WEATHER SPOT ON FOR HOLS

HI everyone, we’ve been lucky enough to have another nice week here on the Gold Coast for everyone enjoying time on the water during the school holidays.

The fishing has been good the past week with reports of some great catches coming in. Let’s see what’s been biting this week …

Customers have reported good catches of bream being landed from the Pin, productive spots included Tiger Mullet Channel, Whalleys Gutter, McKenzies Channel, Crusoe Island, Kalinga Bank and Short Island.

The Broadwater has been fishing well around the oyster leases in the Aldershots, Paradise Point, Lands End, Marine Parade Rock Wall and the Southport Seaway.

The weekend will mean plenty of keen anglers anchoring up for a night-time session to try to land the bigger night time bream. A basic running sinker rig will work well and I recommend a bait-holder style hook around size 4, attached to an 8lb fluro carbon leader and depending on the tide between a size 2-4 ball sinkers.

Burly is a must when chasing bream, pellets are easy to use and we stock both Stimulate and Wilson Fishing brands, which work well to attract fish and keep them feeding in the area you’re fishing. Best baits are mullet fillet, prawns, white pilchards, blue bait and yabbies.

The Beutal family had a great time on board their Coomera Houseboat holiday, finding a good mixed bag of fish and crabs from around Jumpinpin. Young Ava landed a quality flathead (see photo) and the family also scored a nice feed of bream and a couple of good winter mud crabs.

I spent some time over on South Stradbroke Island on Sunday, having a look around with family and friends.

Beach fishing is a great option when the westerly winds are blowing as the beaches are protected. It was great to see lots of families enjoying surf fishing and catching tailor, whiting, flathead, bream, tarwine and dart in the beach gutters along the shore.

My kids had fun collecting pipis, which are great bait, using them to catch live beach worms, which were in good numbers and are irresistible to whiting, bream, tarwine and dart in the surf.

Chasing tailor is great fun, daytime fishing can be just as good as night, if you can find a good gutter holding fish. Keep an eye out for birds feeding on bait fish and have a metal slug ready to throw at any action you see.

For the bait fishos, use whole WA pilchards ringed a 3 x gang of either 3/0 or 4/0 hooks and a large enough sinker to stop your bait washing up on shore.

Using bait over a metal lure will give you a shot at more species including bream, flathead and jewfish.

Brad Smith Fishing Charters have reported upstream in both the Nerang and Tweed rivers is good fishing, consistently producing quality flathead for their customers.

Metal blade vibe lures have accounted for plenty of fish, with yabbies and white pilchards are doing the trick.

Hope you all have a good weekend and get out for a fish. If you have any great catches or photos to share, email us and let us know how you went.

Drop me a line - and send your photos - to brett@coomerahouseboats.com.au

Good luck with the fishing and enjoy your weekend.