queensland Fishing Kingfisher Bay

[Jordan]

Hey all,

As said in another post, if i reach my goal for this week at work i will be gven this saturday off and there is a good chance i may be heading to hervey bay again. what i was wondering was is the jetty at kingfisher bay a no fishing area? i remember staying there when i was young and im sure i had a fish there, but is it now a protected green zone? and do you have to be staying at the resort to fish there? or can you just go over for a day trip and fish there?

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Angus]

Last time i was there there would have been 30 guys fishing so im pretty sure its fine.

They were catching awesome fish as well many unstopable.

Loads of bait as well so that makes it easy.

Angus

[Jordan]

55 bucks to get over though, do u reckon its worth it?

[benno573]

you'll find it very similar to the urangan pier, a little less crowed and a few less bogan derros. heaps of bait schools around it and heaps of XOS things live around it. if you want to try for a GT landbased, that would be the place to do it. have also seen mackeral, tuna, golden trevs and queenies caught there. should be good with a bit more water movement this weekend too with the new moon. the bait will really hold up around the structure and the big boys will come out to play... :woohoo:

is it worth the $55??? i would say probably yes, but it's not my $... you heading up just for the day on saturday?

[Jordan]

gonan be heading to hervey for the weekend again. will probs stay at urangan saturday, and then kingfisher on sunday, we will see how things go but that looks like the plan

[benno573]

sounds awesome mate. can't wait for the report! hope you're taking your "shark" rod this time!! :woohoo:

[Jordan]

yea will definatley be taking some heavier gear. just finished a sales meeting and last weekends trip came up. when i told them about potentialy going to kingfisher they said they had tried it numerous times and it was rubbish...

doesnt sound too good.

[Angus]

Hahaha.

Jordan you are way to swayed by other peoples thoughts.

Do you reckon these guys are as mad keen as you and spend the time getting the right baits, the right rigs etc etc.

You have heard from a couple of people who have been there and seen huge and many fish....

[benno573]

i'll see if i can get some photos off a mate of mine who live up there. he landed a 36kg GT off the kingfisher jetty. got busted up by 6 bigger ones in the one session. and as gus says... if you went there with a pack of frozen prawns, you'd do no good. live baits, big baits, even spinners and poppers are the go, as you now know from your last trip.

[Jordan]

ok awesome thats comforting. will definatley give it a shot then.

[jeff f]

watch out for the kingies that take up residence under the baffle hulk in front of the jetty at this time of year

they are pretty much unstopable

[Jordan]

dang i guesse id better not go if theres going to be big fish like that around LOL!! wheres the baffle hulk? what is that?

whats the best bait to get them on?

[jeff f]

the baffle hulk is the hull of an old ship that is permanantly moored about 50m infront of the kingfisher jetty

it's there to stop the waves making it hard to load and unload the ferrys, cats and tourist boats

it's one huge F.A.D.

you should be able to see it if you zoom in with google earth

[benno573]

Jordan, try throwing big poppers out to the hull, if you can't find a queenie or trevally there you should give up fishing! massive bait schools under it always. had good success spinning for tailor and mackeral there too.

[Jordan]

this this keeps getting better and better, and you guys are sure im aloud to fish there without actually staying on kingfisher island? or being a customer of some sort? or needing some sort of permit? surley they would hate to have the jetty that all their yuppie customers walk onto looking like the urangan one...

[jeff f]

yes mate you can fish off it

think of it like bretts warf you just gotta move when the boats come in

[benno573]

and i don't know how yuppie some of their customers really are... :laugh:

i even got one of the boats to wait while i was fighting a fish once, and then got photographed by about 1000 asian tourists with my golden trev

[Jordan]

haha you serious? thats awesome. so im guessing the end of the pier is the best spot to fish? and the best way to get bait is just with a bait jig?

[benno573]

spot on mate.

[Angus]

Jordan wrote:

haha you serious? thats awesome. so im guessing the end of the pier is the best spot to fish? and the best way to get bait is just with a bait jig?

Yeah but thats obvious when you get there.

Its no where near as long as the Urangan one.

Its much much shorter, but very very deep very very quickly as its dredged for big boats.

Angus

[Mack_attack]

when we there these kids with their $20 kmart combos caught three mackeral around the 65cm mark on spoons work fast but not flat out.

I was using slugs and only got a few follows. There were heaps of macks and tuna but they were a bit shy.

[Cowfish13]

^^^^ The kids also got some Tuna. And we saw some huge Goldens swimming around.

As to if it's worth it, on the day that we went, with the right gear, definately. But it may not be the same...

[Jordan]

kk awesome guys, sounds good enough for me. the main concern i have is paying the money to go over there and then getting asked to leave but it sounds like that shouldnt be a problem. lets just hope the fish will be there as well!

[Cowfish13]

Nah, won't be a problem. Heaps of people fish off it. Mainly the guys who don't want to waste their fishing holiday touring an island:silly: So they fish off the jetty while the others in their group go.

[jeff f]

Mack_attack wrote:

when we there these kids with their $20 kmart combos caught three mackeral around the 65cm mark on spoons work fast but not flat out.

I was using slugs and only got a few follows. There were heaps of macks and tuna but they were a bit shy.

gold colour spoons have allways been the secret weapon for macs up there