queensland Been Getting Back Into It

[Do$tylz]

Hey AFOrs! After a few years hiatus I'm back to being able to indulge in my favourite hobby. Wooo!!

Started a family 4 years ago and getting away for a fishing session has been difficult. But now that my kids are past the bottles and nappies stage, getting away is easier and even better, getting them into fishing has been awesome.

Ive been also immensely lucky that a best mate of mine lets us stay at their house on the canals off the Nerang river whenever we want.

So long story short, the black and green tinny is back on the water after years of neglect. Replaced busted stuff, rewired busted stuff, washed every deck piece and serviced all that needed to be. There's still a few more things to be worked on, but essentially i can safely be on the water.

Here she is sitting pretty on the pontoon off the back of the canal house.

[ellicat]

Nice, Henry. Good to see you back into it and back onto AFO.

Will be good to hear some reports from you.

Looks like the pontoon was made for your boat. haha

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi Do$tylz

Geez, that looks like... Extreme awesomeness! . Must be great fun staying there. A private fishing jetty for you and your mate. 

I hope you mange to smash a few bigguns soon. Maybe at Summer time you (will hopefully) get a jack! 

What species can you catch there? (I'm assuming bream, cod, flathead, whiting, and the odd bull shark in Summer?).

Cheers Hamish

[Do$tylz]

Caught endless bream off this pontoon and a cracking jack on a dead herring. My brother and i were doing an after dinner fish and i was getting busted off on 2lb flouro straight through. So tied on 10lb tippet and up came a jack. This was late last year.

 

[Do$tylz]

Sorry. Typing this all out 1 handed on my phone while putting kids to sleep. Who says men can't multitask?

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice one. That jack is a good fish. Must've been great fun on ten pound. I have never caught a jack (not yet) so I hope to get one sometime (even though that may be in X amount of years ).

Cheers Hamish

P.S. I am multi-tasking now. Japanese work and AFO!  

[Do$tylz]

But yeah been putting some time in to learn the section of the nerang the house is in. Bream galore (thinking about bream comps again knowing what i do now) and getting for find the flattie spots as well.

Been getting my kids in the boat and getting them (and the wife) onto fish too.

[Do$tylz]

Still trying to find those whiting that are apparently abundant in the Nerang. Although admittedly have only had 1 crack at them and in 1 section on the river.

And really hoping i can get a jewie in there too. The section of river im near has a massive deep hole that drops to 10m (anyone that fishes the nerang hard will know where im talking about) but so far, havent seen a jewie on sounder and nothing has responded to vibes down there either. Have even had a few cracks at night on the outgoing right after or on the high tide.

Have also put in a couple of sessions trying to fish the broadwater but man.. i cant figure it out and it's a decent drive to get there with all of the pesky 6knot zones in the Nerang.

Been in the bay a couple of times recently too, helping a couple of mates get into it and show them some of the lighter gear techniques.

Anyway,  few more reports from me coming as I get back into it. Glad to be back in the community that started it all for me. 

[Do$tylz]

16 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Nice, Henry. Good to see you back into it and back onto AFO.

Will be good to hear some reports from you.

Looks like the pontoon was made for your boat. haha

Thanks Brian. Amazingly i still have my mod powers but it looks like the old troublemakers of the past have moved on or grown up

And yeah, it just fits like a glove and i just casually step straight onto it.

[Do$tylz]

18 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi Do$tylz

Geez, that looks like... Extreme awesomeness! . Must be great fun staying there. A private fishing jetty for you and your mate. 

I hope you mange to smash a few bigguns soon. Maybe at Summer time you (will hopefully) get a jack! 

What species can you catch there? (I'm assuming bream, cod, flathead, whiting, and the odd bull shark in Summer?).

Cheers Hamish

should be plenty of jacks in summer if i put some more time into it.

Have seen a few big trevs cruise through in summer but none recently.

only 1 flattie off the pontoon so far.

did catch a mullet on topwater 2 weeks ago. I was cheating a bit though... wrapped the trebles in white bread and lobbed it in to bream feeding frenzy. The bread got picked off but i left the lure sitting there and the mullet picked it up

[kmcrosby78]

Welcome back Henry, great to have you back onboard. Are you living on the southside of the river? If so, sign up to the dominant Southside team for SOO (of course, if you aren't living on the Southside, then just ignore this post ......... ).

Your daughter looks like she knows how to hold a rod - great stuff. I went through the same stage as you when I had kids (although I did sneak in some Fri/Sat night sessions - and then was tired for the following week ....... ) and it's great once they get the fishing bug. Then you become in a hurry for them to get older to chase bigger fish ....... 

Groovy looking seats you have on your tinny!!  What part of the Nerang is the house in - I'll let you know if I get any intel on the whiting  

[Do$tylz]

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Nice one. That jack is a good fish. Must've been great fun on ten pound. I have never caught a jack (not yet) so I hope to get one sometime (even though that may be in X amount of years ).

Cheers Hamish

P.S. I am multi-tasking now. Japanese work and AFO!  

Sorry, didnt write properly. Was caught on 2lb flouro mainline. Tied on 10lb leader. I call it tippet when i only tie on 15cm worth.

[Do$tylz]

22 minutes ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Welcome back Henry, great to have you back onboard. Are you living on the southside of the river? If so, sign up to the dominant Southside team for SOO (of course, if you aren't living on the Southside, then just ignore this post ......... ).

