queensland Tech Recce For Scaley And Droppy

[Drop Bear]

So, in the spirit of being extremely competitive, @Old Scaley brilliantly concocted a cunning and calculated plan to scope the scene in preparation for next months comp.

The plan was to have a sleep in till 6am and casually saunter over some spots around the river. 

It was a stunning but cool morning and Scaley Dog expertly slipped the boat (that more fish fear than any other) into the inky black waters of the boat passage and motored us out under cover of dawn-ness to the infamous rock wall at the mouth of the mighty and majestic Brisbane River. 

Just as Old Scaley had hoped for, the fishing was really quiet out where he had done well before. Like true legends we persisted and the two stoic southsiders were rewarded with 2 excellent bites. This told Old Scaley more than any Northsider could ever know. What this man gleans from 2 bites, most anglers don't know in a lifetime.  

A few moves around and we got closer and closer to our next fish and the rock wall. All the other boats left the area and Scaley Dog predicted that with the tide change, the fish would rise and we would smash a few crackers. The tide did change, it started to go out and the fishing, like the air temp, was hotting up.

Scaley Dog lifted expertly on a good bite and was attached to a solid fish. It headed to the rockwall but the dog was not perturbed. He had seen a few briny beasts before and knew these clever old tricks, he quickly saw to these antics by expertly guided the piscatorial predator away from the rasping rascally reef ridden rocks and gained line on the furtive feaver-pitched fast fading foe.  A bit of shenanigans from the oversized beast at the boat but I slipped the nicely knotted net, neatly under the bodaciously broad backed bream. It went 6 foot if it was an inch (using the official southside measuring tape, not the one in the photo). The dog decided it's throat was far too beautiful to slit so slid the shimmering shiny scallywag into the deep dark dampened depths. Who knew how deep these waters out here were. Many thought they could be hundreds of leagues to the sea floor, the sounder said it was 2m.

The bite continued and I caught a massive beast of a snapper on my heavy gear.

As a southsider I needed a bigger challenge so, like the stable genius I am, I expertly changed down to the 6lb line to sense the bites better and finesse the catch. Just as I predicted I preceded to loose 2 monster, potential competition winning, snapper when the line broke at the knot. This taught me more than I can say in any amount of 4 letter words. 

Old Scaley caught a few nice but unersized snapper to keep his hand in, not wanting to spook or disturb the 1.3m versions that he had lined up for the comp. I got a good sized bream that the Scaley Dog decided would make a nice dinner for his majestic maiden and we slipped it into the icebox. 

Not because we were not catching fish... we decided to head into the river to another prime spot. Old Scaly cracked a ripper snapper and I put on a slightly heavier leader and caught one too.

 

It was time to go so we left them biting and called it a day. 

What a successful mission. All data collected will be distributed to the Southside team and this huge advantage will see victory again for the competition heavyweights. 

[Allnighter]

Nice pics and a good yarn fellas !

Love the dawn shot at the ramp 

That bream is pretty good goin too

[Drop Bear]

28 minutes ago, Allnighter said:

Nice pics and a good yarn fellas !

Love the dawn shot at the ramp 

That bream is pretty good goin too

it was a nice bream.  I had a bad day on estimating the size of fish... I thought it was a 40cm one when netting it. 

[Old Scaley]

Very generous recollection of events, @Drop Bear, and beautifully recounted. I couldn’t have put it myself. I probably would have just said it was a great day on the water with good company. We got a few fish but had to work hard for them. Then I would have attached a photo of dead fish on a blue esky and that would be my report. I like your version better. We will do it again soon.

[Drop Bear]

22 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Very generous recollection of events, @Drop Bear, and beautifully recounted. I couldn’t have put it myself. I probably would have just said it was a great day on the water with good company. We got a few fish but had to work hard for them. Then I would have attached a photo of dead fish on a blue esky and that would be my report. I like your version better. We will do it again soon.

Yours probably wouldn't have wasted as much of the readers time haha. 

[ellicat]

Nice session fellas.

Also some nice poetic alliteration, Robbie. A challenge has been set for the rest of us now.

[Nog]

rascally reef ridden rocks

I'm a totally broken Monty Python fan. I couldn't read the above without the translation

 

"wascally weef widden wocks"

 

Purple prose at it's best @Drop Bear

[tugger]

Got some of that data 1st hand thanks for dropping by lads and telling me of a great days fishing while I was working 

[benno573]

Cracker day and a few nice fillets to boot.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Old Scaley and Drop Bear

That is a terrific snapper session at the magnificent mouth of the brilliant Brisbane River. (How's that for alliteration ). 

Good job though, looks like you guys have found a few spots (to keep secret from the Northsiders), for the comp! 

