Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Moreton Bay Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Brisbane’s bay: sand islands, shipping channels, artificial reefs and the flats where flathead, bream, whiting and snapper share a tide.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 1:59 pm model
Air / High
21 °C / 23 °C
Wind
NNE 11 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Moreton Bay is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings cloud cover, wind NNE around 11 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Tides: high 7:37 am and 7:38 pm, low 1:08 am and 1:59 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 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Excellent
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
Good
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
Good
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: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM, 10:42 PM-12:42 AM, 3:54 AM-4:54 AM. Similar at 24 °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 Moreton Bay today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:51), sunset (18:11), 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 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 AM; minor 3:54 AM-4:54 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
LOW1:08 am-0.73 m
HIGH7:37 am1.47 m
LOW1:59 pm-0.46 m
HIGH7:38 pm1.02 m
Tue
LOW1:43 am-0.63 m
HIGH8:12 am1.52 m
LOW2:39 pm-0.38 m
HIGH8:12 pm0.93 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp21 °C
High / Low23 °C / 16 °C
WindNNE 11 km/h, gusts 23 km/h
Pressure1018.4 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain86% cloud, 4%
Sunrise / Sunset04:51 / 18:11
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 Moreton Bay
The best day on Moreton Bay this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 4 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 10:20 AM-12:20 PM and 10:42 PM-12:42 AM
- Minor period
- 3:54 AM-4:54 AM
- Sun
- 04:51 to 18:11
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 4%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Moreton Bay: 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 Moreton Bay 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.
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Bream
Flathead
Mulloway
Tailor
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.
No angler reports yetBe the first: your report helps every angler who checks Moreton Bay today.
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 26 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 26 °C, wind to 21 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 19 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; what it has is a detailed rule book, and in Moreton Bay that rule book includes the marine park zoning as well as the size and bag limits and the closed seasons, all published by the Queensland Government and linked from the sources on this page.
About this water
Moreton Bay is a bay or coastal water in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Moreton Bay: the full guide
A bay the size of a fishery
Moreton Bay sits between Brisbane and the ocean, closed off by Moreton and North Stradbroke islands and fed by the Brisbane, Logan and Caboolture rivers. It is shallow and sandy in the south, deeper along the shipping channels, and full of the structure that a fishing report is really about: the beacons and channel markers that hold snapper, the sand flats off Wellington Point and Cleveland that fish for whiting and flathead, the artificial reefs, the rock walls of the Brisbane River mouth and the Redcliffe peninsula, and the western sides of the islands where the bay meets the surf. The whole bay is the Moreton Bay Marine Park, which Queensland Parks describes as running from Caloundra to the southern tip of South Stradbroke Island and three nautical miles out to sea, with green zones where no fishing is allowed; that zoning map is the first one to look at.
Species and seasons
Snapper are the winter fish of the bay, on the deeper reefs and around the beacons from late autumn, with the bigger fish taken at night on the bottom of the tide; the east coast closure for snapper and pearl perch runs from 15 July to 15 August, right in the middle of that season. Flathead lie on the sand edges in the warmer months and the bream fish the rock walls and the mangroves all year, with the winter run into the river mouths. Whiting are a summer fish on the flats, tailor and school mackerel come through in their seasons, mud crabs and sand crabs are pots-and-dillies fishing, and squid work the weed and the jetty lights. Bivalves and gastropods other than pipis may not be taken anywhere in the marine park.
Reading this report for the bay
Wind is the first number on this page for a reason: the bay is open enough that a fresh south-easterly makes the boat grounds unpleasant and pushes the fish onto the lee shores, while a still morning fishes everywhere. The tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model; the bay’s tides are strong and the flats fish on the run-in, the beacons on the change, so use the curve for direction and the Bureau of Meteorology prediction for the minute. Pressure and sky feed the score, and the seven-day planner shows the day the pattern lines up.
Rules and access
Queensland has no general fishing licence; what it has is a detailed rule book, and in Moreton Bay that rule book includes the marine park zoning as well as the size and bag limits and the closed seasons, all published by the Queensland Government and linked from the sources on this page. Access is from the state-listed ramps at Manly, Wynnum, Cleveland, Victoria Point and Scarborough, the jetties at Wellington Point and Victoria Point and the council’s Redcliffe Jetty, and the ferries to the islands for the surf beaches.
Common questions
Do I need a licence to fish Moreton Bay?
No. Queensland has no recreational fishing licence, but the marine park zoning, size and bag limits and closed seasons apply; see the Queensland licence page for what does apply.
What fish are in Moreton Bay?
Snapper on the reefs and beacons in winter outside the mid-July to mid-August closure, flathead and whiting on the flats in summer, bream on the walls and mangroves all year, tailor and school mackerel in season, plus squid and crabs.
Are the tides on this page official?
No. They are a modelled sea-level curve for these coordinates and say so; check the Bureau of Meteorology prediction for exact times, because the bay’s tides matter.
Is fishing good at Moreton Bay right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
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
- parks.qld.gov.au/parks/moreton-bay
- dpi.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/fisheries/closures/tidal/seasons
- dpi.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/fisheries/closures/tidal/waters
- data.qld.gov.au/dataset/recreational-boating-facilities-queensland
- moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Projects/Environmental/Redcliffe-Jetty
- 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.