Another day in the tropics sees us experiencing a mix of weather conditions leaving anglers small windows to get out on the water. This week dodging the rain showers and finding some sunny patches a few fishos hit the water and still managed to find some good fish.
Reef Fishing
Few anglers braved the rolling storms out at the reef and managed to find some good reef fish in between the rain showers. With some good catches fishing wonky holes and rubble patches there were some solid catches of large mouth nannygai, and coral trout amongst the reef edges and bombies.
Dodging storms and buckets of rain the boys fishing aboard Exceed Sport Fishing did some running to find some solid large mouth nannygai
Also fishing the shallow edges of the reef during a sunny patch Exceed Sportfishing found some nice trout as well
Game Fishing
Some nice Spanish mackerel were caught during a calm spot in the conditions during the week caught trolling Halco Lazer Pro lures around inshore wonky holes and wrecks.
Local angler with a solid mackerel trolled with Halco Lazer Pro lures during a quick run in between showers
Rivers, Estuaries and Beaches
The Trinity Inlet in Cairns has fished well this week with anglers hitting the water doing some skip casting. Using frogs and paddle tails right in the mangrove edges finding snags and overhangs with plenty of action from mangrove jacks and barras. With the pressure drops and raises from passing storms this often gets the fish into ambush zones and looking up for things falling in the water with the wind and rain bugs, frogs and crabs often become a menu item during these events.
Fishing the Trinity Cairns local Frank Aquilina skipping soft plastic frogs along the snags has paid off again while fishing with his mate Snowy
The said mate Snowy fishing with Frank landing a good size flathead also casting lures along the mangrove overhangs
Weekend Outlook
Due to a tropical cyclone passing the coast in the northern reaches will possibly bring storm surges and wind and rain events so may be best for anglers to just go by conditions if they say so do so. For those that do brave conditions may find barras and jacks pushing up into the swollen tops of rivers and creeks looking to find new grounds and food sources skip casting frogs and soft plastics being a lure of choice for these conditions.
Local fisho Rhyan Locke worked the edges of the mangroves skip casting soft plastics and it paid off with some quality jacks
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