Fishing Report 19-07-2012

FISHING REPORT – 19-07-2012




BASS

Cressbrook has
seen some good quality Bass caught around the points in the dam, Soft Plastics
on ¼ ounce jigheads have landed the most fish. Very similar to last week in the
South Burnett area, at Boondooma Dam, try fishing the rocky points and edges
around Balancing Rock, The Junction and Pelican Point, using soft plastics,
Blades and Jackall mask vibes, and if you can find the schooled fish, ice jigs
and jigging Mask Vibes have produced some good catches as well. Bjelke Peterson
dam has produced some small Bass using bait around the timbered area. A few
more fish starting to show up in Somerset this past week, and there is the odd
smaller school starting to form as well, try targeting these fish with soft plastics
and ice jigs and you should land a few, but it is still hard work. The best
areas have been from Beams Creek right through to Queen Street.

YELLOWBELLY AND
COD.
Cooby Dam has
been relatively quiet this week, due to the poor weather. In Boondooma Dam, good yellowbelly
are being caught using live shrimp as well as trolling dark coloured
Spinnerbaits around rocky edges near the junction and at
the start of
the Stuart timber. Try trolling hard bodies just off the bottom in a depth
range of 16ft – 25ft. Still much the same as the past few weeks at Bjelke Peterson Dam, with some nice
Yellowbelly and Silver Perch caught in the timbered area of the dam, with trolled
lures and live bait still proving to be the best. The upper reaches of the Macintyre
River at Goondiwindi has produced small numbers of Cod, which have been taken
mainly on Spinnerbaits and hard body lures, the number of Yellowbelly and
Silver Perch landed within the town reaches has dropped a bit due to a rise in
the river, however if you put the effort in, there is certainly fish there to
be caught, live bait again, has proven to be the most successful. The Dumeresq
River at Texas has been a little slow, with small numbers of Yellowbelly being
landed on bait. Glenlyon Dam saw a couple of cracking Cod up around the 40lb
mark, there has also been some nice Yellowbelly landed as well, these fish have
mainly been in deeper water and using live bait has produced the most fish. Coolmunda
has again produced a few nice Yellowbelly on bait, around the timber, but the
Cod have been a bit quiet. And at Leslie Dam, it’s taking a bit of hard work to
land a Yellowbelly, with only low numbers of fish being landed on frozen
Saltwater Yabbies and live worms.





GOLD COAST AND TWEED

Offshore
fishing has been a bit restricted to the closer reefs, with Snapper, Squire and
Spangled Emperor taken anywhere from the inner reefs to the 24’s, and for
anyone who has ventured out further, there has been some quality Cobia,
Pearlies and Trag Jew. The Tweed River has seen Black Fish and Bream around
the rock walls and bridges, some nice Flathead in the upper reaches on live
bait and a few on soft plastics, Mulloway around the headlands and a few Tailor
and Salmon off the beaches, while up around Southport, fishing the run out tide
has seen good numbers of quality
Flathead throughout the Broadwater and around the Pin and the Seaway entrance
has produced good numbers of Tailor and Salmon, the odd King Fish, as well as
heaps of School Jew around the 60-65cm mark.

SUNSHINE COAST

Offshore
fishing has produced reasonable numbers of Snapper around Sunshine and North
Reefs. At Caloundra, inshore fishing has seen some big Flathead caught off the
Boardwalk and just inside the bar entrance, a few Bream also around Jetty’s and
any structure, Whiting are scattered throughout the area and plenty of Flathead
in the passage, in the Maroochy River, Bream throughout the passage and some
nice Whiting at Golden Beach, the Noosa and Maroochy River’s have seen some
decent Jewies landed and there’s been plenty of Flathead and smaller G.T’s
about, while the gutters off the beaches have produced some nice Bream and
Tailor.

HERVEY BAY

Fraser Island has been a bit patchy when it comes to
Tailor, there have been a few about, and for anyone heading that way, with a
bit of hard work you will get your bag limit, there has also been some big
Whiting landed as well.