snapper, sweetlip, tuskies and the ever popular coral trout have all been in reasonable numbers around the main reefs, with the better quality fish being coming from North Reef and Sunshine Reef.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
