queensland Haig Park Gentlemans Fishing.

[rayke1938]

Left home in pouring rain with the next door neighbor in tow.I had had a look at the radar nand it showed no rain in the direction that we were heading nso off we went.

We arrived there around 8ish and had a bit of a fish in some fast running water where it was a small bass or a spangled a cast on bait but no interest on a variety of hardbodies. I think that the fast running water interfered with the lures action as quite a few of them just raised to the surface and wallowed.

We stayed there for around an hour but decided we needed to sit down so we went back to the car and set up the chairs and proceeded to relax. Well it wasn't exactly relaxing as we had to continuously get up to dehook fish and get new bait.

For 3 hours we constantly caught small bass,spangleds,a couple of good sized tandanus,and a couple of silvers.

Knocked off at midday to come home to more rain.

Photos to come.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

Place is very nice and family friendly with shelter sheds and toilets but no barbies.

You will have to work out location yourself. its worth the effort.Just dont get lost.

Cheers

Ray

[fisherjack1394]

good stuff mate seems to be alot of silvers being caught

[taib]

Nice one Ray... looks so relaxing there..

Cheers.

[Guest]

Well Done Ray it looks like a great spot. Nice clean looking fish

[Davo_Dinkum]

nice looking spot

nice one on the fish

[Dinodadog]

well done I think I have seen that grass before

[robin]

Nice looking spot, were is it.

[rayke1938]

Nice looking spot, were is it.

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[James W]

love that "kind" of relaxing

yer, a few silvers popping up this week

[Keen-as-fisho]

Nice looking spot, were is it.

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OK so I've tried that and haven't had any luck. It looks like a good spot to put the small kayak in

[Eug]

i stuck it into google, added a few extra search parameters and came good.

been there before and it's definitely a very relaxing 'lake' to visit

[Keen-as-fisho]

Ok I think I've got it and if its the place I think, we used to go there for school camp, very near to it.

[Eug]

did you go to grammar den?

[Keen-as-fisho]

did you go to grammar den?

Lauries

[Jords]

did you go to grammar den?

I did mate, and know the spot, we used to set off from there to get to the camp site in year....8 or ten maybe?

also canoed there one year because the dam was so low that carrying the boats from the shed to the water would have meant a solid 1.5kms

[Eug]

didn't know lauries camped there as well...

good ol pepper hill (jords is that the right name?), the day we went was in grade 10. coldest may recorded out there, the morning after camping out there was a thin layer of ice in the creek bed which we had to jump into after the morning run.

well i bet the boys this year will be cheering at the water level, short walk what year you graduate jords?

[Jords]

think it was pepperina, but yeah sounds about right. Mate the lauries camp is other side of the dam, near the gorge. Ahhh the ice breaker, slowest kid on the run has to take the plunge!

This is only my first year out mate, how about you?

[Eug]

been a while mate... class of '03

[Surfingant]

Very relaxing looking spot there ray and a few fish to boot :cheer:

[ryanyoung]

Great spot Ray, I hope NPD is not too jealous of your infidelity ha ha ha!!!

Ryan.

[Jords]

yeah you would have graduated the year before I started haha

[crazywalrus]

nice day out Ray. How long does it take to get out there?

[rayke1938]

Just under 2 hours from Redland Bay

[rayke1938]

Great spot Ray, I hope NPD is not too jealous of your infidelity ha ha ha!!!

Ryan.

Thinking of going back there Sunday to atone for my sins.:sick: ( And to collect more shrimp for Haig Park. Its great to go somewhere and not to have to drag boat along,)

Cheers

Ray

[James W]

id be very keen to drive out there and tag along one day ray..let me know when ya keen for a shadow to follow ya out there!

[Jords]

id be very keen to drive out there and tag along one day ray..let me know when ya keen for a shadow to follow ya out there!

Same here! Even though I'm 99.999% sure I know where it is, it's always nice to have a bit of company while going for a fish

[James W]

make that 2 shadows!

[rosstralia46]

nice stuff guys nothing came up when googled do u reckon u could giv me some guidance

dw found it

[rayke1938]

See lost world and somewhere different posts

Cheers

ray

[Brian D]

What do you mean by land based fishing, I thought that was the only type of fishing you didn't know how to do.

Those fish must have been female....I mean to pester you for three hours while you were trying to relax is just so female it scary.