FISHING REPORT   – 29-05-2014

First of all, I would like to congratulate all the local anglers who participated in the BASS Australia Nation tournament, held at Boondooma Dam last weekend and in particular Brad Clark for winning the event, also Mark Reinbott for placing third in the Pro division and Arthur Allen for taking out third place in the Co-Angler division. Well done guys!!

BASS

Cressbrook is only producing low numbers of Bass at the moment, try around Deer Island and the main points in the Bull Creek and Cressbrook Creek arms, soft plastics and blades will give you the best chance of landing a fish, while live shrimp have produced good numbers for the bait anglers. Quite a lot of fish showing up at Somerset, but getting them to bite has been hard work, the flats at Pelican Point, “The Hump” and the start of the timber at Kirkleigh have been the best spots to target, with slow rolled soft plastics, blades and live shrimp picking up a few fish. Plenty of schooled fish throughout Boondooma Dam, targeting them with blades, tail spinners and soft plastics has given the most success and Moogerah has seen good numbers of Bass landed throughout the dam, using soft plastics, blades and tail spinners, in 25-30ft of water has provided the best results.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

Fishing around the weed edges has been good at Cooby, with frozen saltwater yabbies and hard bodies landing a few, the numbers have dropped off, but the quality has improved, with a lot of the fish hitting the 40-45cm mark. The fishing is still fairly good at Glenlyon, it has again produced a few Yellowbelly in 20-25ft of water, live shrimp and worms have landed the most fish, while bigger spinnerbaits and Jackals have produced some nice Cod around the timber. Coolmunda Dam has been fishing well for Yellowbelly this week, using bait on the drop-offs to the old creek beds has produced the most fish, there has also been a few smaller Cod taken on trolled hard body lures. Leslie Dam has seen a few Yellowbelly taken on live worms and frozen saltwater yabbies around the edges, while hopping Mask Vibes off the drop-offs, in the main basin has worked well also. Boondooma produced a few fish on blades, ice jigs and live bait, with the deeper parts around the junction and into the Stuart arm proving to be the best spots. As for the rivers, the Macintyre at Goondiwindi has improved this past week, with reasonable numbers of Yellowbelly taken on live worms, while downstream has seen Cod up to 1.2m hitting surface lures and Cecil Plains and Yarramalong Weirs have fished well for Yellowbelly and Cod, with spinnerbaits and Jackals producing the most fish.

GOLD COAST AND TWEED

Offshore fishing has been good this week with plenty of Trag Jew and good numbers of small Snapper on the inner reefs and there’s still a few Kingies and Spanish Mackerel on the 24’s. Inshore fishing has seen the Southport Seaway producing plenty of School Jew and Big Eye Trevally along the north wall, on the incoming tide, plenty of Flathead throughout the system on plastics and the Pin has produced some quality Mulloway.

SUNSHINE COAST

Offshore fishing has been pretty good again; Spotty and Spanish mackerel are prominent at the moment, with trolling lures and drifting pilchards working well,some pretty good catches of Snapper in closer, while the wider reefs have produced Pearl Perch, Cobia and the odd Wahoo. Inshore, the Maroochy River has produced Bream and Trevelly around most of the bridges, Caloundra is fishing well for Bream and Whiting at Military Jetty, Bream and Gar off the Boardwalk, Flathead inside the bar entrance, while at Noosa, good numbers of Mulloway on soft plastics, just inside the river mouth, GT’s and Queenfish, early morning on surface lures and a few Jacks have been taken on live mullet at night.