Cheers Hamish

[kmcrosby78]

Aaaaannnnnnnnddddddd .......... the report king is back!!!!!  Absolute cracker Robbie and a great day out there for a pair of good mates, great to see/read. Another bream like that in a few days time would be great ........ . Love the sunrise photos, reminds me it's been far too long since I was out on the water at that time (in fact it's been far too long - before the last school holidays - full stop, but that will be rectified soon ..... ).

[Drop Bear]

9 hours ago, benno573 said:

Cracker day and a few nice fillets to boot.

Thanks mate and good company. I am keen for a Jacobs Well trip anytime you wanna come along. 

[Drop Bear]

11 hours ago, tugger said:

Got some of that data 1st hand thanks for dropping by lads and telling me of a great days fishing while I was working 

Sorry mate. Didn't mean to rub it in

Was good to see you anyhow. 

[Drop Bear]

9 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey Old Scaley and Drop Bear

That is a terrific snapper session at the magnificent mouth of the brilliant Brisbane River. (How's that for alliteration ). 

Good job though, looks like you guys have found a few spots (to keep secret from the Northsiders), for the comp! 

Cheers Hamish

Thanks mate. Hopefully you can get amongst them over the next week or so. 

[Drop Bear]

9 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Aaaaannnnnnnnddddddd .......... the report king is back!!!!!  Absolute cracker Robbie and a great day out there for a pair of good mates, great to see/read. Another bream like that in a few days time would be great ........ . Love the sunrise photos, reminds me it's been far too long since I was out on the water at that time (in fact it's been far too long - before the last school holidays - full stop, but that will be rectified soon ..... ).

haha thanks. Yep you do need to wet that boat a little more. 

It is such an easy option to poke out to the rock wall. I'm sure the kids would love it. 

Yep it was a good bream. It is swimming out there right now! 

[Drop Bear]

16 hours ago, Nog said:

rascally reef ridden rocks

I'm a totally broken Monty Python fan. I couldn't read the above without the translation

 

"wascally weef widden wocks"

 

Purple prose at it's best @Drop Bear

Mate I cant get the wascally weef out of my head now haha. 

[Jimmyjack]

Wipper weport centuwion!

[The Mad Hughesy]

nice session and report mate. Great pics too!

[NguyenD]

That was quite the picture you've painted. Awesome catches!

[kmcrosby78]

13 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

haha thanks. Yep you do need to wet that boat a little more. 

It is such an easy option to poke out to the rock wall. I'm sure the kids would love it. 

Yep it was a good bream. It is swimming out there right now! 

Have had a dodgy right knee since the first Wednesday of this school term (so 5 weeks ago) and still not quite right, but will give the boat a run anyway to see how it goes.   Just need these winds to rack off now ...

[Drop Bear]

22 hours ago, Jimmyjack said:

Wipper weport centuwion!

haha thanks. 

[Drop Bear]

13 hours ago, christophagus said:

nice session and report mate. Great pics too!

Thanks mate, 

Have the sharks moved out of the creeks yet?

[Drop Bear]

13 hours ago, NguyenD said:

That was quite the picture you've painted. Awesome catches!

Thanks NguyenD

It was a fun day.

[Drop Bear]

10 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Have had a dodgy right knee since the first Wednesday of this school term (so 5 weeks ago) and still not quite right, but will give the boat a run anyway to see how it goes.   Just need these winds to rack off now ...

This weekend looks rubbish... Monday looks mint! I will be going out then. 

[kmcrosby78]

40 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

This weekend looks rubbish... Monday looks mint! I will be going out then. 

Yeah, yeah, rub it in you (mostly) unemployed bu99er ........    Although you are on my team, so make sure after work I get to read a ripsnortlingly radical report about humungous high-finned piscatorial prizes that you've secured to get us mighty Southsiders off to an early lead .......  

[Drop Bear]

4 minutes ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Yeah, yeah, rub it in you (mostly) unemployed bu99er ........    Although you are on my team, so make sure after work I get to read a ripsnortlingly radical report about humungous high-finned piscatorial prizes that you've secured to get us mighty Southsiders off to an early lead .......  

I'm gonna sneak out tomorrow morning for a river session if you are free? 

[samsteele115]

Haha so good mate!

[Drop Bear]

27 minutes ago, samsteele115 said:

Haha so good mate!

Thanks Sam,

I will hopefully get out to Boat rock over the next few weeks. Hope to see you out there

 

[kmcrosby78]

14 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

I'm gonna sneak out tomorrow morning for a river session if you are free? 

Sorry mate just saw this - I have George's soccer but thanks for the offer, will have to team up for a fish sometime. Hope you nail some, good luck  

[samsteele115]

12 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

Thanks Sam,

I will hopefully get out to Boat rock over the next few weeks. Hope to see you out there

 

Shoot us a message and I'll paddle out!