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  1. mangajack
    How are you fairing Rebel?
  2. mangajack
    Thanks for the report Wazza, some good fishing was had there. It might just be the camera angle but the last jew looks like a hybrid, having a small dark base to the pectoral fin and the head shape of the northern black jew....interesting.
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    I am far from a whiting guru but I do quite well....I just dig local worms to use and I put just enough worm on to cover a #4 mustad demon circle hook. I don't care if they die, the worms are eaten within 2 minutes anyway. I think for sand whiting it is scent before anything other senses. Next time you are on a flat with clear water and a foot deep, drop a sent bomb out and watch what the whiting do.....they trace that scent quite quickly.
  4. mangajack
    Next time you fish the harbour fish unweighted livies along the north eastern part of the marina....you will not get a bite on lures or anchored baits there but unweighted livies work. Threadies and cod there usually. Alternatively work the Rita DeMata headland if you can still get access to it. Threadies and barra. I fished Corio Bay and the headlands there the most....some good fish on the headlands there....very hard to land though. The reefs go out a hundred metres from the waters edge in some spots. GT's spanish macks and barra there. Occasional cobia and coral trout have come ashore there.
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    B.O.M charts

    mangajack replied to GregOug's topic in Boating

    Sorry guys....fixed it up above to be clearerer....almost like mud now. It is what you get when the Mrs has something important to say whilst you are busy with real stuff...the lawn could have waited a minute more.....
  6. mangajack
    Squid are more location oriented than tide oriented...just look for structure they would like and investigate it. As a side note...squid really like a sand bottom under them with some structure beside them....60cm of water and seem to be relaxed usually.
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    B.O.M charts

    mangajack replied to GregOug's topic in Boating

    it is after noon...sorry bud. (April Fools) Seems to be about as good as weatherzone gets anyway....
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    if there is 60cm of water you will still catch them....especially when the tide starts to come in.
  9. mangajack
    There are several cheap Japanese sites....there is no way of telling which ones have a better deal on any day apart from visiting them each and comparing.....they don't usually come up on search engines that well searching for products. Always good when you find that deal though.
  10. mangajack
    Well I have always been a sucker for using really light lines and lightly weighted baits....until the last 4 months. Lately I have been fishing ridiculously heavy jigs with smaller that I would usually use plastics with rather surprising results. My technique isn't a whole lot different but have certainly upped the line weight and jig weights up from 3.5gm to 32 gm. I'm usinfg20-30lb braid a lot these days instead of 8lb.
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    Hi Hamish, only in the city reaches for me and not when I've been actually fishing.....nearly all of my Brisbane river fishing is below the gateway bridge to the bay. The guy to talk to would be Joshua Charles BrizVegas fishing....he has a couple of youtube vids of surface threadies in the bris riv.
  12. mangajack
    So Raef and I did a quick run in the Brisbane River this afternoon with the winds dropping off a bit and the showers clearing. Launched at the Pinky at 3pm and fished until 7pm with plastics. My best was a snapp about 55 that was sent back....then a tailor about 50ish.....not welcome in my boat. If you want a feed of tailor go to the grain wharf at Pinkenba at night and throw anything into the lights under the wharf....you could bag out in 30 minutes easily. They all seem to be 40 to 50cm there tonight.....I wasn't interested but had to throw a lure into the lights anyway. Water quality is decent but the run made it a challenge to work the lures well....next weekend will be better tides. No photos, nothing worth the cost of the flash.
  13. mangajack
    Hook up with one of the guides at Rocky...what you learn there will be applicable for the entire Qld salt water scene as far as barra and threadies goes...snapper are too easy, find a reef and throw a 90mm plastic in front of them. River togas are where it is at rather than impoundment togas....again ask the guide at Rocky for some rivers that have been fishing well. Rocky to the coast is about the best fishery along the east coast now for big fish.... If you have time spare and the weather isn't blowing it's tits off then Stanage Bay is a special place...when it fires...for me it is 2 out of 6 runs I couldn't buy a bite, the other 4 runs were excellent.
  14. mangajack
    DPI research indicates that over 80% of mud crab diet is shellfish... I have grabbed a couple of fist sized bunches of bearded mussels and crunched them under foot and placed them in the pot as bait. I have done this twice in two pots, another two pots had mullet. They both worked equally well....no preference with either and both caught decent crabs. These days to can't do this in SEQ with the shellfish protection laws. I suppose it would come down to how well you can create the amino acids and blend them with oils for your attractant. Will they mix giving the correct scent??
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    As long as you don't cross the line of the property fences there is nothing the property owners can do. It is public land. They will raise their voices loudly but those are public parks. I used to net them for prawns for live baits, had several heated discussions with two property owners.
  16. mangajack
    Every decent rain event washes prawns about sometimes all the way out of the river. In this case the prawns were schooled up on the edge of the channel about 1500m out from the mouth in salty water....the river was recovering from a flush of fresh.
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    2km sth of Noosa Heads and about 5m of water.
  18. mangajack
    Yes they school up. I got 3 fish from a school last month....there were at least 50 fish to the school on the sounder. I doubt I got the biggest at 1m, the smallest was about 85ish from memory. I think it is entirely seasonal with bait influxes varying. The above trip coincided with a prawn flush from the river the previous few days. Many years ago I watched a school of about 20 fish well bigger than the metre length swim past me at Lion Rock on the Sunshine Coast....they refused to look at either a livie or a lure, just travelling north towards Noosa Heads.
  19. mangajack
    Thanks Hamish. I wish everyone a happy and safe Easter too.
  20. mangajack
    To be perfectly honest, I love my stradics and i have maybe a dozen or so of them. I bought 3 new, the rest I have bought off Marketplace for about 1/3rd of the current prices and generally they are either of the last two models. I did buy a FH1000 two years ago for $25.....happily paid that for the reel and serviced it and upgraded to carbon fibre drag....it is a great workhorse. Don't be afraid to buy 2nd hand reels of a decent quality, plenty of people upgrade from $300 reels to $1000 reels for the **** factor.
  21. mangajack
    It will still flood as always, but at a more controlled rate due to Wivenhoe. Without Wivenhoe and Somerset I think the Brisbane River would have far less siltation and deep mud areas. We need the fresh water supply though and the dams do control the flooding speeds and heights by slowing and prolonging the flood water rather than a full torrent that is shorter lived. I don't understand why in drought years SEQ Water does not permit siltation removal from the dams to increase storage capacity. It is a saleable commodity that some businesses would exploit if given the chance.
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    Micro Jigging

