queensland Sunken barge

[Gotone]

Does any one know where the sunken barge is between vicky point and redland bay?

[jeff f]

try looking on the bottom

(sorry couldn't resist)

[werewolf]

jeff f wrote:

try looking on the bottom

(sorry couldn't resist)

LOL :laugh:

[Feral]

I can go to it, but could not direct you to it. Ray might be able to give you directions.

[CrayfishMates]

http://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Home/Notices_to_mariners/Ntm_brisbane/

Pilotage warnings will give you most of the sunken wreaks about the bay and other areas with map reference and what have you.

[rayke1938]

Yup

It is just out from the old base street ramp. You usually can see a couple of locals sitting on it early mornings. Only thing is that as soon as they see anyone coming they will slip the anchor and drift off it a few hundred metres.

I will have a look at my gps later today and get the marks for you.

Cheers

Ray

[Gotone]

Thanks Ray that would be awsome.

[rayke1938]

Finally worked up the energy to crawl up into big boat and look at gps.

S27-35-777

E153-18-930

if the water is clear you can see it on the bottom. A couple of hours of each tide you will see a bit of a boil over as the tide runs over it. It will actually be 30 or 40 feet upstream of the boil.

Can be quite productive for squire at times.

Even with the gps you have to sound around to find it as it is quite small. It is supposedly an old timber barge that was used to transport logs from dunwich.

Cheers

Ray

[mackmauler]

good example right there of why some spots are not worth fishing anymore

[rayke1938]

I do not mind sharing as i do not believe that I or anyone else owns a particular spot.It is not that there is a permanent population of fish there. It is just one of the spots that they visit in their migration/feeding cycle the same as the red beacon of coochie, pots point and the iron stem

If there are a couple of boats already there i just try somewhere else rather than crowd in.

I believe that one of the objects of this site is to help others.

You will never see the background of any of my photos blacked out.

If someone tells me about a spot and asks me to keep it to myself I will do that and not post about any trips I do there.

Sorry if I have given away one of your spot Xs but like most spot X,s it is well known to all the locals.

Cheers

Ray

[mackmauler]

No you havnt given one of my spots away Ray. You have just turned responsible local fishing pressure into an internet free for all.

[Leighton]

a bit like the "House Boat" off Peel. I was told to keep the GPS mark hush hush until I went there and saw 20 boats drifting it. Like Ray said there are plenty of other spot X's to try

[Angus]

Captain Stabin wrote:

a bit like the "House Boat" off Peel. I was told to keep the GPS mark hush hush until I went there and saw 20 boats drifting it. Like Ray said there are plenty of other spot X's to try

Very true!

I think it pays to try to suss out some original ones

Angus

[Mick]

mackmauler wrote:

No you havnt given one of my spots away Ray. You have just turned responsible local fishing pressure into an internet free for all.

How did you find out about the spot .... somebody told you...... and somebody told them...

[Gotone]

Thanks for the help Ray.

As for coochie it was the only place that produced a fish for me on snuday.1 nice squire we fished for 8hrs and traveled from Redland bay to peel then all the way back to the pin bar.

[rayke1938]

Next week when I clean out the garage a bit so I can get to my boat I will give you a few more local ones that may help.

Cheers

Ray

[Master Sardines]

its good to see someone always tries to help others Ray! Your up there with me O'l fella

[blue_mako]

Angus wrote:

I think it pays to try to suss out some original ones

Bloody oath it does! Find your own and keep your own I say. I could not think of something more annoying then going to a spot of mine and not getting anything and then realising some noob has thrashed it 20mins before you got there.

Troy

[pinkey]

I agree Troy, always good to have a few secret spots, no1 else knows about, where you can just relax and get stuck into the action, but its always good to help people out with more public spots.

[faulked]

blue_mako wrote:

Angus wrote:

I think it pays to try to suss out some original ones

Bloody oath it does! Find your own and keep your own I say. I could not think of something more annoying then going to a spot of mine and not getting anything and then realising some noob has thrashed it 20mins before you got there.

Troy

why worry about fishing noobs they wont empty your spot as they are noobs and generally cant catch fish any where other than blind luck id rather show the noobs how to fish so they are keen to fish and enjoy it i spend more time watching others catch fish now i find it more fun most of the time than pulling in tidllers around brissie and these same noobs should be helping to put pressure on the epa etc so that we can continue to fish remember if no one can find fish they will say brisbanes fished out then now one will get to fish bugger that :S

[Feral]

Yeah gotta help out people new to the sport.

Look at Ray and Dino, put all the young fella's on to North Pine as a fishing spot, even though they have been the ones funding the stocking through their fees over the years, and they are glad to do it, even if some abuse it.

