Caloundra this week

[pinkey]

Hey all,

Im heading off to coloundra tomorrow, and will most likely be coming back saterday afternoon. Im staying in a unit, not far from the coloundra boardwalk. I will probly be doing heaps of fishing there, Livebaiting,spinning and popping for queenies and trevs. I will probly also be popping in the canals there hoping for a early morning queenie or trev, tarpon ect anything fast and surface feeding . Will probly do abit of breaming if that gets quiet.. Has anyone had succes around these areas? If so what have you caught around coloundra and any tips? Thanks.

[pcsolutionman]

its Caloundra lol

The board walk offers good oppertunities to live bait for trevs and queenies. and all the canals in pelican waters have good populations of trevs,queenies,tarpon and the usual bream and flattys. some good sized jacks caught too on occasions. some good fishing around the mouth of bells creek for big flatties trevally etc. the mouth would be worth a go with some bigger plastics especially around the turn of the tides when the water isnt running so hard (it sometimes runs too hard to fish it easily)

Lee

[pinkey]

My bad. How do i change the title again? lol. Thanks Lee, Some helpful info there, can you get whiting on poppers in bells creek landbased?

[pcsolutionman]

yeh mate, if you drive down to the creek on the northern side the bit you can get too there is a large sand bank full of yabbies, at high tide there are loads of whiting over the banks there, id give it a go there for sure. I know a bloke who got a bone fish there

Lee

[pinkey]

Awsome thanks, might give it a crack if i have some spare time.. I mainly want a queenie or a GT though, Jacks and tarpon are welcome i guess , Wouldnt mind a bonefish either!!!! ahah thats awsome, do you know how big it was? lure or bait?

[pcsolutionman]

it was around the 1.5kg mark 50 odd cm. got it on a crazy charlie (shrimp immitation fly). if you really want a queenie or GT id concentrate on the boardwalk to the mouth with livies, bigger plastics and metals. I havent caught a queenie there but seen heaps caught. I have caught golden trevally, big eyes, diamond, long nose and GTS all around the mouth. big flathead are always a good bycath too

Lee

[LIVE_2_FiSH]

mate i was up there the other week and i caught a few nice queenies in the pelican waters canals.

Early morning poppers, just work the grass bank next to the bridge at the mouth of the cnals. I'd advise river 2 sea bubble pop 45's or 65's. small metals have also worked for me in the past.

I tried the boardwalk area in the afternoons while i was ther but wasnt to successful, mornings must be the go there as well.

[pinkey]

Thanx mate, Ive only got 3 surecatch poppers and a bubble pop 35, reckon these would still work? I might get a bubblepop 65 if i can, and maybe a few small slugs.. Ill try various plastics aswell.

[LIVE_2_FiSH]

not to sure about the sure catch ones but the bubble pop should. If your going to buy another popper get the bubble pop 45 in the clear/white colour.... i caught the bigger of the two queenies on that it was a tad under 60cm, the advantage of using a clear popper is that u can use it for whitng as well as they seem to like the clear poppers.

I found the fish werent finding the hooks very well on the 65mm bubble pop.

Use a constant retrieve for the trevs and queenies with a consistent bloop of the bopper every 2 seconds or so. You'll soon work out a rythmn as to how to work the popper.

[pinkey]

Sweet, Yeah my 35 is the clear colour, i got it mainly for whiting and bream, thanks for the tips.

[Dan23]

Hey, you can also have fun around Moffit beach throwing plastics into the surf. Dart in the surf on light line go hard. Also I got a little Jack on a plastic at the creek there called Tooway or something like that. Live baiting there at night might score you one.

[pinkey]

Cya all saterday.. ill be back with a report of me catching, Queenies,GT's,jacks,bonefish,milkfish,tarpon,Giant Herring, possibly marlin. .

[ellicat]

Best of luck pinkey. Hope you've got the camera charged;)

[Bommie]

milkfish = giant herring

good luck pinkey

I really want to land a bonefish

[blue_mako]

Giant Herring aren't a Milkfish. They are completely different species.

Troy

[Bommie]

didn't mean they were, when you get onto milkfish usually you can get a giant herring

[fishyman]

i swear he should be in school lol

[Dan23]

Yeah, what's the deal? Must be a private school boy.

[Fisher_90]

Troys left school

[fishyman]

im talking about tim.

he has NOT left school

[Bommie]

Bommie wrote:

didn't mean they were, when you get onto milkfish usually you can get a giant herring

during catching a few small milkfish, landed this giant herring

[img size=328]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/img057_AFO.jpg

wish i was still that thin:angry:

[millerjo]

just wondering what part of the board walk are you guys discussing?

I wouldnt mind giving it a crack on of these days!Directions would be a great help

Thank Josh

[nuckle]

it depends what tide. if its goin in your almost forced to fish on the far right side closest to the restraunt unless your using some sort of brick as a sinker and the same on the going out ya fish on the left side. it pays to get up early before sunrise get livies ( thers heaps of pike nd herring there) then get them out there before people come in droves and cast over your line constantley lol.... thats when most of the queenies are hooked...

[slider65]

if you head down past golden beach at high tide you could wade the banks along the edge and work the shallows with 50mm poppers for whiting and flathead and maybe the odd GT or queenie. i have been working this area over the last few months from the kayak and having great success on the 45mm river 2 sea bubble pops, some of the whiting i have been getting have been going just over 40cm and are great fun to catch on the 1kg flick rod i have been using.