The rains in the Bundaberg area over the recent weeks, have certainly put a damper on wetting a line. With all the local estuarine systems running fresh, this has made it very difficult to snag a creel full of fish.
But, there are encouraging signs with large bream being captured in the Burnett River, as well as the occassional salmon. The bream have been mainly in the top end of the river with the salmon in the deeper holes in the mid reaches.
The rain we have received recently in the local Bundaberg area should improve the fishing enormously.
Well, now that it’s back to work and back to school , the luxury of going fishing whenever you want has gone out the window. Now you’ll have to wait for the weekends and pray that the weather will be on your side.
In the local Bundaberg area, crabs are still being caught in good numbers and most of them are coming from the Burnett and Elliott Rivers and Baffle Creek. Make sure you are up to date with the crabbing rules and regulations before dropping those pots.
In the local Bundaberg area, mackeral seem to be a hot topic at the moment with good numbers and good quality macks being caught.
The offshore grounds are producing some excellent spanish mackerel, and trolling large lures and rigged baits such as slimeys, gar and wolf herring have been the favoured methods.
The fishing in the local Bundaberg area is on the improve after the very welcome Christmas rains.
Well, it has been a treat to see some rain, and most of the local areas around Bundaberg received some well-deserved down falls.
The tops of the Kolan River and Baffle Creek are running fresh so the fishing in these areas can be hard, but heading down river should see the salt water and the fish, such as jacks, trevally and queenfish. The fresh has also pushed the mud crabs out and down to the salt, so drag out the pots.
There has certainly been a lot of welcome rain that has fallen over the Bundaberg district during the past few weeks.
Unfortunately, the Kolan River and Baffle Creek are both running really fresh, which has made fishing very difficult. Fishing the mouths of these two is the only option. Whiting, flathead, bream and mangrove jacks in the clean salty water with fresh baits would be the species to target.
Mud crabs and prawns would definitely be other options with the amount of fresh water around.
The festive season is over for another year, and as this time last year, the weather around the Bundaberg area has let many keen anglers down. All the new fishing goodies that you snagged from Santa shall await the water with great anticipation.
On the bright side of things, the rain has stirred up the local estuary systems and it is well worth it to throw the crab pots in when you get a chance. Because of the rain many of the small creeks have been running quite fresh and this has pushed the fish out into the main arms of the rivers.
This week has seen the local rivers fire from the mouth to the upper reaches, with the mouth of the Burnett producing some great mackerel fishing – mainly school mackerel, but some are snodgers!
High tides early in the morning have produced best results and trolling lures has been the way to go. Four to six inch diving Minnows in blue or red heads with a white body has been the choice colours. The schoolies have also been caught by anchoring up and floating out pilchards or spinning with chrome lures.
The weekend just gone saw another run of good weather in the Bundaberg area. This allowed the offshore anglers to head out, with only 10-15knots of wind. This made for a good comfortable ride out - we were blessed.
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