queensland Noosa-Estuary & Offshore Report.

[Toby-MJ]

Travelling to a familiar location ment expectation levels were running high, our destination was the well known Noosa River. The weather had been pretty average over the last few weeks so when good weather presented itself we did'nt have to think twice. The holiday rush had just started so that ment fishing would be tough but we stuck to it and came up trumps with some nice fish. Our plan was to fish offshore early in the morning while the weather was calm then move into the estuary and fish down deep for Bream, Cod and hopfully a few Red ones.

Offshore

We opted to use plastics including the ever popular Berkley 5inch Jerkshad and 110mm Squidgy flickbaits on 3/8oz tackle tactics jigheads. The 1000 Sustain and 2000 size Heartland reels on the 1-3kg rods were proving to many bustoffs, so we changed to the heavier 5-8kg come to me sticks and we started landing some good fish including Snapper,cod, Parrot fish, and a few solid Sweetlip. We also had alot of fun on a school of 2kg+ tuna in the bay with white flickbait proving to be the go to lure.

Estuary

Fishing was tough which ment we found most of the fish congragating down deep and tight under structure so light leaders and good casts were essetial. We fished deep with plastics durning the day and surface lures late in the afternoon. Most fish were caught off moored boats, bridges, canals and rockwalls where louis nailed a respectable 34cm

to the fork bream. we encounted a few frustrating bustoffs at our favourite cod spot, plus the canals and moored boats accounted for some whitting and flathead that are barely worth mentioning.

[RichH]

some awesome fish there , love the sunny coast for fishing!

[fishingnut]

nice fish there mate! tempted to head there saturday

[louis142009]

hey toby,

yeah awesome trip, to bad you did'nt land your big bream