Fishing Report 26-07-2012

FISHING REPORT – 26-07-2012

CRESSBROOK DAM

At this stage Toowoomba Regional Council are expecting
Cressbrook Dam to be opened by the weekend, providing there are no significant
rain events. Keep an eye on the Mullet Gut Marine Facebook page for any
updates.


BASS

Very similar to
last week in the South Burnett area, at Boondooma Dam there are still fairly
good numbers of fish about, and even a few up around the 50cm mark, try fishing
the rocky points and edges, using soft plastics, Blades and Jackall mask vibes,
and if you can find the schooled fish, ice jigs have produced some good catches
as well. Bjelke Peterson dam has produced some small Bass using bait around the
timbered area. Not a lot has changed at Somerset this week with a few scattered
fish about, 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, with the odd Yellowbelly caught on bait in the
deeper water. 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. As far as the rivers go, the
water level in the Balonne at St.George has dropped a bit and this seen good
numbers of Yellowbelly taken from the edges on bait, and a few nice Cod landed
as well. The Macintyre River at Goondiwindi
is fishing well, with plenty of Yellowbelly up to 5lb landed, within the town
reaches on lures, live worms and frozen saltwater yabbies, there are also
plenty of eel-tail catfish about, however the Cod have been a bit quiet. The
Dumeresq River at Texas has been a bit quiet, with small numbers of Yellowbelly
being landed on bait and no real reports of any Cod being caught. Yarramolong
Weir near Pampas has seen a few quality Yellowbelly caught on live worms.
Glenlyon Dam has seen some nice Yellowbelly and Cod landed, 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, there has
also been good numbers of eel-tail catfish about. 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

Due to very
rough conditions over the past week, offshore fishing has been pretty much non
existant. The Tweed River has produced some quality Flathead in the
Cobaki Lakes area, with a few Bream thrown in the mix, the river mouth has also
seen a few Bream about, as well as some small Tailor and if you like chasing
Mulloway, there has been some nice fish landed around Barney’s Point bridge,
while up around Southport, fishing the run out tide has seen good numbers of quality Flathead, Tailor
and Trevelly taken in the Seaway, these have been mainly caught on live bait
and lures.

SUNSHINE
COAST

The
same as the Gold Coast as far as offshore fishing goes, with the strong winds
limiting any outside trips. At Caloundra, inshore fishing has seen plenty of Black
Fish taken off the Boardwalk, on the incoming tide, Pelican Waters has seen
some quality GT’s taken on trolled lures and there has been some nice Jewies
caught along Curramundi Beach, things have been a bit quiet in the Maroochy and
Noosa Rivers, but there has been a few Bream and Flathead scattered throughout
both systems.

HERVEY BAY

Fraser Island is still producing some reasonable
catches of Tailor, with some nice Whiting and Flathead in amongst them.