By JACK MANGROVE
THE Noosa Northshore has been really firing over the last week – with the offshore winds we experienced last week the conditions were nothing less than perfect.
Good tailor were landed right the way along Northshore, with the evening tide the most productive. Pillies were the bait of choice as well as mullet and bonito fillet.
Quality fish around the one kilo mark were common with a couple of larger ones among them. Large sea bream were also in the mix with fish report up to 40cm. For the kids, there have been some good date in the closer gutters.
In the river, the bream are still in great numbers, after talking to a few locals this has been one of the best bream seasons we have seen in years.
Larger fish have been taken around the river mouth and the Noosa Sound, with good sized fish right the way along Gympie Terrace and the Tewantin Area. Flathead have also been plentiful with a lot of oversized fish taken over the past week.
Soft plastics and trolled hard body lures have claimed some great fish.
Trevally have again featured on the hit list of a lot of anglers with some nice big eye and giant trevally in Woods Bay, keep an eye out for the surface action and have a rod rigged with a popper ready to go.
Luderick catches have slowed a little at the rock wall near the river mouth but the fish we are seeing are good size and quality.
Out at the Noosa National Park, the rock fishing has also been great with the low swell and the offshore winds, bream, squire, sweetlip, tailor and the odd jewie have all been targeted successfully on pilchards, bonito and soft plastics.
Offshore, we are also seeing some sensational results, starting with Sunshine Reef. A good mixed bag of reefies, including squire, maori cod, sweetlip, the odd tuna, pearlies and cod were all accounted for.
Chardon’s Reef has also been productive with snapper, pearlies, moses perch, sweetlip, the odd tuna. Micro Jigs and soft plastic have been very effective, a lot of time out-fishing bait.
Double Island, some sensational red emperor caught over the last week with reports of good size pearlies and snapper.
On the fresh water, Lake Macdonald has seen good numbers of bass still coming off the edges using jerkbaits and lightly weighted soft plastics.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures.
