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Cheers for those marks Brad, im definitely keen to smash the mackeral, ill have to find some locals to watch go through the bar as i hear its pretty shallow. best part is i have a pontoon with the place we hired so no unloading and reloading the boat at the end of the day:)

And a picture of the boat....

At easter im headed to yamba for 9 days, so if you have any gps marks or locations that might help me offshore or in the river as i will be fishing both weather dependant.

Mostly chasing crabs, flathead and jew in the river and then whatever is around in april that i can have some fun with offshore.

A couple more points.

The bait fisho's don't have to miss out on these great sport fish either, a shore fire method to get them on bait is to drift single hook rigged unweighted/lightly weighted pilchards through the feeing zone and you'll pick up fish as they travel through the area.

Lobbing livies into the feeding schools will yield plenty of fish too, it's probably the easiest way to get them, I haven't done this for years but can remember even if you fudge up a cast the fish would happily travel 10-20 metres away from the school to nail a well presented live pike and being such a big bait they would absolutely smash it. You have to make sure your terminals are up to scratch here as the tuna will pop you on the hit if your knots and hooks aren't top notch.

Last point is etiquette. Please practice good etiquette, basically this means have respect for your fellow anglers and give them space, if you see someone tracking/stalking fish leave them alone and go and find your own school to track......all you will achieve if you try and muscle in on other peoples action is to spook the fish and ruin it for both parties and you may find yourself on the receiving end of a bit of bay rage....
There is no need to follow the same school as someone else, there are plenty to go around, when the fish are on there will be multiple schools about and they will be spread over a large area..

Ok I just remembered another important point, fuel.....you can tend to burn quite a bit of fuel when chasing choons so make sure if you don't have a big tank in your boat to take extra. I usually burn 25-30 litres for the day (40 hp Etec, 4.2 tinny) but there are days that I could use up to twice that, I have a 50 litre underfloor tank and carry a 10 litre jerry for just in case. Try to remember to keep an eye on the gauge as in all the excitement it can be an easy thing to forget about.

Cheers,

Al

Sam both rods are terrific, i use the Snyder 9 foot Contessa an we sell the 9 foot Gary Howard where i work and i have picked it up many times and thought what a nice rod it was.

You don't say what species you want to use it for, if you're after a specialist whiting rod i would go with the Gary Howard, if you want one for bream and whiting i would go for the Contessa "Light", cheers wayne

Still 6months or more away Bri... have to find a house and move out first haha.

Counting the days till i can get a Weimeraner pup...

Give me about 2 months and I will be able to contribute to this thread.

yeah been a while for me as well. Full of carp as well

Pine Rivers Park, Srathpine
Enogerra/Ithacca Creek, Kelvin Grove
Kedron Brook
Lake Kurwongba
North Pine Dam

We do not seem to have as many pests on the north side of the river :silly:

Mad Alvey bro. What rod and brand of bread did youse?

I find a lot of bay snapper run up the current at my boat.. could have been a solid snap
Also had a really big fight with a shovelnose out there a few weeks back that i was calling for tuna at first because it pulled hard.

As for the livies dissapearing I would also say tailor when they are thick its quite annoying.