Tackleworld – Bundaberg

Campers staying at the Miara Caravan Park are reporting catching some nice whiting, grunter and flathead around the sand bar in front of the park. Good numbers of mud crabs are also been caught and with a bit of effort, cast-netting, most guys have been getting a fresh feed of prawns. Lake Gregory is continuing to fire.  Quite a few …

by trolling spoons and hard body lures that dive between 3-5 metres like the halco scorpion doing the damage. Casting and retrieving lures like the flasha lures have been working best on the school and grey mackerel.  Just remember these lures work best retrieved at high speed. We haven’t had many reports from the reef fishermen due to the weather, here …

Good news is that the fishing around Bundaberg is starting to pick up. All the local rivers and creeks should start to receive more salt water which will push further up most systems with the full moon next Tuesday night and bigger tides. The forecast this weekend doesn’t look too bad with mostly sunny days predicted.  The only problem is that …

While we’re on the freshwater scene, Lake Gregory has been one of the best fishing options whilst all our river systems are dirty.  Good reports of lots of bass are coming in. I ventured out to this magic little impoundment early on Monday morning.  The water level is as high as I’ve ever seen, making launching the boat a breeze.  …

Just keep in mind the size limit for barramundi in Queensland is between 58cm and 120cm and there is a bag limit of five per person. By all reports Gin Gin and Monduran did not receive as much rain as Bundaberg.  I did hear that Lake Monduran has come up around 300mm, but the water colour was still clean enough …

Let’s hope everyone’s recovered from the Australia Day celebrations this week.  Despite a little bit of rain early, the day turned out to be fantastic and it was great to see that heaps of anglers around the Bundaberg area made the most of the good conditions. Unfortunately the winds are expected to pick up towards this weekend, restricting any action back …

Well, the forecast for this weekend for the Bundaberg area is not looking too flash at this stage, with some moderate north-easterly winds predicted.  As always, just keep an eye on the latest forecast to see how this pans out. Over the past week everyone has been talking about the prawns that are around in good numbers in all our local …

Quite a few barramundi have been hooked up at Lake Monduran this past week.  Locating the barra with a side-imaging sounder gives you confidence that you are in the right spot.  Once you’ve found a point or bay with good numbers of barra on the screen, try using a few different techniques to get the barra to strike.  The most …

Well, the weeks have flown by and Christmas Day will be here before we know it.  I hope all the children on school holidays have been good, and maybe Santa will leave some new fishing gear under the tree for them this year. The fishing around the Bundaberg area has still been great.  The offshore grounds have been fishing well when …

Just keep any eye out for those large banana prawns that seem to pop up around either of the moon phases.  Some really nice mud crabs are also just starting to move so dust off the pots and try to catch a fantastic feed for Christmas. Lake Gregpry has been on fire for bass.  Tackle World Bundaberg team member, Shane …