Fishing Report for 27 June 2024
Australian Bass closed season all Queensland tidal waters from 1 June to 31 August.
Hervey Bay
Bream up to 42 cm at Urangan Pier, mostly on herring. A few flathead, blue salmon and some bream in mainland local creeks, accessible by foot. Inshore reefs yielding snapper (more squire) but enough around the deeper inshore reefs and in Platypus Bay. Grunter out wider, around outer banks.
Offshore exceptional and a melting pot of all species. Gutters producing spanish mackeral, grassy sweetlip, red emperor and venus tuskfish. East of breaksea spit: pearl perch, snapper, various cods, red throat. The current has been stronger around Waddy Point; with minimal current north of Breaksea Spit. Lots of Kingfish and particularly Amberjack offshore in 50m to 200m.
Deep dropping to north finding pearl perch, snapper, various jobfish.
Bream in big numbers in the lower reaches — a few flathead starting to show up. Blue salmon in Mary River. Winter whiting on western side of Woody Island, Point Burnan and off River Heads. Lots of sand crabs in the Bay and muddies in creeks.
Fraser Island
Still some dart, whiting and chopper tailor – stay tuned for a comprehensive update next week.
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Rainbow Beach Offshore
Some pelagics making an appearance with strong hauls of snapper, pearl perch, tuskfish, hussar, cod, sweetlip and gold spotted wrasse.
| Rainbow Beach Reef Fishing ChartersPh (07) 5486 8666 www.rainbowbeachfishing.com.au |
Tin Can Bay
Report pending
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Noosa
Trevally caught Woods Bay, flathead in the canals around Sofitel; bream up and down the river particularly Tewantin between the first lake and marina.
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Abundance of sand flathead, and bream around river mouth on incoming tides. Cale cale Trevally, golden trevally and bream around Woods Bay. Frying Pan yielding whiting, flathead, mullet, tailor.
| Noosa River Fishing Safaris Ph 0429 030 823 www.noosariverfishing.com |
A good combination of species being caught, with plenty of pearl perch, snapper, cobia, longtail tuna, and spanish mackerel.
| Noosa Bluewater Charters Ph (07) 5449 9355 www.noosabluefishing.com.au |
Snapper, pearlies, tuskfish, moses perch, goldspot wrasse, cobia and red emperor on the Barwon Banks. Bluefin tuna, snapper, pearlies and cod on the North Reef.
| Deep Sea Fishing Co Noosa Ph 0411 222 749 www.deepseafishingco.com.au |
Maroochydore
Relatively quiet, but mixed catches of bream, more whiting than expected, flathead through-out middle reaches.
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Mooloolaba
Offshore Caloundra wide : snapper & pearl perch. Murphy’s Reef also producing snapper and perch, together with cobia. Snapper being taken at Coolum and along the beaches at Budina — whiting and dart. Garfish and bream in the Mooloolah River, with trevally around the trawler docks.
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Good snapper taken in the 5kg to 7kg range between the southern end of Old Woman Island and the end of the Inner Gneerings Shoals; some good spotty mackerel in the same location. Grassy sweetlip, moses perch and spangled emperor at Raper Shoal.
| Barry McDade Fishing Services Ph 0409 644 946 |
No report this week.
| Smithys Fishing Charters Ph 0407 574 868 www.smithysfishingcharters.com.au |
Caloundra
Plenty of fish in passage, bigger bream at night. A lot of trevally and queenfish in canals. Inshore reefs producing excellent snapper and sweetlip. Garfish in the estuaries. Bream and good dart on surf beaches and headlands. On wider reefs – pearl perch, cobia, tuskfish, amberjacks and snapper in better numbers out wider.
| Caloundra Fishing World Ph (07) 5491 4566 www.caloundrafishingworld.com.au |
Donnybrook
No report this week.
