Fishing the Noosa River has been going off, with a great range of fish to be caught right throughout the system. There have been some great reports of trevally, with big-eye, golden and giant trevally all falling victim to anglers. Some of the prime spots have been Woods Bays, Munna Point, the back of the Noosa Sound and out the …
Read More »Crabs up and walking with Sunshine Coast fresh flush
With the recent fresh flush, whiting have been more prevalent down towards the mouth of the Noosa River. Live worms and live yabbies have been the prime baits. With the prevailing southerlies, fishing the dog beach has been perfect for those wanting to chase whiting on surface, the Bassday Sugapens and the Atomic Hards surface walkers are perfect for the …
Read More »Anglers celebrate good fishing on Sunshine Coast
On the Noosa River, the bread and butter species have been keeping anglers busy, good numbers of bream, whiting and flathead have been on the bite around the river mouth and frying pan area. Using live worms and yabbies have been getting some good results, if you haven’t got a yabby pump give peeled prawns a go. The flatties have …
Read More »Offshore conditions tough but good fish still bite off Noosa
With offshore conditions not that favourable last week, anglers left their run a little later in the week in the hope the winds and swells would drop, those that have ventured across the bar have stayed relatively close as there has been limited weather windows. Starting with North Reef, anglers who’ve braved the offshore conditions have returned pretty good results, …
Read More »Warm evenings a great time to fish Noosa River
With the warm summer evenings, anglers who fish Noosa’s famous river are being rewarded with great catches of quality fish. Upriver, the jacks have been feeding with ferocity, live bait is one of the most productive, fishing late afternoon and into the evening on a run out tide and your chances of seeing a red devil are high. If flicking …
Read More »School holiday fishing in Noosa ideal
With water temperatures right up there, the Noosa River has seen plenty of quality school holiday fishing over the past week. Good size flathead have been taken on soft plastics with the brighter colours seeming to produce the better fish, for the bait anglers; small pilchards, hardy heads and white bait on small ganged hooks have claimed some nice fish. …
Read More »Plenty of anglers on Noosa North Shore
On the Noosa North Shore beaches the dart are in great numbers. Yes there are quite a few smaller fish but there is the odd stonker with them so keep working those deeper gutters. Whiting, flathead bream and the odd trevally have also been taken from the surf. There are still some big tailor about with most fish taken under …
Read More »Summer is the time for catching mangrove jack
Anglers in the Noosa River anglers are spoiled for choice when it comes to catching mangrove jack and jewfish. Try trolling hard-bodies if catching mangrove jack is your thing. There are some great lures on the market but one of the standouts is the Maria MJ Twitch in the 70mm, this is a suspending lure that will dive to two …
Read More »Noosa River flathead dominating catches
With the weather the way it has been, it is all about the rivers. Plenty of Noosa River flathead continue to be caught with the better fish coming from the lower reaches of the river. Prawns, pilchard, whitebait and live baits like herring and poddy mullet have all claimed some good Noosa River flathead. For the lure angler soft plastics …
Read More »It’s alive – repeat, the Noosa River is alive!
Noosa River and Offshore waters fishing report for the weekend. Offshore: Double Island Point has produced Snapper, Saddle tail sea perch, Moses perch, Slate bream, Maori cod and a couple of impressive Gold band Snapper this week. North Reef is still fishing well for Snapper, Cobia, Cod, and Pearl Perch. Massauds Reef provided some quality Small Mouth Nannygai, Venus Tusk …
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