queensland High Tide: Deep Water Bend

[EMP]

Went to the place this morning. Caught an ok-sized bream. Then there was silence for the next two hours- no bites, nothing.

Is this a normal occurence at the Deep Water Bend?

Oh by the way, I used mullet gut for bait. Maybe it's the culprit?

Thanks heaps to all.

EMP

[MichaelJ]

theres a lot of little bream around deep water bend and normly you get more putting a prawn onto a tiny hook with NO sinker and let it float down were the rocks are but again a lot of small bream

[Cowfish13]

Do as whatnow says with the no sinker and you should be right.

And Prawns, Yabbies or worms would probably work better.

Deep water bend gets fished a fair bit so the fish are probably a bit more educated than your standard fish.

Keep trying and you'll work it out:)

[EMP]

whatnow wrote:

theres a lot of little bream around deep water bend and normly you get more putting a prawn onto a tiny hook with NO sinker and let it float down were the rocks are but again a lot of small bream

Makes me wonder, why NO sinker? So the line would move freely with the water?

Funny thing there was this bloke next to me when I was there and he was using two sinkers.

Thanks, mate.

[MichaelJ]

let it float down the roackwall there at high tide and no sinker so bream think it is a live prawn and will eat it and leave then line getting taking by bream freely for 5seconds or so then close bail alarm and strike if you want

[pepe66]

Like Cowfish said Deep Water Bend gets fished a fair bit. Somedays I go down there and there is hardly room to fish. Walk up the bank either way and you get away from the crowds but the river can flow quite fast at times and fishing with no sinker can be difficult. Fish as light as the conditions allow.

[Angus]

EMP it sounds like you like your mullet gut

Rigs, gear, timings aside, maybe its the bait? I know bream sometimes take gut but if its not owrking my advice wouldbe a simple change. Maybe some prawns? I always find Beach Worms, even frozen crappy ones from the servo are good as well. Also leavs the door wide open for whiting.

Cheers.

Angus

[kevinchen19870316]

put a live herring on very very light rig and get ready for some good action.

[reef_raider]

mate deep water bend is always a very slow place, i would say the bait affected the performance as well, try prawns worms or squid or if you want to chase something a bit bigger for example a bullie then try a live bait in a herring or mullet

[Dnepr]

EMP,

My wife and I fish DWB quite often and it seems to vary in action VERY much... We get more action towards low tide though and usually it goes totally dead on high tide.

The wife fishes with prawns usually and I've been playing with plastics... She's always more successful than me but I put that down to me learning the plastic game. :blush:

Sometimes we'll go there and get NOTHING - not even an undersized bream... a few other times though we've ended up releasing a few "barely legal" bream and taking a decent feed home.

I also agree with whoever mentioned above a short walk downstream... and you don't have to go too far to find the place that guy caught the HUGE Jewie a few weeks ago.

Psssst... I'm a newbie so ignore everything I said above!