rayke1938

Slow morning yesterday. After doing our redclaw pots we thought we were on a winner with a very large school showing on the sounder out in front of the fig tree, Two consecutive triple hook ups proved that the sounder was correct but the downside was that they were forkies. We tried all over the lower area of the permitted area to reach the grand total of 10 bass by 11am. In desperation we ended up tying off to the yellow float and picked up 12 bass and 2 yellas in the next hour before calling it a day. Lots of bird life attacking the bony bream on the way back to the ramp. Probably well over 100 pelicans stealing fish from the shags. Hope that the pelicans do not start roosting on the ramp again Went over the Ricketts road bridge twice and did not encounter any stray fishing lines or members of the lycra clad brigade. l

Were you riding on the bikeway/pedestrian bridge or on the road? Was the fisho fishing on one of the fishing platforms. The fisho would have to be pretty good to land a cast on the bridge from the bank. Doing 30kph would be foolish if you were on the shared pedestrian/bikeway with attached fishing platforms Ray

why were the police involved?

Closed season for barra till 31 jan in tidal waters

27mm overnight

Achieved mine today finally got my xtrail back from the mechanic after a month no longer have to depend on others to go fishing. Another bonus its currently pissin down

Was a bit smoky at NPD yesterday morning with great company with Michael Holland who kindly towed my boat up there from Redland Bay, The redclaw are still scarce but we got enough for Michael to take home for a feed. The fish were scarce to start off with but we found a couple of good schools between the 2 islands. If you look at the sounder shots and a couple of the photos you should be able to suss out the general area where we were fishing. The fish have been holding out there for over the last month or so. Final tally was one small forky,2 yellas and 71 bass. The fish were all good quality with 23 of the 32 that I measured and weighed going 40cm or better. Best bass went 48cm. Cheers Ray

Graham had asked me to keep a couple of fish for him and when I tried to ring him his phone was crook so I ended up with a couple of bass that I filleted and cut up into pieces to use as redclaw bait.

Quiet day today with scattered fish showing on sounder but suffering from lockjaw. 27 bass,1 yella and Rick the tandan king with one 8inch model. Redclaw good size but scarce with several pots with holes chewed in them. Been a week since the pots were baited and that is too long a period to leave them. With a bit of luck I may get my car back on Friday and be able to check pots more regularly instead of relying on the goodwill of Rick and Joy.

no idea just bored because no fishing so going through old government achives some amazing photos with some old and some more recent such as building south east freeway and manly harbor marina,

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Another good day with Rick still driving as I am still waiting for parts from Nissan. Latest excuse is parts are held up in Melbourne due to bushfires. Been a week since we were there so redclaw numbers were down with 2 pots having holes chewed in them so 20 redclaw from 8 pots. Took a while to find a school of bass but we finally found a couple of migrating schools behind the island that we were able to follow before losing them. We had 45 fish by 9.30 and when we knocked off at 11.30 we had only increased the tally to 54 bass,1 yella and a forky that percy enjoyed. Cheers Ray

Once again had to rely on Rick towing the boat as my xtrail still suffering from so far unfixable electrical gremlins. Took a while to locate some fish we tried in usual haunts in the trees but the barred grunter were prolific and we were losing around 20 shrimp between the lone bass. Ians island is well and truely out of the water now. We ended up near the dam wall and found a school of good sized bass in 27 feet of water, Rick had a bit of trouble getting a big girl to swim away so we sent her on her way with one of Binders custom droppers. Final tally was 27 bass. Cheers Ray

Could not get lures to bounce off bottom.

Fuel tank MUST be removed and if that not possible fuel line must be either removed or disconnected, You cannot use your petrol motor under any circumstances on an leccy only dam. There are plenty of dams where petrol motors allowed see SEQ water Website https://www.seqwater.com.au/locations-and-guides Cheers Ray

Aother good day in the PRFMA area at NPD with 40 fish boated by 9am and stopped fishing at 11am with a tally of 72 bass and 3 yellas . We did our 8 redclaw pots on the way back to the ramp and. were pleasantly surprised with a good feed, Got home and put batterys on charge and came inside and had a cold beer and enjoyed 16mm of rain. Cheers Ray

I only catch and release gave a couple of bass and a yella to Graham who loves them Rick took one yella home to smoke,

As my xtrail is still keeping auto electrician mystified I conned Rick into taking me to NPD this morning. I started the day off by immediately crowning myself the tandan king.This was to be the only fish for 2 hours before we found a few yellas and one bass on the floats . Then behind the island for a few scattered bass before moving to spot lock 1008 where we found a school of ass to increase the tally to 43 bass and 5 yellas. Redclaw were very scarce with 13 redclaw out of 8 pots. Might be because the pots have not been done for a week. Cheers Ray

deep withdrawal no durries? Cheers Ray

Started off with the resident turkey checking out what treats were in the boat. He would be better off checking when we come in so he could save me picking out the dead shrimp. We found the fish in the same area that they have been sitting in for the last couple of weeks, you could give it a try trolling deep divers along the 26 foot line out from the eagles nest and big stump behind the island. We ended up with 60 bass and 5 yellas there. Percy ended up with a yella that I released Normally the smaller yellas under 50 cm release ok especially from shallow water, This one seemed to go down ok but after a couple of minutes it resurfaced and was swimming in circles on the surface with percy in hot pursuit. Percy managed to grab it before I could get over to it to net and send down on a dropper. Bad part was had to get tilt trayed home as nissan had a hissy fit. Hope it can be fixed before Saturday or else it will be a no fishing weekend. Cheers Ray

It was a bit smoky and hot at NPD this morning. The quality of the fish was very good even though the quantity was down.My shoulder is a bit sore with 4 of the bass that I caught going over 1.4 kg, The redclaw are a good size and quantity ok if you know where to set our pots, We knocked off at 11 am when the clouds started to build up with a tally of 27 bass and one yella. Dont know what it takes to make Zac crack his face with a smile. Cheers Ray

I think that most anglers have realized that it is important that more has to be done to restore habitat in both sweet and rust. Great things have been already achieved in the sweet with projects such as resnagging waterways and providing fish ladders or better still removing structures that prevent the natural migration of fish such as the Luscome weir that serves no purpose. In conjunction with DPI several stocking groups are now in the process of installing FADS into dams where there is little or no structure . In the salt there are still a lot of problems to be addressed such as loss of seagrass beds, responsible establishment of green zones and marine parks Cheers Ray

obviously no flying foxes or possums there cheers ray

Another good day it took us a while to find some fish with only 12 fish on the counter by 10am. We decided to have a look between the 2 islands and found some fish in 26 feet of water to finish up with 52 bass and 2 yellas. On wednesday we moved 2 redclaw pots to a new location and today we ended up with 16 good sizes redclaw in the 2 pots and nothing in the other 2 so we moved them to a new location further down the dam to see how they go. Happy I had a couple of fit deckies when we got back to the ramp as the wind really got up and was blowing across the ramp I would not have had a chance by myself the only way I would have got the boat on the trailer would have been to skulldrag the boat up the ramp and then winch it onto the trailer off the ramp.