Local Reports

Fishing conditions on the Sunshine Coast have been favorable over the last week, with warm weather and light winds resulting in some great catches. The coming weekend sees a high moving into the Tasman Sea from tomorrow, resulting in winds turning southeasterly over the weekend. Conditions should be prime prior to the southeasterly change on Saturday, with north to northwesterly …

The arrival of March brings with it gusty wind to the Sunshine Coast, making fishing conditions more challenging. However, as the weather begins to cool down, the fishing heats up – making it an excellent time to hit the water and cast a line. Anglers should note that the spanish mackerel closure – which began in the first week of …

Inshore/Offshore fishing Inshore has been fishing red hot!! With the weather starting to cool off in the mornings and evenings the bigger grunter are chewing! Most of these grunter are being caught on 20gram soft vibes and if you’re bait fishing fresh prawns are the go. There has also been a few quality snapper showing up inshore around the Elliott …

Inshore/Offshore fishing With these slightly cooler mornings the snapper are starting to show up along with some solid grunter around the inshore reefs and rocky coastlines. Some good spots to look for grunter is the artificial off Elliott Heads, along the rocks off Elliott Heads and off the north wall at Burnett Heads for the land based fishos. There has …

Inshore/Offshore fishing The inshore reefs have been fishing well with plenty of quality sized grunter being caught on 5inch jerk shads rigged on a 1/2oz 5/0 jig head. 20gram soft vibes like the Samaki Vibelicious have also worked a treat! If bait fishing is more your thing try using fresh prawns and squid with also a few small snapper showing …

Inshore/Offshore fishing The inshore reefs have been firing! Plenty of schoolie mackerel, tuna and grunter have been getting caught. The schoolie mackerel have been smashing Flasha spoons and whole pilchards. The tuna have been eating on very small slugs and soft plastic’s fast retrieved through bait schools. The grunter have been biting on 20g soft vibes and 5” soft plastic’s but …

Inshore/Offshore fishing Unfortunately with this tropical low or possible cyclone coming down the coast we have not had very favourable conditions for anglers to head out this week. Off the back of these tropical low’s we usually see a small window of good weather and this could possibly be Saturday or Sunday this weekend. Keep an eye on the weather forecast …

Inshore/Offshore fishing The inshore reefs have been fishing really well over the past week! The schoolie mackerel and grunter have been the biggest standouts. By far the most effective technique with catching schoolies has been fast retrieving 50g flasha spoons vertically off the bottom. If you’re more into bait fishing pilchards are a killer bait for them, slowly floating a …

Inshore/Offshore fishing The inshore reefs have been on fire lately! Plenty of school and spanish mackerel have been caught while fishing, using a few different techniques including fast retrieving spoons, lightly weighted pilchards and trolling gar for the spanish mackerel. Any of these techniques used around the Leads at Burnett Heads or around any big bommies and wrecks throughout out …

Inshore/Offshore fishing With 1-1.5 meter seas predicted for this weekend due to a tropical low out in the pacific the weather is certainly not ideal for the Inshore and Offshore enthusiasts. Those anglers who have managed to head out to our inshore reefs over the last week have given us great reports of mackerel, both spanish and schoolie as well as …