Bream are dominating all estuary waters. Many are undersize, so you need to put a bit more effort in to catch quality keepers.
Fishing in the middle of the day using thawed out bait will produce undersize fish, however fishing at night or sunset and sunrise with good bait like live yabbies, mullet strips or gut baits, will catch the bigger fish.
If you’re restricted to daytime, use the better baits but fish light around rocks, current lines or deeper channel areas.
There are good numbers of chopper tailor and trevally around. The top spots are within sight of a bar entrance which means the Seaway or inside the Pin Bar but they are a schooling fish that moves continually so can pop up anywhere.
There have also been good numbers in the surf with the bonus of dart and bream as well.
Flathead are in good numbers. At this time of year you always catch a lot of smaller fish to 60cm so it’s worth targeting them if you’re chasing a feed. This week the better results came from the southern bay and northern Jumpinpin.
Any area where cast netters were working last month for prawns is a good place to target flathead. They are also on the flats around the channel mouths, draining the sand banks and shallower bays.
This is the best time of year to chase mulloway, and there have been plenty caught over the past few weeks. The top spots have been the Seaway and Pin Bar back to the eastern tip of Short Island, but they have also been in deeper holes like Marks Rocks in the Logan and in the Brisbane River after dark.
In Moreton Bay most anglers are now chasing snapper. The rocky reefs off Scarborough continues to be one of the hot spots. They have also been in reasonable numbers in the shallows around the bay islands, but only at night. During the day you’re best off fishing deeper locations like the artificial reefs or wrecks.
There are still sand crabs in the southern bay and northern Broadwater, and there have also been a few late season mud crabs caught from smaller rivers and creeks and drains at night.
