Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Kawana Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Kawana Waters and the Mooloolah River: the canals, the river mouth and the Point Cartwright rocks, with bream, whiting, flathead and mulloway a walk from the beach.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
Low 1:34 pm model
Air / High
21 °C / 23 °C
Wind
NNE 13 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Kawana has the water in the comfortable band where most of its fish feed through the day. Today brings a mixed sky, wind NNE around 13 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Tides: high 7:16 am and 7:13 pm, low 12:37 am and 1:34 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 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 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: 10:21 AM-12:21 PM, 10:42 PM-12:42 AM, 3:56 AM-4:56 AM. Similar at 25 °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 Kawana today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:52), 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 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 AM; minor 3:56 AM-4:56 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
LOW12:37 am-0.42 m
HIGH7:16 am1.19 m
LOW1:34 pm-0.20 m
HIGH7:13 pm0.75 m
Tue
LOW1:08 am-0.39 m
HIGH7:51 am1.22 m
LOW2:14 pm-0.17 m
HIGH7:47 pm0.66 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp21 °C
High / Low23 °C / 18 °C
WindNNE 13 km/h, gusts 27 km/h
Pressure1018.1 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain31% cloud, 100%
Sunrise / Sunset04:52 / 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 Kawana
The best day on Kawana this week looks like Tuesday 10 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Tuesday, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 AM
- Minor period
- 3:56 AM-4:56 AM
- Sun
- 04:52 to 18:10
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 19 km/h
- Rain chance
- 100%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Kawana: 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 Kawana 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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SlowPeak
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
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 27 °C, wind to 29 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 26 °C, wind to 19 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 24 °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, at Kawana or anywhere; the size and bag limits apply, on the pages linked below.
About this water
Kawana is a coastal town in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Kawana: the full guide
Kawana and the Mooloolah
Kawana is the canal suburb of the Sunshine Coast on the Mooloolah River south of Mooloolaba, with the canals and their walls, the river running to a mouth at the Mooloolaba harbour, Point Cartwright and its rocks at the northern end, Kawana beach running south toward Caloundra and Lake Kawana behind. It is a canal-and-river suburb with a surf beach, and the report on this page is scored for the suburb’s coordinates. The Sunshine Coast and Caloundra have their own pages.
Species and seasons
Bream fish the canal walls, the pontoons and the river all year and are the suburb’s fish; whiting fish the river sand and the beach in summer; flathead lie on the river flats and the canal drop-offs from spring to autumn; mulloway are the night fish of the river mouth and the canals; tailor run the beach and Point Cartwright in winter; mangrove jack fish the canal walls in summer; trevally work the mouth on the run-out; and the point gives the odd mackerel in summer. The canals are lit at night and the pontoons fish then.
Where to fish it
The canal walls and pontoons are fished from the public parks and the bridges along the Kawana Waters canals for bream at night, and the Mooloolah River upstream of the harbour is the flathead, whiting and jew water on the run-in; Point Cartwright’s rocks and Kawana beach are the tailor and whiting spots. Boat ramps are on the river.
Reading this report here
The canals are sheltered from everything and the beach faces east, so the wind row decides the side: a south-easterly closes the beach and the point while the canals fish. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Kawana, labelled as a model, and the river runs on it. Pressure and sky build the score at Kawana; the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
Queensland has no general fishing licence, at Kawana or anywhere; the size and bag limits apply, on the pages linked below. The river foreshore, the beach and the point are public and the canal walls are fished from the public parks and bridges; the ramps are on the river; the DAF rules are in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Kawana?
Bream on the canal walls, whiting in the river in summer, flathead on the drop-offs, mulloway at the river mouth at night, tailor on the beach in winter.
Do I need a licence at Kawana?
No. Canal, river and beach fishing at Kawana needs no licence; the size and bag limits apply.
Is fishing good at Kawana right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
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
- 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.