Fishing the outer side of fraser island gets hervey bay fishing charter customers into better fishing possibilities.
Southern gutters fraser island.
Further north garrys anchorage is another narrow marked channel positioned between fraser and stewart island just north of figtree creek.
Fraser coast maryborough.
Large patches of coral reef are found here like the sandy cape shoals.
Thirty miles northwest of hervey bay is a spot called southern gutters which features 25 meter to 60 meter holes home to a number of schools of fish.
Further north and hugging the west coast of fraser island browns gutter is a marked narrow channel running north south that allows anchorage close to the island.
There s road access and a campsite onshore.
We are still waiting for the bulk numbers of fish to move into the bay and the best reports have come from wider and deeper grounds like the southern gutters roonies and outside of fraser island.
A number of deep holes where fish tend to school are found here.
For the first time this summer the southern and northern gutters got a touch up producing mixed catches of reef fish such as cod railway perch blackall parrot and.