Our latest YouTube video is now live, titled – Jigging for Gold After the School Run – Episode 122. The kids are back at school! So, after finishing the school run I snuck out for a few hours on the water, jigging shallow reef in Platypus Bay. Fishing in around 25m of water I jig…
Category: Fishing
Our website is designed to provide you with enough information to start your own fishing adventure in and around Hervey Bay. On K’gari – Fraser Island and across the wider Fraser Coast region.
On our website you will find video links to our YouTube channel. In these videos we show case the fishing options available throughout the region. Plus offer loads of tips and tricks to help you successfully land a feed of fish. Plus our website contains an extensive library of posts in which we go into the finer detail of fishing. Offer loads of tips on techniques, lures, knots, terminal tackle, rods and reels.
We receive dozens of fishing Hervey Bay related messages per week from new & returning visitors to the Fraser Coast. Mostly through our social channels. Asking for advice about what species of fish are currently being caught, places to fish including gps & reef marks. Techniques to use & recommended lures & tackle. Even questions about where to launch a boat, boat ramp facilities & what the weather is doing. Also questions about where to be careful on the water & which local tackle stores to visit.
All of this is covered on our website in multiple formats for you to choose which is best for yourself to consume. Plus we have done all of this with two growing boys and as a family so there are loads of tips for fishing with kids.
It is not all boat based, there is also plenty of content on land based fishing options around Hervey Bay.
The Uncatchable Flathead
Our latest YouTube video has been released, titled – Catching The Uncatchable Flathead For Dinner – Episode 121. Join us for two days of family fishing fun, chasing what appears to be an uncatchable flathead for dinner! This one truly did my head in. So much so, that we had to go back a second…
Tuna Fishing Time
It is time to chase tuna !! Finding a small gap in the wind, I snuck out for a few hours for a tuna fishing session. Believe it or not, I did not see one single shark and had an absolute blast catching mid sized mackerel tuna before the wind started to pick up again….
Flathead With Crabs
Catching flathead and crabs !! In this video I head out for a couple of hours to enjoy a early morning flathead fish, in the hope of catching dinner. And then, spend far too long landing a giant mud crab using my landing net. Don’t forget to subscribe to our Facebook page to enter our subscriber only giveaways !! And, of…
Donut Saving Mackerel
It has been a long time between solo fishing trips. In this short video I finally manage to head north into Platypus Bay for an early morning jigging session. Sharks ruin the session fairly quick. But, luckily I manage to find dinner on the way home. After I clean the boat. Gen gives us a…
Get Jigging to Get the Bite
Fishing with jigs is nothing new, the technique has been around for many years. Thanks to a multitude of YouTube and FaceBook videos in recent years, the technique has become extremely popular. Where To Start You have probably watched a few of these videos. Crystal clear 4k footage set to some perfectly timed background music….
Quick Friday Flathead Fishing Session in Hervey Bay
With only a few hours available to head out fishing I played it safe and went for a flathead flick. Come along for the ride as I talk through some tackle prep. Locations to fish and do battle with a health 66cm Fraser Coast flathead. I apologise up front re audio and some of the…
A New PB 105cm Diamond Trevally
Join me as I break my PB for a Diamond Trevally with a 105cm rough cut diamond joining me for an arm stretching good time. Plus, we talk jigging, catch a few queenfish and finish off our fishing session with a nice little golden trevally !! Don’t forget to subscribe to our Facebook page to enter our subscriber only giveaways !!…
The Good Times Will Return
If you turn on the TV now, it is hard not to notice, all the doom and gloom messaging about covid-19. Scroll through social media and it appears that anglers and boaties everywhere are arguing amongst themselves about the right to fish. The right to boat versus the stay at home messaging. It is an…
Whiting on Poppers & Exploring Dundonga Creek on Fraser Island
We are off on another Fraser Island adventure. This time we go fishing for whiting using small poppers. After landing some nice sized whiting the kids help to pump some yabbies. While mum and dad are busy cooking lunch the kids have fun catching whiting and bream along the beach. After our lunch time cookup,…