By JACK MANGROVE
WITH the warmer temperatures we have been facing recently, the past few weeks have really seen the Noosa River produce some quality fish from bream, flathead, trevally and of course the mangrove jack.
To see success, focus your time around Tewantin and the upper reaches of the Noosa River as the prawns have been flushed out of the lakes and fish will chase the bait in the deeper holes.
Fishing the deeper holes will be the best option on either side of the change in the tide with the best time being the last hour of the run out tide. Early morning has seen the ski run and outside the council chambers producing some nice trevally and the odd mangrove jack on surface lures and slowly drifted live baits.
As the day heats up drift some baits and soft plastics through the ski run and at the mouth of the first lake as reports of flathead, whiting and bream have been on the prowl.
If you are wanting to chase a feed of whiting using a small surface lures around the shallow sand banks of Goat Island and along Gympie Terrace as quality whiting up to 48cm have been getting landed. For the children, the best success is to be pumping yabbies or using live worms as the whiting have been in excellent numbers lately.
The afternoon bite again have been producing trevally and better numbers of mangrove jack and areas like the jetties along Tewantin and the snags in the ski run have been producing the trevally and jacks on jackall squirrel hardbodies.
Offshore the wind has been still unfavourable for the offshore boaties but it didn’t stop some anglers getting out there and having a go. The in close reefs have been preforming well like Sunshine Reef, Jew Shoals and Halls Reef with reports of sweetlip, snapper, Maori cod and the odd coral trout.
The wider reefs like North Reef, Chardons have been seeing small numbers of dolphin fish taken on trolled squirts and hardbodies. For the guys who braved the weather and headed out wide near the Barwon Banks and DI have been rewarded with pearl perch, teraglin jew, red emperor and big snapper. Fishing for pelagics will improve with the mackerel, tuna, marlin and dolphin fish making their way down the coast so trying out the closer reefs will be the best option.
Fishing the beaches has seen some quality fish landed with a full moon just gone the jew fishing has been unreal fishing the southern end beaches, and in the mix of the jew has been some quality tailor. Northshore has been producing whiting, bream, flathead, dart and tailor throughout the day. Looking for a nice deep gutter on the low tide and fish that area for the run in tide has seen most success. Using baits like mullet strips, bonito fillets, and worms have all be the prime baits.
Remember – Next weekend there is a youth fish clinic sponsored by Davo’s Tackleworld in Noosa held by Noosa Yachtie Fishing Club. The kids clinic will be held over a weekend both mornings being the 28 and 29 of November. There will be some great prizes getting given away from noon on Sunday. Please drop into Davo’s to put your name down.
So On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
