By Jack Mangrove
We are seeing numerous anglers from amateur to expert landing some fantastic fish this week, with the low light periods proving to be the perfect time to plan a fishing adventure.
The highly prized mangrove jacks have started to make their presence felt, with some nice fish taken from between the lakes.
Trolling lures along the drop offs and floating baits around structured areas are proving to be a great way to tangle with these hard hitting beasts.
The Gympie Terrace stretch of the river as well as the Frying Pan has been producing great numbers of whiting and exceptional bream, with prawns, worms and yabbies’ all popular baits, poppers and surface lures in the 50-70mm range have also been working well with the River2sea Bubble Pops one of the standouts.
Woods Bay has again provided anglers with some brilliant trevally catches in the early mornings. Golden trevally, GTs and Queenfish have been reported throughout the river. Best baits to use have been prawns, pilchard and yabbies.
When lure fishing try using Strada Virals, 2-3” curly tail grub style plastics and gladiator prawns. Better numbers of mud crabs are showing up now, with a lot of them being caught along the mangrove edges up at the lakes and around the jew hole, on mullet heads and or frames for bait.
Off the beach at third cutting toward Teewah, Sunshine and Castaways have been producing good numbers of small dart, whiting, flathead and bream.
The rocks around Noosa National Park are providing a few snapper on the top of the tide using Z-man 7″ Jerk Shad soft plastics and ganged up fresh flesh baits.
Offshore has been a bit patchy for reef dwellers such as; snapper, sweetlip and trout, try using the addition of burley which will greatly improving your chances of getting more fish. The pelagic action is starting to improve with the mackerel and tuna starting to make an appearance, a great technique that has been working well, is trolling a number of different depth lures to see what level of water the fish are sitting at.
With the relentless south easterly trade winds over the last week has made it very bumpy for the offshore anglers, so ensure to take care if you are thinking about heading out.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