[fishyman]

personally i dont like people having 'their spots' becasue most of the time lots of other people know about them anyway. in my opinion we are all on this site becasue we love fishing wether we are catching the prize catch or not so why not help out your other fellow fishos with spots or techniques, thats what this site is for isnt it? to share one persons knowledge and understanding of a certain technique or fishing ground so other people can go out an enjoy themselves on the water. I know i appreciate when your fishing and a local comes up and says "mate just try flicking your lure up that small creek" you cast up there and bam your on. you are grateful that the fellow fisho has told you that spot and he is happy to see you catch a fish. weare all here for our love of fishing and lets keep it at that not territory wars.

just my 2 cents worth

cheers

Tom

[Gotone]

Had a good night at the Barge

[Feral]

Glad to hear it!

Going to do a report?

[kevinchen19870316]

what's in the pic, i can't see it

[rayke1938]

Mick wrote:

How did you find out about the spot .... somebody told you...... and somebody told them...

[ellicat]

Yeah, that's good Ray. The old man gave me some old fishing magazines not too long ago and the info is still relevant. People are still asking the same questions and the answers are still the same (in the main)

[Angus]

Spots are spots. There are always more. And sometimes they fish better and some times they fish worse. I thank all the people who have shown me spots over the years. And im always happy to show others mine.

Troy who was the first person to drive you to the Noosa River and North Pine among other places.

Everywhere is someones old spot. Very new places are original.

If more spots were shared induvidual spots would experience less preasure as the load would be massively distributed. Maybe this is idealist talk. But its just my opinion.

Angus

[blue_mako]

Ando's dad drove me to Noosa for the first time. You had not even been to North Pine on that time either so I don't know how you would call that showing spots :S . Anyway what you are saying is getting off the point, sure people share spots they do all the time with mates. But there's a difference between that and posting an exact position all over the internet. Say this spot was actually a good one, for sure you are probably not the only one who fishes it which is more then enough reason to respect the other people who are trying to keep it tight lipped. I'm sure someone in that situation would be right behind me. One things for sure it won't be a very good spot 2 weeks later. That's is what's happened to places like the Peel Island House Boat.

Troy

[faulked]

instead of freaking out about spot x's being shared we should be making a few of our own if every time we turned up at x we threw in a couple of bessa blocks or a shopping trolly these x's would continue to grow as soon as the bay starts getting locked up from us as we cant seem to be cohesive about anything the fishing pressure in the rest of the bay will be intense so we really need to start now with helping our selves get new spots of the beaten track maybe a few official ish afo artificial reefs .now i know the epa doesnt like us dropping crap every where but if i happen to like house bricks for sinkers thats up to me and if i lose a few per trip then so be it. i honestly cant think of any where that no one has tried to fish before:blink:

[Angus]

Troy: I know I had never been to NP. Th point is the forum is meant doe helping people out.

[CrayfishMates]

As much as I love to read all these great informative fishing tips and tricks about spot X, are we back to the sunken barge yet?

[atolo4]

Thanks Ray,

spot is much appreciated

here is the spot for the wreck on around Mud Island. if you google it you will see two boats parked on it.

S27 20 27.04, E153 16 8.93

regards

[Mick]

Heres a pic and a google earth kmz file for that spot.

[file name=Sunken_Barge.zip size=628]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/files/Sunken_Barge.zip[/file]

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/sb.jpg

Sunken_Barge.zip

[rumrunner]

so witch one is it?

27°35'41.41"S 153°18'58.75"E ( is approx where the pic from mick says?)

but the other one ray gave is S27-35-777 E153-18-930?

i cant seem to find the other one in google earth because the lat marks dont go to 777 or 930? am i doing something wrong?

cheers for the mud wreck mark aswell mate!

cheers Ian.

[atolo4]

go with the one that ray gave you, and you will se it will be at the same spot on Google.

[Mick]

atolo4 wrote:

go with the one that ray gave you, and you will se it will be at the same spot on Google.

That is they one Ray gave us I just converted the GPS format to suit google earth... Unless I stuffed up the conversion...

[rayke1938]

Looks about right to me its out from the old QPS ramp.

I think that there are two ways of expressing gps marks I remember I could not get my hand held magellan to agree with my garmin intill i changed the magellan over to marine.

That may be the reason for the discrepancy.

Ps I have been watching the site and last week there was one boat on friday and 2 on Saturday . I wasnt home Sunday so I do know if anyone was on it.None yesterday or this morning.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

If you look at the map you can see the horseshoe. Tip tailer spot top of the tide in winter.

Cheers

Ray

[CrayfishMates]

rayke1938 wrote:

Finally worked up the energy to crawl up into big boat and look at gps.

S27-35-777

E153-18-930

if the water is clear you can see it on the bottom. A couple of hours of each tide you will see a bit of a boil over as the tide runs over it. It will actually be 30 or 40 feet upstream of the boil.

Can be quite productive for squire at times.

Even with the gps you have to sound around to find it as it is quite small. It is supposedly an old timber barge that was used to transport logs from dunwich.

Cheers

Ray

Good call thanks Ray. Added to the list but may be sometime before I try it out. Perhaps have a go once in a year as I have so many spots I can not fish them all at once, if you know what I mean.