queensland Newstead park, 28/11/08

[nadders]

So I had the day off yesterday and even though it was raining and miserable I couldn't stand sitting around inside. I decided to see if the fish were biting after the rain at newstead area.

Went there from about 10:00am - 1pm, didn't get anything much until about 12 when i started pulling in a few bream. Plenty of small ones and one decently fat 32cm specimen who was going to feed me for dinner but in the time i took to open the eski lid he jumped off the edge of the walkway and away he went oh well lesson learned.

What was a bit weird is that these fish gave absolutely no fight at all, i mean none at all. The 32cm fella, i didn't even know I had a fish on the line until i pulled him out of the water using circle hooks, he took a few pecks at the bait and then nothing, no notable sign that he was swimming away or anything, he seemed to just be floating with the bait in his mouth :| after a while i slowly reeled in and i still couldn't feel his weight but i guess he got hooked then and made a slow swim toward me.

Does all the freshwater make them docile or something?

[kriso]

i have caught my biggest bream in the same conditions as well, was the noosa river after the floods, i think all the rain water lowers oxygen levels or something and slows them down a bit, put it this way i had a 35cm fork lenght fish on but in the pitch dark thought there was a crab hanging onto my bait as no pull what so ever. was so disapointed!

[Jeryl]

thats not bad at all mate a 32cm bream caught in the recent condition of water i'd consider its a very good catch.

and sounds like it was a smart bream knew how to escape

[Enjoyfish1]

Interesting theory. You might be onto something there.

[brisbanebound]

The mouthof breaky creek lloks awesome, drove up there on Friday night.

I hope the river isnt like this all summer? Went for a fish last week at New Farm all I got was a catty and no bites at all from anything else.

Surely there would be sharks around still?

[nadders]

well i've still been getting at least bream, infact i havent caught a catty for a good while ;o i guess it really depends on the location though, i would have thought new farm would be ok being so close to the mouth

[chandler130]

sounds like it saved its energy for that elusive escape,hehe:laugh:

[nadders]

well i went back there tonight (sat night) and caught another decent bream, 31cm this time, and currently residing in filleted form in my freezer.

edit:

search was fruitful ;p

[roobs]

i reckon all the sharks are jumping the mt crosby weir and heading to wivenhoe... if anyone has caught one above the weir i'd love to know. apparently they jump the fish ladder at lake nicuragua.