Finally made it out to Morton Island today, it was touch and go though as to if we would get out at all, went to bed at 10:00pm last night but due to the heat and humidity, the 4:00am start didn't eventuate. By the time 4:00am rolled around I had only managed to get about 1.5 hours of sleep so need less to say we said, another hour in bed and then another hour and again and again. By the time 8:00am rolled around I only managed another 2 hours sleep, was having one of those sleepless nights. Not highly conducive to dragging my butt out of bed and out on the bay, but I figured it may be the last chance for a while so the missus agreed and and I said lets do it.
Got on the water by about 9:30am and headed off toward Morton Island. Conditions on the bay were quite good compared to the norm there and we anchored up in 12.5m of water just south of Comboyuro Point. Dropped the reef anchor and got organized to fish.
As soon as the bait hit the bottom all I got was pick, pick, pick. The first fish of the day was a Lancer, followed by more pick, pick, pick etc, a lot of fish feeding went on for a while. Changed the bait to 5 month old squid and started to get Grassies, Yellow Fin Bream,  a Wrasse, then more of the same. After 90 minute the current there started to pick up very fast, it was raging, I had to increase my sinker weight several times and ended up at using a 8oz snapper lead, and even then it only just touched the bottom before being swept down current, had to let out about 40m before it touched down again and we only in 12.5m of water.
Then it all shut down so we called it quits, only to find that our reef anchor had well and truly hooked up to the bottom, so spent about 20 minutes driving up towards it, over it, then sideways, and in the end we managed to straighten two of the prongs, it then pulled free and it came up nicely.
I let all the fish go as they were too small, although I was contemplating putting a much larger hook in the wrasse to see what might be interested in it but couldn't remember what the legal size was, so just let it go as well to grow some more. The Bream were legal size but couldn't be bothered, so not a total donut but didn't bring any fish home.

Took a well earned rest from “bassing “with Ray today .
Hooked up the big boat at 3.30am  ,collected my son at Bribie at 4.15am and proceeded north to the Sunshine Coast along with what seemed every other boat in SE Qld .
Target species were Spanish Mackerel and they didn’t disappoint . We found some bait with Spanish on it well away from the crowd just on sunrise  , quickly deployed 2 troll baits and picked up 2 Spanish  for the ice box ice in a couple of minutes.
This bit of action resulted in  quickly being inundated by other keen fishermen. We voted on a tactical move to let the hoards scare the crap out of that school  and we went looking elsewhere . After moving a km or so we found some more and put another 3 in the esky and headed home . 5 hits - 5 fish no shark issues. Very tidy day with some quality fish 12 to 18 kg each.
Qld Fisheries officer collecting  the carcasses for research at 7am Monday morning .
regards
BeastMaster
 
 

Hi all 
yesterday I tried fishing the lowood bend area of the Brisbane river and downstream from that in a yak from around 2pm through to 6pm. I only caught one bass-30-35cm whilst trailing a deep diver and that was it! I also tried a cicada lure from 5pm with no success. 
I also fished this area last week using the same lures (divers and cicada) and caught a large fork tail catty on the cicada. 
 
the area looks super fishy with loads of snags and plenty of water. On both occasions it was very hot and humid so the fish should be firing. 
anyone had much luck around this area? And if so what have you caught and on what? 
thanks 

I caught this at Mud island Monday. I have never seen one before and it is not recognised by my Fish ID app. It was around 25cm long and released to puzzle another fisherman. Tally for the morning was 6 grass Sweetlip, one bream and one whiting.

Anyone going this weekend? I’m gunna try and get out tommorow arv after work for a few hours. Then back to uni assignments for another few weeks 😞