Fishin Report 08-09-2016

FISHING REPORT   – 08-09-2016

BASS

Bass fishing has been pretty good again this week, with Cressbrook Dam producing some smaller fish; looking around the camp ground point, out from the boat ramp and the points in the Cressbrook Creek arm are all good options, while soft plastics, tailspinners and live shrimp have been effective. Somerset has been a bit hit and miss this past week, but it’s still produced some quality fish, with Pelican Point through to Kirkleigh being the best area of the dam to target, soft plastics, tailspinners and blades have all worked well. Pretty good at Boondooma again this week; if you know your way around the dam, there are some quality fish up to 50cm getting about; plastics, blades and trolled hard bodies have worked well, while the Stuart arm, from the Junction through to the timber has been a fairly productive area. Bjelke Peterson ramped up this week, with plenty of Bass hitting blades and hard bodies, worked in 15-20ft of water throughout the dam and Moogerah has been a little slow, with most of the fish hanging around the timber,  soft plastics and live shrimp have accounted for the majority of these fish.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

Cooby Dam has produced decent numbers of Yellowbelly, the fish seem to be hanging just out from the weed edges and trolling shallow diving hard bodies or casting spinnerbaits in tight to the weed has been effective, while using bait or jigging blades in the deeper parts has produced a few fish as well. There was some decent activity in Glenlyon, Coolmunda and Leslie, after the inflows in the previous weeks, there have been reports of a few Cod and Yellowbelly hitting spinnerbaits and hard bodies at the top end of the dams, where the water has been feeding in. Glenlyon has also seen good numbers of Yellowbelly taking small, shallow diving hard bodies, worked around the newly covered banks. With the recent flows into these dams, take extra care when boating on them; there is quite a bit of debri floating around. As for the rivers, the best reports have come from the upper reaches of the Condamine, with some decent catches of Yellowbelly from Clifton through to Warwick and fishing with bait from the banks of the Dumeresq, from Texas to Yellarbon will get you a few Yellowbelly.

COASTAL FISHING

Offshore fishing has been a bit quiet at the Gold Coast, but the36’s and 50’s have produced some quality Pearl Perch, Kingies and Amberjack, while the close artificial reefs have been good for Snapper. Inshore fishing has seen Jew, Tailor and Trevally in the Seaway on the run in tide, good numbers of Flathead on soft plastics and trolled lures throughout the Broadwater and also at the Pin, quality Whiting at the Council Chambers in the Nerang River, Tailor off the beaches and a few Sand Crabs have started to show up in the southern end of the Broadwater. At the Sunny Coast, offshore fishing has produced some big Snapper on North Reef, as well as the Barwon Banks and The Hards when the weather permits a trip, some large schools of longtail tuna are getting about North Reef as well, with some yellowfin amongst them and some Parrot and Pearlies are coming from the reefs Northeast of Double Island point. Inshore fishing has seen plenty of big Whiting around the Power Boat Club, quality Flathead on soft plastics at the bar entrance, small Trevally in the Pelican Waters canals, some decent Bass in the upper reaches of the Mooloolah River; and in the Noosa River, Tailor are hitting surface poppers in Woods Bay, big Flathead and Whiting throughout, some nice Jewies to 80cm in the deeper holes and the upper reaches have seen some nice Mangrove Jack getting about.

FRASER ISLAND

There has been some quality Tailor throughout most gutters, however weed has been an issue at different times over the past week.