Rain turns waterways chocolate brown.

You’ll need to head towards bar entrances and fish the run-in tide if the water you were planning to fish is effected.

Over the past week whiting catches have been great provided you avoid the brown water.

In many locations, the run-in tide is producing the best catches and if the water is discoloured, yabbies are out-fishing all other baits.

There’s still plenty of tailor being caught on the beaches and in estuary waters. Top spots have been around the southern Moreton Bay islands, Pin Bar and the Southport Seaway to the Sundale Bridge to the south or Crab Island to the north.

Probably as a result of the heavy rain over the past week, there’s been a few mulloway caught.

Areas within site of the Seaway or Pin Bar have been the most productive and the change of tide has been the best time to target them.

It is well worthwhile putting pots in over the next few week as the rain has flushed out some mud crabs.

Offshore snapper and pearlies are still on the bite although fewer fish caught than than there was a month ago, but you’ll still catch a feed if you target them.

There are more pelagic fish around, small black marlin are starting to appear regularly in the wider current lines and towing lures or livies are turning up a few fish other than tuna.

If you’re offshore over the next few days look at the mouth of estuaries where the rainwater is flowing out.

There should be pelagic fish, mulloway and a few other species waiting for food on the edges of the discoloured water.

On the freshwater scene it’s been a great spring for bass and yellowbelly.

Live shrimp is the go for bait which is producing cricket score catches.

Lure anglers are doing ok by concentrating on rocky outcrops around the shorelines or finding fish on their sounder and working them with lures.

Yellowbelly are still best in the upper reaches of rivers and creeks and the recent heavy rain has fired up a few silver perch in Somerset Dam.