By Jack Mangrove
Quality fish have been caught in the lower stretches of the river with the best results seeming to be on the run-out tide.
Whole fish baits like whitebait, hardy heads and frogmouth pilchards have been the best dead bait offerings.
For those of you who love chasing them on lures, soft plastics in both the four-inch paddle tails and prawn profiles have been successful.
There have been plenty of quality whiting caught around Weyba Creek, Munna Point, the Frying Pan and Gympie Terrace areas.
Live worm baits have been securing the better fish. These windy conditions have been perfect for chasing whiting with surface lures. Popper around the 70mm size has been very successful.
Some good sized tailor are still around in the lower stretches of the river. Live baits and fresh flesh baits have been the best option to target these fish.
The night owls have seen the odd mangrove jack caught. Paddle vibes and live baits have been accounting for some good fish when fished around heavy structure.
Trevally catches have also improved over the last week with that morning and rite afternoon tide, poppers and surface walkers have claimed some great fish in the low light periods.
Plenty of anglers have started there pursuit of mud crabs already, some good bucks have been caught in pots loaded with fresh mullet.
On the beach live worm baits have been accounting for some good whiting from the gutters along the eastern beaches and the North Shore.
Those same gutters have been producing good sized tailor at dusk and dawn. Dart and bream are in good numbers on the high tides.
We are still hearing of good schools of tailor moving north with Teewah to Double Island the most productive, for those that are planning the trip to Frazer, good reports of tailor are starting to filter in. Don’t forget to buy your baits locally as bait on the Island can be a bit pricy.
For the offshore anglers the wind and swell conditions last weekend were a bit average with both the wind and swell up, for those in larger craft that did get outside, there have been some large cobia caught around North and Chardons reefs.
Fishing with live baits like yakkas and slimies on a floater rig has seen the best results on these fish.
Sunshine Reef has producing sweetlip, moses perch snapper and trout. Fishing hard to the reef with a size 10 ball sinker right down to the hook has been very successful.
Mackerel are also really starting to come on line with good schools of spotted mackerel rounding up bait.
Both spotted and school mackerel have been taken in close as well as divers reporting small schools of larger rouge Spanish mackerel also cruising the closer reefs.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures.
