Fish tips:
 
With the current run of school jew in the river systems of the Sunshine Coast, it is well worth grabbing your rod and heading out on the water to chase them. School jew are just juvenile jew ranging between 2 and 5kg. The school jew actually congregate in small schools as their common name suggest. This allows anglers to capture them in good numbers, with hauls of 4 and 5 fish not uncommon. The tackle required to target school jew can be a lot lighter than that used for big jewies. Anglers can get away with using 6-15lb line on a lighter action rod, but will still require 15-40lb mono leader material to cope with the fish's teeth and the snaggy terrain in which the they feed. These fish still feed in all the usual jew haunts, which tend to include deep holes and channels, rocky ledges and walls, bridge pylons as well as areas that hold good numbers of bait fish. Like all jew fishing, it is best to target school jew at night, because this is when they feed the most. Tides and moon phases will affect their feeding patterns as well. I have found that one hour either side of the high and low tides are best. Several days either side of the new and full moon is a ruff guide of when to try. With the full moon phase coming up this Sunday the 17th, it will be worth gearing up for a school jew fishing session.
 
Some of the hot spots in your area include:
 
Noosa River: Noosa Sound, around Munna Bridge, Woods Bay, Weyba Creek and the Gympie Terrace stretch. The Noosa river in particular Weyba creek holds a lot of prawns that provide food for school jew. Both entrances to the canals systems are the Woods bay and Munna Point area fish well as the prawns move out of the system with the tide. Live prawns, prawn star lures and most other soft plastics prawns or shrimps work well.
 
Maroochy River: The cod hole, out from Yinni Street, the channel running under Bli Bli bridge and around the mouth of Coolum Creek. Drifting soft plastics through the deeper channels when the tide works well. The 4" powerbaits have proven particularly popular. Large live herring gar and poddy mullet are good live bait and these fish also love heaped live sands worms too.
 
Mooloolah River: The channel that runs under McKenzies Bridge, all the cannels and at the entrance to Parrearra Channel are the best. Deep water, rocky structures and the ability to hold a lot of bait that jew feed on are the key features in the Mooloolah.
 
Pummicestone Passage: The Caloundra bar, Pelican waters Canals, the channels between the mouth of Bells and Coochin creek have fished really well this year. The best bait by far has been locally caught squid about 4-6" in length.
 
Where are the fish biting?
 
Noosa: Bream, dart and whiting along Sunshine Beach. Chopper tailor along the Teewah stretch. Whiting along the coves in the National Park. Luderick up to 1.5kg around the rock wall near the river mouth and along dock beach. School jew from Munna point. Tailor and trevally in Woods Bay. Flathead from the river mouth. Mud crabs in the canals.
 
Maroochydore: Chopper tailor and bream to 30cm at dawn dusk along north shore and around the sand bags. Bream to 38cm on fresh mullet in the Pin Cushion on the morning tide. There have been quit a few big female dusky flathead caught and released this week throughout the lower reaches of the river. Trevally and cod from the motorway bridge pylons. Whiting along the twin waters stretch and at bli bli.
 
Mooloolaba:  Bream and tailor off the rock walls and off Point Cartwright. Whiting, dart and bream in the gutters along Kawana. Whiting at the entrance to Currimundi Lake.  Trevally along La Balsa Park and in the canals.
Caloundra: Snapper around Brays Rock on soft plastic. Quality Tailor along the Wurtulla stretch. Tailor, flathead and bream around the bar. Bream and bream in the blue hole. Still a few school jew in the deeper holes between Bells and Coochin Creek. Quality bream and luderick off the boardwalk. Whiting opposite golden beach.
 
 
 
'Tinny' Treloar was working some excellent surf gutters about 6km's north of Teewah over night recently, when the tailor came on the bite and in a hot couple of hours loaded up his esky with fish in the 1kg to 2kg range.

Young gun Tom Cels got good results with a Gladiator Prawn lure on Saturday, catching and releasing a 59cm trevally in the back of Noosa Sound and later in the Woods Bays, this 63cm jewfish.

 
Peter , Brian , Adrian, and Shanni had a hot session on a half day Charter aboard Laguna Charters on North Reef, boating snapper to 5kg and a coral trout.

Despite the decrease in the numbers of yellow fin bream in the river systems along the Sunshine Coast there are still a few quality fish up to 40cm in the lower reaches of the Maroochy River. Steve Muller fished the river mouth on the low tide for fish up around the 1kg mark.