By JACK MANGROVE
NOOSA anglers have again been spoilt with a great range of piscatorial challengers.
Starting with the river, the mouth has been really firing with quality bream, tailor, trevally, school jew and ludrick. Flesh baits like mullet and bonito strips have been one of the best performers with soft plastics and slugs also claiming some quality fish, and as far as the ludrick go, Coolum cabbage and small prawn baits have done the damage.
Down towards the sand bags on the dog beach, quality whiting have taken a liking to worms, peeled prawns, and yabbies.
Woods Bay has again been the home of some quality trevally – anglers have been enticing them with surface poppers in the low light periods and soft plastics through the day.
The Gympie Terrace stretch of the river was fishing well with families enjoying whiting, bream and the odd flathead.
Up towards the ski runs, flathead have been plentiful with the run-out tide the best time to plan your attack. Soft plastic in reds and pinks have been very productive.
Offshore, things have been equally amazing.
Sunshine Reef is still producing some great coral trout, fish your lure or soft plastic hard to the bottom here and you will be rewarded. Also at Sunshine, the sweetlip are on the chew as well as parrot and snapper.
The deeper Reefs like Chardon’s and North Reef have also come up with the goods, with larger snapper, pearl perch, sweetlip, cobia, and jewies. The charter operators have been taking advantage of the great weather and doing the run up too Double Island with some outstanding results. Snapper, venus tusk fish, pearl perch, mack tuna, moses perch and lots of amberjack were all on the menu.
On the beach, the Northshore was inundated with anglers and their 4x4s heading up the beach in search of those elusive tailor.
Most anglers were not disappointed with some good catches reported. Along with the tailor there were some nice winter bream, flathead, whiting and bigger dart. Most anglers were bait fishing with pillies, mullet strips, and salted bonito.
Those that didn’t have a 4×4 were also in the hunt with the gutter just outside the Northshore Caravan Park also holding good fish.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures.
