Noosa Bream Fishing

[riveRecon]

This report has been a while coming…

I know the full length of the Noosa River quite well having travelled, sonared, and camped the full length from the mouth, the lakes, through to the head waters of camp 15.

My last trip camping, I decided to catch some live herring for bait. I rigged them up and threw a line out of the back of the boat to see what would happen. I berlied up with chicken pellets and dry dogfood. Then sat back to cook dinner.

I kept getting bites but no hook ups. So I tested weighted, floats, non-weighted. I tested setting the hook differently, striking right away through to longer times of just letting whatever was grabbing the bait run with the reel bail arm open.

I finally landed on a combination of hooked towards the tail, no weight, and letting the fish run for what seemed like a very long time (Maybe enough time to have a cup of tea 🤣).

I was rewarded with consistent hook ups of plus legal size bream. All returned as I already had food packed.

I was sheltered out of the wind, behind an island, over a deep hole at the north end of Lake Cooroibah on the Noosa River.

I’ve seen loads of fish in the river, from bucket loads of bread and butter fish, right through to some nice Barramundi, and the odd 5m hammerhead shark and lots of bull sharks.

Many people don’t catch fish in this river and complain it has no fish. The fish are very shy and fussy with all the congested boat traffic out there. The fish are there though if you’re willing to work hard to figure out how to catch them.

That’s my take as an accidental fishermen 🤣

[Yowie]

Bream can be fussy feeders, but will take larger baits at times. Have caught them on small baits, and just legal ones on large baits - whole pillies, big fillets. 

I would be trying for the barra. 👍 Better tasting.

[Little_Flatty]

Nice one @riveRecon.

I suspect you may have a head start on most accidental anglers because of the amount of time you have spent on the water over the years. So much of fishing is observing and noticing things in and around the water, which you have done plenty of.

[james Cutler]

Great story.

[mitchie18092]

last trip i took up there with a small travel plastics rod i managed to fair pretty well just down on the main bend of the river by the car park on hastings st.

plenty of bream, golden trevallys, giant trevallys, diamond trevallys, mangrove snapper and plenty of bream.

trick was to fish early and with silly string ~6lb leader.

so, they are there!

gotta be some jews hiding under that bridge further up hastings too...

Edited June 24 by mitchie18092

[mitchie18092]

[mitchie18092]

Some of the photos won't upload.  You get the idea though

Edited June 24 by mitchie18092