Local Reports

The majority of boats stayed in closer due to winds or tide heights dictating return times home over the Noosa Bar during the week. Those who did manage to go wide to Double Island were treated to a mixed bag of snapper, tusk fish, jewfish, amberjack, moses perch, coral bream and spangled emperor to name a few as we move …

With the Davos social competition finishing last Sunday, anglers from all over the coast submitted photos of some cracking fish. With the comp running over 2 days the species must have list included Flathead, Tailor, Trevally and Bream. With the biggest flathead measuring 75cm it shows there are bigger fish about, especially around Munna Point and the sandbags. To tempt …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Unfortunately, the offshore forecast is very unstable at this point in time.  It will be a matter of checking the updated forecast and then call it on Friday afternoon.  With the small tides this weekend the deep should be firing.  The numbers of cobia, reds, snapper and trout have been unreal.  The standout baits have been pilchards for …

Hi Everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week, the weather has been a bit up and down with the warmer N/NW winds kicking in making the Fishing a bit harder at times and warming up the winter days quite considerably for this time of year.  Let’s see what been biting. Flathead have been dominating catches again this week for …

Hi Everyone, it’s great to see the nice weather hanging around with warm Gold Coast Winter days on offer last weekend. The temp cooled down a bit during the week but the fishing has been hot with some great catches coming in. Let’s have a look at some options for the weekend. Coomera Bait and Tackle customer and regular contributor …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Luckily the forecast did live up to expectations last weekend, and it was fantastic to see so many boats making the most of the magic conditions fishing offshore from Bundaberg.  The boats that did the miles definitely got the smiles with anglers landing some top quality reef fish including some big coral trout, red emperor, red throat sweetlip …

With the run of sensational weather continuing, the boat ramps have been full and the land-based Sunshine Coast anglers have been out and about catching a good feed. The river mouth has been producing some great catches of whiting in the mid 30cm range. To target these fish it is best to find a deeper gutter and fish with a …

In the run up to a blood moon the big tides saw the fish feeding well early in the week with the afternoon the better time to fish toward the weekend. In the river smaller flathead have been caught around the river mouth and the gutters to the Noosa side (south side) of the main channel. Light leaders and small …

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE Finally, the stable winter patterns have arrived for the Bundaberg area and it’s looking like another reasonable forecast for an offshore run.  If the fishing remains as good as it has been, it will be another cracking weekend!  Areas such as the gutters have been producing some big coral trout, mainly on live baits.  There is also plenty …

Hi Everyone, how good is the winter weather on the Gold Coast? It’s probably been the best run of great fishing conditions we have seen for a while.  Our Coomera Houseboat Holidays customers have been spoilt with fantastic winter days and great fishing.  Let’s see what’s been biting Coomera Bait and Tackle customers have reported some great catches of Tailor …