Ideally protected waters at the mouth of Noosa river
Launch:
- 1:30 PM
Landed:
- 5.30 PM
Tide:
- 4:45 PM, High
Weather:
- Warm, 25 °C, 5 knot easterly
Caught:
- A couple of waves
Method:
- Trolling and casting soft plastic and metal slug and bibbed lures
I chose a nicely protected lagoon in the Noosa river for today's launch, with plans to troll my way towards the river mouth, through the heads and into the ocean. The water was much clearer than I was expecting given the previous days rain and it wasn't long before I realised that it's clarity would work against me. I don't think it helped that for the most part the tide was coming in either.
The positive flipside is that although the fish could see me just as easily as I could them, I did get a good look at many of their hang outs – especially the bream. I also spied a lot of schooling tailor as well, but was unable to spark their interest. It was uncanny... never before had I seen so many fish and caught so few of them. I didn't catch a single fish, not even one hook up.
Some of the bream I saw were really quite large, so I'll be trying my luck on those guys again soon. The surface-custing tailor were of various sizes, with some worthy specimens amongst them. I really did try pretty hard at catching both, literally throwing eveything I had at them. For the bream I jigged worms, cast minnows and trolled an sx40 hardbody for a while. For the tailor I cast various minnows and shads, a metal slug and poppers. All for naught!
Most fish were observed close to the banks some 150 – 200 meters from the Noosa river mouth... definitely a very fishy place. I'll be back... next time on an out going tide instead, and likely armed with a little more background info. If there was a highlight today, it was my kayak surfing efforts, which went both good and bad.
i had the same experience recently fishing the fresh water. could see heaps of large catfish and sooty grunter very close to the surface but even with lures a couple of inches from their nose they wouldn't have a go. very frustrating since one of the sooties was huge.
22-08-2007 10:45
forgot to mention your gear upgrade, i know bream are very popular down south but up can seen as an annoying by-catch when after "good" fish......personally bream are a C&R almost completely for me since i don't really care for their flavour, give me jack, barra, cod or flatty any day.
now that you are here in qld look at getting a cast net for livies. there are a couple of ways of throwing them but my preferred (only) method is known as the NT way (northern territory)
cheers
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