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Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week. After a fairly nice weekend, it was not good news to see another low-pressure system drop hundreds of millimetres of rain on the Gold and Tweed coasts, causing flooding and the rivers to rise and basically putting us back to square one… and just as the water quality was looking …

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week. It was refreshing to see some great weather this week finally, giving everyone a chance to get out on the water for consecutive days in a row. It would have to be the best week we have had all year so far on the Gold and Tweed coasts, though looking …

Inland Fisheries Officers going above and beyond to detect and deter illegal fishing It is well known that persons who engage in serious illegal fishing activities on inland rivers including the use of set lines, gill nets, cross lines and fish traps go to extreme lengths to hide their unlawful activities from both other fishers and from Fisheries Officers. In …

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a good week. Unfortunately for offshore fishos, the southerly wind, large swell and showers are making things very difficult for anyone to get out and chase a feed of reef fish and pelagic species. Gold Coast Coomera fishing This weekend will see no change in the weather until Sunday, when the sky …

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week. It was nice to finally see some sunshine over the weekend after the terrible weather we’ve been enduring on the Gold Coast and the Tweed region lately. Hopefully we see less rain during the week to give everything a chance to dry and get some better-quality water through the open …

On a rainy Tuesday morning NSW Fisheries Officers seized a total of twelve fish from a fisher returning to his car on a Sydney wharf where he had been fishing through the night. The fish, comprised of Tailor, Snapper and Yellowfin Bream, all have a prescribed minimum size limit under NSW Fisheries legislation. All fish had their tails cut off. …

Hi everyone, hope you are all safe and well after the drenching from the intense weather system that past over the Gold and Tweed coasts last weekend – finally stopping on Monday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction behind it. Given the quantity of debris moving through the system, the amount of freshwater and bad water quality… not much …

QBFP received a complaint by a member of the public regarding an abandoned fishing net in the Gladstone district. A short time later, officers arrived on the scene to find a 50m monofilament fishing net drying on the bank. A variety of species were returned to the water, including barramundi and threadfin salmon and turtles, sharks, and rays. Investigations are …

Hi everyone, hope you have all had a great week. Unfortunately, it looks like the great run of weather we have just had on the Tweed and Gold Coast has come to an end, with the wind and rain looking to be set in for the majority of the week. It was great to see plenty of anglers getting out …

Are you as excited as I am? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would be well aware that as of February 1, the Queensland saltwater barramundi season has officially re-opened. Barra season re-opening I can’t wait to get back out on the salt and chase a big chrome slab. Barra season re-opening The Shimano King of Kings competition …