Cressbrook fishing well but patience gets best results
CRESSBROOK DAM
CRESSBROOK has continued to produce some quality fishing over the first week of school holidays although the extra attention has limited the bite times a little.
While locating the school is first priority not always will they bite straight away. The old saying don’t leave fish to find fish couldn’t be truer as most likely if the fish you are on aren’t biting the other fish aren’t.
Sit on them and give them time. There are good sporadic bite periods where the fish come on and you will want to be near a school when this comes.
The most productive lures have been spoons and tailspinners while live bait has also worked well.
COOBY DAM
SOME good numbers of yellowbelly have been taken this week along with some smaller-size cod around the 55-centimetre mark.
The yellowbelly have been mostly caught jigging ZX Blades and on saltwater yabbies. Bigger yellows and cod have come trolling deep diving lures out from the rocky walls and through the middle of the lake.
SOMERSET DAM
SOMERSET is still the place
to go with lots a big bass on the bite in the schools.
The added boat pressure from the holidays has definitely slowed the fishing but there is still some good bass to be caught.
Best locations are wide off Pelican Point in around 70 feet of water and out off the spit in about 55 feet of water.
Most bass are suspended up off the bottom so sinking a lure down and slow rolling it back up through the school is the best option.
For the bait anglers, live baits are best and fishing a drop shot rig or not letting your bait all the way to the bottom is the best bet.
B-PETERSEN DAM
BP HAS been one of our most productive lakes over the past 12 months with some sort of bite happening all the time, whether it be on the edges or out in the deep.
With the warmer weather around and the water temperature rising the fish have again moved off the edges on to the deeper flats.
Large areas of around 30 feet of water are holding good schools of both bass and yellowbelly and they are holding tight to the bottom so sinking lures like ice jigs, tailspinners and spoons have all worked well at BP lately.
For the bait anglers both live shrimp and saltwater yabbies have had success.
LESLIE DAM
LESLIE has been a little tough over past weeks.
There have been plenty of smaller fish caught around the edges and in the shallower water but the bigger fish have been few and far between.
The odd small cod has also been caught trolling deep in the creek bed while most better catches have been reported around rocky areas. Bait of choice is saltwater yabbies for the land based anglers.
GOLD COAST
INSHORE, all the excitement has been with the flathead fishing trolling hard-body lures around Crab Island and shallow parts of the Broadwater up into the Jumpinpin region has produced quality flathead with a good by-catch of squire, especially in the northern reaches of the Pin.
Offshore has continued to produce some nice snapper and parrot fish on the close in reefs while the water temperature is rapidly rising it won’t be long before we start to see some summer species moving through.