Fishing Report for 11 July 2024.

Australian Bass closed season all Queensland tidal waters from 1 June to 31 August.

Snapper & Pearl Perch closed season all Queensland tidal waters from 15 July to 15 August.

Hervey Bay

Snapper around bait schools and plenty of grunter bream as bi-catch in Platypus Bay and Central Bay.  Some very big cobia that are well scattered.  Plenty of bream around Bay Islands and rocky foreshores.  Best schools of winter whiting around the western side of Woody Island. Blue salmon around River Heads area.  Some Jewfish around ledges down Great Sandy Straight.  Threadfin Salmon chasing jelly prawn schools in dirty water in the straights.  A few squid about inshore. Abundant mack tuna at Platypus Bay and spanish mackerel out wider towards gutters in Central Bay.  Pier producing mostly bream, flathead and mack tuna. Excellent sand-crabbing throughout Bay.

Fraser Island

Flathead numbers increasing in western creeks of Fraser Island.  Surf Beaches: tarwhine and bream around rocky outcrops, a few whiting and some chopper tailor.  Big Dart the highlight at Fraser Island. 

Fishos Tackleworld  Ph (07) 4128 1022 | www.fishostackleworld.com.au

Rainbow Beach Offshore

Quality snapper in good numbers, abundant pearl perch, goldspot wrasse, scarlets, moses perch, venus tuskfish – primarily 15 miles straight east.

Rainbow Beach Reef Fishing Charters  Ph 0439 775 070 | www.rainbowbeachfishing.com.au

Tin Can Bay

Good reports of squid around Carlo leads and the powerlines, fishing in deeper waters using 2.2 to 2.5 squid jigs.  Nice flathead at the bottom of the tide — and up the creeks on the making tide.  The mouths of the creeks on the flood tide worth trying for giant trevally, golden trevally and queenfish . Up the creeks — fishing the snags yielding cod and bream.  A few pelagics around Inskip Point including mack tuna and longtail.  Some spanish mackerel inside the bar at the barge landing – could be worth trolling halcos or pacemakers : one shallow and one deep.  Tinnanbar Reef producing a range cod, tuskfish, grass emperor on plastics or baits.  

The Chandlery Bait & Tackle  Ph (07) 5486 4744 | www.tcbchandlery.com.au

Noosa

Good catches of bream throughout river in from river mouth to tewantin reaches; picking up good whiting through Noosaville stretches off the sandbars; good flathead around river mouth. 

O Boat Hire & Bait Supply   Ph (07) 5449 7513 | www.oboathire.com

Good golden trevally in Woods Bay, good grunter bream, lots of sand flathead at river mouth.  Some moses perch, bream and tarwhine up Weyba Creek.

Noosa River Fishing Safaris  Ph 0429 030 823 | www.noosariverfishing.com

Quite a few tuskfish; pearl perch, long tail tuna, cobia and good snapper — fishing The Hearts, Halls Reef, North Reef and Sunshine Reef.  

Noosa Bluewater Charters  Ph (07) 5449 9355 | www.noosabluefishing.com.au

All boats back in action with better weather, taking good numbers of cod, pearl perch, cobia, tuskfish, sweetlip and tuna on Sunshine and North Reef.

Deep Sea Fishing Co Noosa  Ph 0411 222 749 | www.deepseafishingco.com.au

Maroochydore

A lot of bream and flathead throughout whole river ; trevally in middle reaches of river near the motorway bridge and whiting and tailor at river mouth.

Swan Boat Hire   Ph 0403 601 452 |www.swanboathire.com.au

Mooloolaba

Caloundra wide fishing well for snapper and pearl perch; still getting snapper at Murphy’s Reef; Jewfish at Point Arkwright and some tailor at Maroochy River Mouth.  In the Mooloolah River: bream around the trawler docks at La Balsa Park and flathead in the canals.

Tackleworld Kawana   Ph (07) 5444 0714 | www.tackleworldkawanafishingstore.com.au

Snapper and Amberjack at the Barwon Banks.  Snapper, pearl perch and kingfish at Caloundra Wide.

Smithys Fishing Charters  Ph 0407 574 868 | www.smithysfishingcharters.com.au

Caloundra

Plenty of bream and flathead in passage.  A few larger, high-quality bream turning up. Mudcrabs still worth trying for.  Fishing for snapper on the inshore reefs worth considering before closure.  Some Jewfish boated off headlands.  Beaches back on line with bream, dart and flathead and an occasional tailor.  

Caloundra Fishing World   Ph (07) 5491 4566 | www.caloundrafishingworld.com.au

Donnybrook

Plenty of winter whiting from Mission Point most of the way down the coast.  Spawning Bream in deeper holes and drop offs.  Jewfish being caught around 112oyster lease and Mission Point area.  Sandcrabs in main channel, at Mission point and down to Toorbul.  Flathead in drop-offs and sandbanks.  Tailor feeding on bait schools in the main channel.  

Donnybrook Takeaway, Bait & Tackle   Ph (07) 5498 8247 | www.facebook.com/Donnybrook-Takeaway-Bait-Tackle

Bribie Island

Tailor running in the passage; snapper at The Ripples; mackerel at Red Beach and plenty of whiting in the passage.  

