Local Reports

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 …

Over the last few days the increase in Cobia caught has been quite significant as the average weight being around 5-12kg. Slow jigging, livies and floating Pillies have worked wonders. While white soft plastics working well across most species last week. CORAL reef fin fish will be off limits from this Saturday, October 10 as part of the first of …

We’ve heard of quite a few nice barramundi caught in both systems last weekend on soft plastics and suspending hard body lures.  There was also reports of heaps of estuary cod and flathead, which were a welcome bycatch. The Win Television Monduran Family Fishing Classic will be held on 17th and 18th of October this year.  This is always a …

Quality numbers of whiting have been biting around the Noosa River mouth area for those using small surface lures like the Zipbait Skinny pops and Bassday Sugar Pens. Baits have also been proving success using live and cured worms, prawns, yabbies and pipis. We are still getting reports of flathead and bream being caught around the river mouth and Woods …

With fresh southeasterly winds once again predicted for the Bundaberg area to spoil any offshore action this weekend, it looks like any fishing for the last weekend of the school holidays will be restricted to the Bundaberg rivers and impoundments. Baffle Creek has produced the goods this week.  As the daytime temperatures slowly increase we can expect species such as jacks …