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The mouth of the Noosa is always worth a hit when in flood and this last stream rise has certainly made the effort worth while. I discovered last Monday after checking the pots that didn't have any crabs in, that there were tailor and tarpon in reasonable numbers in the first gutter north of the mouth itself. Each morning and afternoon during the week delivered tailor and tarpon up to 2.5kg with a few gt and big eye trevs amongst them. Though it was difficult to get away from the big eye during one morning sess that had them boiling up all over the place and making it hard for the tailor to get to the slug first. The tarpon, which aren't a common catch from the surf were great fun with extreme acrobatics and late hits.
Everything came to a screaming halt during Thursday however, when the inevitable algal bloom changed the water colour from 'fresh' to pure brown and with no fish to be found.
Fortunately, another few inches of rain over the weekend caused another outfall of gar and poddy carrying fresh which cooled the seawater close to the mouth which kills the algae. With the water colour back to conventional flood colour, I thought another crack yesterday afternoon might be worth a go. After all, it's a bit of a drive from Teewah to the mouth to check empty pots each day without at least trying to bring back some fish instead and keep up the crab bait supply in the process.
A couple of bumps on the lure early were a little encouraging, but the sudden arrival of flocks of terns that began feeding in the river mouth itself, even more so. It is only a couple of hundred metres from the first gutter to the mouth, so I was on to it straight away and rewarded on the first cast with a tailor around 2kg. The next half a dozen retrieves through tailor feeding on the surface were equally fruitful, but with a 60 metre wade through knee deep water to the truck each time, several were released in order to find something better. A few more tailor and a gt around 2.5kg that used the outgoing current to great effect was all I could find, but a fun afternoon nevertheless.
This morning, there was no bird activity, but a few splashes in the first gutter indicated where the fish were. The first 2 retrieves found decent choppers around 50cm, but the arrival of a surfing mate that came through the gutter in his hobicat to say gday, paused proceedings for half an hour while we chatted. In the meantime the splashing had ceased and after a dozen or so unrewarded casts, I moved to the mouth to see if I could drag anything out of the calm water there. No birds or splashes were available to give away the target, but the first 2 blind casts produced a large big eye and another gt around 2.5kg. Another mate arrived for a surf which paused proceedings again which took me to a time where I needed to head back to Teewah and get some work done.
I'm not confident that much will happen this afternoon as I expect the algae to bloom again at the mouth in these sunny, warm and calm conditions and the high tide getting a little late to release cool, dirty river water to keep the algae at bay.
The attached pic is of tailor from one of last weeks afternoon sessions.
On a side note, we've had a couple of cancellations for rental houses in Teewah over Christmas. Anyone that wants to snavel these should take a look at www.teewahbeachescapes.com.au
I see 'stargazer' is now a holiday rental - spent many many evenings terrorising the locals as a young bloke there. I'd assume you'd know the ex owners who built the place?
As expected, the river mouth algaed up during the day yesterday and was lifeless. Was nearly 5.30 before the outgoing tide delivered clean (dirty) flood water to the mouth which was too late for anything to happen in daylight hours. Hot conditions and fronts coming through won't help the algae situation at all either. Is now a case of waiting for a low pressure system or cyclone to clean it up so that we can get a crack at the surf before netting blows another winter away.
Was under the impression that the current owners built Stargazer GBC - but only met them about 10 years ago so could well be wrong on that.
Went down to have a look at the mouth with the new fesh now coming out. Few birds working and managed 5 gt around 2kg each and a couple of tailor the same weight. With more rain forecast, this could keep going for a while yet.
Another exhausting sess at the mouth - brought home 4 gt all around a couple of kilo and 3 nice tailor between 2 and 3kg. Threw back quite a few and dropped a few. Between 3 of us, I'd say around 30 gt hit the beach which is a large number for this species around here. Was pretty well a case of slowing the retrieve for a trev or a quick retrieve would find a tailor. Bring on more rain!
More fun at the mouth - was tailor and trevs on the chew when I arrived this afternoon just after low tide and with terns working in close. More tailor than trevs today with the tailor probably still going nuts down there. Left after a sequence of 2 - 3kg tailor and the Spinfisher badly in need of a service which made for hard work with the sw breeze helping long casting.
Don't think it'd matter what I put in the pots atm sandbankmagnet, the crabs just aren't there. Actually pulled them out this morning so that they don't disappear over the holidays. But, yes the big eye's do chew ok, though I prefer tailor and gt.
Things were a bit slower yesterday afternoon and the tailor quality dropped right away to choppers around 40cm only. There were still a few gt around the 2kg mark and a few smaller versions as well. Went down this morning for a last run before the crowds arrive and found just one chopper which I dropped.
I've been reading your post and very interesting. As yet, I still have not tested those slider lures you sent me some time ago but I'm keen to have a go at them.
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