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Bribie Island
No report this week.
| Island Fishing Supplies Ph 0493 103 027 |
Redcliffe Peninsula
Winter whiting at Deception Bay and North of Scarborough; bream, yellowfin whiting, and abundant flathead in Hayes Inlet and the Pine River. Off the jetties, rocky points and inshore reefs: tailor, snapper, bream. Some sand crabs off Margate Beach.
| Hornibrook Bait & TacklePh 0483 846 966 www.facebook.com/HornibrookBT |
Brisbane River – Northern Moreton Bay
Diver whiting on eastern side of Fisherman’s Island down to Darcy light. A few flathead, bream and snapper/squire in lower reaches of Brisbane River. A few snapper and mackerel on Mud Island.
Moreton Bay Offshore
Snapper, pearl perch, venus tuskfish at the Cathedrals.
| Frenzy Charters Ph (07) 3209 4576 www.frenzycharters.com.au |
Wynnum Manly
Tailor and squid at Wellington Point Jetty; whiting between St. Helena and Wynnum North / boat passage. Snapper around the Bay Islands at Green, Mud and Peel. School mackerel and diver whiting on the shallow side of Pelican Banks (MacLeay Island).
| Water Tower Bait & Tackle Ph (07) 3396 1833 www.watertowerbaitandtackle.com |
Nth Stradbroke Island
Perfect weather and some quality fishing on all of the ocean beaches: chopper tailor, bream, dart and whiting.
| Point Lookout Bait & Fresh Fish Ph (07) 3409 8724 |
Redland Bay
Plenty of tailor in the Bay. Good Snapper at Peel artificals and Harry Atkinson. Bream in canals. Diver whiting in Rous channel and surrounding sandbanks. Offshore – lots of snapper and pearl perch around square patch and deep tempest.
| Mossops Tackle Store Cleveland Ph (07) 3821 1240 www.mossopsfishing.com.au |
No report this week.
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Jumpinpin
No report this week.
| Gem Bait & Tackle Ph (07) 3287 3868 www.facebook.com/gembait |
Report Pending.
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Southport
On the 50s: plenty of snapper and pearl perch. Amberjacks and kingfish on live baits on the deeper reefs. On the 24s and 36s: snapper, parrot fish, trag jew on live baits. On the 18s: cobia, snapper, silver jew. Tailor quite prolific on the beaches from the border up to South Straddie – on pilchards, stick baits and metal slugs. Inside the broadwater, squid are going very well and good size flathead back in large numbers. Jew around Jumpinpin and Southport Seaway. Tons of bream around everywhere. Up rivers, bream, good trevally on run-out tide, crabs a bit slow .
| Gold Coast Fishing Tackle Ph (07) 5679 0840 www.goldcoastfishingtackle.com.au |
No report this week.
| Ross McCubbin Fishing Charters Ph 0428 729 393www.facebook.com/LuckyStrikeChartersFishing |
Tweed Coast
Schools of tailor moving in on run-in tides in the lower reaches; flathead, bream and school jew around the tide changes in the deeper holes.
| Brad Smith Fishing Guide Ph 0419 028 704 www.bradsmithfishingcharters.com.au |
Netted sweetlip, venus tuskfish, trevally, grassy emperor, flathead, kingfish, maori cod on the 30s and 9s.
| Cushy Fishing Charters Ph 0418 631 076 www.cushyfishingcharters.com.au |
Evans Head
Main beach: bream and tailor. Around the walls: a few tailor, bream and luderick. In the Evans River plenty of good flathead, bream and whiting. Mud crabs in the upper reaches. Offshore reefs close in – plenty of snapper and trag.
| Evans Head Sports & Marine Ph (02) 6682 4536 www.facebook.com/EvansheadSportsMarine |
FRESHWATER FISHING
Lenthalls Dam
Small barramundi and large bass being caught on fly, and suspending hard-bodies.
| Fishos TackleworldPh (07) 4128 1022 www.fishostackleworld.com.au |
Ewen Maddock Dam
Bass around the lily pads.
| Tackleworld Kawana Ph (07) 5444 0714 www.tackleworldkawanafishingstore.com.au |
Hinze Dam
Bass off points on metal jigs, soft plastics, and trolling hard body lures on edge of dam.
| Gold Coast Fishing Tackle Ph (07) 5679 0840 www.goldcoastfishingtackle.com.au |
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