AlsHilux

mine was smaller, but to make up for it i got two of them.. [img size=332]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/aleel.jpg

no sharks last night, but took the cast net out and got a few little 2-3\" livies near the edge and put them out to see whats happening. got a nice litle cod which we threw back and a few of these suckers... ran into a couple of vietnamese dudes the other night who seemed to think eel was a bit of a delicacy, dunno if i'm gonna try eating it or using them for surface shark bait? the put up a fairly decent fight though. this is my friend mick, eel was 2kg at 119cm. [img size=324]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/mickeel.jpg

..so the motivation levels are back up, will be back at the ramp tonight seeing if i can upgrade on this little guy.. is there a trick to filleting sharks? if there is, i don't know it.. [img size=495]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/GOTHIM2.jpg Post edited by: AlsHilux, at: 2007/03/16 11:10

If you build it.. they will come.. Only a little guy, 75cm @ 2.75kg.. but my first bully! the boat ramp finally pays off on a 8\" live cattie. [img size=357]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/GOTHIM.jpg

Unfortunately catfish are our main catch... I think after about 6 trips there our tally is about 25 catfish, 1 eel and a couple of mudcrabs. Like I said, had some big feeling hook ups that snapped me off a couple of weeks back now and she's been pretty quiet there since. The plan is always the same, go down catch some catfish, cut the catties down the middle and throw them on some 6/0's and try and catch some bullies (or anything big enough to take half a catfish really). Problem lately has been that after about 10 minutes sitting on the bottom the muddies grab your bait. We tried unsuccessfully to float some baits out (unsuccessful because you can imagine floating baits from the bank just swings them around in an arc with the tide back to the bank). I'm down there about twice a week now in the arvo/evening. I'm pretty easy to spot. I'm the guy sitting on the esky in front of the white hilux fourby. If you see me down there come over and say g'day.. she can get a bit boring when nothing is happening so always keen for a chat. I'm starting to get to know the regular afternoon walkers.. it's a bit sad when they ask me if i've had any luck and everytime all I can say is more catfish.. Think i might be down there Thursday night? I'll see what the tides are doing and post again and let you know when I reckon i'll be down there.

G'day again lads (and maybe the occassional lass?) I've taken your advice and been down the boat ramp just about every spare hour I have practising casting my over head and thanks to you guys I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. I must admit though that k-mart are having a 25% off rod/reel and 20% of tackle sale so I couldn't help myself buying an equivalent weight penn egg beater which just means there are more rods to sit in the rod holder on the front of the hilux.. not a crime right? The overhead is an abu garcia by the way, I forgot what model.. damnit. Lately have been having really bad luck at the boat ramp, having a hard time even catching a few little catties. As usual the odd big hook up that gets away. Actually my best luck has been teasing mudcrabs in on the fishing line. For some reason they don't go anywhere near my crab pot but will hold onto a catfish head until they get to the waters edge which is where you get your mate to run down there and sting them with the landing net. Bobs your uncle, and if bob is allergic to crab like my mate is then it's more muddies for you! Does anyone live in the local area around there keen to go down for a bit of a fish. I seem to be there at least 2 days a week now. cheers, Al

G'day guys, I'm pretty new to this site and even newer to overhead reels (bought one last week when up at hervey bay under the impression i'd catch something... i was wrong). So, I'm going to admit I reely (yeh it was a lame pun) suck at casting these things. I had to resort to spooling about 15 metres out and hand lobbing my hooks out. This worked, twice. Then the dramas with birds nest line tangling begun and I ended up getting pretty pissed off and just using my little crappy 10 pound eggbeater. If anyone has any tips on casting the overheads, I'd love to know. I should probably admit that I generally suck at fishing anyway, but I seem to try and go at least once a fortnight. Getting a bit tired of driving out to the hornibrook bridge and deep water bend just to catch bait fish and snags so I was pretty stoked to learn there were fish (let alone sharks) in the Brisbane river. I live about 3 minutes drive from the fig tree pocket boat ramp and figured the guys up at lone pine do daily catfish feeding for the tourists which would attract more sharks, or at least some cat fish. So, I did my reading and made a plan.. get some hot dog rolls, catch some cat fish and use the cat fish for shark bait. The hot dog rolls were easy, the catfish were almost as easy.. but the sharks. Well I'm not to sure, I think I might have hooked up one (in 5 hours) but it was only on my line for a minute before shredding my line (with a metre of 50 pound leader onto 40cm nylon coated trace) above the leader when something fairly large broke the surface and splashed around. My mate got a couple of hook ups that looked fairly promising but also lost them. Apart from the catfish all I managed to actually land, was a 4' eel.. oh, and 1 prawn that somehow got stuck in my crab pot. Has anyone else tried sharking down there at the boat ramp and had any luck? Or is anyone keen to go down for a fish there and show me how to use this damn reel? Cheers, Al