ellicat

I was suppose to go mackerel /reefy yesterday morning ,but my mate who was taking me in his boat cancelled with a sore shoulder at the last moment  . Since I had that all important leave pass organised  ,I went and dug a few  worms and had a whiting fish last night . Could not find any decent ones , but scratched up a nice feed of whiting. Got a beautiful little  juvenile mulloway  and a little lizard as by catch , which were tagged and released .Managed to upgrade team south’s whiting slightly.
whiting 350 ,345,350mm
mulloway 405mm
flathead 385mm

here we go again... good luck to all
 
ROUND 7
THURSDAY APRIL 18
Roosters vs. Storm Allianz Stadium 7:50pm AEST
FRIDAY APRIL 19
Dragons vs. Warriors WIN Stadium 6:00pm AEST
Eels vs. Dolphins TIO Stadium 8:00pm AEST
SATURDAY APRIL 20
Panthers vs. Tigers BlueBet Stadium 3:00pm AEST
Titans vs. Sea Eagles Cbus Super Stadium 5:30pm AEST
Broncos vs. Raiders Suncorp Stadium 7:35pm AEST
SUNDAY APRIL 21
Bulldogs vs. Knights Accor Stadium 2:00pm AEST
Sharks vs. Cowboys PointsBet Stadium 4:05pm AEST
Byes: Rabbitohs

There's only a couple of games that I will be confident tipping this round. The comp is close, except for Titans and Rabbits.

any small chrome lure about the size of the bait they are feeding on....my go to is a 50mm long Abu Pirken I made a mold of 30 years ago...cast lead slug with fresh chrome paint.
Last two tuna i caught last year were on a 65mm soft plastic prawn wound in quickly...good fun on 12lb braid and 10lb leader...both ere about the 85cm mark from memory.  I was too lazy and half hearted to change the lure...first cast each time hooked up.

Jagged a barred grunter this morning....just not quite big enough for the plate.

 

@mzaakir There are some wild rock places down here. I noticed some guys are using 14ft rods on the difficult spots.
Cheers.

That's a bugger - hope you get back into the fishing soon mate.

Nice snapper Hamish, well done 👍. Bet you'll take some ice next time ...... 🤣

So many highlights to remember. haha

Went out with @Another Wazza today and he was close to negative 10 with the grinners. Very quiet day that started with a 37 snap to Wazza on a plastic. After that the most exciting thing was loading up the Sabiki jig with some lollipop yakkas and a few pike.

Bl00dy Hell. What a week.
Next week will be good, to balance things up.
 
 

@Nrgised Most of the guys down here have 12ft rods. Nothing less than 10ft.
I always take two rods when I am rock or beach fishing. The most popular reel is a 5000.
Cheers.

Bad things come in 3’s, you’ll be right now…… (he says fingers crossed to not jinx rebel)

@ellicat, I propose a change to the competition rules. I think we should have Northside, Southside and Neil.

So many highlights to remember. haha

Went out with @Another Wazza today and he was close to negative 10 with the grinners. Very quiet day that started with a 37 snap to Wazza on a plastic. After that the most exciting thing was loading up the Sabiki jig with some lollipop yakkas and a few pike.

So many highlights to remember. haha

Went out with @Another Wazza today and he was close to negative 10 with the grinners. Very quiet day that started with a 37 snap to Wazza on a plastic. After that the most exciting thing was loading up the Sabiki jig with some lollipop yakkas and a few pike.

My preference in rods is outdated now....fibreglass...specifically a Snyderglass JS1029W extended about 14 inches, paired with a Abu 10,000ca reel with 30lb mono. Can deadlift 50lbs with the rod so swinging big snapper and average jew up onto the ledge is doable.
The spin setup was a Sabre Grafast blank about 9 feet and rated to 12kg....ran 10kg on a TSS4 to spin up the macks and tuna from the stones.
The rods might be super heavy compared to todays graphite rods, but they take the abuse and knocks very well and ask for more.
These days I would upgrade the reels but still use the same rods.....probably opt for braid backing, 5m of hollow braid and 20m of mono leader finger trapped in the hollow.
There is a tradeoff in the reels too.....high gearing is good for getting the speedsters on the line, but less so when you need to winch them in at times....overhead I would probably not exceed 6:1, spin 7:1.

Go hard Max, you are scoring well.

Good luck 👍

St Lucia is the furthermost upstream in the Brisbane River for me....
Investigating some spots around Bribie next.

Thanks Steve. 
Thanks @Huxstang, sounds like a quiet day but livescoping would still be very fun!
Thanks Neil. 
No worries manga, sounds like your session was still pretty successful, have you ever tried upstream of the city in the river?

Thanks for the report Hamish, I was down there late Sunday arvo for a few snapps and a flathead plus the damn tailor that are everywhere lately.
Time to give the Bris River a spell and sus out some other grounds I used to fish in the 70's and 80's.....one spot threw up a 88cm snapp last Friday night I heard....land based as well.

So many highlights to remember. haha