GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 28 September 2025 We had some tough days in the broadwater chasing flathead this past week. Small bait were hard to find, and the flathead were scattered over large areas. Trolling the new Samaki 40mm Redic divers helped find some fish, 1.5 knots is a good trolling speed
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 20 September 2025 I had charters every day this week and we scored some good flathead. The big girls are turning up for breeding season just as the water starts to warm. The flathead will feed aggressively in the next few months to condition themselves for spawning over
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 6 September 2025 Another big week of fishing and some great weather, the Gold Coast broadwater is fishing well with lots of school flathead on the bite. The water temperature is sitting around 20 degrees, and it’s just a matter of finding where the bait fish are. As
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 30 August 2025 A very sad week for the marine industry with the passing of Robert “Smithy” Smith of Smithy’s Charters, Mooloolaba. If you’d like to help his lovely family you can donate here: https://gofund.me/033f991b We have a windy weekend ahead of us then some great looking weather
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 23 August 2025 Apart from the two days of rain we fished every day the rest of the week and caught lots of variety including flathead, tailor, squid, flounder, whiting, and the usual bream, tarwhine. Yesterday the flathead were a bit shy when the water was glassed out
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 15 August 2025 Classic winter fishing in the Gold Coast broadwater this week with lots of flathead, squid, bream, tarwhine, flounder, and sand whiting increasing in numbers. The squid are getting bigger with some very nice ones amongst them, the best area has been the main channel from
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clint 10 August 2025 A windy week and some tough fishing but there were still squid, flathead, and whiting on the bite. This coming week there is still some Southerly wind around but not quite as strong. The tides are looking good with the mornings featuring run ins and
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 1 August 2025 The arrow squid have really come on this week and there are some bigger ones too, although nowhere near as big as previous seasons in the last eight years. The main Southport channel from Seaworld to Marina mirage in six metres depth has been the best
GOLD COAST ESTUARY FISHING REPORT by Clinto 25 July 2025 Nice arrow squid around this week although the big night tides around new moon have stirred up the water. New moon is today, as soon as those tides settle down the water will get nice and clear. Mornings next week with light wind will be