queensland Noosa Again.

[charlie.hans.fishing]

Hi all,

Here's a very brief report of my day trip on the Noosa River. 

Recently, I went up the Sunshine Coast to see some relatives, and took up the opportunity to head out for a quick flick in the 30 minutes I could. 

When I arrived to the spot I fished on my previous Noosa trip with @AUS-BNE-FISHO, I noticed that the water was very dirty and brown, unlike the usual blue. This may have been due to the recent rain. It's important to note I was also fishing a low tide. 

It was also very choppy, as a bunch of jetskis were mucking around nearby. Lots of families were bait fishing all along the shore. It didn't look promising at all, especially considering the little luck the families were getting with bait. 

After fishing up one side of the give or take 250 metre shoreline (it's a long pathway that is located on an esplanade), I had no luck. I was feeling down when the strong currents kept pushing my lure (2.5 inch baitjunkie minnow) around on the sand and I couldn't keep in control of the lure. 

I walked down about 70 metres to an inviting sand flat that was calmer than further up the shore and no one was fishing on it. 

First cast I chucked my lure in and worked it for about 10 seconds before pulling out my phone to answer some texts from @AUS-BNE-FISHO Lol 

All of a sudden i felt a tug on my line and I thought I was snagged (I would never have believed to catch a fish this quickly) and I reeled in some line, only to feel some exciting runs and decent head shakes.

To my disbelief, a fish had simply taken the lure just as I stopped working it, as it might've landed right on its head, or it had followed it until it stopped.

I was on a fish! And it was a good one too!

After the fun little fight, I'd brought a nice flatty into shore!

Here's a quick pick I took of the fish. 

NOTE: I'm aware that the brag mat was folded up at the end, and I estimated that there's roughly 5cm added onto the actual length. See, I had actually put the fish on there properly until it flapped about and messed everything up. Lol. Although the mat says 54-55cm, the fish was really about 48-49. Still a good size for my books, considering I've only recently been actually catching fishing on lures! 

All in all, I was very grateful to be able to catch this fish in the small period of time I had, especially considering the environment/conditions. 

Thanks for the quick read 

- Charlie 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good fish and nice read Charlie. I reckon that flatties a 50  

[charlie.hans.fishing]

1 minute ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Good fish and nice read Charlie. I reckon that flatties a 50  

Thanks mate i reckon it was. A nice PB.

[Old Scaley]

Well done, @TheCharliefisho. Nice flattie.

[charlie.hans.fishing]

2 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Well done, @TheCharliefisho. Nice flattie.

Thanks!

[ellicat]

Good onya Charlie. That's a nice flattie despite the interruption from Hamish.

They often take a plastic on the pause.

[Kat]

Good one!  Flatties are fun to catch and great to eat.  Did you catch and release or catch, fillet and eat?

[jon]

Nice work mate we’ll done!!

[charlie.hans.fishing]

9 hours ago, ellicat said:

Good onya Charlie. That's a nice flattie despite the interruption from Hamish.

They often take a plastic on the pause.

Thanks mate! Haha! Yeah they seem to do that hey

[charlie.hans.fishing]

6 hours ago, jon said:

Nice work mate we’ll done!!

Appreciate it!

[charlie.hans.fishing]

9 hours ago, Kat said:

Good one!  Flatties are fun to catch and great to eat.  Did you catch and release or catch, fillet and eat?

Thanks! They sure are. I released the fish, as I wasn't intending to keep it. I may have considered if I had some tools on me to put the flatty down but all i had was a backpack and rod. 

[tugger]

Nice flatty

[Junky]

Good job Charlie. 

 

99% off the flathead I've caught hit the lures in the pause. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

5 hours ago, Junky said:

Good job Charlie. 

 

99% off the flathead I've caught hit the lures in the pause. 

Cool! I'll note this for my retrieves.

[peterjones]

Good one!  Flatties are fun to catch and great to eat. Next time will love to go with you .

[Drop Bear]

Yew nice fish mate. Well done. 

IMHO If you catch one in the Noosa you can add 10cm as its a very heavily fished river.   so that is a stonken 95cm flatty. (that's how maths works right?)

[charlie.hans.fishing]

14 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

Yew nice fish mate. Well done. 

IMHO If you catch one in the Noosa you can add 10cm as its a very heavily fished river.   so that is a stonken 95cm flatty. (that's how maths works right?)

Haha thanks mate! I'll call it 60