Burnett River - Any good?

[Stenno]

Hi,

We're heading to the Burnett for the first time next week tinny in tow.

Are there spots to avoid or areas to get involved at?

Any help would be good, looking for flatties, bream and whatever is about.

Thanks in advance.

[wags on the water]

Stenno, you should have a ball fishing the Burnett, Kolan and Elliott river systems near Bundaberg. For local advice call into Tackle world on Quay St on what's biting in the region.

I haven't fished Bundy for a couple of years but grew up there and there's still some good fish being caught in the rivers. Take the cast net for prawns as well.

Good luck,
Wags

[Stenno]

Wags,Thanks for your reply.

Looking forward to it.

Cheers.

[going_phishin]

G'day Stenno,
Mate the river has been fishing relatively well lately with good amounts of flathead and bream being caught. I have been using soft plastics along the moored trawlers and getting smashed by 30+cm bream. Also when fishing bait anchoring on the very last jetty down stream of the town ramp is a good place for big bream and a few cod. For the flatties I've caught them along the mud banks on the north side of the river just down stream of the town ramp using mostly soft plastics but my parents have been catching them on cooked prawns and yabbies. I've had reports coming in of longtail and mac tuna just outside the mouth and even venturing into the river. There are also some hefty spanish and grey mackeral being caught around the leads these are succumbing to trolled lures and floating fresh live and dead baits. If you need any more help just give me a yell or drop into the boys at Tackle World as suggested.

Cheers
Josh

[cuzzamundi]

The breambos should be coming on now, so drop a bait along the rock wall at the back of the hospital. let us know how you go.

cuzza