Junior rugby league sock it to cancer Hot fishing on offer

THE TEAM from FREEDOM FISHING SUPPLIES numbers. Trolling medium diving lures in the channel between Dream Island and Fig Tree has produced not only tailor, but also mackerel, tea leaf trevally and long tail tuna.

WHAT an amazing fortnight of beautiful weather we have just had, and to top it off, the moon and tides where in alignment and the fishing was red hot.

Let’s check out what’s being caught around the Fraser Coast.

The southern and northern gutters as well as Rooney’s reef have had an anglers filling the ice boxes with a mixed bag of coral trout, scarlet sea perch, grassy sweet lip, blackall and hussar while the 25 Fathom Hole and the Arch Cliffs have had our fisho’s chasing snapper on the drop and pelagic’s on the surface with numerous reports of cobia, spanish mackerel, g’t’s and golden’s and long tail tuna.

Fishing the sand flats on the making tide has produced some beautiful summer whiting and flathead and the winter whiting are in good numbers between Reef Island and Tinnanbar with the average size at 23cm.

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RUGBY LEAGUE: For the third season in a row, the Maryborough Brothers Junior Rugby League club held their pink sock day to raise funds for cancer awareness.

The Rugby League Fraser Coast clubs came together to support the initiative, with the clubs and teams donning pink socks as part of their uniforms.

“We are donating the funds to The Brave Hen. We have a raffle at the gate, and the proceeds from the socks will also go towards it,” Brothers club secretary Kase Beasley said.

Last year the club raised over $1400, believing they will beat that total this year.

“We believe that this type of activity is important because it gets the community involved and also works as an icebreaker between the rugby league clubs,” she said.

The players were getting involved, and team officials also joined in.

“It is great that all of the clubs have got involved because usually, we all work in our own little bubbles,”

The total amount raised by the Maryborough Brothers Junior Rugby League club for the day was not known at the time of going to print.

Heading out in Hervey Bay Waters and fishing the inshore reefs such as Mickey’s, Moon Ledge and Sammy’s has had great results, black spot venus tusk fish were still on the bite as well as blackall, moses perch, hussar, grassy sweet lip and estuary cod.

Snapper up to 6k have been reported in numbers from fishing the artificial reef at night either side of the last hour of the making or the dropping tide.

A little closer inshore fishing the coffee rock and gravel patches around Wathumba has also produced snapper up to 6kg along with a mixed bag of reef fish including grassy sweet lip, estuary cod and blackall.

If you’re looking to stay a bit closer to home and still get onto some fish, the Mary River is the place to be with threadfin and blue salmon still on the chew, as well as large mulloway, grunter, black and silver bream and flathead.

The Sandy Strait has been fishing well over the past couple of weeks with reports of quality tailor in

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Winter whiting are also in good numbers out from Toogoom and Point Vernon.

If you’re chasing a nice feed of fresh calamari and are happy to brave the chilly waters at night, large tiger squid up to 2.5k have been coming into the shallows around Poona on high tide.

All you need is a good headlamp, a hand spear and a good aim.

And if you don’t fancy getting wet, drifting the channel between Poona Point and Tinnanbah using 2.5 to 3.0mm squid jigs in either pink or orange has also had great results.

Karen and Helen had a great weekend out in the Strait, Karen landed a nice cod and Helen is showing off one of their mud crabs. John had an awesome day out with dad, landing this 1.5kg flathead. Fischer is all smiles after landing this golden trevally and Stewart has landed some great fish including this Spanish mackerel