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With a change to the summer pelagic season being better than previous years, the mackerel started to rock up along the coastline in December 2021. Rigging mackerel tuna Previous years featured little to none, however we have all felt the effects of La Niña with more fish as a result. Rigging mackerel tuna With January wet and windy, it was …

Hi everyone, hope you have all had a great week. We had more wind and rain around the Gold and Tweed coasts earlier in the week. The good news is the weekend is looking great, with a light wind and a smaller swell finally giving anglers the best opportunity we’ve had in many weeks to get out on the water …

Scientists at the Bribie Island Research Centre have, for the first time, successfully produced and settled 50,000 blacklip rock oysters at the centre’s bespoke oyster hatchery. Queensland Government scientists at a new oyster hatchery have laid the bed for a mouth-watering expansion of Queensland’s oyster industry. Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Furner …

Prohibited size fish returned to water in Sydney Harbour Five snapper and three tarwhine were seized from a fishers bucket last week from Clarke’s Point Reserve in Sydney Harbour. The fisher was unaware of the prescribed sizes for the fish and intended to use the fish for bait. Snapper have a prescribed size of 30cm and Tarwhine have a prescribed …

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week. Unfortunately, it seems as though the weather gods are still very upset with another windy and wet weekend on the way for the Gold and Tweed coasts, making conditions no good for offshore and inshore you’ll have to stick to the protected rivers and estuaries to find a spot to hide. …

QBFP officers responding to a Fishwatch complaint located this unmarked and unattended net at the mouth of the Caboolture River recently. The net was 111m long with 100mm sized mesh. The net contained a variety of species, including mud crabs, sea mullet, dusky flathead, ponyfish and catfish. Officers were able to release the live fish and mud crabs on site. …

Tuggerah crab poacher convicted, pays $12,000 and loses boat and motor An illegal fisher has been convicted in Wyong court yesterday receiving over $8,000 in fines and ordered to pay over $4000 in professional costs. NSW Fisheries Officers from the Central Coast conducted targeted surveillance of Tuggerah Lakes as a result of several reports of recreational and commercial crab traps …

Hi everyone, hope you have all had a great week. Unfortunately, the run of good weather mid-week won’t hang around for the weekend, with a strong southeasterly wind and rain kicking in on Friday and hanging around for the weekend and early next week, limiting most fishing activities to sheltered rivers and estuarys. So far this summer, these would have …

Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a great week and enjoyed the Australia Day public holiday, with moderate south easterly winds and rain showers hanging most of the week on the Tweed and Gold Coasts fishing has been a bit tuff unless you can find a nice spot to hide from the wind. As we head into the weekend …

A fisher has been fined $7,500 in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to going well over the Spanish mackerel catch limit on two occasions. The limit for a recreational fisher is three per person, and the offender was found on two separate occasions with 14 and 13 excess fish. The Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol uses a range …