Hervey Bay, Fraser Island and Surrounding Creeks

[ThatsAbeauty]

Hey fellow fishing friends, im planning a long weekend up in hervey bay within the next couple weeks, mainly looking to be casting lures and soft plastics around, the bay, flats and creeks, just curious if anyone has some tips or good places to start, is it tru you can encounter the odd barra in the creeks?

[shayned]

Hey you made it, welcome to the dark side my friend, no more talk of gummy sharks and pinkies and alvey reels as far as the eye can see. They're a good bunch on here and someone will be able to assist you I'm sure.

[fullscale]

hi there mate give us ring when you get here i will be able to point out a few spots .

cheers troy

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[marlinqld]

I towed my Ally Crat to hervey bay at Easter, my first time there fishing.

I was impressed. Even down to the big mackerel being caught off the end of the Urangan pier.


Mate, the fishing is endless up there, and i hope to make it back with my boat on a regular basis, having already booked my 3 week Xmas camping spot.

[PAYNE]

Where do you start ?
We usually fish the western foreshores of Fraser for flatties and bream, around the Picnics for squire and trevally, Little Woody Island on the "spit" side for some great flathead (walking the bank is ultra productive here). I think Little Woody may be a green zone in the very near future so you may as well give it a go while you can. One of the best spots in the bay if you're not too lazy to jump out the boat
We hit Ungowa last time we were there and the number of flatties was unbelievable. Some good sized ones too.

[tinfish]

Hey Leanne, drive down to river heads boat ramp & try the susan river. was there 2 christmass's ago. didn't get any barra, but saw some nice movement up the creeks. not bad muddies to. See Ya. CHOOK

[lanks]

try the land - locked canal at eli waters estate in hervey bay (joins from eli creek) for massive barra, cod, jacks , trevally, threadfin salmon, giant herring,etc . be careful of some of the locals that live there though, they think they own the canal as well as their homes. also try the beach boat ramp at point vernon (gatakers bay) in front of the restaraunt at high tide with soft plastics (buy the green minnows from 'the WAREHOUSE' variety store and use 1/8th jig heads) for oversized flathead. i used to catch and release quite a few from there when we lived there last year. if you can, take a day over at the kingfisher bay resort jetty on fraser island (catch barge from River Heads), there are often golden trevally there to 6kg and less locals to compete for fishing room with. we caught these on watermelon 3 inch powerbait minnows on 1/8th to 1/4 heavy wire jig heads along with plenty of large bream and flathead at about this time 12 months ago.

[ThatsAbeauty]

Thanks guys, will let you know how i do

[danos]

I lived there all throughout primary school and high school and my old man still lives there. Generally fishing is pretty slow in the bay. The Eli Waters Dams do hold barra and tarpon (not sure on the rest) but is best fished after some rain in summer. For flathead i'd head over to Toogoom/Dundowuran and fish the creeks, inlets and beaches. They catch some good fish off the pier using live herring (Trevally, Mac Tuna, Makeral, Queenies). Over towards Fraser, kingfisher jetty produces some solid bream, trevally, tuna etc. and there is an inshore coffee rock ledge and an outer reef the whole way along the beach that is good for flathead, trevally and tuna (if you can cast far enough). On the freshwater scene there is lenthalls dam. its not that accessable for bank fishing but the upper reaches and downstream creek are gold for bass and barra.

[mitch_05]

the lake that lanks mentioned in eli waters is good for flathead and bream on plastics. when i lived in eli waters i used to fish there quite often. i started at one end and slowly walked around it doing cast and retreive. once at the other end i would cast and retreive for a while then just let the lure out about 5-10 metres and slowly walk back to the start point and not reel in. on one corner i would always hook up on a flathead and usually about 30-35 cm ones. used to use dark green lures for the flatties and white ones for the bream. also the uran gan jetty copuld be good. lots of people catch macks, trevally, queenfish, cod, parrot, monster flatties of it. and dont always go straight to the end as they are the whole length allong not just the end.


mitch