cast netting in the river

[myself62]

i am planning to use a cast net to catch bait in the river for breaming, any advise would be apreciated because i have never done it before.

[Do$tylz]

where are you planning to cast net? are you inner city?

[obone]

Yeh, try and go at low tide and suss it out for snags first, cause there are heaps of sticks and rocks and other crap that love taking your net! Joel

[Do$tylz]

also depends on what sort of bacit are you after? prawns? mullet? herring?

[kiara_poltegerist]

obone wrote:

Yeh, try and go at low tide and suss it out for snags first, cause there are heaps of sticks and rocks and other crap that love taking your net! Joel

i'll 2nd that.. repairing a castnet takes hours! i learnt where all the snags at my part of the river were the hard way!!! 4hr net patching sessions !!! =_=

[myself62]

im after bait for bream fishing nainly, so prawns will be my main target.

i could launch (if by boat) at pinkenba, shults canal.

[STU]

around the mouth of the river is good for prawns and schultz canal

[Brian D]

Man I just got back from the Albert River with about 3kg of good to big size prawns. If anyone is around it is worth the effort - heaps of lives around right now.

[Brian D]

Like I say - Heaps of Big one's. that's a 7\" Barra lure in there to show the size. How about the big bugger bottom left - 9\" if any. [img size=461]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/prawns-c6f5a1356494fbc68a0d6c563634b4aa.JPG

[Mack_attack]

brian were they for bait or were you taking them home for dinner. i'm asking cause i can see a few little herring in there

[Brian D]

Mack good question - I was looking for fresh water bait.

I was that far up river I was actually lookong for \"rockies or freshies shrimp\" - you know the one's with the big pinchers. But because of the drought it was all salt water and all I could get was bloody King/tiger prawns.

Murphy's Law - I should go snapper fishing tomorrow but I'm going to hinze.:pinch:

BTW They were not herring but actualy Logan River Perch - look a bit like Jew

Post edited by: Brian D, at: 2007/06/03 01:01

[sharker]

Hi Brian,

I live on the logan only a few km's upstream from carbrook, so still salt water. I'd say that I get more of those freshwater prawns than normal ones. I only get them to throw them out as bait while im down there. Ive only managed catties though. Am I likely to get much more from the Logan or Albert on these prawns?

[Rex_Hunt]

are there alot of tiger and king pranws still coming throuhg the rivers? i wanna go catch a few! do u guysrecommend any decent spots?