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Whether it be from a boat, bridge, jetty, or shore, the Moreton Bay Region has a great range of options for anglers, both experienced and novice, to try their luck. The adventurous can head out into the deep water where you can pull in cobia, marlin, billfish, and wahoo. In the calmer waters of the bay tailor, squid, snapper, and whiting can be lured to take the bait. The region’s three rivers — North Pine, South Pine, and Caboolture — can be fished from the banks or on the water. Leis Park at Petrie is a good launching spot for a day out on the North Pine River, which has three boat ramps. These rivers offer a variety of fish species, including bass, flathead, cod, bream, mud crabs and prawns, jewfish, mangrove jack, tailor, trevally, mullet, and whiting. Lake Samsonvale Also known as North Pine Dam, this lake offers a diverse experience for the keen angler along with a healthy fishery at Joyner. Lake Kurwongbah Shore-based fishing is permitted at Mick Hanfling Park and paddle craft anglers are allowed seven days a week in daylight hours. Source: www.moretondaily.com.au/news/fishing-hot-spots-in-the-mor...

The Local Catch Deep sea: Cobia Marlin Billfish Wahoo Rivers: Whiting Sandcraps Mudcraps Flathead In the bay: Tailor Squid Snapper Whiting Source: www.visitmoretonbayregion.com.au/blog/fishing

Charters Towers, the town they call ‘The World', was born to the sound of thunder and flashes of lightning. Hugh Mosman, George Clarke, John Fraser and their horse boy Jupiter had been prospecting to the south of what is now Charters Towers when their horses scattered during a fierce thunderstorm. It was while searching for the horses the next morning that the first Towers gold was discovered. The discovery point was just near the modern day intersection of Mosman Street, Rainbow Road and Black Jack Road and was at the end of the year 1871 or the very beginning of 1872. The party returned to Ravenswood to register their find which they named Charters Towers: 'Charters' for W.S.E.M. Charters, the Gold Commissioner - the big man from the Cape (Charters was said to be about 6'6" tall and weighed some 20 stone) and 'Towers' because of the conical shaped hills in the vicinity of the discovery. Mosman Street The rush to the place was immediate, with men from the south of the colony arriving as early as March. By the end of the month, 25 claims were laid off as far north as the St Patrick, south-east to the Washington and west to the North Australian. A business area with better access to a permanent water supply was marked out as well on a low ridge north of Mosman's Camp with its main thoroughfare named Mosman Street. Here the first storekeepers, blacksmiths, butchers and hoteliers went to work. "For a long time the buildings, business and private, were of a typical new goldfield variety - calico or bark - and leading hotels were constructed of saplings stuck into the ground and lined with calico, the whole being covered with iron." Source: www.visitcharterstowers.com.au/about/history-heritage

Burleigh Heads, or simply Burleigh to locals, sits like a cool comma between Surfers Paradise to the north and Coolangatta to the south. It’s a picturesque punctuation mark along the Gold Coast and most definitely somewhere to pause. The Burleigh foreshore is home to towering fragrant pine trees characteristic of the coast . Source: www.destinationgoldcoast.com/places-to-see/burleigh-heads

The Aboriginal Dreaming Story of Burleigh Head "Jellurgal (Burleigh Head) was once a flat and unbroken stretch of sand dunes. The Creation Spirit, Jabreen, transformed it into a rocky outcrop. One day his pathway led him to the ocean beach where he took a long swim to the horizon and back. Emerging from the water, Jabreen, a giant of enormous stature, rose up to his full height and raised his arms skywards. As he did, the level ground followed his hands upwards to the level of his fingertips, thus forming the headland of Jellurgal with the rocky fingers pointing seawards." Source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/burleigh-heads-qld