Gateway Bribie Adventures  Ph (07)5497 5253

Northern Moreton Bay

A few mack tuna in the northern Bay; plenty of snapper around towards Bulwer at Moreton Island, and off Cape Moreton around Hutchison Shoal and within the Bay around Scarborough and Woody Point.  Plenty of tailor on the Redcliffe foreshores and Bribie Bridge at night; plenty of flathead at the mouth of the Caboolture and Pine Rivers on last of the outgoing tide; winter whiting at the Cockle Banks.

Tackleworld Lawnton    Ph (07) 3205 7475 | www.facebook.com/tackleworldlawnton

Sandgate

A lot of very good quality snapper that continue to get better.  Berleying pilchard and using gar as a main bait proving very successful.  Land based fishing at Woody Point (in particular), and Redcliffe Jetty getting good legal snapper.  Winter whiting in good numbers and sizes.  (Congratulations to 3 year old Ellis with his big whiting off Brighton Beach!) — everywhere from Cockle Banks through to Brisbane River.  Beach worms, blood worms and peeled prawns working well for the bread and butter fishing.

Tackle Land   Ph (07) 3269 5060 | www.tackleland.com.au

Brisbane River – Northern Moreton Bay

A lot of snotweed algae in river to watch for.  Plenty of snapper at mud island.  School mackerel from out wider behind Green Island and Wellington Point.   Whiting on the back flats at Fisherman Islands and Darcy Light – also some weed in these areas that could persist.

Mr Bait   Ph 0431 222 721 | www.facebook.com/Mr-Bait-182344678957765

Moreton Bay Offshore

Snapper and pearl perch at Tempest and 33s but limited with weather. 

Frenzy Charters   Ph (07) 3209 4576 | www.frenzycharters.com.au

Wynnum Manly

Whiting around Darcy Light and Amity Banks; snapper at Green Island and mackerel in front of One Mile.

Water Tower Bait & Tackle   Ph (07) 3396 1833 | www.watertowerbaitandtackle.com

Nth Stradbroke Island

Still fish to be caught on the ocean beaches out of the wind – abundant tailor, whiting and bream.  Solid quantities of sea mullet being netted by commercial fishermen — don’t miss getting some while still seasonal. 

Point Lookout Bait & Fresh Fish   Ph (07) 3409 8724

Redland Bay

Artificial Reefs still fishing well for snapper.  Good whiting in the Rous Channel and surrounding banks.  Good whiting in Logan River; still a lot of tailor along foreshore and around North Stradbroke Island.  Good bream in the canals.

Mossops Tackle Store Cleveland   Ph (07) 3821 1240 | www.mossopsfishing.com.au

Jumpinpin

Good eating-sized flathead the primary catch this week — around Jumpinpin Bar and Cabbage Tree Point.  A few smaller whiting.  Weekend looking better for tailor fishing.

Gem Bait & Tackle  Ph (07) 3287 3868 | www.facebook.com/gembait

South Stradbroke Island

Some big Cobia taken offshore and plentiful flathead. 

Gold Coast Boat Hire   Ph 0432 710 892 | www.goldcoastboathire.com.au

Southport

Good fishing out wider, with flame snapper and blue-eyed trevella on the Deep Reefs. In closer plenty of snapper and pearl perch;  closer reefs producing silver jewfish and good sized tailor.  Flathead abundant inside.

Gold Coast Fishing Tackle   Ph (07) 5679 0840 | www.goldcoastfishingtackle.com.au

Tweed Coast

Snapper, venus tuskfish, pearl perch, flathead and Moses perch at the 30s.

Cushy Fishing Charters  Ph 0418 631 076 | www.cushyfishingcharters.com.au

Evans Head

Along Airforce Beach and Main Beach: bream, tailor and jewfish.  Around the walls at mouth taking bream, tailor and luderick.  Evans River is seeing bream, flathead and whiting and mud crabs in the upper reaches.  Offshore, on the coast reefs, try for snapper, trag and pearl perch.

Evans Head Sports & Marine   Ph (02) 6682 4536 | www.facebook.com/EvansheadSportsMarine

FRESHWATER FISHING

Lake Kurwongbar

A few Bass on trolled hard bodies, and spinner baits towards the edges.

Tackleworld Lawnton    Ph (07) 3205 7475 | www.facebook.com/tackleworldlawnton

Hinze Dam

Bass and yellowbelly going very well on live shrimp.  Metal jigs have been successful fishing off the points.

Gold Coast Fishing Tackle   Ph (07) 5679 0840 | www.goldcoastfishingtackle.com.au

Moogerah Dam

Fish all over the spit throughout the day; a variety of white soft plastics and metal spoons working well.  Timbered section off creek bed: crank baits, spinner baits and deep skirted jigs. With colder conditions, starting to school up on flats in open water, in front of ski ramp. Spoons (imitating bony bream) seem to be working best.  

Wivenhoe Dam

Some scattered schools of bass north of Billy’s Bay, towards rock walls.  Trolling lures or crank baits working best, or spoons if casting (blue silver colour good).  A few up near buoy line on Eastern side: three humps that have a lot of fish that can be found on sounder. Platypus cliffs off creek bed – also finding fish on spoons, spinner baits, trolling lures.

Maroon Dam

Some of the weed beds towards camping ground starting to fish well with smaller jerk baits and soft plastic paddletails.  Try motoroil colour in soft plastics. In timbered section around back at top of dam, surface lures, small poppers, stick baits all working well early morning and afternoon; also the shatter baits through timbered section, throughout the day.  

Charltons Fishing    Ph (07) 3818 1677 | www.charltonsfishing.com.au