queensland Lake cooloola/ Lake Cootharaba

[Ash]

I am going for a little camp around the Lake cooloola and lake Cootharaba area this weekend. Am taking the missus and little one, but more importantly, im taking the river rat!

Has any one fished either of these lake before? I know lake cooloola is fresh water and the other salt, but i dont hear too many fishing reports about either. Is there boat access to Cooloola?

Any hints would be very helpful!

[Oztrav]

where are they? either way if your not sure about the tidal one it should see you with some flatties and whiting for your girls to eat

Post edited by: Oztrav, at: 2007/04/18 17:57

[Ash]

Hey Oz,

Noosa area, in fact i think the noosa river feeds Cootnaraba?

Should atleast be some flatties, huh?

Angus was saying trevs and jacks go up there soi'll cross my fingers!

[jeff f]

the fresh water lake was a wellknown bass fishery before they stocked all the dams. the area conecting the lakes is known as the everglades and is beautiful. the salt water lake is a great flathead spot but is very shallow below the salt lake is great for trolling or spinning trevally and queenies

[Ash]

Awesome!

Jeff: Cooloola, any boat ramps? Cant see any in my beacon to beacon.

Cootharaba, any particulat spinners? dark/light? green/blue?

Mate this trip is sounding better!

[Troy_79]

I've heard that there are alot of sharks in lake cootharaba. I went up there for my grade 12 camp and i caught a mssive eel probably half the length of the canoe and a few other weird fish

[Troy_79]

dam double posts sorry:)

Post edited by: Troy_79, at: 2007/04/18 19:53

[jeff f]

Ash wrote:

Awesome!

Jeff: Cooloola, any boat ramps? Cant see any in my beacon to beacon.

Cootharaba, any particulat spinners? dark/light? green/blue?

Mate this trip is sounding better!

dont know about the ramps we allways launched at tewantin and cruised up .

last time we did best on gold halco twistys and pink and blue raiders

[ellicat]

Have been there a few times. There's a boat ramp at Boreen Point on the western side of Lake Cootharaba. I've not fished the lake or everglades area but have seen rays in the shallows of the lake. (Which is about 90% of it). The river (and probably therefore the main channel in the lake) definitely has some bullsharks. It also has plenty of pike eel which come on the bite from about mid-afternoon and through the night. In the river just below the lake I've caught flatties and and also heaps of bream. Good luck. It's a beautiful spot.

[Angus]

Ash: Get a chart from a local tackle shop as soon as you get there. As has been said, the majority of the lake is shallow. However there are easy to find trenches and channels.

Id be fishing decent sized baits to my hearts content.

There are plenty of flatties, trevs, jacks and cod in this lake.

Its also one of the few places bull sharks are commercially fished inland. Point being its meant to be full of them!!

The lakes are joined by a narrow river section (stillt echnically part of the noosa to my understanding). But with what a night time mission into the saltwater lkae promises, id find it pretty hard to move out of Cootharaba.

Good luck mate.

Angus

[Ash]

UNforetunetly trip cancelled. My daughter has been sick the whole week and isnt well enough to go this weekend. Hopefully we'll be going soon though. Thanks for adv will remember it all for next time!