queensland I'm amazed

[pinkey]

Hi im new to the forum,

heres my weekend adventure .

Me and a mate were bored so we decided to go down to my secret little spot about 500m from my house in the westlake part of the brisbane river. weve only ever caught catfish and eels there before. we started saterday off by catching a few chubby catfish on some frozen prawns. after a while the fish stopped biting for about an hour untill had a real nice flathead on my line, but when i braught it to the surface it shook like mad and snapped my line looked about 70cmish, after that we just caught a small catty each and went home... We decided to come back the next day ( today ). So we got some more prawns from the local 7/11 and my mate with his first cast landed a nice 58cm catfish, and then a nasty little pike eel and a small catty, i still had nothing untill i relised i had somthing big on my line, i was fighting it for a good 20mins on my lite gear, when i pulled it into the shallows i saw that it was a big stingray :ohmy: as i got it into very shallow water it whent crazy whiping its 1meterish tail around and wiggling its flaps like mad and it snapped my line , put up a great fight though heaps of fun, after that my friend lost a big pike eel wich was pretty damn thick and we went home coverd in mud

was quite amazed by my little spot

[polyphonic]

Nice first report and welcome to the site. Pitty about the flathead.

[Dan23]

probably pay to get a heavy line or wire trace for that spot. BTW not to be a nark or anything but there is some concern about using those supermarket prawns for bait. They come from overseas and could be diseased and infect our local prawns. Better to go get some local bait. I usually make a trip over to Jone's Tackle on Lutwhych road to get a bulk amount so I don't have to make the trip too often.

[Angus]

Good work and welcome to the site.

There have been plenty of flatties caught further up than that, but thats the furtherest i have heard if a ray being caught. Nice one!

Angus

[pinkey]

Thanks guys, yeah about the prawns dan23.. the 7/11 neer me sells proper bait and tackle.. They were a propper packet of prawns (for bait). Yeh and this week im gonna invest in some heavyer line maybe 25lb. Would that be heavy enough for large cattys, eels, flathead, and the odd stingray or shark?

[Angus]

25lb is heaps for nearly anything you get in the river except maybe the occasional bigger than average shark.

Angus

[pinkey]

Sweet thanks Angus, maybe i should just upgrade to 20lb because i almost had that stingray on 15lb... Also that is my lite rod, im buying a bigger one for sharks n big stuff.

[faulked]

if you use some heavier trace it should stopou getting bitten off with out the need for heavier main line i use 8lb nitlon mono trace and 4lb main line and landed a 60+cm flattie yesterday with ease good luck pps the lighter the main line the further you can cast and the more line you can fit on your reel

[Angus]

Cool man.

Well good luck.

Remember with river sharks though, fishing for them as lite as you can get away with is heaps more fun. In saying that, you dont want to get busted off everytime. So just find the balance that works for you.

Angus

[Dan23]

good to hear about the prawns?? Where's this 711 that sells real bait?? Is it the one near the homemaker centre?? If so it'll be my new supply centre.

[pinkey]

This 7/11 is on the corner of sumners road and wacol road.. across from middle park state school.

[flathead]

thats sounds like a pretty nice spot ur friend sounds like an asusome fisherman