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Hi all

Just wondering where some good spots around Brisbane might be to catch some freshwater eels or pike eels consistently. I don't mind if it's at night either.

I need to stock up on some good shark bait, and if anyone has some good techniques to catch mullet as well it would be appreciated (or spots.)

Cheers Hamish

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hey Hamish

Are you North or south side? i used to get all my eels from the freshwater lake at pine rivers park (always at night as thats when they would come out to feed). otherwise, alot of bait shops actually sell freshwater eel now. If you are only chasing little bullies, then a medium sized eel will produce 20 or so baits

ive found pike eels to be a bit hit and miss. but they will take any larger bait like whole poddy mullet or whole herring. 

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Hi christophagus

I am in Sherwood, so south side of Brisbane. 

May you recommend some bait shops that sell eel as well, i have never seen any in one (I've only ever been to BCF's and Anaconda's though, i catch most of my bait lol)

Thanks for that spot, I will give it a try. Though, what time/best conditions/tide would you recommend?

I already have good stock of herring, i them caught at my local park, so I might chuck one out on a heavier rod with some lighter rods with bait such as red meat. Do you use berley like tuna oil or stuff more like old meat?

Cheers Hamish

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16 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi christophagus

I am in Sherwood, so south side of Brisbane. 

May you recommend some bait shops that sell eel as well, i have never seen any in one (I've only ever been to BCF's and Anaconda's though, i catch most of my bait lol)

Thanks for that spot, I will give it a try. Though, what time/best conditions/tide would you recommend?

I already have good stock of herring, i them caught at my local park, so I might chuck one out on a heavier rod with some lighter rods with bait such as red meat. Do you use berley like tuna oil or stuff more like old meat?

Cheers Hamish

i can tell you now, that Anaconda and BCF wont sell eel. Good on you for catching most of your own bait...i recon its just as fun sometimes. especially when you hook into a big eel. The eel i catch at pine rivers park is lankdlocked, so no tides there. But i always found that just as the sun set, the eels would come out to feed. so i like to get there while the sun is still up so i can setup all my gear, gets baits in the water. then settle down in my camp chair and wait for the action after dark. but these days, im lazy, so i just buy eel haha

There is a place called "bait tackle store" at underwood that were advertising eel recently

also, the bait shop at the gold coast has a massive range of shark fishing bait and gear. it is well worth a visit if you are into shark fishing. They will give you heaps of advice etc as well as huge variety of bait fomr small to large sharks.

Charltons tackle at redbank usually sell eel as well. im almost certian there are a few places around manly or logan that sell freshwater eel. Just give a few local tackle shops a call to see if they have any in stock. 

on the rare occasion, my local fish shop has had chunks of eel for sale too

ive never bothered with berley, its just a bunch of extra stuff to take fishing that i couldnt be bothered with to be honest. 

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Ok, that would explain why I've never seen eel in a tackle shop before. Catching your own bait is very fun, i love the feeling when you get a cast net full of something or something on your line you can use again and say (whenever someone asks) "What're you using for bait" you can say "I caught it, it's a eel" etc. I'm not sure but I'm probably just not old enough to be left there with some of my mates so i'll see if my dad can take me tonight or tomorrow. You seem to have a good plan for going there and i like how it's landlocked (no current to worry about :).

I will check out some bait shops too, as i'll go there if i don't have any luck. How big are the eels around there, too? I remember shark fishing for the first time, i had a big run (probably shark) but then i landed an eel probably excess of 1m. I let it go. Are most of the bait shops family run or are there a chain of them. It seems more likely a family run business would sell less common baits (but very good) more than somewhere such as BCF (which doesn't). I won't use berley then if it's not necessary, I've never noticed much difference wit it (unless I'm berleying up some catfish with bread, then they go crazy). 

Cheers Hamish

P.S. The bait shop on the GC sounds really good, if i go up for a holiday there sometime I'll certainly check it out. 

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45 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Ok, that would explain why I've never seen eel in a tackle shop before. Catching your own bait is very fun, i love the feeling when you get a cast net full of something or something on your line you can use again and say (whenever someone asks) "What're you using for bait" you can say "I caught it, it's a eel" etc. I'm not sure but I'm probably just not old enough to be left there with some of my mates so i'll see if my dad can take me tonight or tomorrow. You seem to have a good plan for going there and i like how it's landlocked (no current to worry about :).

I will check out some bait shops too, as i'll go there if i don't have any luck. How big are the eels around there, too? I remember shark fishing for the first time, i had a big run (probably shark) but then i landed an eel probably excess of 1m. I let it go. Are most of the bait shops family run or are there a chain of them. It seems more likely a family run business would sell less common baits (but very good) more than somewhere such as BCF (which doesn't). I won't use berley then if it's not necessary, I've never noticed much difference wit it (unless I'm berleying up some catfish with bread, then they go crazy). 

Cheers Hamish

P.S. The bait shop on the GC sounds really good, if i go up for a holiday there sometime I'll certainly check it out. 

im not sure what it is currently like with the lack of rain etc lately. i have not fished at pine rivers park for a while so the water might be quite low.

yeah, youre right. its the local family owned business that sell more specialised bait. the goldcoast sells tuna, sting rays, all sorts of good stuff. 

the body of water im talking about is circled in blue below.

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As with most of my fishing experiences my last eel catching adventure was many years ago. We used to catch as many eels as we wanted in the pool below the spillway at North Pine Dam. They used to get trapped there after the rains and then remain there during  the dry periods. Whether they are still there, whether you are allowed to fish there anymore and even whether there is still the big rock pool below the spillway any more I couldn’t tell you though.Good luck!

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