queensland Noosa Report

[chrislocke]

Hi everyone,

This seems like a bit of a weekly occurrence! Here’s a bit of a fishing report from Noosa with heaps and heaps of pictures!!!

For the couple of days Tim and I fished, the Noosa River was firing! We focused our efforts on the Tewantin end of the river this week, and due to an abundance of prawns, prawn style lures were our choice! We used everything from Zereks to gladiator prawns and as long as it looked like a prawn, it seemed to work!

One of the most common fish we came across during our fishing trips were baby GT’s in the 35-50cm range which are epic fun on the light gear we were using. (Nordic stage sharpshooters and 1000 Shimano) This particular one Tim caught was a class above the rest and gave us some serious curry!

On the subject of trevally, this little fella was a welcome surprise and could have pulled any of the other GT’s backwards! These little trevs are called “Cale Cales†and are often seen smashing the surface like tuna, but not touching any lure you throw at them! It seems when you’re not targeting them, they find you!

The main fish we targeted during the trips was school jewfish, and we did end up catching quite a few! The trick to catching these little guys was allowing your lure to sit on the bottom motionless for a few seconds before flicking your rod tip again. We found most hits were either on the drop or just sitting on the bottom.

One thing that heavily affected out fishing was the tide. The water up this far in the river is normally pretty dirty, and when the big high tides came through, it really triggered the fish to bite!

My most rewarding capture for the whole trip was this solid grunter bream which fell to the ever reliable ecogear zx40 in the dirty water. With only one of the little assist hooks just pinned through the lip, it was pretty touch and go, but the extra length and softness of the rod cushioned the lunges perfectly.

Lastly, I took one of my co-workers from Davo’s out for a quick shark fish of the beach and after a brief tussle we landed this cute little bully on a whole tailor! Was great to see the young fella hooked up on my 18000 Stella haha

Hope you liked my report! If you’re after any info or the like swing me a PM and I’m happy to help!

Cheers, Chris

[Angus]

Mate I do not think you need to apologise for making weekly reports like that!

Nice one mate. Look forward to catching up next week.

Angus

[EZY]

Mate I do not think you need to apologise for making weekly reports like that!

Nice one mate. Look forward to catching up next week.

Angus

no appologies required thanks for the report. hope it stays like that for the upcoming comp.

thanks ezy

[daveylad]

Where about in the river did you catch the Bully Chris? must tell my young bloke to watch his little dog swimming about there

[ChrisC]

great week mate !! how goods the fishing been in may so far

[Angus]

P.S. just moved this to the reports section

[fifis101]

I think there are a lot of jealous fishermen reading all your reports mate. You guys are hooking up to some great fish up there. Keep up the good work.

[ellicat]

Sweet report, Chris.

The javelin looks big enough to have given you some curry.