queensland Saturday - report now attached

[benno573]

Anyone up for a mission saturday arvo/evening/night? i have a 17.5ft runabout and am thinking of heading to the "pin area" from about 12 for the afternoon incoming tide OR to the mouth of the river from around 5 onwards to annoy the resident shark population. i notice a lot of people on this site like to fish with lures/sp - may not be much oppurtunity to do this as i am generally a bait fisho. weather is looking somewhere between average and total crap hence the sheltered locations. please BYO gear and beer :laugh: own transport or abiltity to get to boat ramp/my place (kuraby) is required.

[benno573]

Trip cancelled. maybe next time.

[Angus]

Top offer though mate. Shame its cancelled but theres always next time

Angus

[benno573]

I'm still going to go, just fly solo

I'll have a report in on Sunday/Monday about what's happening around the Pin. Hope to get amongst a couple of flatties or whiting and hopefully get something to crawl into the crab pots. beats being at work anyway!!! :laugh:

[ellicat]

Well I'm deskbound this weekend, so please don't wait until Monday to report - I'll need a pseudo fix from the reports;) :laugh: :dry:

Good luck.

[maxi]

ill make one up for you then mate if you like...haha

[ellicat]

Yeah maxi, that'd be good:P Just don't tell me you caught something in the Richmond :whistle: :pinch:

[ellicat]

How'd you go Benno ?

[benno573]

ok... sorry i couldn't get this to you earlier ellicat, hope you had some fun counting the beans anyway :laugh:

headed out from carbrook about 10am on saturday in pissing down rain and about 25kn s/se. great. tide was dropping so thought i would throw the castnet at the mouth of a creek for some live bait. in 4 casts came up with about 30 prawns of perfect bait size and a couple of poddies which was a great start. pumped some yabbies then headed for cobby passage.

anchored up in cobby, perfectly flat and little wind. beautiful. tide was dead low. flicked a lightly weitghted live prawn out towards the bank and barely had the rod in the holder before it got nailed. a small flattie was soon boated then released. a good start. hoiked a live mullet out into the yonder hoping for something big. we'll get back to that later...

continuing on the live prawns and yabbies, i caught 6 flathead, 4 bream and then what i thought was a freight train that turned out to be a 49cm grunter bream, which did make it to the esky. then my baitrunner started to make a bit of a noise...

clicked the reel into gear and game on!!! this was something serious, not an eel, not a stingray... what have i got here? about 5 min later, i had a 92cm 3.8kg flathead in the net. a truly beautiful specimen which was very promptly released unharmed. biggest one of those i have ever caught. good to know they are still around.

all in all, a very relaxing session despite the weather. my new gf put in a request for some dinner so along with the grunter i kept a 34cm whiting and a 46cm flathead to stay in the good books. might have to see if i can rustle up a crew member next time!!!

[chubbstar]

:ohmy: 92cm Lizard Nice catch there mate, sounds like a top little trip. Any pics?

Jayson

[benno573]

unfortunately not. wasn't game to bring my camera out of the cabin owing to weather. it was raining pretty well all day.

[ellicat]

Thanks for the late update benno haha. Sounds like a good session. Corker flattie:woohoo: Next invitation will probably be filled quickly;) :laugh:

[Funfisher]

If your worried about weather and camera's purchase a dry bag their cheep and can be submerged and still keep the contense dry, mine has not let me down yet.

[benno573]

ellicat wrote:

Thanks for the late update benno haha. Sounds like a good session. Corker flattie:woohoo: Next invitation will probably be filled quickly;) :laugh:

here's hoping. could well be quite a few weeks away though - goddamn work.