Local Reports

Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a good week, stinking hot conditions over the past weekend on the Tweed and Gold Coast best suited getting out on the water to try and score a bit of a sea breeze and try your luck at catching a fish. It looks like we are in for a change of conditions with …

Good numbers of whiting are moving along the beaches with some good schools being spotted at Sunrise and Sunshine Beach and caught on cured or live worms. Tailor have been caught on sunset and after dark at the third cutting and up at Double Island point on the Northshore beach along with the start of our annual dart run. Small …

BUNDABERG INSHORE There has been some good numbers of school mackerel being caught at and around the local reefs out from Bundaberg by trolling well rigged baits. Flasha lures and metal slugs retrieved quickly back to the boat have been doing the damage. Regarding the weather, there are a few short windows open on Friday and Saturday morning but be …

Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a good week, some fantastic weather again last weekend with light winds and small swell making conditions for heading offshore great last Saturday. We have had a bit of wind during the week and some extremely hot days which should help fire up the local Mangrove Jack populations into feeding on the Gold …

As the winds dropped the boat ramps were pretty much full mid week and quite rightly so. The Noosa bar has been a bit easier to cross and there have been some great weather windows for all. Out wide North reef has been holding medium sized jewfish over the meter mark. These fish will take a wide range of lures …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE With the full moon occurring this coming Monday, the fish out at the reefs off Bundaberg should be chewing this weekend.  With the bigger tides in the mornings I’d be chasing the shallower fish such as coral trout and red throat emperor, then fishing for red emperor and other deeper species in the afternoons.  Using pilchards and 5” …

Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a good week, the weather certainly turned it on last weekend with close to perfect conditions last Saturday for fishing, even Sunday was still nice as well. Very similar conditions during this week as last week with a hot strong Northerly wind followed by a Southerly change and a chance of a storm …

Offshore has been a mixed bag of success this week as the winds persist and the swell has been up on the Noosa Bar. The estuaries have also seen a change following the previous weeks rain and even the freshwater is warming up. Starting offshore there was a weather window for bigger boats on Thursday which saw boat ramps chokka …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Running true to form, the Bundaberg area had good weather during the reef closure last weekend and now that it’s all open again, we are back to ‘normal’. This weekend’s forecast is not looking too bad with 10-15 knot east /south-easterly winds predicted. As always, check your local weather forecast prior to heading out.  BUNDABERG INSHORE At this …

Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a good week, after an extra warm weekend followed by some stronger Southerly Winds on the Gold and Tweed Coast the good news is the weekend is looking fantastic. Light winds and small swell on the way giving us some great fishing conditions. Let’s see what’s been on the bite. Locals have reported …