Fishing Report 20-02-2014

FISHING REPORT – 20-02-2014

BASS

The South Burnett dams have continued to produce good numbers this week, at Boondooma, trolling hard bodies from the main basin through to Pelican Point and up the Stuart arm have produced good quality fish, the edges are also holding fish and Blades have worked well on them. At Bjelke Peterson, trolling hard bodies and Spinnerbaits in the timber has been good, and Bass Point has produced good quality fish on spinnerbaits and blades. Cressbrook Dam has seen a few fish around the Eagles Nest and into the Cressbrook Creek arm of the dam, where working spinnerbaits tight to the bottom has been very effective. Not a lot has changed at Somerset Dam, it has produced good quality Bass again this week; Pelican Point and Queen Street have been the areas to target, there are some fish suspended in 40ft of water and plastics have worked well on these, but working spinnerbaits tight to the bottom, in 25-30ft of water has picked up the better quality fish and although there have been some fish caught in the mornings, afternoon is still the better time to fish, and Moogerah Dam produced a few Bass on the weekend, with trolled Jackalls being the best method down there.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

Cooby Dam has seen a few fish holding in deeper water and trolled hard bodies, vertically worked blades or frozen saltwater yabbies have been effective. Boondooma and Bjelke Peterson have continued to produce good numbers of Yellowbelly, working the same areas as with the Bass, will see you pick up some quality Yellowbelly also, and these fish will fall for the same tactics as used for the Bass. Glenlyon is still producing good numbers of Yellowbelly, live Shrimp, live worms and frozen Saltwater Yabbies have all worked quite well, while trolling hard bodies and spinnerbaits about 5-6m behind the boat has picked up a few as well, there’s a few Cod about, with the biggest this week, being an 82cm fish. Coolmunda has seen the odd fish taking frozen saltwater yabbies and trolled hard bodies, on the drop offs to the old creek beds and also along the wall area. Leslie Dam has produced a few Yellowbelly on frozen Saltwater Yabbies, in front of the Washpool camping area, good size Silver Perch on live worms and there were a couple of Cod taken on Jackalls near the boulders, just out from the buoy line. As for the rivers, the Macintyre at Goondiwindi has seen a few Cod and Yellowbelly taking saltwater yabbies and spinnerbaits, there are some quality Cod getting about at the moment, with the biggest reported, tipping the scales at 68lb, the Goondiwindi Fish Restockers recently released 80,000 Yellowbelly and 3500 Murray Cod into the river and the fund raising is done by raffles conducted at local hotels on Friday nights.

COASTAL FISHING

Offshore fishing at the Gold Coast has continued to produce plenty of Mackerel and Wahoo on trolled lures, at Palm and Mermaid Reef, and out wider there has been quite a few Black Marlin and Dolphin Fish taking live baits. The northern wall of the Seaway has produced Jewies, Cobia and Trevally on the run in tide, Whiting in the middle reaches of the Nerang River, Flathead at the Pin and Kalinga Bank and a few Jacks are getting about the structure, in the Coomera River, while at the Sunshine Coast, there are plenty of Spanish Mackerel throughout and they have been taking trolled lures, inshore fishing has seen good size Trevally and Queenfish taken off the Boardwalk at Caloundra, Jacks under the bridges at Pelican Waters, Flathead at the Bar entrance and at the mouth of the Maroochy River and the Noosa River has seen Jacks, Jewies and Trevally at the river mouth and the lakes have produced some decent Mud Crabs.