By JACK MANGROVE
The Noosa river has been a hive of activity with the school kids on holidays.
Whiting have been prolific along Gympie Terrace with good quality fish to 42cm taking fresh bait such as pippies, worms and yabby.
For those of you that like lures, targeting fish using poppers is great fun.
In Woods Bays there have been some quality trevally taken over the past week.
Giant trevally and tea leaf trevally have been the most prominent with the odd golden among them.
Fishing first thing in the morning or late afternoon has been giving the best results.
Out towards the mouth things have been really going well with flathead, tailor large bream and the old mangrove Jack at night have all been on the hit list.
The sandbags at the dog beach have been another prime spot where large flathead have been feeding on lightly waited pilchards and hardy heads.
On the beach there has been a pilgrimage up towards Northshore with an endless row of four wheel drives making their way up towards the Teewah camping grounds.
The area between Teewah and Double Island has been fishing exceptionally well for good quality tailor as well as whiting, large brim and big dart.
Baits such as pilchards, fresh mullet and bonito strips have worked really well.
The odd jewie has also been taken at night.
Offshore things have been relatively quiet with the high winds and big seas seeing most anglers leave their boats on the trailer.
For those who have got out, Sunshine Reef has started to produce some nice trout and sweet lip with the warmer water.
Anglers with bigger boats that made the trip out to the banks earlier in the week were well rewarded with quality snapper, pearl perch and spangled emperor.
While out on the reef, why not give soft plastics a go.
Large jerk shad type soft plastics and grub style soft plastics have been working extremely well.
Get your soft plastic to the bottom and just lift up a couple of winds and let the plastic do the work with the motion of the boat.
Davo’s Tackle World in Noosa is running a fantastic junior fishing competition over the school holidays, entry is free and there are some fantastic prizes to be won.
For more information phone the shop or give them a call.
So, on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
