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Throw some fresh mullet fillet or half a pilchard down along the net of the swimming enclosure near the camp grounds at night for the jacks and the whiting are along the corner of the sand bank near the bridge just outside the camp grounds if your land based

yep plenty of yabbies in the creek best bank is up tallebudgera drive and after the 2nd canal bridge park and walk tords the creek there is a big bank at low tide on the corner

Nah i reckon he is using 6lb braid with those silly plastic lures

Nothing wrong with Birkdale i lived here for 10yrs and get good fish when i try

IMO a forum without debate would be boring and not educational for newbies to the fishing scene there should be still room to let someone know they have fished outside rules and laws of the land. If done politely pointing out perceived mistakes is in everyones best interest, just leave the name calling out

My main site is coastwatch when i'm planning to head out

thats a bit crook mick as i know how much it costs me to do an outside trip, those sort of blokes don't get a second chance. in general i've had really good deckies come out with me pitching in a little bit of money and elbow grease at the end of the day

i've caught them in the gulf just outside of weipa that are bigger than that 1 and they tasted great i filleted 1 and fed it to some boys at work up there without telling them it was a catfish and they all loved it . might be a bit of mind over matter

mono filament line is more suited to fishing for these brutes as its the structure they live around will bust up braid in quick time Beejay wrote:

u get jacks around good structure like fallen trees and rock walls or rock bars , live fish or fresh strip bait like mullet or pike for bait and use a good trace like 60lb fluro carbon. no sinker on the turn of the tide or as light as u can go , i prefer the first of the incoming tide and pick a quiet place (no boat traffic). a nice hot day like when the northerlies r blowing and after dark or very early in the morning , screw the drag up tighter than u fish normally and try to turn them before they get back to the structure. if u give tingalpa ck a try for them beejay (being close for u) go upstream of the road bridge to where the rock bar is or further upstream where the creek narrows and the trees lean over the creek look for any structure up there mark

it may have been caught on a certain size line for a record to be set and they defianetly grow bigger than in that artical , twice that size it would be something to see mark

aidan there are a few verieties of threadfin found in aussie waters and the one we get here is the king threadfin salmon or known from bunderberg south as the burnett salmon it grows to 30kg some guys from the site have got them in the river to 18kg markaidanwebb wrote:

good tip for the deckie to know the cost is to fill up to the top going out then coming back to top right up again. with cleaning up i like to fillet any fish we caught and i get the guys to wash the fillets in the brine and sort them into the freezer bags as they say many hands my light work.

Kev the quintrex is a good boat for its size and weight its got its own pros and cons . good things going for it is light and easy to handle on your own compared to the fibreglass boats will be cheaper on fuel and easier to tow being lighter. can be a bit more rough with a aluminium hull than a fibreglass boat when beaching it at ramps and rock foreshores. will not handle seas as well than the fibre glass boats but for a first boat the quintrex would be ample in most bay spots. i had 1 for years and in good weather you can sneak off shore to some close reefs. the seafarer has been a good boat for years as well but as you can tell i like my tinnies

kev when you get a large fish on light gear near the boat you go very steady never increase the drag setting as you have less line therefor less stretch and the line could snatch load and bust all your good effort.

my mate landed a 12kilo cobia on 2.6 kilo line on a whiting rod (black queen) it took him 50 minutes and split the line in two for about the first 100m of line. my best was a 20 kilo tuna in the bay on 6 kilo line and took me 50 minutes and it came up dead. my first trip with the missus and she drove the boat got the anchor up , couldn't have caught it with out her