Angus

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Hey there AFO.
It has been a while.
Due to a combination of a few things I have been AWOL for a while. But keen to get back reporting and sharing.
I will post a few reports of what I have been up to soon. Most notably I have been really enjoying the fact my little girl Aurelia has the bug I get out with her a bit now land based and in the kayak.
Anyway look forward to sifting through the copious unread reports and trying to get through 3-4 years worth of unanswered PMs 🤣
To the next gen of anglers!
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.
A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 
Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 
As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!
 
Angus
 
 

Glad to see some hunting reports here as well. Nice.
 
Love my venison and been a while since I had some in the freezer!

Glad to see some hunting reports here as well. Nice.
 
Love my venison and been a while since I had some in the freezer!

Funny thing, the only place it will fit inside is above our bed, the wife isn't on board with that for some reason. 😂
So he is going to be mounted on a big pine tree beside the house. 
Blaser K95 in 30/06, it suits my style of hunting. One shot so make it count and the 30/06 is big enough without being unpleasant to shoot from a 6lb set-up. 

He cut up really well too. 

Went out with a mate to scout around a new property we just got access to. It goes from the hills right down to the water, so I've got a private boat launch for a out of the way section of the lake, and I've got ducks and a lot of deer too. 
Apparently there's some big cod hanging around as well along with trout. 
Looks like my freezer is always going to be full and I've got a new potential fishing hot spot. 

Thanks Steve. I’m just hoping for a big thready or jewie soon, haha. I guess a bag out on snapper is pretty good too! 

Great read, Hamish. You are a bit hard on yourself - I would rate a bag out on snapper from the Brisbane River more than 70%. You hVe comes long way in a few short years.

Hi all,
Last weekend I headed out for two sessions. One on Saturday morning fish with livies for threadfin and jew, and the other out with @TheCharliefisho targeting some creek catties. Both were successful enough, so I’ll start on Saturday.
@Cavvy decided he wanted to give me a lift (no, I convinced him) and after a decently early start we were at the chosen spot by 6:30AM. The sun hadn’t peaked up yet though, and it was still prime time for collecting bait and fishing. Dad had a few throws with the net before he started catching some, but it wasn’t long before he had a few mullet, biddies, and glassies. Satisfied with his efforts, he decided to head home and get back to bed. I sent three lines out and got back to netting, and unfortunately for him that was the wrong decision because it wasn’t long before I had a low forties squire on the jetty. I got the hook out and after a quick pic lowered him down in a bucket and swum him until he kicked off.
 
First Squire
The bite was pretty hectic for the next 45 minutes, and only seconds after my next bait (a couple small glassies and biddies on the same hook I think) I was on yet again. This fish put up a decent account for itself, and I was pleased to see my second squire for the morning, a just legal 35CM model. Once again, this guy went back, and despite a little bit of barotrauma kicked back down fine after I swum him for a minute. I think this spot fishes best when the tide is pumping and on early morning, so I’ll have to give it another crack soon.
 
Another
Unluckily for me, bait wasn’t the most abundant, and between my sub average cast netting, I was spending more time trying to catch livies than watching my lines. Also, this spot is elevated about five meters above the water and the ferries like to come in close, so I was a bit apprehensive to leave my lines out far while I wasn’t there.
Fortunately, I got a few more bite sized biddies and mullet, and sent them out. The next fish was a rather fat catty, which was a waste of a good livie, but I continued to persist in hope of a better bite. Sure enough, my rod went off again, and after setting the hook, I had fun landing my largest squire of the day at 44.5cm. I think this took a couple glassies and a silver biddy on the hook – it seems they like small baits but a few of them on the hook. After I landed this guy, the bite slowed a bit on the squire, but there were a few decent pecks that may have been large bream.
 
Biggest
I capitalized on this opportunity and tried to catch a few more livies, but to my dismay, even after casting for 30 minutes or so, I had hardly managed a fish in the net. As the tide started to slow, I chucked out a mullet about as large as you would like for a jewie or thready, and when I was really running low on the baits casted out a couple fillets of strip mullet.
Annoyingly, all this brought was two catfish in quick succession, both of which were fat, ugly, and decent size. After I had dealt with them, I got back to cast netting and got a few herring and other small baitfish, including one large prawn (I really need to get out one night chasing them). I also caught a small muddy on the line and had a much larger one drop off before I saw it (almost sure that’s what it was), as they hit as the tide had slowed to a trickle. As the tide started to change I would love to have said the bait situation did too, but I still couldn’t get any in the net.
 Luckily, just as the run in began, I nailed my fourth squire of the day, somewhere in the low forties. I probably could have kept this one as it was towards the end of the session, but I ended up chucking him back. Lucky day for the fish.
 
New record for squire – bagout!
 At about 1:00PM I had just caught a couple more livies but got an angry call from my Dad asking where I was… Guess I had forgotten I was supposed to be home by then, lol. I casted all my lines out for one last time and packed up, but unluckily no jews or threads came swimming by. I had $1.02 on my card so used it to buy a softserve from Central station Maccas on the way home, and that would have been one of the highlights of the day seeing as though I hadn’t eaten anything. I got home pleased to have finally broke my fishing drought, hopefully I can get a 50 squire or some big fish soon.
Stats of Trip:
Tide: 5:00AM, 1.9M, High (small high), 11:50AM, .5M, Low, 6:00PM, 1.7M, High.
Moon Phase: 47.2% - there wasn’t a heap of tidal difference in height but this spot always has lots of run
Bait Caught: Everything – herring, mullet, biddies, winter whiting, prawn, glassies.
Fish Caught: Squire x 4, Catfish x 3, Muddy x 1
Air Pressure: 1009
Humidity: 60%
Gear/Tackle Used: Okuma Coronado CDX 5500 on Silstar Crystal Power Tip 6-8KG 8 foot, 30 pound x8 J-braid, Jarvis Walker 8 foot 5-10KG rod on Shimano Baitrunner DC 8000 with 30 pound x 8 Penn Slammer braid, Shimano Sedona 6000 on 7 foot Abu Garcia Nanotech rod, 30 pound x 4 braid. 50 pound FC rock trace, 6/o Masterpro circles. Size 4 star sinker. Fixed sinker rig.
Overall Success Rate: 70% - but can’t complain about a bagout on Brissy River squire landbased.
The next session was just a quick fish with Charlie at his creek spot on Sunday arvo. I got there at about four and caught my first catty (he had already caught three) within five minutes of casting out. Charlie proceeded to catch about three times the number of catties as me, I guess I’m a bit out of touch with the old trusty Alvey.  We probably ended up with fifteen fish combined, and highlights of the arvo include me pulling in a small muddy and a couple of big bream hits casting towards the bank (I dropped one before we got it out of the water).
Quick Stats:
Tide: Rising.
Moon Phase: 57%, there wasn’t heaps of run
Gear Used: Charlie used a light spinning setup and I used a Alvey kids combo, both about 10 pound line, small sinker and suicide hook. Servo prawns for bait.
Overall Success Rate: 85% - fun session catching a few fish
Thanks for reading this report, I hope you enjoyed. Sadly I won’t be able to get out for a fish over the next couple of weeks, maybe a couple of short local sessions, as I’m going to be too busy with school. Hopefully I can catch a couple good ones on the holidays.
Cheers Hamish

Welcome back, @Angus. Aurelia looks like a chip off the old block.  Hopefully she will be outfishing you before she finishes primary school. Special times.