Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Bundaberg Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Burnett River, the Elliott and the Kolan, Bargara’s rocks and the reefs off the coast: the southern gateway to the reef with an estuary at its door.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Next tide
Low 1:52 pm model
Air / High
23 °C / 25 °C
Wind
ENE 15 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Bundaberg is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings clear skies, wind ENE around 14 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 25 °C. Tides: high 7:28 am and 7:28 pm, low 1:02 am and 1:52 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:24 AM-12:24 PM and 10:46 PM-12:46 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Fair
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Fair
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Tie on: Soft plastic on a 1/4 oz jighead · Small hardbody, shallow diver · Squid jig, size 3.0 · Fresh pipi or worm on a small hook. Prime windows: 10:24 AM-12:24 PM, 10:46 PM-12:46 AM, 4:03 AM-5:03 AM. Similar at 27 °C with likely rain: fish ahead of the front. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Queensland has no general fishing licence, but rules and permits apply. Queensland fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing bream here? Check the size and bag limits with Queensland DPI before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Bundaberg today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:58), sunset (18:10), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:24 AM-12:24 PM and 10:46 PM-12:46 AM; minor 4:03 AM-5:03 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Mon
LOW1:02 am-0.69 m
HIGH7:28 am1.72 m
LOW1:52 pm-0.39 m
HIGH7:28 pm1.18 m
Tue
LOW1:38 am-0.61 m
HIGH8:01 am1.68 m
LOW2:30 pm-0.34 m
HIGH8:01 pm1.07 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp23 °C
High / Low25 °C / 21 °C
WindENE 15 km/h, gusts 28 km/h
Pressure1017.8 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain15% cloud, 73%
Sunrise / Sunset04:58 / 18:10
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Bundaberg
The best day on Bundaberg this week looks like Tuesday 10 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 2 today.
Best day this week: Tuesday, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 10:24 AM-12:24 PM and 10:46 PM-12:46 AM
- Minor period
- 4:03 AM-5:03 AM
- Sun
- 04:58 to 18:10
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 19 km/h
- Rain chance
- 73%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Bundaberg: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
When to come: the Bundaberg calendar
Activity by species and month for the southern year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 22 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataSun, Nov 8
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 32 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 28 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 28 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence; permits apply on some waters and the limits and closures do. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by Queensland DPI and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Queensland licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Queensland has no general fishing licence; the size and bag limits, the closed seasons and the Great Sandy Marine Park zoning apply, and that park runs from Baffle Creek, north of the town, south to Double Island Point, so this whole coast is inside it.
About this water
Bundaberg is a coastal town in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Bundaberg: the full guide
Bundaberg and its rivers
Bundaberg sits on the Burnett River a few kilometres from the coast, and its fishing spreads along three rivers, the Burnett, the Elliott and the Kolan, and along the coast from Burnett Heads and Bargara down to Elliott Heads and Woodgate. The rivers are bream, flathead, whiting and, in the warmer months, barramundi and mangrove jack water; the coast is rock platforms at Bargara and the heads, beaches between them and the reefs offshore that make Bundaberg a departure point for the southern Great Barrier Reef.
Species by season
Bream and flathead fish the rivers and their mouths all year, the flathead on the sand in the warmer months; whiting work the river flats and the beaches in summer; barramundi and mangrove jack push into the rivers through the warm months, with the east coast barramundi closure from 1 November to 31 January in force for most of that time; and mud crabs are a pot fishery in the creeks. The rocks at Bargara and the heads give tailor, trevally and, in winter, snapper to the shore anglers, with snapper and pearl perch closed from 15 July to 15 August, school mackerel and tuna run the coast in season, and the offshore reefs fish for snapper, sweetlip and the reef species when the seas allow.
Reading this report here
The south-easterly is the wind to read: it stirs the coast and pushes the fishing into the rivers, and a westerly or a still morning opens the rocks and the reefs. The pressure trend and the sky feed the score, and the seven-day planner picks the day, and the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model; the rivers run hard on the tide and fish on the change, so use the curve for the direction and the Bureau of Meteorology prediction for the times.
Rules and access
Queensland has no general fishing licence; the size and bag limits, the closed seasons and the Great Sandy Marine Park zoning apply, and that park runs from Baffle Creek, north of the town, south to Double Island Point, so this whole coast is inside it. The Burnett River is closed to all fishing from 400 metres upstream to 400 metres downstream of the barrage, and to recreational netting, cast nets included, through the town reach. The river banks, the rock platforms and the beaches are public, and the state facility list has ramps at the Burnett Heads boat harbour, on Queen Street in Bundaberg, at Bargara and at Elliott Heads.
Common questions
Do I need a fishing licence in Bundaberg?
No. Queensland has no recreational fishing licence; limits, closed seasons and marine park zones apply.
What can I catch in the Burnett River?
Bream, flathead and whiting, barramundi and mangrove jack in the warmer months outside the 1 November to 31 January closure, and mud crabs in pots; the 400 metres either side of the barrage are closed to fishing.
Is fishing good at Bundaberg right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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Readings refresh on a 30-minute window. The full method, with every figure and its source, is on How our reports are made. Something wrong here? Tell us and it goes in the log with the date.