Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Burrum Heads Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Burrum River mouth on Hervey Bay: whiting, bream and flathead in the river, the flats and the bay, with the sand banks at the mouth and mud crabs in the mangroves.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Next tide
Low 1:57 pm model
Air / High
22 °C / 26 °C
Wind
NE 15 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Burrum Heads sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings clear skies, wind NE around 16 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 26 °C. Tides: high 7:32 am and 7:32 pm, low 1:13 am and 1:57 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 10:23 AM-12:23 PM and 10:45 PM-12:45 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: 10:23 AM-12:23 PM, 10:45 PM-12:45 AM, 4:01 AM-5:01 AM. Similar at 26 °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 Burrum Heads today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:57), 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 10:23 AM-12:23 PM and 10:45 PM-12:45 AM; minor 4:01 AM-5:01 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
LOW1:13 am-0.87 m
HIGH7:32 am1.85 m
LOW1:57 pm-0.54 m
HIGH7:32 pm1.31 m
Tue
LOW1:47 am-0.76 m
HIGH8:03 am1.83 m
LOW2:37 pm-0.47 m
HIGH8:02 pm1.22 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp22 °C
High / Low26 °C / 20 °C
WindNE 15 km/h, gusts 29 km/h
Pressure1017.8 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain20% cloud, 56%
Sunrise / Sunset04:57 / 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 Burrum Heads
The best day on Burrum Heads 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
- 10:23 AM-12:23 PM and 10:45 PM-12:45 AM
- Minor period
- 4:01 AM-5:01 AM
- Sun
- 04:57 to 18:10
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 19 km/h
- Rain chance
- 56%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Burrum Heads: 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 Burrum Heads 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 33 °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 27 °C, wind to 18 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 18 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, at Burrum Heads or anywhere; the size and bag limits and the crab rules apply, on the pages linked below.
About this water
Burrum Heads is a coastal town in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Burrum Heads: the full guide
Burrum Heads and the river
Burrum Heads is the village at the mouth of the Burrum River on the western shore of Hervey Bay north of Maryborough, with the river’s deep channel and mangrove banks running up past Buxton, the sand banks and flats at the mouth, the beach on the bay and the shallow bay out to the Fraser coast. It is a river-mouth village on a sheltered bay, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates. Hervey Bay has its own page.
Species and seasons
Whiting fish the mouth banks and the bay sand all year and are the village’s fish; bream fish the river’s snags and the mangroves; flathead lie on the flats and the channel from spring to autumn; mangrove jack fish the river snags in summer; grunter fish the river holes; tailor come to the mouth in winter; mud crabs work the mangroves under the pot rules; and the bay gives whiting and the odd mackerel for the boats. The river’s upper reaches around Buxton are the quiet water.
Where to fish it
The sand banks at the river mouth and the beach in front of the village are the whiting marks, fished on the rising tide, and the river’s channel and mangrove banks from the village up to Buxton are the bream, jack and crab water for small boats; the bay in front is the whiting ground for the boats. The ramps are at the village and Buxton, and the Burrum Coast National Park beaches are to the south.
Reading this report here
The village faces the bay and K’gari (Fraser Island) breaks the ocean swell, so the wind is the whole story: a south-easterly chops the bay and the river stays fishable. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Burrum Heads, labelled as a model, and the river and the banks run on it. Pressure and sky build the score at Burrum Heads; the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
Queensland has no general fishing licence, at Burrum Heads or anywhere; the size and bag limits and the crab rules apply, on the pages linked below. The river banks, the beach and the mouth are public, with ramps at the village and Buxton; the Great Sandy Marine Park zoning is in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Burrum Heads?
Whiting on the mouth banks, bream in the mangroves, flathead on the flats in the warm months, mangrove jack in summer, mud crabs under the pot rules.
Do I need a licence at Burrum Heads?
No. The Burrum is tidal water, where Queensland requires no licence; the limits and crab rules apply.
Is fishing good at Burrum Heads 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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