Inshore fishing Tomorrow being Friday the 10th of November marks the last of this years Coral Reef Fin Fish Closures. This 5 day closure will finish at midnight on Tuesday the 14th. This limits targeting, catching and keeping of our Coral Reef Fin Fish species. If you are after more information please refer to the fisheries website. Fortunately during this …
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Inshore fishing With the water warming up the inshore reefs are really starting to fire up! The school mackerel are here in great numbers, targeting these fish at first light in the mornings by fast retrieving 50g Flasha spoons vertically off the bottom and floating pilchards out the back of the boat has been doing the trick. Stay away from using …
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Inshore fishing Last weekends good days of weather meant plenty of keen fisho’s headed out and fished the Inshore reefs. We saw some really good pelagic fish caught like big queenfish, trevally, tuna and mackerel in close. These fish have been on the pressure edges along the coast as well as any areas with a lot of baitfish. Fast retrieving …
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Inshore fishing The inshore reefs have been fishing very well with pelagic’s such as spanish mackerel and school mackerel being the standout fish being caught. Trolling gar and hard body lures first light in the mornings has definitely been the standout technique to get the bite from the spanish mackerel. With the schoolies fast retrieving 50g Flasha spoons vertically off …
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Inshore fishing As you all should know the Coral Reef Fin Fish closure started today and will run until Monday the 16th meaning we can target our fin fish again on Tuesday the 17th. This time of year we see great numbers of pelagic fish along our coastline and lucky for us we are still able to target our pelagic fish …
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Inshore fishing With a few good days of weather during last week and over the long weekend we did see plenty of boats fishing our inshore reefs. The Bargara 2 mile, Elliott Heads Artificial and the 4 Mile were all popular spots. Plenty of bait has been along our coast and these places have been holding a very healthy amount of …
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Inshore fishing Although the wind has been pretty average in the few small weather windows we have had the inshore reefs have been producing plenty of action with good sized sweetlip, trout, cod and some late seasoned spanish mackerel being caught. Wednesday this week turned out to be a pretty good day especially in the morning and we definitely saw …
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Inshore fishing Unfortunately the weather conditions this week have not been good enough for many people to head out and chase our inshore and offshore species. Fingers crossed that next week will give us a few good days to head out so definitely keep an eye on the latest weather forecasts as the fishing has been red hot! Our Inshore reefs …
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Inshore/Offshore fishing This time of year can be tough with the Northerly’s starting as this always chops the sea up and can make it hard to get a decent weather window to get out. For the spearo’s the Northerlies also mean dirty water so it is usually a battle to find some decent visibility along our coast once the Northerlies …
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Inshore fishing The last few weeks has certainly resulted in some cracking inshore fishing! Big snapper, jew and grunter have been the stand out fish being caught. Most of the inshore marks fish really well for these fish, the most important thing to look out for is bait. Find the bait, and there’s a great chance that there will be …
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