By JACK MANGROVE
THE Noosa River has again come up with the goods!
With yet another perfect weekend the Noosa River was again a focal point for anglers, up river we saw some nice school jew coming from the Lake Cooroibah area, some good sized flathead have been taken from the ski runs with soft plastics and deeper diving hard body lures claiming some nice fish.
Along Gympie Terrace the kids have been having a great time catching bream and whiting using prawn, worms and yabbies for bait. The early morning tide will be perfect this week for focusing your energy on tailor and trevally in Woods Bay and Noosa Sound. Surface lures and poppers will work a treat as these fish feed on the surface. Out at the river mouth Jew, trevally and tailor have taken a liking to live baits and fresh mullet while on the rocks luderick have been in good numbers with weed the most popular bait.
Offshore the charters did a run up to Double Island with some quality reef fish hitting the decks, pearl perch, snapper and parrot where all on the menu. Another of the charter headed towards the Hards and scored venus tusk fish, squire, snapper, fusilier, coral bream, amberjack and frying pan snapper.
Sunshine Reef has also been popular with a good array of quality pan sized reefies, snapper trout and sweetlip were all boated through the week. The good old floater pilchard has been a popular method while the bottom bouncers have been fishing hard to the reef with large plastic and micro jigs. Live bait has been very prevalent so make sure you have your bait jigs ready to go, there’s nothing like fresh bait.
On the beach, Northshore has seen a good run of tailor over the last few weeks, the section between Teewah and Double Island has been the strongest area. Good deep gutters close to shore with an incoming tide is perfect. Large bream, good sized dart and quality flatties have also been inhabiting the same area.
So On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures.
