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.
Toorbul Fishing Report
Updated Fri, 25 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Pumicestone Passage from the mainland: the Toorbul flats and jetty, the Bribie channels and the Glass House creeks, with whiting, bream, flathead and crabs.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 6:58 pm model
Air / High
18 °C / 23 °C
Wind
ESE 10 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Toorbul rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. Today brings clear skies, wind ESE around 10 km/h, steady pressure near 1030 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Tides: high 6:44 am and 6:58 pm, low 12:50 am and 12:42 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 18 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM: 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: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:25 PM-12:25 AM, 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Similar at 23 °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 Toorbul today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:34), sunset (17:44), 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 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM; minor 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Full Moon, 99% 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.
Fri
LOW12:50 am-0.57 m
HIGH6:44 am0.99 m
LOW12:42 pm-0.54 m
HIGH6:58 pm1.31 m
Sat
LOW1:20 am-0.66 m
HIGH7:20 am1.09 m
LOW1:27 pm-0.61 m
HIGH7:30 pm1.23 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp18 °C
High / Low23 °C / 17 °C
WindESE 10 km/h, gusts 19 km/h
Pressure1029.9 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain16% cloud, 75%
Sunrise / Sunset05:34 / 17:44
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~18 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Toorbul
The best day on Toorbul this week looks like Thursday 1 Oct, at 4 out of 5, against 3 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, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.
Today, 25 Sept — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM
- Minor period
- 4:55 AM-5:55 AM
- Sun
- 05:34 to 17:44
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 75%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Toorbul: 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 Toorbul 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 dataThu, 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 18 km/h.
Tue, Sep 22
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 25 °C, wind to 24 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 Toorbul or anywhere; the size and bag limits, the crab rules and the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning of the passage apply, on the pages linked below.
About this water
Toorbul is a coastal town in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Toorbul: the full guide
Toorbul and the passage
Toorbul is the village on the mainland shore of the Pumicestone Passage opposite Bribie Island north of Brisbane, with the jetty and the ramp on the passage, the sand flats and channels between the village and the island, the creeks of Ningi and Elimbah behind and the passage running north toward Caloundra. It is a passage village on the flats, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates. Bribie Island has its own page.
Species and seasons
Whiting fish the passage flats and the channel edges all year and are the village’s fish; bream fish the jetty and the mangroves; flathead lie on the flats from spring to autumn; mud crabs work the creeks and the mangroves under the pot rules and are the other reason people come; mangrove jack fish the creek snags in summer; tailor push into the passage in winter; and the channels give the odd mulloway at night. The flats are a wading fishery on the rising tide.
Where to fish it
Toorbul jetty and the foreshore in front of the village are the bream and whiting marks, fished on the rising tide, and the flats across to Bribie and the channel edges are the whiting and flathead water for wading and small boats; Ningi and Elimbah creeks behind the village are the crab and jack water. The ramp is at the village, and Donnybrook to the north is the other passage access.
Reading this report here
Bribie Island shelters the passage from the ocean and the wind is the story: a south-easterly chops the open water and the creeks stay fishable. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Toorbul, labelled as a model, and the flats fill and drain on it. Pressure and sky build the score at Toorbul; the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
Queensland has no general fishing licence, at Toorbul or anywhere; the size and bag limits, the crab rules and the Moreton Bay Marine Park zoning of the passage apply, on the pages linked below. The jetty, the foreshore and the ramp are public; the DAF rules are in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Toorbul?
Whiting on the passage flats, bream at the jetty, flathead in the warm months, mud crabs in the creeks under the pot rules.
Do I need a licence at Toorbul?
No. Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence; the limits and the marine park zoning still apply.
Is fishing good at Toorbul 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
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.