queensland cold snap river fish

[nadders]

braved the arctic conditons last night for a late night bash around the river with one of the old crew

as usual moved around plenty to find the fish, hitting 5 or 6 different spots to put together a decent bag.

All up we got around 4 jew up to 70, 5 or 6 squire to 40, a few saltwater carp to around 30, and 4 flatties up to 55. Found most of the fish at one spot, so coulda been a quiet night if we didn't move around and look for new ground

last shot is a double hookup of jew and squire, apologies for the poor quality pic

cheers

Dan

[fishingnut]

lol salt water carp......Well done mate

[Death Ray]

Flatties always look so big coming in with their fins out, big ones are great.

Well done mate, some real nice fish there.............

[Scope]

Quality fish there Dan. I'm guessing your "saltwater carp" are tailor ??? :laugh: :laugh:

[fishingnut]

Scope wrote:

Quality fish there Dan. I'm guessing your "saltwater carp" are tailor ??? :laugh: :laugh:

Yep bloody vermin

[smitty]

Top pics of the action

[nadders]

nah tailor are just vermin, saltwater carp is a pet name for bream :cheer:

[rayke1938]

Note the release weight. Apparently fishing deep water?

Nice fish.

Remind kev to smile now and then :S

Cheers

Ray

[nadders]

Ray,

the jew with the release weight was in 11-12m but brought up very fast, first one i've ever noticed having any floating issues, kept kicking down and coming belly up again like an inflated thready so after 10min of this decided he was a release weight candidate.

felt him kick off the handline halfway to the bottom so all good :cheer:

the picture shows how to use one anyway, good info for anyone into the c&r thready thing, in the top lip of the fish then freespooled off a handline to the bottom, sharp tug releases the fish or as usually has happened with me the fish kicks off itself

cheers

Dan

[tugger]

good stuff dan hows the sounder going mine is working a treat just got to play with it a little more

[jon]

nadders wrote:

nah tailor are just vermin, saltwater carp is a pet name for bream :cheer:

here i was thinking you meant catfish

[nadders]

nah mate catfish are referred to as brissy river barra :cheer:

[elops]

ha ha saltwater carp you have been picking up bad habits from somebody lol

That one spot will eventually produce a big jewie though.

[nadders]

we found 2 jewies and a squire at the one spot i think you're referring to steve but the biggest producer i don't think we've fished before.

i saw a nice one on the sounder at another spot entirely but the current was nuclear too difficult to drift without something heavy

cheers

Dan

[ALO]

nice one guys, i bet it was cold.......my mrs warm ass and couch outdoes that i think...lol

[waldo]

Salt water carp :woohoo: lucky we no longer have dredging in the river otherwise you would be wishing you could catch a bream forget tailor, snapper, threadies or tuna. Looks like you guys had a good time, well done.

[bay_basher]

nice work again there nadders.

[Schmuck]

Nice trip guys, have the threadies shut down or moved up river more?

Ever considered putting one of the tailor "vermin" on a leash of circle hooks for the bigger jew?

[dog pound]

Great session guys , you guys use all lures or bait ??

[daveylad]

Well done Dan, great tip for the weight on the fish it makes me sick when The fish cant get back down I'll have to try it next time Thanks

Dave

[Funfisher]

nice fish boys its looking bloody cold out there though!

[nadders]

the threadies are still about, just put more effort into chasing the jew and squire.

all lures, havent owned a castnet for 6 months, and i have considered sending a vermin out with a big circle in but its really not my style, around the estuaries anyway i prefer the lures.

dave yeah its a shame when you can see they have plenty of strength and kick but too much bouyancy to overcome, the cost of keeping one on the boat is insignificant

cheers

Dan

[chris_stewart14]

Good water shots of the Jew dude... Hopefully they keep throwing on size every year til your slaying mass 90's..

[thousandyards]

saltwater carp......thought you meant catfish!!!

tailor aren't bad if you bleed them quick and eat them fresh.....turn to poo if you freeze them tho

[metal head fisher]

nice catch boys

[bennyh]

Hey guys Awsum work there!!!I was wondering if soft plastics where the go or hardbodies in the river im new to plastics and have never caught a fish on a hardbody so any advice would help? like what size plastics how deep to run it all that kinda stuff

Cheers

Ben

[nadders]

i use hybrid soft/hard lures of my own making, sinking vibration type. conventional plastics and diving lures can also be used to success, theres too many different methods and styles available to give a general answer, depending on where and what, any number of styles will work

[bennyh]

Do i want to be bashing the bottom?

[nadders]

mostly yeah, theres a few spots where you can gt stuck into bream on surface etc but ive found most of the action right on the bottom with the vibration lures

cheers

Dan

[bennyh]

what about soft plastics on the bottom at night? any luck with those bad boys?