River & Dam Fishing Around Ipswich Area

[Haydz.14]

Hey all,

Just trying to get some sweet tips on the best bait and or lures/plastics to use in the local rivers around ipswich (colleges, kookaburra, pine mtn, wivenhoe etc.) I have previously used the basic baits (prawns,chook gut,pillies) and really only caught a 1000 catfish. Any advice would be awesome!

[doss]

kooka park using live prawns might get a nice thready

[big al]

Hey all,

Just trying to get some sweet tips on the best bait and or lures/plastics to use in the local rivers around ipswich (colleges, kookaburra, pine mtn, wivenhoe etc.) I have previously used the basic baits (prawns,chook gut,pillies) and really only caught a 1000 catfish. Any advice would be awesome!

we hope the 1000 catties came from wivenhoe that leaves 1million to go .seems all you catch there these days :ohmy:

[dan25]

Mate, anywhere up from colleges to wivenhoe dam should be awesome for bass when the closed season finishes... If you have a boat, you could launch at Goodna ramp, head to kooka park and fish for bream. Plenty there atm and prawns will work fine. There is a lot of dud spots in the river that you will only catch catties, so you really have to keep trying new spots... It's hard too explain were to head around kooka, but if you head upstream from kooka towards colleges you will start getting the bream. The catties are less active aswell.

[jeff f]

mate if you are going to fish the brackish reaches of the brisbane river the best bait is live prawns