FISHING REPORT   – 22-09-2016

BASS

Cressbrook Dam produced low numbers this past week, but there were some good quality fish landed. Working soft plastics through suspended fish in 40ft of water produced the best results. Somerset Dam saw reasonable numbers of Bass caught again this week, with soft plastics, tailspinners and metal slugs working the best; The Spit and Pelican Point through to Kirkleigh have all been productive areas to target. Boondooma has again seen some decent Bass getting about throughout the dam, mask vibes, tailspinners and soft plastics are working well on the flats, trolled hard bodies are accounting for a few through the Stuart and Boyne arms and using spinnerbaits around the timbered parts has been effective as well and Bjelke Peterson has really fired this week as well, targeting the gently sloping banks throughout the dam, with suspending minnows, TN60 Jackalls and compact spinnerbaits has produced plenty of fish. Moogerah Dam has seen slow rolled soft plastics picking up good numbers of fish, working in 28-35ft of water, throughout the main basin has been effective.

YELLOWBELLY AND COD

The southern dams have received another top-up this week, as of Thursday afternoon; Leslie was sitting at 29%, Glenlyon was 58% and Coolmunda had reached 99%. Pindari is just over 100%, while Copeton had risen to 50%.
Cooby Dam has produced some good quality Yellowbelly again this week, the fish are hanging just out from the weed edges and trolling shallow diving hard bodies in tight to the weed has been effective, while frozen saltwater yabbies and jigged blades have been effective in the deeper parts of the dam. There was some decent activity in Leslie, after the inflows this week, there have been reports of a few Yellowbelly hitting spinnerbaits and hard bodies at the top end of the dam, where the water has been feeding in. Glenlyon has again seen good numbers of Yellowbelly taking small, shallow diving hard bodies, worked over the top of the newly covered banks. Not much to report from the rivers at the moment, due to the rise in water levels.

COASTAL FISHING

Offshore fishing at the Gold Coast has seen a few Cobia on the Artificial Reef, north of the Seaway, and a few Snapper and Pearl Perch on the northern 50’s. Inshore fishing has been good for Flathead and Mulloway on plastics and live bait, in the Seaway, off Crab Island and around the Pin, the odd Kingy at the pipeline on the run out tide; good numbers of Whiting in the Nerang River and a few Sand Crabs around the Southern end of the Broadwater. At the Sunny Coast, the inner reefs have produced Snapper, Sweetlip and Pearl Perch, the Barwon Banks and North Reef have produced Cobia, Yellowtail Kingfish, Snapper, Dolphin Fish and Wahoo while inshore fishing has seen plenty of Whiting around the Power Boat Club on Yabbies, Bream, Whiting and Flathead of the Boardwalk, Flathead and Jacks in the Mooloolah River, Whiting and Dart off most beaches and in the Noosa River, plenty of good size Whiting and Flathead throughout the system.

FRASER ISLAND

Fishing on Fraser has been fairly good over the last week, north of Happy Valley has been popular, with the average size of the Tailor getting up around the 55cm mark.