Early morning run = grunter

[mangajack]

Launched at 3am this morning at Dohles Rocks and went to my spot to get some live prawns....6 casts and over a hundred prawns between 4" and 5 1/2" and i kept 4 poddy mullet and 3 winter whiting for fish livies as well.
Raced out to Queens Beach off Redcliffe and got a berley trail going then started with the live prawns and whiting.
About 6am a 60cm grunter jumped into the esky....
After 7am I moved to a couple of more spots and caught lots of large moses and 1 small venus tusk fish and a few bream.
Winds started about 9am so i shot back into the Pine and drifted about with liver prawns and whiting for flathead...got me stuffed why they didn't take a bait....
Just the grunter kept me company on the trip home.

You have all seen photos of a grunter before....

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good work, sounds like a bit of fun. Good to hear some prawns were about too!

[Kat]

Sounds like a great morning - beautiful sunrise.  Still would have liked to see the grunter - good size!

Were the Moses and Tuskie legal?

Thanks for the report.

Cheers Kat 

[ellicat]

Nice session. Amazing when great bait is ignored.

That's a good grunter, with excellent jumping skills.

[Angry51]

20 minutes ago, ellicat said:

, with excellent jumping skills.

Yeah, Been thinking how the #ell did it get the esky lid open?

[mangajack]

29 minutes ago, Kat said:

Sounds like a great morning - beautiful sunrise.  Still would have liked to see the grunter - good size!

Were the Moses and Tuskie legal?

Thanks for the report.

Cheers Kat 

Hi Kat, the moses were good sized nudging 30-32cm, the tuskie was undersized.....only the 2nd tuskie for me at Redcliffe in 40+ years fishing there.

All the squire were under 45cm and returned.....I only keep squire bigger than 50cm fork length....can't see the point of killing 3 just legals to feed 2 people.

[mangajack]

6 minutes ago, Angry51 said:

Yeah, Been thinking how the #ell did it get the esky lid open?

Full story was he was on the foredeck being unhooked and the fish locker door was open....jumped there landed in the locker then i had him cornered to get the hook out.

I need to find a better way of holding those grunter without either being spiked or cut by the serrated gill covers....this one got me both ways.....once whilst alive and once at the filleting station.

[Jono4500]

Noted: prawns in the pine!

[Bretto77]

Grunter is not to be scoffed at. Great feed

[FishingCrazy]

Niiiiccce, gotta love that early time of day when the skys red and wind is low that most people, who don't fish, miss.

If you have too many prawns I can take some off your hands if you like......just cause I'm a nice guy........you know....and like to help others out.......

[Ben84]

@mangajack can you share where you got the prawns? Have spoken to a few people who managed to get a few that wknd - alas went out last Sat morning at low tide further upstream with no success.

[mangajack]

Out from the leads into the pine, at night with a spotlight it is easy to find the schools in bramble bay.

 

[Ben84]

have never tried that method - figured the water is too mirky to really spot them unless they're on the top and jumping (in which case a spotlight isn't need LOL). So what kind of depth do you find them in at the bay??