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Tim a

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Tim a

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Hey all

I spent a few days of my holidays at Bribie and spent a bit of that fishing.Over all I could have fished a lot more but it was F$#&% windy during the first few days.

Day 1.

I think this was easter saturday.

It was really windy and I had forgotten the gar that Angus and I caught at Np a few days previous so my mackeral chase was off, however I still really wanted to use balloons with some livies in one of my fav spots the lock. One cast with the net and I had enough livies for the rest of my life(herring) so half of them went back leaving me with 38 herring in the bucket. Got the best quality balloons I could find then floated them out. The rig I was using was; My worst threadline with 10lb mono with a swivel then a light patenorster rig with a size 1 snapper lead keeping the livie from being pushed to the surface with the strong current. The balloon was half blown up and 10 cm up from the swivel. The rig had been out for about 10 mins when I decided to get a drink from the near by store. I asked my mate to watch the balloon CAREFULLY and if it moved at all to pick up the rod and just hold it till I got back. 5 mins later I come back to discover him asleep and no balloon. \"Where the hells the balloon?\" \"Ohh that, dunno\". I wound up the line to find the line around the corner with some serious weight. After pulling it for few seconds It just kicks once and bricks me. Ohwell It might come out! no no it doesn't. The rest of that arvo nothing happened.

Day 2 was spent on the beach until after dinner when I hit up the jetty with live pike for no success. Again it was really very windy.

I came home for a day then went back on wednesday.

Wednesday.

Nelson(adventure_angler) and I had organized an overnight kayak session in the canal with the lock as this canal holds the most life. We put in at around 8:30 pm and paddled around for a few hours with barely even a hit. I was using an sx60 in gold, orange and green and Nelson was using a scorpian. We didn't paddle to far at all because we decided there would be more fish around the lock and its close pontoons. It was about midnight and we still didn't have a fish and it was absolutely freezing!(colder than I've even been in Ireland!) It was the mix of light breeze and autumn that did it. I decided to have a short kip which turned into hybernation. We slept in a patch of grass with a barbed wire fence around us. Nothing like sleeping under the stars! I was up at 4:00 for dawn there was plenty of hits but no hook ups. I was now using gulp sandworms in nuclear chicken with a 1/40th nitro jighead. The sun had just come up when bam! I'm on! yayayayayyayayaya!! oh, pike. But to be honest I was still really happy that we had finally caught something! Nelson and I caught several Pike between us. It was nearly time to go when I thought screw this I want a jack again! Out goes the pink 2nd biggest pornstar. 1st cast, twitch twitch bang! short little tussle and in came a pretty looking cod. Didn't have time to measure it as he had the hooks in him pretty well so I didn't want him to die. Quick pic and back he goes. We had one last little yak around for no luck.

Nelson had to go back to brissie soon so we decided to have a little live baiting session from the jetty before he left. One cast and again enough bait for the rest of the day so most went back again. Nelson left after about one hour of my overhead with 35lb fireline being deployed and about 15 mins after he left zzzzz wooot. Sprinted to the rod to the find what ever had taken it had buggered off. I left the jetty about 2 hours after that with only one other small hit.

Thursday I spent livebaiting the jetty and had nothing from 12 pm till 5 pm so I had dinner. Decided to pull myself back to the jetty for a few hours and was promptly rewarded with a nice gummy shark after about 10 mins.

Friday I lure fished the other canals for a few bream and a lone small cod. They were all under 25cm(fork) and I was waiting for one over that to take a pic. They were caught land based on sx40s and gulps sandworms and gulp shrimps.

Saturday I caught jack all except a few sweetlip from the lock on prawns. One was 1/2 a cm under legal and boy do they fight well!

Sunday last day. My over head was screwed so I couldn't go livebaiting at dawn so I slept in. I decided not to ride far so up to the jetty to show the locals how to use lures. I was too lazy to change my previous leader of 6lb yamatoyo and I knew this was gonna screw me over. after 30 mins of using my favourite jetty sp (squidgee bug in avocado) I got a solid hit a hook up to feel tell tale headshakes of a flattie. Ohhh crap light leader. A few seconds later and bye bye mr flattie! Changed leader to get one small flattie about 30 cm. Went home packed up and had lunch then went out to a place that I absolutely love and I had completely forgotten about fishing. Buckleys hole. The house I stay in backs onto buckleys so it's a 100m walk out the door to where I had my first cast.I met this old fella (peter) who informed me about the fish he had caught from this spot and how to do it. He was using mullet fillet and I was using a 1/4 ounce tt jighead with a 3\" swimming mullet gulp in pink. After about an hour of chatting to Peter I finally hooked up. I saw a fish jump about 5 m infront of me with my sp in its back. I had ACCIDENTLY fowl hooked a big mullet. It zoomed off and after 2 mins of hearing my favourite sound in it came. It was nearing 50cm but I didnt have my camera with me. Back he went.Another 30 mins went by with out a good hit so I put on a gulp shrimp on a 1/8th jighead. A few casts later and I had a tiny flattie and a few mins after that a just legal breambo. Next few casts saw a few more bream and time to go.

Twas a decent trip and unfountuantly I had to leave just as the fish started biting.

Also to the guys that live near by, Go out and chase some flatties, they are on! caught a 48cm flattie in the cast net and had a much bigger(70cm +) escape as I was pulling the net up.

Thanks

Tim

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Just want to say thanks again for inviting me and having me at Bribie Tim, was good to get out and do some fishing. Your not wrong with how cold it was that night, even with a flanno, jumper, beanie, hood, tracksuit pants it was still freezing! Had a great time out on the yaks, even though we didnt catch anything and was also good to have my first go at poppers. The sleep was less than comfortable and its funny how a few pike can really liven up an otherwise slow night. The guys fishing about 15 metres away must have thought we were the biggest bogans, bogans with yaks!!! The cod was a good catch, even if it was a little unconventional. Tim just threw the lure out at the nearest part of the lock and bang.

Unlucky on losing the fish on the baloon rig, it definately looks like a good spot to do it on the run-out tide. Good work on the gummy shark too.

Hope you enjoyed the rest of your time at Bribie, its definately a nice spot you stay at close to many fishing locations.

-nelson-

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