queensland Albert River Flood

[Brian D]

Just a few shots of my local river during the flood

Albert River Ramp

Yak Launching area

Picnic area

[Feral]

Top looking boat ramp at that yak launching area!

[Bommie]

use the bbq for some electronic fishing:laugh:

[Ash]

Bommie wrote:

use the bbq for some electronic fishing:laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Funny stuff Bommie. Just remember to wear rubber boots!:laugh:

[kriso]

great pics brian. imagin the mess that will be there once water goes back down

[Angus]

I wonder how this will effect the carp distribution?

And Brian: I imagine the secret Tilapia holes must be well flooded?

Angus

[WayneD]

Brian in that 2nd picture do you go left or right from there. As I was saying the other day at Hinze I am looking to catch my first wild bass and this was going to be the first spot I try, obviously not for a while now.

Does it normally fish well for bass?

Geez she's certainly risen alot more since last week when I went there the bridge was only a foot under, now it would have to be at least 2-3 metres wouldn't it?

[werewolf]

Feral beat me to it! The second pic has the best quality boat ramp I have ever seen! It even has lanes marked on it for the peeps who can't reverse straight:lol:

[Brian D]

Bommie wrote:

use the bbq for some electronic fishing:laugh:

Hahahahahaha

[Brian D]

WayneD wrote:

Brian in that 2nd picture do you go left or right from there. As I was saying the other day at Hinze I am looking to catch my first wild bass and this was going to be the first spot I try, obviously not for a while now.

Does it normally fish well for bass?

Geez she's certainly risen alot more since last week when I went there the bridge was only a foot under, now it would have to be at least 2-3 metres wouldn't it?

Angus / Wayne - this is where I get the wild bass, no tilapias but there is carp.

Turn right for sharks, jacks and jew that are chasing the mullet.

Turn left for Bass, Bream and Carp. About 2 hours up river in yak there is a weir that over flowed, hopfully a lot of big bass went over the wall. Might even be a cod or 2.

It has risen about 8 metres in this shot and peaked at 15metres they say. Look at the 2nd shot and you can see water level on the bank next to the road.

It is still tidal and will be ready to fish this weekend I expec.

[Brian D]

Wayne - It is not unusual for the lower bridge to go under in the Christmas tides. The locals say they used to have to wait for the tide to go down before they could get home. I suppose they built the old bridge in winter!

As to fish good for bass, have a look at other Alber River Bass reports I posted, they are not big fish but they are wild. Surface and Spinners are the most productive lures.

[Aaron H]

holy crap be easier launching the yaks mate none of those pesky rocks:laugh:

[Brian D]

Aaron here's our weir - do you reackon any cod jumped over? [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1060055_AFO.jpg

[Aaron H]

You never know mate, it would be great fun going down it in the yaks, a bit of white water rafting maybe the brood stock from the fish farms near it got swept in;) might be barra from Glassies fishing park now

[Terry H]

I think that's one of the best boat ramps I've seen in picture #2

[rumrunner]

Brian D wrote:

Aaron here's our weir - do you reackon any cod jumped over? [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1060055_AFO.jpg

hey brian!

is that the vevis rd weer or the beenleigh weer?

cheers Ian

[Brian D]

Vevies rd Rumer, pretty amazing 'a'. Thi swas the day after the flood, we couldn't get to it during the flood as the road was flooded. It was about another 3 meters up rfrom this level. Have another look at the water level mark on the far bank. Man I so much suspect that some of the stocked cod got washed over.

[rumrunner]

omg!

i have never seen it like that before!

i used to live just down the rd from there and ride my dirt bike down there as a kid!

memories!:cheer:

cheers brian!

Ian

[Brian D]

Yeah amazing

[Angus]

Brian how do the Lagoons at Beenleigh look?

Angus

[ellicat]

Cod swim upstream in a flood

[Angus]

ellicat wrote:

Cod swim upstream in a flood

As do Yellows.

[WayneD]

They could try, but that water was flowing fairly fast. Do you reckon they can swim against that much current and make forward progress?

I would liken it to trying to walk into a cylonic wind. One step forward, two steps back.

[ellicat]

It's what they do. I'm sure they're expert at it;)

[Brian D]

Elicat you're not wrong often but I hope your wrong here.

Surely at least some bigger bass came over. During normal times there is about a 5 meter wall here which stops all the fish movement. From what I hear all the bigger buggers are stuck on the other side, hopefully these came over.

[Brian D]

here's some comparisions

[STU]

hey brian you should give up fishing and take up photography haha

[Brian D]

Ha that arn't gonna happen, you just want me to follow you and plaso around making me too busy to fish. (but I am trying to get wifie to be my photographer.)

[ellicat]

Brian D wrote:

Elicat you're not wrong often but I hope your wrong here.

Surely at least some bigger bass came over. During normal times there is about a 5 meter wall here which stops all the fish movement. From what I hear all the bigger buggers are stuck on the other side, hopefully these came over.

No idea about bass Brian D. Certainly smaller cod will get washed down, but the bigger guys are strong enough to swim against it. Remember how hard you used to be able to go when the spawning trigger went off ?:woohoo: :laugh:

[Dinodadog]

Brian my son just purchased and sold 3 acres of land that went down to the water not far from the right side of the bridge. silly buggar went back down near canungra.

Dino