queensland Wynnum

[sicott]

Fished around the marina rock walls at wynnum on the high tide in the middle of the day today. Had a set rod with woolies prawn on it while my mate and I flicked plastics off the tip into the boat passage. Have been trying for about three weeks to learn SPs now and today I finally got my first hook up. I thought it was a snag but it gave me a huge fight on light gear and in the end won and broke me off just at the rocks, but I had a hook up and a 30 second fight which I'm stoked with and leaves me craving another attempt. Upon returning to the set rod which was inside the marina, it was on the ground and I reeled in a 34cm squire which was unexpected and pretty cool. No photo but we threw him back anyway. Anyone caught squire snapper around those rocks before? might have another crack tomorrow. Cheers.

[Do$tylz]

nice one man. Yeah there are squire around there and good flatties as well. Sometimes you get trevs and tailor cruising through.

[benno573]

quite often pick up tailor trolling out of / into the marina. Have seen squire, trevally, flatties and even a small jack caught around there. From the sounds of it you may have had a decent flattie on the line, keep going with it, took me AGES to work out plastics fishing, despite the best efforts of many to teach me!

Just a quick note - double check the regs on your set line - i think there is some rule where you must be within "X" metres of it at all times or something like that. If it is just a rod with a big bait sitting there while you flick plastics on another I doubt you will have many dramas, think the regs are mostly to stop people putting in a line and leaving it overnight, or walking away and leaving a rod in the water for hours meaning hooked fish can potentially drown etc.

[powerfish]

Definitely snapper around that area. My best land based is 39cm from the boat harbour.