Local Reports

With a bit of weather headed our way and some significant falls in the Noosa River catchment areas we will see a real change in the river, Noosa River crabs are the first thing that springs to mind with good numbers of legal bucks taken, the deeper more saline area will be where most of the big bucks will be …

Customers have had a good week getting stuck into plenty of Prawns, Mud Crabs and a few nice Mangrove Jack on the Gold Coast this week. Let’s have a look at some options for the weekend ahead. Banana Prawns have been showing up in good numbers around Jacobs Well, Cabbage Tree Point, Power Lines, Russell Island and Karragarra this week, …

A RECENT Queensland Weekender episode ‘Broadwater fishing adventure’ featured our January cover image. On the cover of Bush ‘n Beach in January was Samantha O’Brien with a 40cm-plus whiting taken while filming the Queensland Weekender episode and fishing with Brett from Coomera Houseboat Holidays. Fishing the Pimpama River, it didn’t take long for local guru Brett to put the team onto the fish, with …

Yikes, November is all but done and dusted and Christmas is only 4 weeks away!  For some this time of the year means spending time with family and friends but for others it is all about the fishing.  Water temps have reached the mid 20’s and the whiting and jacks have certainly come out to play with a regular stream …

What a difference a good bit of weather makes to the Bundaberg area!  Last weekend was one of the first weekends in a long time that the reef boys could get out and try to target some quality reef fish.  By all reports the boats that ventured out from Burnett Heads and 1770 all caught a good feed of coral …

Though if you want to have some fun have a go chasing the whiting on surface lures, with the 65mm Fish Candy Skinny Dog producing the better numbers and the odd elbow slapper. Though the water is warm the trevally schools have be present throughout the Tewantin Ski Run and Woods Bays. Using surface lures early morning like the River2Sea …

With the wind up for most of the week, the offshore scene was pretty much shut down. A little earlier in the week some of the larger boats did manage a trip to the reefs east of Double Island producing some good snapper pearl perch and teraglin jew. Down on North Reef there are a couple of lovely dolphin fish …

Heading up towards Double Island, the reefs up there have seen some cracker pearl perch, rosie job fish and some really nice red emperor. Chardon’s Reef is starting to fire up for billfish, trolling teasers with skip baits have been worked well. In the river; whiting are still in outstanding numbers with pretty much all the lower reaches of the …

The Kolan River would probably be my pick for chasing a barra or mangrove jack this weekend.  Casting soft plastics and suspending hard body lures over rock bars and at any structure you find should trigger a strike. Once again, the small black marlin and sailfish have showed up in good numbers around the tip of Fraser Island.  We’ve heard …

This should be the perfect recipe to get the barra on the chew, as we’re predicting that there will be quite a few barra weighed in.  Most of the Tackle World Bundaberg team will be attending the weekend, so come up and say “G’day”. If you can’t make it up to Monduran this year there will be heaps of fishing …