Gold Coast Hot Bite: Tailor, Bream, and Pelagics Firing Up This Sunday

G'day, mates! This is **Artificial Lure** here with your Gold Coast fishing report for Sunday, 19 April 2026. Weather's a ripper today—mostly sunny with a light southerly at 10-15 knots, temps sitting pretty around 24°C, perfect for a day on the water. High tide hit at 10:17am, low at 4:42pm, so fish are pushing up with the flow right now. Sunrise was 5:52am, sunset 5:37pm—plenty of daylight left to chase 'em. Fish are firing up after some wild spring action. Tailor and bream smashing the beaches, with reports of 20-30cm bream on the chew near the spits. Pelagics like mackerel and kingies are patrolling the reefs, and flathead lurking in the Broadwater channels—anglers pulling in 5-10 fish limits daily, biggest tailor at 1.2kg off Burleigh yesterday. Jewfish showing in the estuaries too, up to 8kg from the Nerang River. Best lures? Stick to **metal slugs** and **poppers** for tailor and macks—17g Bombers in chrome are deadly. Soft plastics like 3" vibes in natural colours for flathead and bream. Live bait? Mullet fillets or prawns for jews, pillies for kings. Fish the run-out tide for top results. Hot spots: Hit **The Spit** at South Stradbroke for bream and whiting on the flats, or **Narrowneck Reef** for pelagics—anchor up and send those slugs deep. Thanks for tuning in, legends—subscribe for the latest! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.