What To Do In All This Rain

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi All

I can't imagine the river will be fishing well, especially if they release water from Wivenhoe. I'll probably drop a crab pot in at a landbased spot, and although unlikely I might get lucky.

So what does everyone else do in terms of fishing? Only chase prawns and crabs, go offshore, go freshwater, stick to the rivers?

Cheers Hamish

 

[ellicat]

I've rearranged and repacked my tackle bag so far. If the rain stops for a bit I need to investigate why my livewell pump isn't working. Apart from that I think the fishing will be very slow in the estuaries and bay, so I expect I will need some counseling by the end of next week.

I think you'll do it tough in the river as well. Weigh down those pots.

[kmcrosby78]

I wouldn't be putting pots in the river itself for a few days Hamish, I suspect the river will be running very fast. Lots of rain alright, I've done a few shifts sweeping water out from under our house (not built under, just paved by me) this arvo/evening and will do a couple more before going to bed to try to stop it getting too deep/high.

Good chance to do up some rigs, service reels and boat trailer, etc. Be interesting what it does to the prawn season in the short and long term.

[Angry51]

What rain, we've had 6mm.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

12 hours ago, ellicat said:

I've rearranged and repacked my tackle bag so far. If the rain stops for a bit I need to investigate why my livewell pump isn't working. Apart from that I think the fishing will be very slow in the estuaries and bay, so I expect I will need some counseling by the end of next week.

I think you'll do it tough in the river as well. Weigh down those pots.

 

12 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

I wouldn't be putting pots in the river itself for a few days Hamish, I suspect the river will be running very fast. Lots of rain alright, I've done a few shifts sweeping water out from under our house (not built under, just paved by me) this arvo/evening and will do a couple more before going to bed to try to stop it getting too deep/high.

Good chance to do up some rigs, service reels and boat trailer, etc. Be interesting what it does to the prawn season in the short and long term.

Thanks guys, I won’t be putting in any pots this weekend. The spot I wanted to go is flooded anyways.

Angry, some parts of SEQ/Ipswich have 150mm (some parts more possibly). There’s a lot of flooding at the moment.

Cheers Hamish

[Another Wazza]

Hamish, may I suggest you hone your carpentry skills and start building an ark?....

[Kat]

Only local Bridge out of town here so understand Hamish!  I too will need counselling - probably mid week

[Ed.]

3 hours ago, Angry51 said:

What rain, we've had 6mm.

Sounds like your lucky to be where you are.

This stuff below:

A Flood Watch and multiple Flood Warnings are current for parts of Southeast Queensland. For more details, please visit www.bom.gov.au/qld/warnings/.

Locations which may be affected include Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Maroochydore, Gympie, Kingaroy, Caboolture, Coolangatta, Ipswich, Jimboomba, Mount Tamborine and Redcliffe.

Rainfall to 9am Saturday:

709 mm at Mt Glorious

541mm at Pomona

444.4 mm at Tin Can Bay

427 mm at Upper Doonan

381 mm at Dayboro

301 mm at Gatton

236 mm at Brisbane City

224 mm at Ipswich

Here is Gympie, we drove through there yesterday morning and on the way back we beat the highway closure by 30 minutes, here it is now.

[Angry51]

Yeah, seen it on TV.

We've just had a shocking wet. Been getting some decent falls but they

are staggered, 30mm then 2/3 days 43/45 C heat.

20mm then 4/5 days extreme heat. Grass just doesn't get a go on.

Well there's always next year.

[Ed.]

Hey Angry51, with those sort of temps you must be way up north I am guessing top of W.A., N.T. Where abouts do you live? 30mm rain then 43/45C, you must love the humidity?

[Angry51]

I'm at Ravenswood south of Townsville.

Yeah, we get some scorchers here, what ever Townsville is we're at

least 3 degrees above or in winter it's below.

Yeah, I'm guessing 43/45 on the grass on a hot day, we got about 3 weeks of 41 in

the kitchen at home with fans on.No good measuring at the forecast temp when

you're talking about grass  growing.

PS. It's 37.4 in kitchen now and forecast for Townsville was 25--34 today.

2 Industrial fans going on 3. so outside at grass level would be over 42.

[Ed.]

That doesn't sound pleasant. Too hot for me.

[Angry51]

Yeah, never worried me once but I feel it now.

Lucky I'm retired and don't have to work in the heat if

I don't want to. Usually do 4 hours in the morning, 6 to 10

then a bit after 4 pm.

But, I cant stand that weather under about 13/15 degrees.

Some days I just BLUDGE.

[Ed.]

I do exactly the same, as you get older you tend to feel it more. After 4 hours of work, a shower, something to nibble on and then you just need to put the feet up and recover by having a nice afternoon nap! Works for me.

[GregOug]

[ellicat]

So what has everyone done ?  I didn't investigate the livewell pump, but I did talk to the wife a couple of times. Apparently she has been here for years.

[ellicat]

Also I have 2 dogs and both my sons moved out years ago.

[Ed.]

No fishing for me yet! Started to pack up the house and doing the first run to new rental house at Hervey Bay tomorrow, rain permitting of course and provided the roads up there are all open to traffic. The rain washed a heap of gravel from the driveway on to the road so will have to put it back during the week, probably about a cubic meter of it so the old back is going to give me heaps of pain afterwards. Not to mention the grass is growing rampant so provided the ground dries out it is another job to do. So far since the rain spell started last week we have had about 750mm of rain.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Erm

School work, TV, think about fishing, TV, School Work, TV, think about fishing, TV, school work..

A never ending cycle  

[kmcrosby78]

1 hour ago, ellicat said:

but I did talk to the wife a couple of times. Apparently she has been here for years.

And I bet she HATES it when it is windy or rainy ........... 

[Angry51]

2 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

 

A never ending cycle  

You didn't say you went for a ride on your pushy.

That would have been good in the rain.

" singing in the rain"

[Angry51]

2 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

And I bet she HATES it when it is windy or rainy ........... 

And on any other day,,,, 

[Old Scaley]

5 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Erm

School work, TV, think about fishing, TV, School Work, TV, think about fishing, TV, school work..

A never ending cycle  

Surely your school would have gone under in the flood, Hamish?  Are you on-line learning now?

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

9 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Surely your school would have gone under in the flood, Hamish?  Are you on-line learning now?

Hey Steve

Yes, some of it did, unfortunately the sub station / power source of the school got flooded too. Originally it was going to be online school until next term, but luckily the principal has organised a generator so, from Wednesday, I won’t be stuck at home anymore. (Online school Monday + Tuesday). 

Cheers Hamish

[GregOug]

9 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

And I bet she HATES it when it is windy or rainy ........... 

She probably only found out he lives there this week as well.

[kmcrosby78]

3 hours ago, GregOug said:

She probably only found out he lives there this week as well.

On the plus side she's identified the source of the smell ......... and not just the boat .........  (Hi Brian ..... ).