Flathead season is in full swing. A lot of the large breeding females are within sight of bar entrances lying on the edge of channels in the deep water in high traffic areas and moving up into the shallows in quieter creeks and bays.
Smaller pan size fish have been spread throughout all waterways especially around the mouth of smaller feeder creeks and channels.
The top spots this week have been the bank on the southern end of Cabby Passage, the banks in front of Giants Grave and in the Logan River at Ageston Sands.
Whiting catches are excellent in all waterways. The Council Chambers in the Nerang River is still a hot spot as is any river or creek system north of Runaway Bay to the Pimpama River.
At Jumpinpin the eastern end of Tiger Mullet Channel, Jacobs Well to Tippler’s Channel and the mouth of the Pimpama are all producing fish.
Ageston Sand in the Logan is another hotspot and a great sheltered option if the wind gets up.
There have been lots of smaller mulloway to 80cm caught this week from estuary waters as well as the surf. The Southport Seaway has turned up good catches as has the Kalinga Bank area and the Brisbane River.
Tailor have been hard to find this week. The hot run from the northern Gold Coast beaches has slowed up, it’s been the same story from Fraser Island to Ballina.
In their place, there have been plenty of dart and whiting caught through the day and the odd mulloway at night.
There have been plenty of tuna reported in Moreton Bay this week. Schools of longtail tuna have been popping in the northern bay but it has been very hard to get close to them.
They usually swim into the wind so getting up wind and waiting for them to come to you is a good strategy. They are feeding on very small baitfish so use small pilchards or lures to match the hatch.
Current has been an issue offshore this week, with some days getting to over three knots.
The main species being caught are small snapper but there has been a real mix of fish caught on the bottom, including pearlies, Moses perch, parrot and pigfish.
There have also been good numbers of mulloway around bar entrances.
