queensland Brisbane River Session #108

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi all

This morning I had school fishing club, on the jetty. I was quite exhausted the day before, so I just went to bed early. It took me a while to get ready for school but somehow I managed to make it on time (to fishing club). I was just using the school's gear, which was handlines and servo prawns. Some came with five metres of line on them, some came in the biggest mess I've ever seen, but a couple were in perfectly fine working order. We had to pass a test for a couple of things, one which was casting a handline (That brought back memories of when I used to fish with them, one of which when two fell off the chair at the same time, and then turned out to be two big bream, not me knocking them off, lol). the other test was just putting on a prawn which was no worries. 

To begin with, I casted my line into an eddy, in a channel made between the bank and the jetty. In this part of the river, the bank is littered with structure, such as rocks, vines, and huge eddies. It is very fishy. My hook and sinker held in the eddy, and in about five minutes I was getting nibbles. 

"Tap, tap, tap... bang"! I was on something small, but it still provided a bit of fun on the handline. Very quietly I wound it in, making sure the fish did not run around the pylons. Soon enough, I had a very small cod on the jetty, to the surprise of most of the teachers. I grabbed it in the mouth and got the hook out, then took a quick picture. I let him back, and was quite happy that I'd managed to catch something.

Estuary Cod

After about ten more minutes, of which I did get a couple of small nibbles, there were at least 25 people on the tiny jetty. It was squishy. Many more people came down, and lines were deployed everywhere you could think of. Luckily, a couple of my mates came to, which meant I had someone to talk to. We continued fishing the eddy, and kept loosing prawns to get bait. After a couple more casts and picks, I got a bad snag, which I just busted off. The school had kindly brought lots of hooks and sinkers, so this time I tied up with a smaller hook and sinker in hope I could escape the snags. 

My friends were still getting lots of nibbles now, as was I, but I wasn't hooking up. There seemed to be lots of small stuff around. Someone on the other side of the jetty hooked up to something, which turned out to be a small eel (only 20CM - not even legal size!). Just to make matters a bit worse, I got snagged yet again, Lol. I busted off my hook and retied my line. This time I went back to the original rig in hope of catching another fish. I had an alright bite which I missed, and then I just spent the next part of the morning getting pickered. Someone hooked a bream, about 8CM, which was actually impressive as it was about a 3/o hook (and in the mouth perfectly). Sooner or later, it was time to go, but my mate didn't leave without causing a 5 way tangle...

Thanks for reading this report. I hope you enjoyed. Obviously it's something a bit different, but there is a fishing club camp next hols. It didn't seem like the best spot, but apparently a couple threadies have been landed there. Maybe next week I will try with some live bait! Here are the stats of the trip, for anyone interested - 

Stats of trip - 

Tide: High, 2:26AM, 2.1M, Low, 9:00AM, .5M

Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

Bait Caught: -

Bait Used: Servo Prawns

Fish Caught: Estuary Cod x 1, and others caught small bream and eel

Tackle Used: A simple handline with about 10LB mono mainline, and about a size 1-2 and 1/o suicide and #3 baitholder hook. 

Humidity: 55%

Air Pressure: 1021

Weather: Sunny, chilly

Time Fished: About 7-8AM

Overall Success Rate: 80% - I caught something and had a good time

Cheers Hamish

[Ed.]

Hey Hamish, I would have thought that they would ask you to teach the class .

Ed.

[ellicat]

Nice. I wish they had fishing club at my school. You are spoilt ! haha

[Brodie_S]

30 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Nice. I wish they had fishing club at my school. You are spoilt ! haha

For sport my school has a fishing option cause the school is next to the river when I was 12 I used to go down there when they had sport on I didn’t go to that school back then I used to go fishing with the other school now my current school and catch all the bream and people weren’t catching anything some people got annoyed at me and some asked for tips and advice I usually gave them a bit of bread and a hook and every now and then they would get a decent bream . Although now I wouldn’t choose fishing for sport as my local area got ruined by the floods and washed the jettie among other things away and also the fact back then I had cheap fishing gear and I was just using bread if I was to do fishing for sport now I wouldn’t wanna risk bringing a Stradic and $100+ rod to school and also plastics and jigheads which the amount I would bring would props be worth $40-50 not only is it risky for breakage but if some dodgy kid wanted to steal it they could get a bit of coin for it to. But never less it seems like you had a bit of fun with the handline good job on the baby cod

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

1 hour ago, Ed. said:

Hey Hamish, I would have thought that they would ask you to teach the class .

Ed.

Haha, thanks Ed. I can’t wait for the next one.

30 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Nice. I wish they had fishing club at my school. You are spoilt ! haha

Thanks Brian. I am certainly very lucky to have a fishing club! 
 

 

1 minute ago, Breaming with bro said:

For sport my school has a fishing option cause the school is next to the river when I was 12 I used to go down there when they had sport on I didn’t go to that school back then I used to go fishing with the other school now my current school and catch all the bream and people weren’t catching anything some people got annoyed at me and some asked for tips and advice I usually gave them a bit of bread and a hook and every now and then they would get a decent bream . Although now I wouldn’t choose fishing for sport as my local area got ruined by the floods and washed the jettie among other things away and also the fact back then I had cheap fishing gear and I was just using bread if I was to do fishing for sport now I wouldn’t wanna risk bringing a Stradic and $100+ rod to school and also plastics and jigheads which the amount I would bring would props be worth $40-50 not only is it risky for breakage but if some dodgy kid wanted to steal it they could get a bit of coin for it to

Hi Bro

Sounds like it was a bit of fun. I hope your river recovers quick smart.

Cheers Hamish