Yearly Archives : 2014

Full days have been firing; both the Barwon Banks and Caloundra Wide have been fishing exceptionally well. In close things have been a little hit and miss, but the last week has seen a little improvement with some pelagic action heating up.

Murphy’s – squire, sweetlip, tuskfish

Gneerings – tuskfish, cobia, yellow fin and spanish mackerel

Caloundra 9 & 12 mile – tuskfish, ,moses perch, big cod, spotted mackerel and school mackerel

Caloundra wide – snapper, pearl perch, mahi mahi and wahoo

Barwon banks – red throat, tuskfish, fusilier, wahoo, mahi mahi, Spanish mackerel and black marlin

We just went through a low tide at 5:20am @ 0.55m. New moon is the 31.1.14 so the next 10 days should fish well. Listen to Trent doing the fishing report on ABC coastal FM every Wednesday morning to hear some more tips.

The past weeks weather has been a little ordinary, but we were still out and about squeezing in charters Monday, Wednesday, Friday and the weekend. Fishing went well, especially the full day trips Friday and Sunday. Wednesday and Saturday’s half day trips were spent on murphy’s reef and the gneerings’ catching species such as squire, sweetlip, tuskfish, maori cod and moses perch. The full days were on the barwon banks where the fishing has been going off! The biggest fish was caught on Friday a black marlin caught trolling skirted lures, we didn’t bring it on board it was released at the side of the boat, at a guess it might have weighed 60kg – we will upload some footage to our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/TOP-Catch-Charters/340047046026078?ref=hlin the next few days if you want to have a look. One of the punters’ captured this shot of it in mid air near the boat.

We also caught plenty of red throat, tusk fish, rosy job fish, wahoo, mahi mahi, moses perch, tuna, gold spot wrasse and lots of spanish mackerel. This is a shot from Sunday’s trip where everyone was enjoying the sound of fish pulling drag and line off the reels from the floating pilly’s and lures.

The Australia day long weekend is fast approaching and with the approaching new moon phase the fishing should be on the bite, we have spots left for a half day Saturday morning and the full day on Sunday. They are filling fast so if you would like to join in on the action head to our contacts page to get in touch, until then Happy Hunting!!!!!!!!

Hi all, the weather the past 2 weeks has seen the return of our S/E trade winds which can generate some choppy conditions. However the pattern has been working out for good conditions on the weekends and we have seen some great fishing. The outer reefs have been firing, we had full and maxi days’ booked over the weekend and it fished well. Species caught were red throat emperor, tusk fish, fusilier, Maori wrasse, yellow fin and skipjack tuna, gold spot wrasse and mahi mahi. The biggest fish caught was this 9kg mahi mahi caught by Ian on a live yakka float lining with a balloon. Well done mate!!

The best eating fish would have to go to the red throat emperor, I’m a big fan. This one weighed in at 2.5kg

The crabbing went well too, everyone got a feed to take home. Overall a good weekend, we caught fish on the surface and on the bottom with lures and with bait. The Sunshine Coast has shown her better side this summer and it’s good to see everyone enjoying it. If you would like to join us on a trip or charter the whole boat head over to our contacts page and give us a shout.

Happy hunting!!