Redcliffe snapps 02-03-24

[mangajack]

Well the alarm went off at 3.30am like a kick in the head after 2 hours of sleep....

Anyway got to the ramp at 3.55 and launched at Dohles Rocks, first trailer at the ramp....was 4 others by the time I undid the mooring rope off the pontoon....geez theres some crazy fishos out there!!

Headed to my live bait spot looking for live prawns...tide was too high to be good but persisted for about 20 casts....11 prawns and about 6 mullet and 1 herring.

Run out to Queens Beach for the first of two drifts there for 2 grinners and 1 snapper about 45...sent it back.

Relocated to around the Woody Point green zone and spot locked next to a rubble patch. Well I did see three bites on livies....all 3 were cod with their distinctive power walk for 3 metres into their bedrooms and parting my leader.....15lb just is not cutting it today. Eventually the rest of the live baits were annoyed to death by micro bream like a plague of mosquitos eating me jack fishing.

Flicking placcies about I managed another 45cm snapp and sent it home too.

Spent the next hour side scanning wide of the green zone marking rock bottoms...will investigate those at a later date.

Side scanning did not show any fish yesterday...that doesn't mean much though....looking for structure mainly.

Interestingly down scan did show a healthy thermocline the more I entered Bramble Bay...I should have traced that a bit instead of looking for more structure.

Water quality was ok, normally a tad greener, still has a hint of fresh out there.

[Kat]

Thanks for the report.  Sounds like a great morning. You really must get around to getting some photos

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice work manga, sounds like a decent session.

[mangajack]

1 hour ago, Kat said:

Thanks for the report.  Sounds like a great morning. You really must get around to getting some photos

I take photos of photo worthy fish only....for a snapp that would be over 60cm fork length, a legal jew, a 65cm + flathead, a 50cm+ jack.

I never ever pose with a fish.....my face will break a camera.

I guess I am spoiled to have caught lots of good large fish in my younger years....fish these days seem small and insignificant to me unless it is large by today's standards.

Most people these days can't fathom a std Wednesday night session for jacks where you boat 8 fish in 2 hours within 30km of Petrie....or more than 20 jacks in a 3 hour window just north of Bundy....

It was nothing at all to go to the rock wall at Pelican Park and catch 6 flathead over 60cm in 30 minutes on small hard body lures....or 10 big tiger squid from the same place in June...

[Kat]

Yeah I totally get it!  I haven't experienced great fishing, having only been a fisho for a few years - but I certainly know people who have fished the easier times or more abundant places. I am definitely not experienced enough (or maybe dedicated enough) to be a Neil Stratford or Daryl McPhee etcetera in SEQ.

A sunrise or sunset photo on the water is another option and always appreciated.

[ellicat]

A shame the bait was limited and the nibblers wasted them. You still got a couple most of us would be eating. haha

[ellicat]

PS Don't forget the comp - they would be leading in the snapper category.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

28 minutes ago, mangajack said:

I take photos of photo worthy fish only....for a snapp that would be over 60cm fork length, a legal jew, a 65cm + flathead, a 50cm+ jack.

I never ever pose with a fish.....my face will break a camera.

I guess I am spoiled to have caught lots of good large fish in my younger years....fish these days seem small and insignificant to me unless it is large by today's standards.

Most people these days can't fathom a std Wednesday night session for jacks where you boat 8 fish in 2 hours within 30km of Petrie....or more than 20 jacks in a 3 hour window just north of Bundy....

It was nothing at all to go to the rock wall at Pelican Park and catch 6 flathead over 60cm in 30 minutes on small hard body lures....or 10 big tiger squid from the same place in June...

@mangajack, just out of interest, what’s your biggest Threadfin and Jewfish from the river? 

[mangajack]

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

@mangajack, just out of interest, what’s your biggest Threadfin and Jewfish from the river? 

Thready recently about 105cm early last year, about 25 years ago i got one that was 123cm.

Jew recently is 1 metre, back in the 1980s got a few about 120cm under the motorway in the city reaches at night on hard body lures being trolled.

I stopped fishing the bris river in the 80's, been re-learning it the past 3 years.....so different now. So much missing reef these days because of dredging for ship basins....the port back then only handled 2 ships max. Sunstate Cement wharf was a new installation then. Most ships travelled through to Hamilton to unload.

in the 1970's i used to do a fair bit of shark fishing in Bulimba Creek in the hot water outlet of the old powerstation (now Visy Paper). Baits didn't last more than a minute then.

[fatboy]

2 hours ago, mangajack said:

I take photos of photo worthy fish only....for a snapp that would be over 60cm fork length, a legal jew, a 65cm + flathead, a 50cm+ jack.

I never ever pose with a fish.....my face will break a camera.

I guess I am spoiled to have caught lots of good large fish in my younger years....fish these days seem small and insignificant to me unless it is large by today's standards.

Most people these days can't fathom a std Wednesday night session for jacks where you boat 8 fish in 2 hours within 30km of Petrie....or more than 20 jacks in a 3 hour window just north of Bundy....

It was nothing at all to go to the rock wall at Pelican Park and catch 6 flathead over 60cm in 30 minutes on small hard body lures....or 10 big tiger squid from the same place in June...

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