Local Reports

Finally, the weather forecast for the Bundaberg area looks okay to get out and wet a line. For the offshore boys, just keep an eye on the change that is meant to come through sometime on Monday. However, with a bit of luck there might be an opportunity to get stuck into some quality reef fish over the weekend. By …

With the cooler weather we have experienced over the last week, anglers have had to dust off the old woolly jumper before heading out for a fish, the offshore gang have had a field day with light offshore winds and little swell we have seen some great fish hitting the decks. Starting at Sunshine Reef there has been a good …

With the cooler weather we should see those cooler water species really come on the bite! Snapper, tailor and large winter bream should all be firing in the later part of the week.  Offshore there have already been some great reports with good pearl perch and Snapper from the Barwon Banks with Parrot, Amberjack and Moses Perch amongst them. Pearlies …

The Noosa River has again come up with the good over the school holidays, good numbers of tailor have been taken at the top of the tide around the river mouth. The tailor will be chasing bait as it makes its way into the river, small shad style soft plastic cast out with a fast retrieve has been working when …

Earlier this week saw a small break in the weather offshore from the Bundaberg area, and a few boats managed to get out. Most caught a good feed with most of the offshore areas producing some quality reds, trout and parrot. The areas out to the Fifteen Mile produced some quality grass sweetlip, squire/snapper and a few tusk fish. There …

There are still plenty of quality bream being landed off the rocks at the river mouth and around the dog beach. Most anglers using fresh strips of mullet, whole small herring, prawns and live bloodworms. Some nice whiting as well off the dog beach on live bloodworms, with the odd flathead being caught on livies, strip baits and soft plastics. …

Well, the offshore forecast for this weekend is not looking too good for the Bundaberg area, so you’ll have to concentrate on fishing the creeks and rivers. Last weekend’s VMR Bundaberg Family Fishing Classic saw some quality fish caught with most species being in good numbers, and the good fishing still continues. Baffle Creek and the Kolan River have been …

The annual VMR Family Fishing Classic will be held over this weekend at the VMR base at Burnett Heads. This year there is over $50,000 in prizes including two boats to be won. By the number of entry forms we’ve received in store at Tackle World, it looks like there will be a record number of entries. Once again this …

This is one of the best bream seasons we have seen in a long time and the Noosa River is prime hunting ground! This time of year bream school up in big numbers, this is their spawning season and with this they are hungry and willing to take a wide variety of lures and baits. Throughout Woods Bay small soft …

During the past week the weather around the Bundaberg area has been a little up and down, but by the weekend it looks like the showers will have cleared with a fine weekend predicted. At this stage the offshore action will have to wait until the constant south-easterlies ease. Luckily enough, all the local rivers and creeks are fishing extremely …