Sharks eating well

as the 25 Fathom Hole and back to Rooney’s Point.

THE TEAM from FREEDOM FISHING SUPPLIES

IT WAS great to see some nice breaks in the weather over the past fortnight, and while a lot of anglers took advantage of the light winds and headed out wide, our sports fisho’s took up on the inside of Fraser Island to chase the long tail tuna and our estuary anglers took to the shallows with soft plastic and hard bodied lures.

Let’s look at the report. We were lucky enough to get some perfect conditions to head over the wide bay bar this fortnight and fisho’s were not disappointed, with a mixed catch of snapper, red throat, grassy sweetlip and pearl perch filling the eskies.

High on the topic of conversation is the amount of pelagic action throughout Hervey Bay waters with reports from the Arch Cliffs as far out

Long tail and mack tuna along with spanish, grey and school mackerel have been taking small to medium metal slugs on the cast.

And all that surface action has not gone unnoticed, with the number of sharks increasing as well.

Anglers are averaging 1 out of 9 fish back to the boat.

Tusk fish, grassy sweetlip, spangled emperor and coral trout along with estuary cod and reef jack were on the bite at the Southern Gutters, the Lightship and Rooney’s had snapper up to 6 kilos landed at Wathumba, 25 Fathom Hole and the Arch Cliffs with gar or winter whiting as the preferred bait.

The artificial reef has been producing black spot tusk fish and the odd coral trout, along with estuary cod, blackall and grassy sweetlip and Gatakers Bay has produced a few coral trout on lures around the rocks.

Mckenzie’s, Sammie’s

THIS WEEK'S BRAG BOARD and the artificial reef are loaded with estuary cod, blackall, grassy sweetlip and mosses perch.

The Sandy Strait is fishing extremely well at moment with quality summer whiting working the sand flats on the making tide and in the gutters at low tide, and the mud crabs are still in numbers with a few quality sand crabs been caught as well.

Fig Tree has seen some large threadfin salmon and barramundi landed on the top of the ledge at high tide and the gutter between the reef islands is fishing very well for flathead.

The winter whiting are also on the bite and in numbers with the best locations from the reef Islands to Tinnanbah in the Sandy Strait, Gatakers Bay, and Toogoom to Woodgate, however, be aware that there is a lot of gold line or Tin Can Bay whiting in amongst them and they have a size limit of 23cm.

The mighty Mary continues to produce the goods with quality threadfin salmon, grunter, black and silver bream.

Charlie was very happy with his catch, his black bream went .702kg. Melissa had a great night on the boat. Her biggest mangrove jack weighed in at 1.5kg. Jim and his lucky crocs landed this 9.3 kg threadfin, beautiful fish. Lastly, we have the gorgeous Wroe family with their nice catch of summer whiting

BRENDAN BOWERS

GYMNASTICS: Family and friends gathered at Maryborough Gymsports on Saturday to watch competitors practice for upcoming gymnastics competitions as they completed their annual showcase.

This was the third and biggest showcase the club had held to date, with competitors performing over seven disciplines, including Acrobatics,

Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline Sports (including tumbling) and Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

“Showcase is a practice competition that allows the athletes to compete in a familiar environment and perform in front of their nearest and dearest, as most of the time, the extended family cannot attend the away competitions, which often require extensive travel”

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coach Kelsey Connell said. The day also allowed the club judges to hone their skills.

Feedback received from the judges will be important for the athletes as they prepare for upcoming competitions, including state and national events.

It was a fun and encouraging way for the athletes and coaches to put their many hours of training into practise.