By JACK MANGROVE
The Noosa River is still coming up with the goods!
In the river there have been some outstanding catches of bream recently.
This would have to be one of the best years we have seen for bream. The river mouth, Woods Bay and Gympie terrace have all come up with the goods.
There have been some good quality fish taking a liking to prawns, yabbies, and mullet strips, also small lightly weighted soft plastics have worked a treat.
Anglers should try to time their attack for the incoming tide.
Trevally have again featured high on a lot of angler hit lists over the past week with good sized golden and giant trevally taken around Noosa Sound and up towards the yacht club.
A little further upriver flatties have been feeding on soft plastics and paddle vibe lures on the run out tide.
There is also the odd jewie up towards the lakes.
With the wind still up a little over the past week, most offshore anglers have tended to head for the closer reefs, sunshine has featured highly with some good quality coral trout, sweetlip, mori cod and snapper all hitting the decks.
Earlier on in the week some anglers made the trip up to North Reef and bagged some good quality fish including jewies and pelagics.
With the wind still around that 15 knots zone, it is just enough to make things a little uncomfortable for anglers.
On the beach the fishing has been great, good bream, tailor and flathead have been inhabiting the gutter on Noosa’s North Shore, an early start will give the best result with the wind seeming to get stronger later in the day.
Fresh mullet strips, whole pilchards, prawns and salted bonito fillets have all been ideal baits.
Up around the headlands in Noosa national park we have seen some good quality snapper and trevally.
In the fresh water, Lake Macdonald has fished well with soft plastics fished along the weed edges and still producing good numbers of bass. If the fish are being a bit fussy anglers should try clipping a spinner onto their jighead or rig them on a rev head to add a bit of flash or vibration.
In the open water, blades and tailspinners have been scoring some nice fish.
Trolling diving lures such as Baby Cranks is a simple, yet effective technique especially if there are young ones on board.
So, on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
