Fresh Gold Coast Fishing Reports

Here at Top Gear, it doesn't matter if you are a boy, girl, experienced or not, we love to see you catch fish. What a great way for a family to bond or meet new friends, it's called fishing. The great Australian pastime.

The Gold Coast has had an amazing run on the juvenile black marlin this season. Unfortunately the weather hasn't been as good. We are still catching the numbers and the bait has been holding when we have been able to get out. We are headed into our blue marlin season but will continue to offer our light tackle charters until the end of this month. According to the weather reports we are looking to have fantastic conditions heading into the long weekend coming up. Be sure to book before we book out!

HotShot Charters has had an amazing start to 2019! Last month we tagged and released 31 billfish and this month we tagged and released 35 black marlin bringing out total to date 66 billfish!!! During the month of February we had days that produced double digits and our best 2 days had us 11-12 and 15-21!!!! Our blue marlin offshore season is starting and we looking to have an epic season if the black season is anything to go by! Be sure to check out our Heavy Tackle Charter option!!!

31 Marlin Tagged And Released So we have added up our tag cards from The Billfish Foundation and HotShot has had a pretty good start off to the New Year! When we reported last month at the beginning of the year that things were a bit slow... Boy did that ever change! The weather became absolutely beautiful with flat calm seas nearly every day! The bait that had been sitting low in the water column finally started to rise to the surface where we were marking thick deep patches. It only took a matter of time for the marlin to join in the mele of birds and dolphins. So far this season we have had abnormal sized fish! Really the first batch of fish to come thru were averaging 150 to 250lb for all species of billfish. We were lucky enough to catch a 250lb blue marlin in less than 80meters of water!!! Not to mention the above average sized striped marlins. Of course we also had our pelagic: Mahi's and wahoo's that let our anglers take home dinner! One of the things we love here at HotShot Charters is being able to get first time anglers onto their first marlin! This month we have also had the honor of being apart of 9yr old Augies first black marlin one of many in the future I'm sure. We've been lucky to share in birthday celebrations and helped in ticking off bucket lists!!! Also the amount of female anglers coming out and joining the sport is fantastic! We even had Marlene Hicksfrom the Billfish Babes join us for a sporty day of fishing! We at HotShot are really looking forward to our blue marlin season kicking off and if the last month is any indicator this blue season should be fantastic! As always thank you for your continued support... Until next time tight lines and calm seas.... Tara

January 2019 has started off with a bang here on the Gold Coast of Australia! We have been flat out at HotShot Charters and have had red hot fishing both inshore and off shore. The bait schools are thick with slimy mackerel and we've had a lot of good current with beautiful days of weather. HotShot has been able to start 2019 by landing several first time dream marlin for our anglers and the size of the fish this season is incredible.

Weather has been a bit hit or miss lately but we were able to catch a great window opportunity to take out young Riley and his dad Doug from Gladstone. We had a great day going 2-3 on blue marlin and 1-2 on striped marlin. Both species were first time marlins for Riley.