By Jack Mangrove
There have been some nice flathead in the river with good numbers throughout Woods Bays, Weyba Creek and Munna Point.
Brightly coloured soft plastics in shads, and curly tails on 1/6 size jig head has been proving there worth with a super slow roll along the bottom and over the drop offs smacking some big girls. During the low light hour’s trevally, queenfish and tailor have been on the chew around the back of the Noosa Sound, Woods Bays and river mouth car park.
Surface lures and fast retrieved slugs have claimed some nice fish, for the bait anglers; fresh mullet rigged using a snelled rig with two 3/0 hooks has been the popular rig.
The Tewantin stretch of the river has also been producing trevally, tarpon and jacks during the night.
Live bait like poddy mullet and herring have been responsible for some great fish.
The bream and whiting population are still in good numbers around the river mouth areas, they have been responding well to bait like beach and blood worms and yabbies.
Surface lures like Bassday Chrystal pops have been the proving a success on the whiting along with small soft plastics like Keitech Easy Shiner in the 2-inch size perfect for the bream.
Heading offshore, Laguna Bay has been popular during the day with sightings of tuna breaking the surface feeding on small bait fish, slugs in the 15-40g range have been the go to lures on the tuna and mackerel.
Try to avoid using wire as these fish will shy away, using a 40-60lb fluorocarbon leader will give you the advantage.
Sunshine Reef, North Reef and Chardons have been the go-to spots for Spanish mackerel trolling deep diving lures and trolling dead baits deep and slow has been the most popular and has seen some quality fish coming over the side.
Sunshine Reef and North Reef has been producing some nice fish from the bottom, coral trout, snapper, sweetlip and tusk fish, all have been responding well to squid, pillies and live baits. North Reef has also been the destination for nice sized cobia. The wider reefs like Double Island and the Barwon Banks have seen the odd red emperor, dolphin fish, snapper, big sweetlip and larger pearl perch.
Fishing the bottom with live baits have both seen some outstanding results.
On the beaches, fishing the close gutters has seen plenty of swallow tailed dart in great numbers, this is giving the kids a great deal of fun on light outfits.
Whiting are also in good numbers with fish around 30cm mark not uncommon, freshly pulled sandworms or pippies have been the prime baits.
Tailor and small jew are still being taken this will only improve as we move into the new moon, fishing large strip baits like mullet and bonito has worked well.
On behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
