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Hi all, Here's a very brief report of my day trip on the Noosa River. Recently, I went up the Sunshine Coast to see some relatives, and took up the opportunity to head out for a quick flick in the 30 minutes I could. When I arrived to the spot I fished on my previous Noosa trip with @AUS-BNE-FISHO, I noticed that the water was very dirty and brown, unlike the usual blue. This may have been due to the recent rain. It's important to note I was also fishing a low tide. It was also very choppy, as a bunch of jetskis were mucking around nearby. Lots of families were bait fishing all along the shore. It didn't look promising at all, especially considering the little luck the families were getting with bait. After fishing up one side of the give or take 250 metre shoreline (it's a long pathway that is located on an esplanade), I had no luck. I was feeling down when the strong currents kept pushing my lure (2.5 inch baitjunkie minnow) around on the sand and I couldn't keep in control of the lure. I walked down about 70 metres to an inviting sand flat that was calmer than further up the shore and no one was fishing on it. First cast I chucked my lure in and worked it for about 10 seconds before pulling out my phone to answer some texts from @AUS-BNE-FISHO Lol All of a sudden i felt a tug on my line and I thought I was snagged (I would never have believed to catch a fish this quickly) and I reeled in some line, only to feel some exciting runs and decent head shakes. To my disbelief, a fish had simply taken the lure just as I stopped working it, as it might've landed right on its head, or it had followed it until it stopped. I was on a fish! And it was a good one too! After the fun little fight, I'd brought a nice flatty into shore! Here's a quick pick I took of the fish. NOTE: I'm aware that the brag mat was folded up at the end, and I estimated that there's roughly 5cm added onto the actual length. See, I had actually put the fish on there properly until it flapped about and messed everything up. Lol. Although the mat says 54-55cm, the fish was really about 48-49. Still a good size for my books, considering I've only recently been actually catching fishing on lures! All in all, I was very grateful to be able to catch this fish in the small period of time I had, especially considering the environment/conditions. Thanks for the quick read - Charlie

Hi All, here's my first proper report! This report will be about a weekend Noosa trip I went on with @AUS-BNE-FISHO , primarily fishing with lures and doing some live bait fishing. DAY 1: Hamish and I arrived at our Noosaville waterfront Airbnb at around 4pm. We both got straight to fishing. Hamish and I brought our lighter lure rods, live bait rods, and a cast net down to a jetty directly in front of our property. After a few throws of the cast net, Hamish caught about 10 bait size herring and a couple silver biddies. We quickly cast out our baits with light leaders and circle hooks. While waiting for the fish to bite the bait, Hamish and I casted our lures around. I used a little grub, which got followed up to the surface by a little trevally, but unfortunately didn't hook up. From memory, Hamish casted around little bassday sugapen or some other surface hardbody, with no luck. Regardless of the copious amounts of bait busting up all around us, our livies didn't get a touch. We continued to fish the jetty until dinner (around 9 pm), with no other action. However, we did notice an artificially lit bridge within walking distance that looked promising. There were lots of pylons, little rocks, and ok water depth. It seemed fishy. After dinner, we walked down with our lures (no bait), and fished in and around the pylons. We saw a big ray cruising down in the shallows which freaked both of us out. Lol. I didn't have any luck fishing the same 2.5 inch grub as I did on the jetty, but Hamish caught a tiny 25cm ish flatty almost right below him. I don't remember what he caught it on, but it was some sort of a little Zman or Baitjunkie plastic. After about half an hour of fishing under the bridge, we headed home and went to bed. DAY 2 Hamish and I had an early start today, waking up at about 5:15 AM. We walked a couple kilometres and fished a few Noosa River beachside spots that a mate had recommended to Hamish. We were both using some plastics casting in and around boats, and the flats. However, we didn't have much luck. After about 40 minutes of fishing the spots, we headed back home. On the way home, we fished some boat hire marinas directly on the Noosa River. Casting out about 20 metres near some boats, I caught 3 30cm ish flatties on my 2.5 inch mudblood minnow baitjunkie on a 1/8th #2 jighead. This was my highlight of the trip, because although they were small, they were my first 3 proper fish on lures! I was as happy as could be, and it was obvious Hamish now had a bit of motivation too. He casted around the same sort of area and hooked up to a 27cm bream on his Zman lure in "houdini" colour from memory. We had both caught fish on lures by now, and were pretty happy. My Flatties We headed home for breakfast at around 9:30am. After lunch and a rest, Hamish and I got curious and explored for new nearby spots. Walking down a path we came across this very sketchy, but promising looking bridge. Along the way we also noticed a sort of mini dam, that regulated the water in the main body where our property and jetty was. There was also a traffic stop type thing for boats passing through from the noosa river into the canals. No wonder the canals were so calm, and shallow: We both realised that the canals weren't tidal and were instead just human-regulated bodies of water. Hence why our livies weren't bit on day 1: it wasn't likely any decent fish were actually swimming about in there. Back to the promising bridge, and Hamish casted right under and just slow rolled his baitjunkie. I was a few metres away when I heard a yell from Hamish and the scream of his reel. Hamish had hooked up to something big! I walked over, to see it was a huge flatty that had smacked the lure from the deep. Hamish had fought it to shore, but we didn't bring a net, as we were just sussing out the spot. So I had to use Hamish's shirt and stick my hand down the flatties big gob to land it. I was super happy for Hamish. I had taken him on a trip and he caught a great fish. We both felt like we had personally succeeded now! @AUS-BNE-FISHO's high 60's flatty! It was now early afternoon, and Hamish, my dad and brother, and my myself decided to go fishing at popular bridge. We had no luck on lures, but we caught some moses perch, bream, and butter bream on prawn and worm. We then headed to the noosa spit for a late arvo flick. My dad and brother fished for whiting off the beach while Hamish and I casted lures all around the joint. I didn't have any luck but Hamish caught a nice first cast bream on the sand flats. Bream DAY 3 Today was the day to leave. We had caught fish, and had plenty of fun. Hamish and I didn't go fishing in the morning, instead we walked to a nearby Tackle World and picked up some Zman plastics and jigheads. Other than that, the morning was uneventful and we headed back down to Brisbane. CONCLUSION Thanks to everyone who read the report. Hope you enjoyed the read!

