Mulloway a stand out

Live mullet is the best bait but if you can not get live mullet, put a slab of the first legal fish you catch back down with two large hooks hidden in it.

Concentrate your efforts as the tide slows for the turn close to bar entrances or a deep hole. There are an increasing number of small bream moving towards bar entrances with just the odd fish over 800g caught.

The better catches have come from the deeper water during daylight hours however after dark the bream are moving up into very shallow water. Whiting catches have dropped off in numbers but you can still catch a feed if you fish up river and keep moving every 20 minutes.

There are a lot of garfish around at the moment, top spots are anywhere there are seagrass banks out of the wind. Tailor catches continue to be good in estuaries and the surf. Unweighted floating baits like half pilchards, frogmouth pilchards, hardiheads or whitebait seem to be accounting for the better numbers in estuary waters. In Moreton Bay the fishing has been all about snapper and catches have been great.

Harry's artificial reef continues to produce, not big fish but if you persist you will catch a feed of keepers. The bay island shallows are slowly being dominated by bream, there are plenty of chopper tailor in the shallows as well but the bream are beating them to the bait.

Surprisingly there were a few school mackerel caught from the Four Beacons and shipping beacons along the western side of Moreton Island this week.

Offshore fishing has also been all about the snapper, with some better quality fish caught by those float lining east of Point Lookout over the past week. There are still a few pelagic species on the bite, live bait is the way to tempt them.

On the freshwater scene, the numbers of bass being caught might have dropped off a little but the size just keeps getting better.

Wivenhoe is the spot for fish over 50cm although most dams are producing bigger fish than through the summer months.