Fishing Report 8-11-2012

FISHING REPORT   – 08-11-2012

 

 

BASS

 

Cressbrook Dam has fished quite well over the past week, targeting the points and bays with blades and soft plastics and also casting soft vibes, ice jigs and soft plastics to the schooled fish throughout the main basin and the Cressbrook Creek arm of the dam. Bass have been out in force this week at Boondooma, with good numbers of quality fish taking spinnerbaits, Jackalls and hard bodies around the timber in both arms and also off the edges through most parts of the dam, bait has also worked quite well in the Stuart arm. Bjelke Petersen dam has again seen low numbers of smaller Bass taken, casting small blades to the weed edges around Bass Point. Somerset Dam hasn’t changed a lot this week, it’s still fishing well in most areas, including the timber at Kirkleigh, deeper schooled fish and also shallow banks around the points, soft plastics, Jackalls, blades and spinnerbaits have worked well again.

 

 

YELLOWBELLY AND COD.

 

Cooby Dam has produced few fish again this week, bait and trolled lures have both been successful, at Boondooma, the fish have been caught in in the timbered areas of the Stuart and Boyne arms, as well as around the edges throughout the dam, with bait, Jackalls and spinnerbaits working well. Bjelke Peterson has seen some quality Yellowbelly mainly taken on slowly trolled lures around the edges and also on the drop-offs in the deeper parts of the dam, there has also been a lot of eel tail catfish taking bait throughout the dam. The timber has produced some nice fish at Glenlyon, using bait has been most effective, but some quality fish have also been taken on slow rolled spinnerbaits around structure. A few smaller Cod have been caught and released, due to being undersize. Coolmunda has again produced good numbers of Yellowbelly, dark coloured lures have worked well and frozen saltwater yabbies have again been very successful, the number of Cod caught this week has increased, trolled hard bodies have worked best. At Leslie Dam, trolling hard body lures has produced good numbers of Yellowbelly and Cod, in about 15ft of water throughout the dam, and using frozen saltwater yabbies has again been a popular bait around the timber. As far as the rivers go, the Balonne at St.George continues to fish well for Yellowbelly and Cod, casting spinnerbaits to the edges and around snags, as well as trolling hard body lures has produced the most fish, the Macintyre River at Goondiwindi has fished well this past week with good reports of Yellowbelly taking spinnerbaits and bait, eel tail catfish have been out in numbers as well and the Dumeresq River at Texas has fished well for Yellowbelly using spinnerbaits and eel tail catfish using bait.

 

 

GOLD COAST AND TWEED

 

Anglers have finally been able to head offshore over the past week, there has been some nice Mackerel and Cobia about and a few Marlin are starting to show up as well, with reports of the odd smaller fish being caught, while inshore, the Tweed River has seen good numbers of Flathead and Whiting around the Golf Club and throughout the lakes, Jacks are still active around the bridges at night and you could still pick up a few School Jew and Trevelly on live bait and plastics at the river mouth, while up around Southport, Flathead have again been prominent around Crab Island, The Aldershots and Kalinga Bank, plenty of Jack’s in the estuaries, heaps of Whiting around the Council Chambers and some nice School Jew have been landed along the North Wall of the Seaway at the turn of the tide.

 

SUNSHINE COAST

 

Offshore fishing has produced some Mackerel and Cobia on trolled lures, there’s also been a few Marlin providing anglers with a bit of fun. Inshore fishing has seen good numbers of Flathead on soft plastics throughout most of the estuaries, Bream and Whiting off the boardwalk at Caloundra and throughout the Noosa River, the Noosa River is also firing for Mangrove Jack and Barramundi and the upper reaches of the Maroochy River have again produced some quality wild Bass on surface lures and crank baits.

 

HERVEY BAY

 

The Urangan Peir has been fishing well for Whiting and Flathead, with the occasional small Mackerel taken on lures and live bait. The rivers are fishing well for Threadfin Salmon and some decent Barra have been taken on bait and trolled lures and offshore has produced some quality reef fish.