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If you go Saturday I will head in with you Julian

Great trip Stu moments you will never forget

Definitely wild country the scenery would have been enough for most punters then throw in bass that want to pull you out of the boat for the whole experience

Just epic the scenery the rivers the waterfalls the journey the huts the fishing the adventure

I am a living example of the chances of getting ciga poisoning i have eaten more large spanish over 40 years or more than most people. I have never had any touches of ciga over the years but that does not rule out the chance of getting it all together if you're worried try a small amount the night before anyone else in the family has sone the next day

I have a original black queen and a black knight both i have owned for just over 40years and look similar to yours. Your rod has had the eyes replaced and a new coat of resin over the rod as my queen has got done by a mate recently but my knigjt is original with very dirfent looking eyes on the rod.

Bugger I will miss this unfortunately will be setting up camp on the gold coast

Some nice tailor Joe the big one would have put up a good fight

You cant go wrong with pilchards, yabbies and slabs of mullet or tailor for around there

I like cobby cobby passage out near slipping sands it has a good yabbie bank at the mouth to pump plenty of yabbies and i fish all through there while the tide is running then move up into the hole at the 3 way junction for the turn of the tide it is one of the deepest for the whole of the pin area and is linded with rock bottom good luck

If you want to bring it ashore take a lump of wood with you to club them over the head so they settle down for you and bring a heshan sack so you can wet it and place the fish inside with your ice or now they have large soft esky bags at good fishing tackle shops the only other way is to take a water proof camera with your brag mat but good luck trying to keep a tuna quiet while you take its photo on a kayak

I have caught countless numbers of these pests and anyone that knows me you'll understand that statement but since the target species is in the bay i can pass on some tips for them. The shipping channels in the bay like out from Bribie island or the inside of moreton island and all channels inbetween are your best bet to start at but all channels like the rainbow channel and the rous along north stradie and the deeper parts of the bay are a good bet. As others have said before the birds are the sign post of working tuna and look for terns in particular they are the real fisherbirds not seagulls. You want to start peppering them with your lures when the birds stop flying along and start to hover abover the bustup and then they dive into the bait balls driven up by the tuna get up wind or up current from them don't drive through the school see the way they are moving and let them come to you. If you see any disturbance in the water in the bay (bustup) the birds just haven't found it yet give it a go you can do alot of miles some days chasing tuna it can be hit and miss. Lures have been covered by many here already but i like chrome slugs and have a range of sizes to suit the bait that maybe there lures first catch the fishereman and i say its not about colour but size as size really does matter. You can try the shipping beacons if there is no activity for the day and anchor up so the baits drift down towards the beacon or do drifts past the beacon all shipping beacon will hold pelagics at times so there is no real secret spot but in my experience the ones off bribie and moreton and the start to the rainbow channel just inside southpassage bar do hold them more often. If your doing this pilchards are probably your best bait and you can still throw lures at the beacon while your drifting baits down My biggest in the bay was an 18kg longy caught on a pilchard while fishing for mackerel in the raibow channel Good luck

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.