queensland This Weekend

[bretto]

11th

Went out to hinze in search of a few bass and hopefully a toga. A mate and I got there quite early so we set up and were away as the first bit of light peaked above the hills. Not long after we were geting into some quality fish with surface action still going strong at 9am. I got 7 bass the best 45cm and lost one very large bass to a snag and my mate got a nice little toga and lost a few others.

43cm

Head Shot

This 38cm smashed the frog

45cm

45cm headshot

I saw this little pool behind the grass and and managed to pull out a 41cm bass on a cicada colour sammy at 9am in sunny conditions.

12-04

I headed out into the maze of canals on the gold coast and had my best tarpon session since moving from the NT. I managed two small GT's early and had a queenie a bit shy of a metre on for about five minutes before wearing through the 8lb leader. As I paddled about I saw a few swirls so out went the popper and I managed to get on to a tarpon and was landed after a few screaming runs and jumps on the bream gear.

I then switched to a atomic hardz shad 40 in ghost wakasagi colour and landed two more before loosing it to a fish. I then got one more on a yo-zuri manekan.

lil GT

GT

48cm Tarpon on popper

51cm Tarpon on atomic hardz

Brett

[kiwifisho]

Another excellent couple of sessions had there mate :woohoo: Love ya work Bretto :ta:

Dean

[wesfish]

awesome catches there bretto!!!!! them tarpon at that size are some great fun and i bet the gt ran hard!!!!! great quality pics once again!! :woohoo: :woohoo:

[bretto]

Cheers guys

[STU]

Go the frogs

[bretto]

They are pretty deadly on the bass and toga. I was very impressed with the hook ups.

[Dinodadog]

Well done mate some nice fish there

[tomca]

I've seen a few guys using those frogs, but thought Barra would be the fish to target with them. Looks like I might need to try them myself, especially the fact that they are weedless.

Good job in the canals.

[werewolf]

That tarpon is a horse!

Yeah that frog lure you are using looks interesting. There were a few places at Big W that I would have loved to have a weedless surface lure handy but didn't! I might have to get there a bit earlier to worry about surface fishing though

[STU]

yeah those frogs are smaller meant for the job they are great can be cast into some thick terrain where not much else can go

[Rocket75]

great report Bretto and some quality fish there too;)

Rocket

[hulk]

Are those Tarpon any good on the chew?

Hulk

[werewolf]

hulk wrote:

Are those Tarpon any good on the chew?

They are in the herring family so at a guess would say pretty ordinary

[Cowfish13]

Great fish as always Bretto! Thanks for the info on lures as well

Hulk: They are reputed to be very poor. I've only caught one, but it felt really tough and boney. They are basically only a sports-fish

[yoyo]

that 2nd sesh out the back of harbour town bretto ?

[paulymassy]

awweosme sessions there mate same as you got a couple tarpon at noosa before loosing the lure to a big one haha nice fish mate

[Schmuck]

Cheers for the great report/photos! Now I wish I didn't bail on heading down to Hinze this w'end.

[Angus]

Well done Bretto! As usual

Angus

[Mack_attack]

some great fish there bretto well done

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