Tailor have been excellent in all estuary and surf waters, so now is the time to dust off the surf rod and catch a feed.
Top spots include all northern NSW beaches as well as North Stradbroke and Moreton islands and further north on Teewah to Double Island Point beaches.
There have also been plenty of bream and dart caught on surf beaches.
If you’ve always wanted to catch a big mulloway, now is the time to put the effort in. There have been excellent catches around the Jumpinpin Bar and Southport Seaway over the past few weeks.
Deeper holes throughout rivers including the Logan and Brisbane rivers have also produced good catches of mulloway.
There continues to be a surprising number of flathead on the bite over the past few weeks, with most 50 - 60cm long. They have been sitting in the shallows during the day but spook easy with boat traffic.
It’s been another week of good crab reports. Sandies topped the list and there have been a few muddies from smaller creeks and drains as well.
The sandies were in the northern Broadwater, around the southern bay islands and along North Stradbroke’s western shoreline.
Bream continue to be the main species caught. It’s a great time of year to take the kids fishing in sheltered rivers and creeks – they’re almost guaranteed to catch a bream.
There are still good reports of small snapper in the bay, with the top spots being the artificial reefs in the Bay Western Rocks and the ledges off Bulwar.
Offshore fishing has been good with small snapper and tuskfish dominating catches out to 60m, while better quality snapper and a few pearl perch have been caught in 90m of water at Deep Tempest.
Live bait has produced a few cobia, amberjack and kingfish around the wrecks off Cape Moreton and anglers trolling lures have not had great success. A few bonito and tuna have been the main species caught.
On the freshwater scene if you have live shrimp, you’ll catch fish, while anglers trolling lures have found the fishing very slow.