queensland Lazy day goes ok

[Old Scaley]

Spent Saturday and Sunday helping my oldest son move house. Dragging furniture up and down steps - you know the drill. Woke up this morning at 8am and thought I might as well take advantage of the holiday and get the boat in the water. Quick check: fuel (not a lot, but enough for a quick trip around the mouth), bait (a bit of leftover squid and a few old pillies). Got the cast net on board, but couldn't be a**ed using it.

Ended up at fishos at the crack of 10.30am. Carparking at a premium, but as luck would have it, the guy coming in also vacated a spot right beside the ramp. Left the ramp with the plan to drift around the drop off near the tug station (yep, really lazy today).

Dropped some squid overboard and turned it some of these

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Later I turned those pike into a few of these

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And then a couple of these

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And the trusty old pillie turned into one of these

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Probably should have released the cod, but as we say "too good to only eat once" so bought it home for cod and chips tonight. Went 54cm and 2.2kg. Should be tasty.

All in all a pretty good 2 hours on the river in the middle of the day with no planning or preparation. The spot where I got the bream looks like it could be a great location in the winter. Had a few bust offs as well as landing 3 bream over 30cm in a half hour session. Would like to share, but it is a pretty small area that can only take one boat at a time.

[nadders]

thats a good cod mate and in my opinion the best eating fish in the river

well done

cheers

Dan

[waldo]

Ah what can't a smelly old third trip pilly do :laugh: It's a dead set bonus when a lazy day trip during gentlemans hours throws up some nice fish.

[zan0_15]

thats a quality lazy session!!

were your bustoffs on the pike as strip bait or did you chuck them on as livies?

[yoyo]

Speaking of cod, i was down at Fish on Fire at cleveland the other day for lunch and they had just gotten in some deep sea cod straight off the boat 2 hrs before i walked in the door.

I swear by the grilled snapper there, but went for the DS Cod and puck-me-drunk it was absolutely sensational..............

anyway, good cod there OS...

[Old Scaley]

zan0_15 wrote:

thats a quality lazy session!!

were your bustoffs on the pike as strip bait or did you chuck them on as livies?

Zano, the bustoffs were on pike strip baits. Plenty of snags in this spot, so they hit hard and headed for cover.

[Rocket75]

karma in action for helping with the move I reckon, well done mate.

rocket

[zan0_15]

nice......maybe twas grandma and grandpa cod!