Fish Species Guide

This week’s weather has been warmer than usual, rising the water temperature and making the fish aggressive. The offshore scene has been alive this week with anglers making do of short weather windows and reaping the rewards. North reef as well as Double Island has been the land of red this week. Scarlet sea perch as well coral trout and …

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week, we scored a mixed bag of weather including storms, torrential rain and big tides thanks to the full moon making conditions very testing for everyone fishing last weekend.  Let’s have a look at what’s been happening this week. After such a dry spell on the Gold Coast rain is a much …

Once again the weather forecast for the Bundaberg area for this weekend is looking fantastic.  We all can’t remember such a good run of weather around the local area in ages.  Most of the boats took advantage of the flat conditions last weekend and fished around the islands off Bundaberg and 1770.  By all reports most boats managed to capture …

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Hi Everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week, we were finally blessed with some nice weather last weekend with light winds, plenty of sunshine and a decrease in swell giving anglers plenty of options on the Gold Coast.  Let’s have a look at what’s been biting. It was great to finally see a long overdue break in the weather …

Winds were light on the Sunshine Coast and everyone had a shot offshore this weekend. With the swell small enough we saw many anglers make the most of the conditions and head far and wide. We are currently in a shift in the seasons so we can certainly expect to see our winter species coming through soon. North reef has …

WOW!! How good was it to see a good run of calm offshore weather around the Bundaberg region during the past week? BUNDABERG OFFSHORE With not a car park left at the Burnett Heads boat ramp, this meant that a lot of boats had the chance to head well offshore, and by all reports everyone caught fish. The islands from …