Noosa River Fishing

[Wello-Bob]

It's been a while since I last fished the Noosa river, mostly caught whiting near the mouth of the river,

I am heading up once more for the Aussie day long weekend and wondered if anyone has had much success in the last two weeks or so.

What other fish should I try and target, and what time of day is fished best?

How have the Muddies been going, hopefully all the rain and freshwater should push them out of the creeks closer to the main river?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Robert :)

[fish2eat]

I can recall posts of jacks being caught up there in the last few weeks

Woods Bay should contain some surface action early morning and late afternoon. Check out this site for the latest fishing reports


http://www.fishingnoosa.com.au/Page01.htm


extract from last week
With the North Shore coastal beach stretch quite badly weed affected the only report of note was of Tailor (to 3kg) coming from the surf gutters at 'Freshwater'. In the river, the 'weed' was very much in evidence in the lower estuary but determined anglers found Whiting on the bite (amongst it) down at the river mouth and in the Frying Pan, where Tailor were responding to surface poppers. Trevally were quite well spread with the hot spots being the Woods Bays (along with Tailor), Munna Point, the first ski run and, as per the photo on the right, Goat Island. Joe Tierney boated this 1.2kg 'Golden' in that general area last Monday using fresh Prawn as his draw card.

[mjc85]

Yeh i have been only targeting whiting at day and caught plenty over 30cm, at night have been catching plenty of trevors and a tarpon :o on poppers and there has been a few jacks around, i only caught my first jack last night but got smoked twice by what i believe was bigger jacks and last weekend my mate got 2 small jacks and plenty of big bustoffs. The jack spots are confidential :P but the whiting were caught in the frying pan on live yabbies and the trevors in the woods bay on poppers at night.

[shut_up_and_fish]

mate i have fished up there the last three weekends putting in allniters on sat nites..........reports as follows
(all land based)
first weekend

fished mouth (all noosa side) for some small flathead with one large one lost. 1 2-3kg tailor and 1 2kg trevor and 1 5.5foot shovel.........weed was there but fishable.......once tide moved in - weed got worse so i head to munna point bridge. plenty of surface action there with both trevors and bait.........managed a queenfish hookup only to have it jump one last time near feet and throw hooks........fished remainder of the nite only getting one more gt about 1.5kg

second weekend.

fished mouth again for 3 good sized flathead (around 50cm mark). again after dark and 2 on lures...........got live mullet hammered by something big only to miss the hook and got done by something big again but believe it was due to main line knot problem...........again went to munna point after weed moved in and it was dead.

third weekend (just gone)

fished mouth again for on 45cm flathead on lure (pic on tomorrow) after dark but there was far too much weed.......went to munna point bridge where there was only bait action.........got some nice sized mullet and gar for the trips offshore and a few smallish prawns starting to school up.............

weed is the killer...............

happy hunting

[jackash]

Get some 3" Berkley Dropshot Minnows, and fish around the mouth of Weyba Creek, Munna Point and the stretch from Weyba to the Sheraton Bridge, and also woods bay, for trevs! Caught a heap alst week and had success a few weeks before that. If there is surface action use a fast retrieve near the surface, but if its slow then a moderately slow and deep retrieve. EArly mornings and late arvos! Good luck you should definitely be able to nail a few.
Cheers
Jackash