Local Reports

Hi Everyone, we’ve been lucky enough to have another nice week here on the Gold Coast for all our Houseboat crews enjoying time on the water during School Holidays. The Fishing has been good the past week with reports of some great catches coming in. Let’s see what’s been biting this week. Customers have reported some good catches of Bream …

Now that we are moving into the coolest part of the year, the water temperatures have really come down. This is great news for anglers on the beaches as the cooler weather species like bream are really starting to show up with good numbers of fish over the 30cm mark being taken. Just remember if you get a real big …

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 …

Hi Everyone, with the first week of School Holidays over it was great to see all the families having a great time on their Coomera Houseboat Holidays enjoying the Gold Coast waterways and catching some nice fish. It’s nice to see all the kids so keen to have a go at fishing and even better when they land a fish. …

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 …

Hi Everyone, it was nice to see our Coomera Houseboat Holidays customers enjoy another great weekend on the Gold Coast seeing plenty of sunshine and light winds. Mid-week we saw a drop in temperature and a few showers. As school holidays kick off on the Gold Coast the weekend is looking great for families heading outdoors for some fun with …

The Noosa River has again seen anglers spoilt with great catches of trevally and tailor. The predatory fish have been very active around the river mouth, Woods Bays, Munna Point and up on the first ski run chasing bait brought in on the tide. Casting slugs, soft plastics and surface lures like the Strada Tournament 80mm poppers and 95mm Bassday …

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 …

Hi Everyone, after a great weekend on the Gold Coast the cool winds have shown up this week dropping the night time temp. The cooler weather has been great for anglers chasing Tailor with reports of good numbers of fish starting to show up. Light but cool winds and no swell last Saturday was a blessing for everyone keen to …

Hi Everyone, we’ve had a pretty nice week on the Gold Coast, a bit of rain last weekend was  good for the river systems stirring the bait fish up and even getting a few good late season Mud Crabs. Some of our Houseboat customers scored a nice feed of crabs in the Coomera River.  Let’s have a look at some …