queensland first jew

[flatty_catcher]

Went out near the port of brisbane and I dont know the name but its near the Police station and the boat ramp on the other side.

I was flicking around a few softplastics and getting a few hits but after a while i had worked the area over.

Anyways I put a light 1/16 jig head on and a full nuke chook sand worm headed directly under the bridge and started casting lifting slowly and a few other techniques, hoping for some big bream around the pylons.

I Was geting bored and changed my technique to one rather violent flick then letting it drop in midwater BANG!!

landed this fella@80cm on 8lb line and a 10lb leader and dammed if I know how it didnt drag itself around some structure.

my maglite battery went flat and I couldnt see much but the rod and reel are sweet and worth every cent.

Dan

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_3600_AFO.jpg

[wiseguy]

nice m8!

very nice!

[Feral]

bewdiful!

[kiwifisho]

Awesome dude:woohoo:

[Schultzy]

80cm is a decent schoolie on a lure. Well done!

[Rocket75]

Well done, rippa fish.

Rocket

[username_taken]

nice fish... did he stink? I always forget just how weird they smell.

[bogan]

i know exactly where u wud have been fishing, and never thought you could land something like that there.....

thought it was just 10cm bream... u've proved me wrong.

[Dazzamcgee]

Well done !!

[Mack_attack]

Very nice fish mate.

For someone who didn't know how to rig a plastic a few months ago that it is a bloody fantastic fish :woohoo:

Jack

[pinkey]

Congrats, thats an awsome fish for landbased in the river on lightish gear.

[benno573]

that's awesome... great catch for the area.

[Dinodadog]

Well done nice fish

[maxi]

handsome looking fish well done

[jbfishin]

good onya m8 nince fish

[MichaelJ]

great jewy there theyve been in pretty good numbers this year

[James W]

that is a great catch mate!..well done!..bloody beautiful!:woohoo:

[jeff f]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm jewie

[brisfisher]

great stuff mate

[Confused]

awesome mate welcome to the club

[flatty_catcher]

cheers all

and thanks to those many on the forum sharing all their good knowledge.

I am really liking the soft plastic fishing.

no it didn't stink

If you look closely in the pic you can see I luckily hooked it cleanly right in the top lip so there was no way I could get bitten off.

Dan

[QueenslandeR]

great catch mate, thats awesome!

[noname]

it's good to see fish like that in your own backyard eh.you've done well there.

[tacklebox]

Very nice fish! Thanks for writing so much detail.

[flatty_catcher]

tacklebox wrote:

Very nice fish! Thanks for writing so much detail.

yes I like a bit of detail, all the little bits of info you pick up in here all add to a lot more fun when you go fishing again.

Dan

[Nitris]

Very Very Nice :woohoo:

[toadievoluzion]

nice reel. fireblood + jew = nice day

[Funfisher]

Very nice

[brisbanebound]

Beautiful fish mate well done.

I take it you were based near the rive mouth? I wonder if you get Jewies further up the river like new farm, newstead?? :cheer:

Well done though!

[pinkey]

Brisbanebound, the answer to that is yes . But the jew numbers will start slowing now and the summer species will start rising.

[flatty_catcher]

brisbanebound wrote:

Beautiful fish mate well done.

I take it you were based near the rive mouth? I wonder if you get Jewies further up the river like new farm, newstead?? :cheer:

Well done though!

yep Jews at Newfarm I have never caught them their but seen plenty on here that have.

Threadies definitely further up a long way, same with Bream and Flathead, sharks and Cod,Mangrove Jacks, apparently ocasional Morwong,Mullet and probably a heap more.

For threadies use a live herring or live prawn (cast net), then you will get a bycatch of just about anything...flathead,bream,sharks,cod.

They are ok but I thoroughly recommend getting into the soft plastics, great fun and good results too.

Dan