queensland Weekend Noosa Trip - A Success!

[charlie.hans.fishing]

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!

 

[ellicat]

Good report, Charlie.

Nice to see you two getting into it and landing some on lures. I bet you both can't wait to do it all again.

[Junky]

Good times.

Nice lizards. Delicious eating. 

 

Do not discount those locked canals. They aren't my "go to"kind of areas but I have caught some big jacks in those areas in my time. 

I remember a few years back a young fella got a big GT out of a lock, pretty sure it was around Hope Island. 

[Angry51]

Good onya Charlie & Hamish.

Sounds like a good effort for reward was put in.

Thanks for the report.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Thanks for the great report Charlie - and even more for taking me on the trip!  

I was pretty happy that we somehow landed that flatty, seeing as though it was thrashing about for a good couple minutes before we figured out my shirt would work to land it. And gut hooked on ten pound leader! It was a shame those flatties you caught weren’t 10 or 20cm bigger as they would’ve been nice to eat then. It’s also a shame we didn’t get anything more on our night sessions, as the spots looked likely for fish. Apart from the flatty the highlight of the trip for me would’ve been when I hooked a pidgeon, hahaha.

Heres a couple more pics I got -

Cheers Hamish 

[ellicat]

4 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

when I hooked a pidgeon, hahaha.

We need to hear that story.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

6 minutes ago, ellicat said:

We need to hear that story.

Alright, so just after I caught that 27cm bream, I casted out again. I failed to see a big flock of pidgeons fly by. It took my ten seconds to realise but one of them had gotten wrapped up in the line. It was a decent fight with some nice aerobatics, but eventually it got untangled from the line. No worries - one of his stupid friends came down and did the exact same thing! This one was a much poorer fight and eventually Charlie hopped on top of him and we chopped away the line that was tangled on him. 
 

A very disabled looking pidgeon was released. Oops.  

[ellicat]

Hahaha. Maybe they were racing pidgeons.

[charlie.hans.fishing]

10 hours ago, ellicat said:

Good report, Charlie.

Nice to see you two getting into it and landing some on lures. I bet you both can't wait to do it all again.

Thanks mate. Yeah I'm looking forward to catching more fish on lures in the future!

[charlie.hans.fishing]

38 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Alright, so just after I caught that 27cm bream, I casted out again. I failed to see a big flock of pidgeons fly by. It took my ten seconds to realise but one of them had gotten wrapped up in the line. It was a decent fight with some nice aerobatics, but eventually it got untangled from the line. No worries - one of his stupid friends came down and did the exact same thing! This one was a much poorer fight and eventually Charlie hopped on top of him and we chopped away the line that was tangled on him. 
 

A very disabled looking pidgeon was released. Oops.  

I forgot to mention this! Lol. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

51 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Thanks for the great report Charlie - and even more for taking me on the trip!  

I was pretty happy that we somehow landed that flatty, seeing as though it was thrashing about for a good couple minutes before we figured out my shirt would work to land it. And gut hooked on ten pound leader! It was a shame those flatties you caught weren’t 10 or 20cm bigger as they would’ve been nice to eat then. It’s also a shame we didn’t get anything more on our night sessions, as the spots looked likely for fish. Apart from the flatty the highlight of the trip for me would’ve been when I hooked a pidgeon, hahaha.

Heres a couple more pics I got -

Cheers Hamish 

That's all good Hamish! Hope you had a great time. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

3 hours ago, Junky said:

Good times.

Nice lizards. Delicious eating. 

 

Do not discount those locked canals. They aren't my "go to"kind of areas but I have caught some big jacks in those areas in my time. 

I remember a few years back a young fella got a big GT out of a lock, pretty sure it was around Hope Island. 

Yeah see that's the thing they are tricky. We reckoned there was bound to be GT's and Jack's in and around the canals. We didn't have much time to stay there though, so we reckoned it was best to try out some different spots. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

2 hours ago, Angry51 said:

Good onya Charlie & Hamish.

Sounds like a good effort for reward was put in.

Thanks for the report.

Thanks mate. 

[ellicat]

Forgot to ask - How did the whiting fishing go for your Dad and Brother ?

[kmcrosby78]

Fantastic report, very well written and some good fishing action - bet you both had a top weekend. Nice flathead @AUS-BNE-FISHO, great thinking by you too to come up with a solution to land it on a tricky spot. Great spot Noosaville.

[charlie.hans.fishing]

7 hours ago, ellicat said:

Forgot to ask - How did the whiting fishing go for your Dad and Brother ?

I don't think they had much luck as my brother is young and wanted to play around in the sand a bit more than fish . They were just using prawns as bait and casting directly into the surf. The late arvo winds were making it hard to fish without using a big sinker which we didn't have on hand. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

1 hour ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Fantastic report, very well written and some good fishing action - bet you both had a top weekend. Nice flathead @AUS-BNE-FISHO, great thinking by you too to come up with a solution to land it on a tricky spot. Great spot Noosaville.

Thanks a lot mate. It was a fun time, and Noosaville is for sure a great spot to fish and have a holiday.