Lake Monduran
Monduran has produced another week of good fishing with plenty of barra hooked and landed.
With the full moon tomorrow the go to time to be on the dam has been at night.
Hardbody lures like the Jackall Squirrel 79sp’s and the 115’s along with the Samaki Redic DS80’s have been the standouts.
Those with live scope sonar have managed to out-fish those without it by pin pointing exactly where these barra are and getting the lure on their nose.
Fishing in the main river bed but targeting fish sitting in the top 1-4m of water has been working best for those with live sonar.
Plenty of fish have been up in the North arm of B but the Main Basin and Bird Bay also have a fair share of fish in them.
Remember to take note of the major and minor bite times, the moon rise, above and set along with the Kolan River tide changes can all be a cracking window of opportunity to land one of these Lake Monduran giants!
Inshore/Offshore
Last Saturday hosted some light Westerly winds early in the morning and we saw boats head out and fish our inshore ground with great results.
The school mackerel were thick around the 2 Mile and Ryan’s Patch off Burnett Heads with these guys loving a Flasha spoon ripped off the bottom.
We also saw plenty of trevally and queenfish particularly south off Elliott Heads.
Fishing the rocky coastline with soft plastics, vibes or topwater lures during the early hours is a great way to target these species.
Reports of nice grunter and grass sweetlip being caught on squid and mullet fillet kept a few anglers entertained whilst fishing the Artificial off Elliott Heads too.
Fingers crossed we get another weather window soon, one that enables us to head out wide!
Burnett River
The Burnett has produced some great flats fishing over the last week for our bread and butter species.
Those being the bream, whiting, flathead and even some nice sized grunter.
These fish all love fresh yabbies or small hardbody lures slowly wound off the flat imitating a fleeing yabbie or small baitfish.
The deeper holes towards the mouth of the system have also continued to find a lot of the bigger flathead and grunter in them during the run out tide with soft vibes being the standout lures to throw at them.
Some nice jack are still being caught however the bigger models have definitely been harder to find.
Snag bashing with hardbody lures has worked well but a live bait sent deep into the big lay downs is hard to beat at the moment.
With the full moon tomorrow night we have been seeing the mud crabs come on the move, so now is a great time to put the pots in.
Some good numbers of prawns are still being found, throwing for these during the bottom of the tide is always your best chance at getting a feed.
Kolan River
The Kolan is fishing well with numerous of the shallow flats and drop offs throughout this system holding some quality fish.
We have seen fresh yabbies doing the trick on the sand flats on species like flathead, bream, whiting, and big grunter!
The incoming tide has been the prime time to target these fish so this weekend is looking like a great opportunity to target them early in the morning.
Flicking small soft plastics and hardbodies has also paid off big time on these fish, in particular the flathead have been loving a shallow diving hardbody.
The mouth of the river has seen good numbers of queenfish and numerous types of trevally on the move as they follow schools of bait being pushed up river.
Twitching soft plastics around structure that is getting hit with current has been the most effective way to target these pelagic fish.
If bait fishing is more your thing anchor up current of the structure you want to fish and float out a whole unweighted sprat.
Plenty of prawns and crabs are around at the moment in this system.
The shallow mud flats have had the better numbers of the prawns and if you are into crabbing pushing up the creeks has seen best results.
Elliott River
The Elliott has been fishing red hot which certainly isn’t uncommon for this time of year as we usually do see this system fire during the transitional period between summer and winter.
The mouth of the river has still had plenty of pelagic fish around with trevally and queenfish hammering baitfish during all parts of the tide.
Topwater lures have been extremely effective on these pelagic fish during early mornings or late afternoons.
The sand flats and sandy drop offs throughout this system have produced nice numbers of flathead for the lure fishos.
3 to 4 inch paddle tail soft plastics in natural colours have been the standout presentation to be using.
Fishing the deeper areas up river during the run out tide has continued to be a good technique with cod, grunter and even some quality jack caught on mullet fillet, whole sprat and live baits.
Plenty of barra are showing themselves on the trusty side scan but getting these fish to bite in the clear water has been difficult.
A live poddy mullet is going to be your best bet when targeting these fish.
Similar to our other local systems the Elliott has been producing some quality bucks so this weekend should be a good time to put the pots in!
Baffle Creek
The Baffle has had a solid week of fishing especially for those fishing the sand flats and yabbie banks for species like bream, whiting, flathead and grunter.
Pumping yabbies at low tide and fishing the incoming tide has been a great way to target these fish.
If you are into lure fishing small topwater lures cast across the sand flats have had great success on the bream and whiting however the grunter and flathead have taken a liking to soft vibes or soft plastics hopped along the bottom.
Some nice jacks are still being caught despite the South Easterly winds, fishing into the night with live baits has seen some absolute brutes being caught on the rock bars in this system.
The barra have been quiet this week with anglers targeting these fish struggling to find good numbers of them.
Looking around the usual rock bars throughout this system and the structures towards the mouth of the river has seen some barra holding to them.
If you do manage to find these barra live baits are probably going to be your best chance at getting one to bite, but for the lure fishos a prawn imitation lure is hard to beat.
The mud crabs have also been on the move this week with the increasing tides, venturing up the creeks has paid off.
Lake Gregory
Lake Gregory is having a good week of fishing!
The bass are super healthy and feeding well at the moment which is proving to be great fun for most people fishing the lake.
Fishing the edges has still been really effective and slow rolled soft plastics as always are a great way to cover ground and get a bite from these bass.
If this isn’t working sometimes twitching a hardbody lure along the weed will get a reaction bite.
Fishing the schools of fish sitting in the deeper water has seen some quality fish caught however these fish can be tough to get to bite.
With the water still quite dirty fishing blades and vibes in dark colours has got the best results.
From the team at Tackle World Bundaberg.
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