FISHING REPORT   – 17-10-2013

BASS

Somerset Dam has seen a few fish landed this week, Queen Street, Bay13 and the Pelican Point area are the best spots, for the fish holding closer to the bottom, slow rolled soft plastics worked tight to the bottom, has been good, while a faster retrieve with plastics and blades, has worked well on any suspended fish. Cressbrook has produced some decent Bass to 45cm, casting soft plastics to the edges in the Bull Creek arm has been the best spot for these fish, there are also a few schools in the Eagles Nest area, and these fish have been tempted by hopping Jackalls and blades through them. The upper reaches of the Stuart arm of Boondooma Dam has produced some nice Bass on Jackalls and spinnerbaits. Bass Point has again been an active spot for quite a few smaller Bass at Bjelke Peterson, soft plastics and trolled lures have been effective on these fish. Moogerah Dam has been fishing quite well with some nice Bass landed in the timber on live shrimp, as well as TN60 Jackalls, MegaBass Power Bombs and gold Blades and Maroon Dam has again produced good fish on surface lures, early morning and late afternoon.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

Plenty of activity as far as Yellowbelly and Cod fishing goes this week, with a lot of our local dams producing plenty of fish, slow rolling blades, close to the bottom has been effective at Cooby, also try trolling green and yellow hard body lures, while frozen Saltwater Yabbies have been a popular bait. Glenlyon has again seen plenty of Cod getting about, some decent sized fish have been hitting bigger Spinnerbaits in the timbered areas, Yellowbelly have also been quite active, live shrimp and worms have worked well on these fish. At Coolmunda, Jackalls and Spinnerbaits have been successful on both Cod and Yellowbelly, the timbered area has produced most of the Cod, with the Yellowbelly taken off the edges and on the troll. Leslie Dam has been fishing quite well, with a number of anglers landing some nice fish, using bait, just opposite the dam wall has been popular, while a few anglers have had success up near the "Black Boys" on blades, a few smaller Cod have been getting about and heaps of Jewies have been caught off the edges, in the shallower water, and in the South Burnett, both Boondooma and Bjelke Peterson dams have produced good numbers of Yellowbelly again, in Boondooma, bait has been effective in the Stuart and Boyne arms and casting spinnerbaits around the timber in the upper reaches of the Stuart arm has produced some big fish, while at Bjelke Peterson, big Yellowbelly have been taking spinnerbaits around the timber. As for the rivers, the Macintyre at Goondiwindi and the Dumaresq River at Texas have both produced some nice Yellowbelly on trolled lures and spinnerbaits, there has been a few Cod in amongst them, don’t forget, it is closed season for Cod in the border rivers, so make sure any of these fish that are caught, are released back into the water as quickly as possible.

GOLD COAST

Offshore fishing has seen a few Cobia on the Artificial Reef, north of the Seaway, small Black Marlin on the 24’s and a few Snapper and Pearl Perch on the northern 50’s. Inshore fishing has seen Jewies on live bait and soft plastics in the Seaway, big Flathead along the rock walls in the Seaway, plenty of Gar around Crab and Wavebreak Islands, Jack’s around structure in the Coomera and Nerang Rivers, plenty of Whiting on live Yabbies and Worms throughout the estuaries and a few Sand Crabs are getting about on the Southern end of the Broadwater.

SUNSHINE COAST

Offshore fishing has again been a bit quiet this week, but there has been some smaller Snapper and Sweetlip on the closer reefs, Snapper, Cobia and Pearl Perch at the bottom end of North Reef and there’s also been the odd Mackerel getting about. Inshore fishing has seen most of the estuaries producing quality Flathead on soft plastics and Whiting on surface poppers, bait has also been effective on these fish, Trevally around structure in the Mooloolah River, Mangrove Jack in Bells Creek and the Pelican Waters canals while in the Noosa River, Trevally in Woods Bay, Whiting, Flathead and Jewies at the river mouth and some nice Barra, between 70 and 90cm, have been firing in the upper reaches.