BUNDABERG OFFSHORE The offshore forecast for the Bundaberg area for the weekend isn’t looking the best, although it looks like there might be a couple small windows.  Early morning Saturday and late Sunday afternoon are looking the best.  There’s been awesome numbers of cobia, snapper, and bar-cheeked trout caught offshore over the last couple weeks, so fingers crossed we can …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE For the first time in ages the offshore forecast for the Bundaberg area was pretty good last weekend. It was great to see so many larger boats get a chance to head offshore. By all reports most boats managed to land a quality mixed bag of reef fish, including coral trout, red emperor, parrot, grass sweetlip, hussar and …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE With the offshore forecast for the Bundaberg area not looking too flash for the weekend, it may be time to do some boat/trailer maintenance. If you were one of the fortunate ones who got offshore during the week, you would have done well. Good tides made for great fishing and plenty of quality fish were caught. Red emperor, …

VMR FAMILY FISHING CLASSIC How good was last weekend’s VMR Family Fishing Classic?  It was fantastic to see that the number of nominations was more than last year’s event.  Even though the weather was a little bit ordinary, keen anglers still managed to weigh in some quality fish from both the estuaries and the blue water.   With the amount of …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE With the winds around the Bundaberg area being a little bit too strong for fishing well offshore, most of the fishing options have been coastal and out to the inner reefs.  The Cochrane Artificial Reef and the Two-Mile Reef both produced a few school mackerel, trevally, grass sweetlip and grunter.  There has been a few schools of mac …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Last weekend quite a few anglers took advantage of the good conditions and by all reports the boats that headed out wide were very well rewarded.  Big coral trout, red emperor, sweetlip and cod were common catches.  Other catches included dolphin fish, spanish mackerel and black king (cobia) taken by floating either live or dead baits out behind …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE How awesome was the offshore weather around the Bundaberg region during this past week?  This did allow plenty of boats to head well offshore, and everywhere from the gutter, to the islands and out to the shelf all fished really well.  Most of the gutters produced some quality parrot, grass sweetlip, cod and the odd trout.  Out around …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Well the cooler weather has definitely hit the Bundaberg region this past week, and it’s looking like the south-easterlies should ease just in time to wet a line this weekend.  Quite a few boats opted to head offshore last weekend and were rewarded with some top catches.  Plenty of coral trout, big red emperor, sweetlip, hussar and parrot …

A few blue salmon, tarpon and queenfish have showed up in the Town Reach.  Whilst it is early in the season, it’s great fun to target these hard-fighting sports fish.  Once again, there’s been some good mud crabs and prawns in the deeper holes in the Burnett. BAFFLE CREEK AND THE KOLAN RIVER Both of these systems are fishing extremely …

There is still plenty to be caught in this system with big numbers of bream getting about.  Most of the bream have been caught by using chicken breast as bait.  There is still plenty of whiting, flathead and sicklefish about on the sand flats, and this should only get better leading into the full moon.  The mid reaches of the …