Tailor
Excellent
The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
Logan River Fishing Report
Updated Sat, 26 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
The river between Brisbane and the Gold Coast: bream and flathead in the tidal reaches, jack in the snags, and the mouth on southern Moreton Bay.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Water temp
~18 °C est.
Air / High
21 °C / 23 °C
Wind
E 11 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Logan River is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. Today brings clear skies, wind E around 11 km/h, rising pressure near 1027 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Water sits around 18 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 11:16 PM-1:16 AM and 11:16 AM-1:16 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Bream
Fair
Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
Flathead
Fair
Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
Mulloway
Fair
The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 11:16 PM-1:16 AM, 11:16 AM-1:16 PM, 5:46 AM-6:46 AM. Similar at 26 °C. 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 Logan River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:32), sunset (17:44), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:16 PM-1:16 AM and 11:16 AM-1:16 PM; minor 5:46 AM-6:46 AM. Full Moon, 100% lit.
Water and weather
Conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No live gauge on this water
Water readings appear when a Bureau of Meteorology station covers it. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp21 °C
High / Low23 °C / 16 °C
WindE 11 km/h, gusts 23 km/h
Pressure1026.9 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain9% cloud, 24%
Sunrise / Sunset05:32 / 17:44
MoonFull Moon, 100%
Water temp (seasonal)~18 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Logan River
The best day on Logan River this week looks like Thursday 1 Oct, at 4 out of 5, against 2 today. Every day is scored by the same engine as the report above: pressure trend first, then wind, sky and season. Pick a species and the plan for that day changes with it.
Best day this week: Thursday, 1 Oct — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 26 Sept — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 11:16 PM-1:16 AM and 11:16 AM-1:16 PM
- Minor period
- 5:46 AM-6:46 AM
- Sun
- 05:32 to 17:44
- Moon
- Full Moon, 100% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 24%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Logan River: 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. Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
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. Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
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. The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; August to September on Fraser Island
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. The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
When to come: the Logan River 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 18 °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 dataFri, Sep 25
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 23 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Thu, Sep 24
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 23 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Wed, Sep 23
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 24 °C, wind to 16 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, at the mouth, the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning apply, on the Queensland Government pages linked below.
About this water
Logan River is a river in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Logan River: the full guide
The river
The Logan River runs from the Scenic Rim through Beaudesert, Logan and Beenleigh to southern Moreton Bay, joined by the Albert near its mouth, and it is tidal through the suburbs of Logan City down to the bay: rock walls, mangroves, sand flats near the mouth, deep bends and snags upstream, and the bridges of the motorways that are the river’s best-known marks. It is fished from the bank at the parks and the ramps and from boats and kayaks between the tide and the snags. Moreton Bay, where it ends, has its own page; this one is scored for the river.
Species and seasons
Bream are the river’s year-round fish along the walls, the pylons and the mangroves, with the winter run to the mouth; flathead lie on the sand of the lower river and the bay mouth in the warmer months; mangrove jack push into the snags of the middle river through summer and are the river’s prize; and mulloway are the night fish of the bridges and the deep bends. Threadfin salmon appear in the lower river, whiting fish the mouth sand in summer, and mud crabs are a pot fishery in the mangroves and the creeks. The motorway bridges are the marks most people name, and the pylons hold bream on every tide.
Reading this report for the river
The river runs on the tide and the tide panel, a modelled curve for these coordinates labelled as a model, is the thing to read for the bream on the run and the jack and jew on the change; the Bureau of Meteorology has the official times. Rain matters, because a fresh colours the river for days and pushes the fish to the mouth. Pressure and sky build the score and the planner shows the night to take.
Rules and access
Queensland has no general fishing licence; the size and bag limits, the closed seasons and, at the mouth, the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning apply, on the Queensland Government pages linked below. The river parks and the bridge approaches are public, with ramps at Beenleigh, Logan Village, Eagleby and the mouth at Jacobs Well.
Common questions
What can I catch in the Logan River?
Bream and flathead, mangrove jack in the snags in summer, mulloway at night around the bridges, threadfin in the lower river and mud crabs in the mangroves.
Do I need a licence to fish the Logan River?
No. Queensland has no recreational fishing licence; limits, closed seasons and marine park zones at the mouth apply.
Is fishing good at Logan River 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
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
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.