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Went to western arm with Rick and Joy. Shrimp traps a bit light on but good size. We were restricted to fishing in the bays due to the wind. Found one spot that was ok but as the boat was yawing a lot we kept on getting snagged besides feeding the prolific barred grunter. Found a couple pf trees where we were able to tie off fore and aft but the barred grunter still prolific to the delight of the eagle. We finished off early with a total of 26 bass ,one tandanus and a nice yella. All tagged and released,

15 hours ago, ellicat said:

Nice day and haul, Neil. That southerly chopped things up a bit in the bay today.

@benno573 and I came upon a huge, thick school of herring at the Pin one day. We made the mistake of throwing the castnet. We got about 200 in one cast. 7 out of 8 of them were stuck in the net. It took us a good hour to get them all out. Never again. haha

Better than a cast net full of stripy catfish.

From seq water site. There used to be warning signs at both ramps but they were removed a few years ago. But still on website.

I no longer eat any fresh water fish due to if I want them I have to clean and cook myself. When Steve Wilkes used to have his father and sons weekends we used to cook them at the campsite and they were great. Hinze dam fish are one of the best eating fish from all the seq dams due to the absence of bony bream. Quite a few of my mates eat them regularly. From what I have seen from the reports the elevated levels were only in the larger fish and mates only take sub 40cm fish.

CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY AT HINZE DAM

 NOTICE SEVERITY

Affected Locations:

Hinze

Western Boat Ramp at Hinze

Eastern Boat Ramp at Hinze Dam

Last Updated: Friday, 25 November, 2022 - 11:20

Seqwater has advised fishers to release and not eat fish from Hinze Dam because of naturally-occurring mercury.

Queensland Health has warned that fish caught in the dam are not suitable to eat due to elevated levels of naturally-occurring mercury in longer-lived fish.

For further information please contact Qld Health or go to Mercury in fish | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au).

All round slow day today with both the shrimp and fish hard to find. Ran out of bait by 10.30 with a tally of 19 bass and one tandan. Still good company and great to be on the water, Went upstream and only 2 trees productive a few bass just made 40cm rest mediocre.

3 hours ago, ellicat said:

The water always looks so good with fog on it.

Good numbers. Worth the drive.

Just under 300k round trip makes a long day.

Bill was very happy to fill his quota in under 2 hours.

3 of us went to the western arm this morning the shrimp traps were a little light on as it is 5 weeks since we were there. We headed upstream to a few spots around the entrance of bass bay. The fish were moving around in waves and we managed 20 bass with the largest being only 40cm and the majority just over legal and one tandanus. Had to move twice because the barred grunter were stealing our bait but we got our own back on some of them and fed them to the eagles. Back at the ramp at 10.30 due to lack of bait.

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..

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.

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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.

10 hours ago, Bretto77 said:

Were chocolate donuts and jam drops deployed?

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.

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