queensland Post Flood Bay report

[Guy_H]

Had a mate who's house & business both went under in the floods & after 9 days of mucking out mud, he needed a mental break.

Anyway up early & down to the Murrarie boat ramp - eerie, we were the only ones there. Ramp was usable (the car park was flooded before Christmas) & we set off slowly out.

First note - obviously the water colour was yuk. Then under the gateway, there are two green channel markers - hmmm - they were not there before - wonder where they belong?

One of the big barges just East of the gateway seemed to be missing & about 50m up (in the centre of the river) was a large yellow marker buoy - I imagine that is there marking a sunken danger.

Anyway, the markers & beacons were pretty beat up, a couple missing, some stripped of the plates & lights, some sitting at a 45 degree angle.

At the sunken wall, there is a 30 - 40 foot yacht (appears stripped of fittings) jammed up on it & part of the wall - there are walkways & pontoons (some with boats still attached to the top) all rounded up by the authroities & moored safe.

Called into Boggy Creek to have a few casts for some mullet. Fair bit of debris trapped up there.

No mullet, but quite a few whiting sitting in the shadows, thats a good sign.

Anyway, out to the bay, followed a big tanker out, dodging a lot of big sticks. Eventually we worked out that the tanker was dragging everything into its wake, we stopped following it & the debris was not there.

There is a huge busted water tank in the shollows just on the northern side of the mouth & some other big (pontoon sized) plastic "thing" - thats in the shallows so not really a hazard unless you are a dugong & swim into it.

water cleared up about 3/4 of the way to Tangalooma & it was pretty normal, looks like everything gets swept north in the shipping channel, it actual looked quite nice out there. Fished around the wrecks for a while, nothing too exciting, couldn't sit on any of the beacons - the current was ripping. Storm was brewing so we headed back.

on the trip back, only spotted one large log, so it's pretty safe out there.

The Navy Minesweepers (team of 3) were doing a big search pattern constantly up & down the bay - amazing site.

On the way back, we spotted a sunken trawler at the Raptis wharves, and when we got back to the ramp, there was a heap of diesel in the water - probably from a submerged fuel drum or a sunken vessel.

Didn't see any birds working or Tuna / mackerel but the Dolphins were all out & around the island.

Anyway, I think its recovering pretty quick, I'll be back out Australia Day weather permitting Don't give up hope!

[Terry H]

Cheers Guy_H

Third hand information I heard was that there is dirty water a long way out off Sunshine Coast though, almost all the way to the Banks. Don't know how true that is, but Second hand information (from a good mate) said that BEFORE our major rain and flood a week ago, there was still dirty water some 13 kilometres out off mooloolabah.

There is plenty of salt out there in it though, so don't let the dirty water scare you off fishing! Still some good fishing to be had in the dirty waters. A mate had a ripper snapper session on a very inshore and shallow reef this week out of Sunny Coast.

[rosstralia46]

thanks guys great info and good to hear

[Malcolm]

Thanks for the good report mate I'v been wanting to know how it's looking out there