queensland The MEGA Noosa Report

[chrislocke]

Hi all,

Due to my terrible internet connection from my current location I've had a bit of trouble getting on here! To make up for my lack of reports, here's one MEGA report including some fish from the previous few weeks!

To start things off, let me set the scene: Prawns running, BIG tides, Last of the run in the start of the run out tide, low light and a whole lot of prawn lures!

The Above combination would have to be somewhat of a favourite for me, and after stocking up on gladiator prawns from Davo's, it was time to get going! When we arrived in Noosa's Woods bay, we were greeted by a hoard of boats al with the same idea in mind: TREVALLY! Despite the busyness, our slowly worked lures got the trevally fired up and the session ended with a good haul of trevs. We were lucky enough to encounter a few different types as well, including cale cales, golden, diamond, big eye and giant trevally! I'll let the pics do the talking...

This golden REALLY wanted his prawn haha

Once woods bay settled down, and after a few "interesting" fishing reports from co-workers, we swiftly turned our attention towards chasing winter-time jacks. Chasing jacks in winter isn't considered the norm by many people, but you'd be surprised what you can catch if you study the tides and fish light! One thing we found which made a massive difference to our catch rate was the use of soft vibes. These versatile lure can cover pretty much the whole water column, and because of the weight, we could fish the deeper sections of the river where these fish were holding up. The other, unexpected bonus of fishing these lure was it almost completely eliminated annoying by catch such as 15cm long big-eye trevally and tarpon!

Over a space of two nights Tim and myself boated 5 jacks, and a heap of other stuff including tarpon, trevally, bream, flathead and heaps of other odds and ends.

The manager of Davo's (who played a big part in teaching us HOW to catch these fish) also filmed a short segment on the subject...

Here's a few pictures...

Hope you enjoyed this report!

Cheers, Chris!

[Glenn S]

Good stuff mate, heaps of action up your way! i remember going into davo's a few years back and getting the run down on how to hook the winter jacks on the gladitors, you have obviously cracked the pattern!!

Glenn.

[Torium50]

Thx for great report. Nice catches...Well done

[Angus]

Thanks for that Chris!

Following a few peoples efforts up there at the moment and just cannot believe the number of winter jacks getting bagged! Awesome!

Angus

[Bill_V]

Winter Jacks, they seem to be getting more common than they used to be. They are on my bucket list, might have to put some time into that real soon. Awesome report that, well done.

[Shorty]

Great report Chris and some awesome fish there! You and Tim certainly deserve the rewards given the time and effort you're both putting in!

Was great to catch up with you both last weekend and hope the weather is a LOT better next time I'm up that way so we can get out for a session!

Chris

[ChrisC]

Great report Chris !! how deep are the jacks holding ?

[mick2me]

Well done mate, great fish and great photo's. that's a trip you'll remember and talk about for years to come...

[Angus]

Well done mate, great fish and great photo's. that's a trip you'll remember and talk about for years to come...

Problem is they live there and do it everyday

I just got sent this 5 minutes ago...

[chrislocke]

Hey mate,

we found entrances to creeks and anywhere where there was concentrated water to hold the best numbers of jacks. Anything from about 2 - 4m was ideal. Another big help was the numerous trevally helping us find the bait!

[Do$tylz]

Well done mate, great fish and great photo's. that's a trip you'll remember and talk about for years to come...

Problem is they live there and do it everyday

I just got sent this 5 minutes ago...

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caught an hour or so after they dropped me back at the ramp so I could do the nice b/f duties. Bastards