Tackleworld – Bundaberg

Well, now we are into the eight month of 2017, and the days are warming up so it won’t be long until species like mangrove jack and barramundi start becoming more active in the Bundaberg area. Once again, the weather last weekend was brilliant in this part of the world and it was fantastic to see so many boats out …

How good has the weather been around the Bundaberg area this past week, with near-perfect conditions every day? Those who had any time off to fish offshore scored well with the almost glass-calm conditions making it all worth it, and the fish were on the chew! The wider grounds such as the Herald Patches and the Warregoes all fired with …

This is generally a magic time of the year to wet a line around the Bundaberg area.  With a few cool foggy mornings to start last week, locals enjoyed a fantastic week of fishing the local hot spots. This weekend isn’t shaping up too bad as well, with Sunday being the pick of the two days at this stage. Last …

The fishing around the Bundaberg area these past few weeks has been good with plenty of awesome fish being caught.  If you were lucky enough to have gotten out last weekend, you would have seen Bundaberg produces awesome fishing when we get great weather. Although the tides were a bit on the large side, there were still plenty of reefies …

How good has the weather been around the Bundaberg area for the school holidays?  I’m sure all the kids made the most of the magic conditions, and by all the photos we keep seeing, a lot of good fish have been caught. Mixed reef fish and pelagics off Bundaberg With the perfect conditions, the boat ramp at Burnett Heads has been …

The rivers and creeks have also been fishing well, even to a point where we reckon it has never fished better, with bulk fish being caught. Bream, bream and more bream seems to be the talk. They are big and in good numbers and have been caught on both bait and soft plastic lures. Other species that have been caught …

This weekend the annual VMR Bundaberg Family Fishing Classic will be held at Burnett Heads, and at this stage the forecast is looking fantastic to get out and have a fish, and try to win some of the many prizes in this year’s competition. The Burnett River has been fishing very well over the past few weeks.  The amount of …

Wow! We have certainly seen some red-hot fishing this past week around the Bundaberg area, with both offshore and the estuaries fishing really well. Most of the gutters out to the islands produced coral trout, red emperor, sweetlip and big parrot. Some cobia and spanish mackerel have also been caught in these areas. The inshore reefs such as Ryans and …

It would seem that the first signs of winter species have appeared around the Bundaberg area.  The last few mornings have been a little fresh – perfect weather to fire up our winter species like flathead and bream.  This is just in time for the annual VMR Family Fishing Classic, held at Burnett Heads in a couple of weeks, on …

How good was that weather off Bundaberg last weekend and earlier this week? This good weather allowed a lot of boats to head offshore, with the gutters out to the islands really turning on some red hot fishing. There were some great catches of big red emperor, coral trout, red throat sweetlip and some monster tusk fish all from out …