queensland 3/08/2013 Noosa Report

[chrislocke]

Managed to sneak out again this weekend, (I'm becoming a serious weekend warrior!) an with a cool, still morning along with decent tides, we were all amped up to get fishing!

We fished a few places throughout the morning, and the lack of baitfish at our usual spots prompted us to go up river. Upon arriving, we were greeted with heaps of halfhearted hits, where the small jewies we were targeting were just "sucking" on the tail of our plastic. They are extremely difficult to catch when they're in this mood, and no matter what we did we just couldn't get them to commit! The saving grace of the morning was Tim's nice diamond trevally which gave a good tussle on the light gear! It fell to a zerek live shrimp fished VERY slowly across the bottom.

After the tough morning bite, we ventured into the warm shallows of the ironically named "frying pan". I love fishing these sand flats with surface lures and ultra light gear, and it's amazing the fish that will hit your lure from as little as 20cm of water! On the first cast upon arrival, it was a sweet/sour capture as a 45cm tailor grabbed my bassday sugapen off the surface! As much as I love tailor, I don't love how quickly they can cut through light fluro.

After a few more tailor and some spectacular surface strikes, we moved in a bit more, right up against the back and had an awesome session on the bream and whiting. On this particular day, the slower retrieve was the most effective, and if you paused your lure even for a second you'd have a school of bream hitting it in no time!

Unfortunately, we had to leave this hot surface bite pre-maturely, and then jumped aboard a bigger vessel for a late afternoon/evening snapper fish. The fishing was pretty slow to begin with, but with a few live yakka in the livewell, things started to swing in our favour with some nice snapper and trag coming aboard.

Was a cracking weekend fishing, and this "hot" weather is getting me excitied for summer!

Thanks for reading, Chris

[Angus]

Very cool Chris.

Jealous.

Angus

[fishingnut]

Il be up there Saturday doing a day trip, will call in and see you if your working

[sweresy]

great pics as usual mate.

[sunnydays]

Good to see the Frying Pan in a Noosa report! Love that spot. Great pics too.

Any resident crocs (massive flatties) around that area lately?

Justin

[chrislocke]

Angus, and it's only gonna get better

Sweresy, Thanks mate!

Fishingnut, I'll probably be fishing the river on satuday...Come and find me!

Hey Sunnydays, As of now, I've seen two flatties over 80cm caught in the last couple of weeks, plus a heap of 70+ fish getting around too. It seems the flathead are thinking spring is coming sooner than we think!

[fishingnut]

Il b land based mate , no idea where to start up there

[Runty66]

Hmm weekend trip to Noosa, yes please! .. Love that picture of the bait getting smashed on the surface