Davo’s Tackleworld – 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, …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Noosa River has been a real hot spot for flathead and trevally this week. Woods Bays continues to fish well early in the mornings for trevally and flathead. Strada Surface lures have been working well. Also, slim swim and curly tailed soft plastics in motor oil and watermelon colours. Mangrove jack are in good numbers in the upper reaches …

The Noosa River has again come up with some great fish for angler unable to get outside due to weather! There are still good numbers of trevally in Woods Bay early in the morning, tailor are also amongst them with surface lures like the River2sea Skinny Dogs working well. Mangrove jack are in good numbers in the upper reaches of …

Once again, for this weekend around the Bundaberg area, it looks like most of the fishing will be restricted to the local rivers and creeks, due to the south-easterlies that just don’t seem to stop. The good news is that most of our local rivers are starting to fish really well, and with the new moon Saturday night, the bigger …