rayke1938

Beaut conditions at NPD today but fish scarce only boating 4 yellas,one spanglie, 8 bass plus normal assortment of forkies. Apart from the forkies which were everywhere the only 2 locations where we caught fish were fad 2 and the floats.. 10000000_7408471932533192_4040905805977466314_n.mp4 10000000_7677874388944579_2900292500572225816_n.mp4 10000000_7881239711921197_1428987984993565949_n.mp4

After an enforced lay off I finally got to wet a line with Rick ,Joy and Amelia this morning. It originally looked that it was not going to happen as Rick had car problems and we did a turn around and went back to my place and swapped cars and we headed off an hour later. After doing our shrimp pots we headed upstream to just before the plantations and got stuck into the bass. Final tally being 79 bass and one tandanus. I had a bit of a problem handling a couple of bass around 45cm but just had to play them out.

Bit harder to get your license these days. On my 17th birthday I attended Miles police station and walked away with motorbike.car ,semi, bus and restricted blasting license no tests involved. Knew the copper from drinking at the pub where I boarded. Drinking age 21 then.

Got your license?

Get into it. https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/news-media/campaigns/fish-n-sips-tagged-fish-competition?fbclid=IwAR2maDbXRjs8ZaPj_LDMTG9XOa8T5DMy8iPQmN_82ZruyeDL9VdREYDaKeA_aem_ASMeetuT6ghOhKmrUUIAdq1XNrAih98ZfGCSNcIc4qo3ohh44FIDUupomeTt9MBw1-4yt5pbIol9c29fRfJ_qLyb

Had a mate ask ifI knew of someone who was reliable and reasonably priced who could weld up a bracket for a bow mount on his tinny and build up the transom. Preferably redlands or on southside. I thought that there were a few recent posts but cannot find them. Cheers Ray

Must have spent a few years in the river not as well fed as in the dams. Cheers Ray

Had a few longer.

Look up some of Darryl Mcphees (spelling)posts he fishes there landbased for some really good fish.

I am lucky no driving for a week and no lifting more than 5kg for a month . I interpret that as no NPD forkies for a month.

Lemon tea cake.

NPD area 3 this morning with glass out that turned into drizzling rain and then fining up. Fish were scattered being located on fad 4 , the floats , the tip of the island and on the drop off near fad 0. 39 bass,one lone yella and 25 southern strain of large mouth barra between 20cm and 57cm. The big ones certainly give you a work out. We could have caught a lot more but Neil objected to them grunting at him. Did out shrimp pots on the way back and disappointed to find most of them empty. Few other boats out so hopefully will see their reports. Some of the photos bit iffy as lens of camera got wet in the rain.

They even talk to you. NPD today. Several captured.

Hinze western arm 7/3/24. Extremely slow day at the western arm today. Plenty of shags roosting on Ians island. After doing shrimp traps we went upstream and could not find a fish in our usual spots. We went up as far as the barrage for 3 isolated bass with largest 37cm and one barred grunter for the eagle that followed us all morning.

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

You beauty

Sorry who is it?

Strongly suspect

Donuts at western arm this morning. Neils wife packed some chocolate ones so we did not miss out. Shrimp were extremely scarce with a lot of pots empty and only a few had shrimp in them. As a result we had ran out of bait by 9am, 17 bass one tandan ,one eel and only 2 barred grunter for a hungry eagle.

Upstream ? We went downstream a little and water appeared clearer maybe we should have gone to Queen street. Hinze western arm on thursday .

Donut again at Somerset with Rick and Joy, Launched at kirklea went as far as powerlines with live shrimp. Donut result enjoyed pies at Fernvale,

Brian any prawns around islands

Went to NPD this morning/ At least we did better than our disastrous donut trip to the Hinze eastern arm on thursday. Took us 6 hours before the only 29cm bass was boated. 27 forkies kept us entertained prior. Forkies up to 55cm. Quite surprised how clear the water is and very little debris. I fully expected that our shrimp pots would have been swept away but they were all there.