    mangajack replied to mzaakir's topic in Saltwater

    I gave it a red hot got for a few months about 5 years ago....I have gone back to plastics and live baits now. Yes you do get some fish but it is more work than enjoyment and plastics get better results and snag up a lot less than jigs.
  23. mangajack
    I doubt the Brisbane River will get another absolute gully raker again. Wivenhoe will moderate the flows effectively so minimal mud is scoured out on the city to port reaches. The Pine and Cabo get pretty harsh flushes that scour the bottom to gravel or rocks every decade or so. If you seriously want to help the Brisbane River then de-centralise Qld away from SEQ. Slowing the growth rate of the area will undoubtedly be a benefit for the river and bay. Just have a look at the population forecasts for your and your surrounding suburbs in the next 30 years....My area will treble in 20 years. I really do not like that thought at all.
  24. mangajack
    Shimano have outpaced Diawa as the most expensive these days....plus they keep screwing eith the reel models too much. I reckon a model of a reel like the FI Stradic should be good for at least 5 years before they release a new model....now about 2 years....no wonder they are getting more expensive.
  25. mangajack
    Somewhat debatable some of the statements. Weed beds are flourishing in some areas that have not seen weed beds in many decades....between Deception Bay and Scarborough plus Hayes Inlet. We have had very large flushes in the Pine River numerous times since 2011....2011 saw every worm bed upstream of Deepwater Bend scoured to rock or gravel. Yet the weed beds are thriving in Hayes Inlet. In the deeper parts of the bay it has been a lot of mud on the bottom from before the 50's when my uncle was operating a prawn trawler. He targeted the mud bottoms for the prawns then. Yes there is a lot of siltation in the bay but this guy overstates the amounts. There is more sediment appearing in front of Redcliffe these days....but that was really first noticeable when Fishermans Island was created and we lost directional tide changes north of Margate Beach...resulting in nearly all water movements there being a slow north to south current. The flats in front of the airport through to Eventide is still the same dirty sand I always remember, no muddier. North Pine Dam and Wivenhoe Dam catch most of the siltation upstream of their catchments. So really most of the siltation of the bay is coming from below those two dams. The weed beds between Deception Bay and Bribie are constantly refreshing themselves....yes they do have a bit of die back after a flush but return quickly with new growth in the months afterwards.
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