By Jack Mangrove
With a great improvement in the weather, plenty of anglers were out in force last weekend, heading offshore things greatly improved last week with a couple of cracker days to head out.
Plenty of anglers did the run out to the Hards, Barwon banks and the reef off Double Island with some outstanding results – venus tusk fish, maori cod, moses perch, pearl perch and good bags of snapper all hit the decks.
Sunshine Reef has started to see the return of the pelagics with some nice sized spotted and school mackerel taken on live bait floaters and trolled high speed lures, schools of Mack tuna have also been in the area and have been targeted with high speed chrome slugs.
For the bottom bouncers, there’s also been some nice sized snapper, sweetlip and coral trout in the area.
Up on North Reef there has been some bigger cobia, pearl perch, and snapper, micro jigs around the 30-40g have been very effective with live baits also getting their fair share.
Mangrove jack have been plentiful in the Noosa River, good numbers of jacks have come from the lower reaches of the river, the ski runs and between the lakes. Live baits have been the most productive. Paddle tail soft plastics in the 4-inch size have also been doing the trick.
Families have been enjoying the river with plenty of quality whiting from the lower reaches. Gympie Terrace, the dog beach and the Frying Pan have all produced. Live worm baits, yabbies and pealed prawns have all been securing some good catches.
Good numbers of big eye trevally and giant trevally have come from Woods Bays and the back of the Noosa Sound area early morning and late afternoon.
There has been the odd jew coming from the deeper stretches of the ski run on lures with the larger paddle vibes seeming to be the most productive. There have been good numbers of flathead on the outgoing tide from around the Frying Pan and in the Woods Bays. Prawn profile soft plastics have been doing most of the damage, for the bait angler small pilchards, whitebait and hardy heads have claimed some big fish.
On the beaches – Noosa’s North Shore has been busy with plenty of anglers making the most of the offshore winds last weekend. Whiting, dart and bream have been in the closer gutters, with more predatory fish like tailor and trevally moving in on the bigger tides.
The beaches north of Teewah have been the most productive with the odd jew and larger tailor reported. For the rock hoppers the Noosa National Park has been producing pan-sized snapper and sweetlip, cut baits like pilchard, mullet fillet and salted bonito have been the prime baits. The odd tuna has been picked up on stick baits and fast moving slugs.
So on behalf of Jack Mangrove, best of luck on your fishing adventures!
