FISHING REPORT   – 18-06-2015

Overall, the fishing in our area has been a bit patchy; however most impoundments and local rivers have produced low numbers, with the odd dam going a little better than the others.

BASS

Jake Newmarch landed this quality Murray Cod
last weekend, while fishing the Severn River.

Not a lot has changed at Cressbrook Dam this week, it has produced a few Bass again, it’s still worth a look along the buoy line and out from Deer Island, in the main basin, and from Eagles Nest through to the buoy line, in the Cressbrook Creek arm, soft plastics and blades will give you the best chance of landing a fish, while live shrimp have again worked well for the bait anglers. Somerset is still pretty ordinary at the moment, again, the best option would be looking in and around the timber at Kirkleigh, and using live shrimp should give the best results. Not a lot has changed at Boondooma Dam either this week, with Bass taking soft plastics, Blades and soft vibes around the junction and Pelican Point, while bait has been the best option in the timbered areas of both arms. At Bjelke Peterson, the bass have again been a little harder to catch, with live bait only accounting for a few fish around structure and Moogerah was a little quieter this week, however, there were still pretty good numbers of Bass landed throughout the dam, using soft plastics, soft vibes and ice jigs in 25-35ft of water produced the best results.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

Only low numbers of fish caught in Cooby this week, using bait or working diving hard bodies and blades fairly tight to the weed edges has worked the best. Glenlyon has gone quiet this week, with only the odd Yellowbelly taking frozen saltwater yabbies, while the Cod have been extremely quiet. Coolmunda Dam has seen a few Yellowbelly caught again this week, frozen saltwater yabbies and live worms have produced the most fish, while working along the wall and also around the timber have been the best spots to target, there were also a couple of Cod taken on trolled hard bodies. Fishing has been a bit better at Leslie over the past week; most of the Yellowbelly were landed in the main basin with frozen shrimp and saltwater yabbies working the best for the bait anglers, while the lure anglers had success on blades and soft vibes, worked tight to the bottom. The soft vibes also accounted for a couple of legal sized Cod, with several smaller Cod landed as well. Boondooma fished a bit harder for Yellowbelly, with the Boyne arm only producing small numbers on live bait, while at Bjelke Peterson, live bait picked up the majority of fish, however, running deep diving hard bodies so they were bumping the bottom or jigging blades picked up the odd one as well. As for the rivers, the Macintyre at Goondiwindi saw a few Yellowbelly taken on bait and the Dumeresq at Texas has seen Cod hitting surface lures and bigger spinnerbaits downstream of the township, and locally, the Condamine has produced decent numbers of Yellowbelly and Cod at the weirs and popular holes, upstream of Cecil Plains, with spinnerbaits, hard bodies and live bait all working well.

COASTAL FISHING

It’s been a bit windy again this past week, but offshore fishing at the Gold Coast has seen a bit of action, with the 36’s and 50’s producing a few Snapper and Amberjack. Inshore fishing has seen the Southport Seaway producing plenty of Bream, Whiting out from the Council Chambers in the Nerang River; plenty of Flathead on bait and soft plastics at the pin and the Aldershots and plenty of Tailor on the incoming tide, at the Jumpinpin bar entrance. As for the Sunny Coast, offshore fishing has been pretty good again; Currumundi, 12 Mile and North Reefs have all produced Snapper, Cobia, Red Throat Sweetlip and the odd Kingy, while inshore fishing has seen the Maroochy River producing Bream and Flathead on soft plastics throughout, Caloundra is fishing well for Bream off the Boardwalk, Flathead throughout Bells Creek and at the bar entrance,  while at Noosa, Jewies at night along the rock walls, Flathead and Bream throughout the system and Golden Trevally and Tailor at the river mouth.