Local Reports

Burnett fishing fantastic during school hols

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 …

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Families enjoy snapper, jewfish and more on Gold Coast

families bream 41cm

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. …

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Fishing options around Bundaberg

fishing options bundaberg black jewfish

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 …

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Get kids into fishing with Coomera Houseboat Holidays

kids fishing coomera

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 …

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Noosa River anglers spoilt for choice

anglers spoilt noosa

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 …

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Anglers well rewarded off Bundaberg

grunter well rewarded

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 …

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Cool winds, hot fishing on Gold Coast

cool winds gold coast

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 …

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Jewfish and flathead very active on Gold Coast

jewfish very active

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 …

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Offshore fishing awesome out of Bundaberg

BUNDABERG OFFSHORE How awesome was the offshore weather around the Bundaberg region during this past week?  This did allow plenty of boats to head well offshore, and everywhere from the gutter, to the islands and out to the shelf all fished really well.  Most of the gutters produced some quality parrot, grass sweetlip, cod and the odd trout.  Out around …

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Conditions improve offshore on Sunshine Coast

conditions improve offshore

In the river the bream are in great numbers. Larger fish have been taken around the river mouth and the Noosa Sound as well a good sized fish right the way along Gympie Terrace and the Tewantin Area. A great option is to fish unweighted soft plastics, cast to the edge of the shadow line of pontoons and jetties these …

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