Wild Banks Artificial Reef consists of steel towers installed in 35m of water, east of Moreton Bay’s Wild Banks.

The towers are dubbed “fish caves”.

Each tower is an 11m-high structure of steel, 11m wide and weighing 14 tonnes each.

The total reef area covers 175ha.

The tower design attracts pelagic fish, but bottom fish are also caught, however anchoring is not allowed on these structures.

Because anchoring is not permitted, skippers use an electric motor spot-lock to fish, or just drift past the reefs while dropping baits or jigs.

The turn of the tide can bring on the best fishing.

Wild Banks Artificial Reef Fish Species

Fishermen catch mostly trevally, mackerel, cobia and kingfish on these reefs, with dolphin fish and wahoo also showing up.

Bottom fish caught include pink snapper, slatey bream, cod and tricky snapper (grassies).

The towers attract bait schools, and marlin and sailfish have been caught in the vicinity of the reefs.

Wild Banks Artificial Reef GPS Marks

Fish caves

26 54.238S 153 17.290E
26 54.530S 153 17.463E
26 54.678S 153 17.829E

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This reef covers a 15ha area on the east side of Coochiemudlo Island.

It is made of 174 concrete reef balls installed in 13 clusters of 11 to 16 balls.

Each cluster has balls of varying sizes rising to almost a metre off the seabed.

The balls within each cluster are a few metres apart and each cluster is 80m to 100m apart.

East Coochie Artificial Reef Fish Species

The reef produces a lot of small fish, and a few bigger ones.

The main catch is pink snapper, bream, tricky snapper (“grassies), tuskfish and flathead.

Passing school mackerel are caught.

Fish the turn of the tide, be sure to move if you don’t get bites, and try to fish mid-week and at night when boating traffic is lower.

East Coochie Artificial Reef GPS Marks

Reef Ball Clusters

27 34.106S 153 21.094E
27 34.143S 153 21.040E
27 34.159S 153 21.117E
27 34.208S 153 21.072E
27 34.222S 153 21.005E
27 34.273S 153 20.961E
27 34.283S 153 21.036E

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West Peel Artificial Reef is a 50ha area of clustered concrete reef balls in about 15m of water on the west side of Peel Island.

The reef was installed in 2010, with more reef balls added in 2012 and 2013.

The reef is made of 341 reef balls in 19 clusters of 10 to 16 balls of varying sizes, rising to almost a metre off the seabed.

The balls within each cluster are spaced a few metres apart and each cluster is between 100m to 200m apart.

This is a reasonably sheltered location near boat ramps, but it gets choppy with a sea breeze and runout tide combination.

West Peel Reef Fish Species

The reef does not look much on a sonar, and often produces small fish, but jewfish are caught at times.

Other species include pink snapper, tricky snapper (“grassies”), sweetlip, cod, flathead and tuskfish.

Pelagic fish pass through on occasion, including mackerel and cobia.

West Peel Reef GPS Marks

Reef ball clusters

27 29.880S 153 18.725E
27 29.921S 153 18.849E
27 30.002S 153 18.715E
27 29.997S 153 18.890E
27 30.075S 153 18.802E
27 30.117S 153 18.702E
27 30.185S 153 18.867E
27 30.232S 153 18.800E
27 30.275S 153 18.700E
27 30.276S 153 18.855E
27 30.350S 153 18.772E

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