Hey everyone, I am currently staying up in noosa (river), and am wondering if anyone knows any good spots especially for flathead and jacks, because fishing has been slow on plastics and hardbodies for me so far.

Hi there. I am fishing the noosa river off a bbq boat this Saturday and would like to know if I could purchase fresh yabbies/ nippers for bait anywhere in Noosa in the morning (30 Nov 2019) Thanks!

Belated report from our family holiday in the first week of the Easter holidays staying at Noosaville. Fished our usual fishing spot down from our accommodation and caught plenty the first three days before focusing on catching waves at main beach for the next couple while the weather was magic. My son Liam likes to keep a tally of what we catch and the final tally was: 3 sweep, 31 bream, 9 moses perch, 1 mangrove jack, 1 mud crab (just undersized and missing a nipper - caught by my wife TWICE in the one session, hungry bu99er!!), 2 cod, 3 trevally, 1 ponyfish, 3 flathead and a million little toadies (boys catch them in their nets for fun). Highlights were: Bream - 35.5cm caught by my wife in the middle of the day and a 36cm caught by me (but told George it was on his rod to keep him happy ..... ) Mangrove jack - George's first one (he seems to like the statistic that at the age of 40 I have caught only two, and at the age of 4 he already has one ......) My two cod (although little) caught close to the mangroves on my kayak (one took me in amongst some branches) Trevally two days in a row caught at the river mouth, all on live bait. The first day they were blue fin trevally (had an approx. 60cm one on but it popped the leader when it went for a run and the handle on the direct wind alvey reel hit my belly or hand and it popped the leader) before catching a little one, and then two nice golden trevally (43cm and 54cm) the following day caught during a quick session while they boys had their daytime rest/sleep. I didn't have live bait unfortunately and they weren't touching the dead baits I was offering - when I finally got one little mullet and swapped it over, I had the 54cm fish on within a minute!! George being able to cast his rod (and well too!!) all by himself, which freed me up to fish more (when I wasn't netting/releasing fish and baiting hooks) I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story.