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.
Southern gutters fraser island.
Depths range from 25 m on the outer edges to 60m in the holes.
Fraser coast maryborough.
The southern gutters are approx 30 nautical miles north west of hervey bay and half way between the top of fraser island and bundaberg.
Large patches of coral reef are found here like the sandy cape shoals.
There s road access and a campsite onshore.
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.
Fishing the outer side of fraser island gets hervey bay fishing charter customers into better fishing possibilities.
Further north garrys anchorage is another narrow marked channel positioned between fraser and stewart island just north of figtree creek.
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.