queensland Brisbane River Bass by Canoe

[Plastic Fantastic]

hey guys,

unloaded the canoe at the Mt. Crosby Wier today around midday and paddled about 2km upstream, lots of fishy water up there but the wind picked up and was draging my canoe all over the shop so i decided to find a grassy bank to moore on and fish the shore...

wacked on a kokoda 1/4Oz spinner bait on and 1st cast missed a little bass as he followed it back to shore...should've used stingers :whistle: anywho 10 minutes later and i hooked up to a nice bass that put up a good fight and at 36cm to the fork christened my new shimano river raider rod nicely

what the fish lacked in length made up in girth...this fish was one fat mumma haha...all up spent an hour on the water until the clouds and wind got to threatening so paddled back to the wier and drove home...

but that stretch of water has some real fishy structure in it...including an incredibly fresh snag in the form of a massive gum tree...still got all its leaves on it - i must go back soon! by the way i released the fish, dont like killing bass, especially from a river.

[img size=214]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/39cm_Brisbane_River_Bass.jpg

[Plastic Fantastic]

[img size=214]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/39cm_Brisbane_River_Bass__close_up_.jpg

[Feral]

Nice fish!

[Tim a]

Thats awesome man good stuff, wild river bass good stuff!

[Angus]

Nice one mate.

I know that stretch as well. Its really nice up there. I have yet to take my yak though, looks like that could be in teh cards!

Angus

[STU]

When we used to fish there years ago all I used was black and red kokoda spinnerbaits they caught me plenty of bass there.

[Plastic Man]

go the black and red spinnerbaits back then did they come in any other colour good fishing mate nice way the brake in the new rod

[username_taken]

Which way is upstream? I found the track that goes between the new and old weirs the other day, there were a few likely spots from the bank, but no fish biting. But then I wasn't really prepared with the right lures, just had some softies and a deep diver.

[ellicat]

Upstream is the where the water comes from to flow over the weir.

Cheers:)

[roobs]

i was down there earlier in the week and the fish ladder isn't working- it has a piece of wood blocking the flow that looks quite official. since the river level is high enough i wonder why, apart from water level, it has been blocked off. if they can't negotiate the weir can they still breed?

[Plastic Fantastic]

i think the fish ladder has been blocked off to stop the much needed water from escaping over into the salt water...we need all the water we can get right now lol but yea shame they blocked it...thats where i launched my canoe and paddled upstream from there, the highish level of water made i extremely easy to launch :laugh: