Westerlies begin | Noosa Today

By Tackle World Noosa

As the title says the westerlies have started to show up as they often do this time of year. Fortunately for us the rains have abated and this means the sea conditions will clean up with water clarity improving. This can only mean tuna time offshore and Spanish a lot closer. Westerly winds clean up the sea state and all the suspended matter should fall away.

The reef fishing is certainly improving with some solid snapper starting to show up in the 80cm range as well as tuskies and jewies. sweetlip or lipper have been on the catch list for just about everyone dropping baits and plastics on the reef. These fish range from 37-48cm and are pretty good fighters on lighter 15-20lb tackle with 16lb fluro…