Help! where to fish.

[Guest]

i wanted to know where i could fish for some quality bream or any bread & butter species without having to travel an hour+ to the goldcoast from springfield ipswich area.

if you guys could help me out thatd be great.

somewhere within 45mins max traveling distance from springfield (ipswich area)

thanks

[coldasjoe]

on boat or land based?

[Guest]

land based..it seems i have to travel over an hour to where the fish are, surely there are some closer to brisbane..

[natang]

Moses your best bet would be the mouth of the brissie river, under gateway, nudgee, Newstead house new breakie creek. That is the closest salt water option to this side of town. Otherwise there is loads of freshwater around our side of town.

[tiotony]

Hey mate I was down in Bris for about 6 months a couple of years ago, and had the same problem about not wanting to have to drive too far. Here's a couple of reasonably close spots I did ok at:

This is a park at Yeronga where I found pretty reliable bream. I fished the 3 hours around high tide, berleying really heavily right up hard to the mangroves, and floating pieces of prawn around the burley. The fish were in quite shallow water right up hard to the mangroves on the high.

This park is just off Jacobs Well road, and not too long to travel when you hit the Logan Motorway. This area was very productive and got heaps of school jew here as well as big bream and whiting. Seemed to only fire in a one hour window on the slack water high tide, using big bunches of live beachworms. I was very generous with the worms ie: I'd get about $30 worth for a session, but the results were worth it. Also almost always picked up one or two big whiting just when the tide started to ebb. My best session here got 5 schoolies in an hour with one going legal. Tried really hard here with live prawns/herring/mullet, but found they just attracted sharks and catfish.

Hope these work for you.

[Guest]

natang: ive been there several times but dont have to much luck, although the place seems to attract alot of fisho's. thanks for the recommendation.

[Guest]

tiotony: that second spot looks like it would produce..could you pm me the street it's on..photo is just abit too blurry..would love to give this spot a try. thanks for helping me out mate, much appreciated.

[tiotony]

tiotony: that second spot looks like it would produce..could you pm me the street it's on..photo is just abit too blurry..would love to give this spot a try. thanks for helping me out mate, much appreciated.

PM sent.

[poohbear]

the 2nd spot looks like a close and promising spot~

what's the terrain like off the banks? is it gradual or a straight drop off?

[tiotony]

the 2nd spot looks like a close and promising spot~

what's the terrain like off the banks? is it gradual or a straight drop off?

Its a retaining wall so drops off. Quite broken bottom to about 5 metres out.

[poohbear]

Its a retaining wall so drops off. Quite broken bottom to about 5 metres out.

cheers mate. what do you mean by broken bottom?

[tiotony]

Its a retaining wall so drops off. Quite broken bottom to about 5 metres out.

cheers mate. what do you mean by broken bottom?

rocks and old car bodies and stuff. Basically castnet destroying and lure eating area, but also likely to hold bream, estuary cod etc.

[rosstralia46]

rocks rubble etc yer the tide sweeps through there too its a popularly fished spot but does produce some good fish pre sure its known as the elbow not 100% though