Your daughter looks like she knows how to hold a rod - great stuff. I went through the same stage as you when I had kids (although I did sneak in some Fri/Sat night sessions - and then was tired for the following week ....... ) and it's great once they get the fishing bug. Then you become in a hurry for them to get older to chase bigger fish ....... 

Groovy looking seats you have on your tinny!!  What part of the Nerang is the house in - I'll let you know if I get any intel on the whiting  

Hey Kelv. Thanks mate.

Yeah i am southside, but dont think ill get a chance to hit the water this month. Next planned session is first weekend of september back down at the coast.

Hahaha. Mate if i caught bigger fish that might be a problem....

Mate the tinny was all done by the old owner who used to be on here as BigTez. He was a marine upholsterer by trade so everything was done really well. The seats are THE most comfortable tinny seats i have ever sat on.

Nerang, im in the middle to lower reaches???. After Bundall Rd bridge.

[kmcrosby78]

SOO ends on Sep 20 Henry. 13 species to target so if you get something, take a photo on a bragmat and put three of your fingers in the photo (can you tell I'm competitive ...... ).  I would think as the water temp heats up you'll get some good trevally action - particularly probably big eyes. They also get giant herring down the coast - not certain if in the Nerang or not but would imagine so    Enjoy!!

[aussie123]

Hey welcome back Henry.

It will be good to see you around the place again.

I hope the family is well mate.

[samsteele115]

Nice to hear from you Henry! Welcome back 

[Do$tylz]

12 hours ago, aussie123 said:

Hey welcome back Henry.

It will be good to see you around the place again.

I hope the family is well mate.

Thanks Lance. Hope all is going well with you mate. Last I recall you had some health challenges a few years ago? I hope you've kicked that to the curb and been back on the water mate. How's that deep water game going?

[Do$tylz]

3 hours ago, samsteele115 said:

Nice to hear from you Henry! Welcome back 

Thanks Sam. Read your report of being over at Amity these days! So jealous. Great gig in an amazing part of the world.

Have you got into spearing along those walls? an old high school acquaintance used to tell me about his family house there and how he would always spear up some monster jacks. 

[samsteele115]

2 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

Thanks Sam. Read your report of being over at Amity these days! So jealous. Great gig in an amazing part of the world.

Have you got into spearing along those walls? an old high school acquaintance used to tell me about his family house there and how he would always spear up some monster jacks. 

Hey mate, thanks for the read. I actually live at the point! Even tougher living conditions... A stone's throw from frenchmans and the gorge. Landbased has been good this year. 

Have not got into spearing yet. But yep, monster jacks along there at certain times of the year are still definitely a thing

[Do$tylz]

oh living the high life!!! 

One day I'll get back there and finally get revenge on that GT that spooled me years ago.

Figured out the monsters off the gorge walk yet?

 

 

[aussie123]

5 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

Thanks Lance. Hope all is going well with you mate. Last I recall you had some health challenges a few years ago? I hope you've kicked that to the curb and been back on the water mate. How's that deep water game going?

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.

Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 minutes ago, aussie123 said:

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.

Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

Hey aussie123

Best of luck with your cancer. I hope it stays away forever now  

Cheers Hamish

[aussie123]

1 minute ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey aussie123

Best of luck with your cancer. I hope it stays away forever now  

Cheers Hamish

Thanks Hamish

[ellicat]

Yeah, Lance. Take care and good luck. Hope you're back into it real soon.

[aussie123]

24 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Yeah, Lance. Take care and good luck. Hope you're back into it real soon.

Thanks Brian.

I think you may have been the very last AFO'er that I seen before this little issue popped up so I can blame you for it now,lol

Hopefully this will see the end of it for a while so a bit of recovery time ahead and then back in to it.

 

[kmcrosby78]

Ditto Lance - hope you are on the mend quickly and back out there enjoying what you love doing mate, take care.

[jon]

Good to see you back on the water bro!

22 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

Sorry. Typing this all out 1 handed on my phone while putting kids to sleep. Who says men can't multitask?

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 minutes ago, jon said:

Good to see you back on the water bro!

 

Hey jon

It's looking very much like you've caught another trophy fish. The snapper in your profile makes you look tiny

Cheers Hamish

[jon]

Lol old photo, keen on an upgrade tho

[Drop Bear]

Hey Henry,

Great to see you signed up for the Southside. 

The kids sure do grow up quick. 

Great to see the boat is not stuck under Angus's haha. Im sure there was a lot of dust to get out of her

 

[samsteele115]

2 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

oh living the high life!!! 

One day I'll get back there and finally get revenge on that GT that spooled me years ago.

Figured out the monsters off the gorge walk yet?

 

 

Haha heaps of GT around this year, I like your chances. Got a dozen or so from 50-70cm, great sashimi at that smaller size and obviously a great tussle on medium heavy gear. Lost a couple of larger models at the rocks. No kings around this year so far which seems unusual. 

Dirty water produces, I hardly bother in the clean calm stuff anymore. 

Let me know if you venture over and we should have a cast! 

[Drop Bear]

1 hour ago, samsteele115 said:

Haha heaps of GT around this year, I like your chances. Got a dozen or so from 50-70cm, great sashimi at that smaller size and obviously a great tussle on medium heavy gear. Lost a couple of larger models at the rocks. No kings around this year so far which seems unusual. 

Dirty water produces, I hardly bother in the clean calm stuff anymore. 

Let me know if you venture over and we should have a cast! 

oh and by the way there is no trevs in the comp yet so even if you get a tiddler...