Daryl McPhee

ellicat · March 17, 2021

Yes, the little red one is a paddletail. Simple ole pilchards and squid did the damage.

Defiantly a few Maori cod around the place. A good thing to see!

Angry51 · March 17, 2021

I was working over at Amity Point last week and got to do a bit of land based fishing off the Rock Wall there. Amity Point always produces a great variety of fish. One of the highlights this time was a yellow boxfish. It fought like a box. Fortunately there was more desirable species including quite a few legal squire, a few squid and a few Moses Perch. I managed some leatherjackets as well and I am sure if I used a hook smaller than a 3/0 there were more on offer. Some nice looking (but undersized) Maori Cod and Spangled Emperor were also caught and released.

ellicat · December 6, 2020

He is up on the Burrum River now, but still comes down each month for the club weigh-ins.

kmcrosby78 · December 6, 2020

Yes. It is called Logan City Fishing Club now and is on Facebook.

Brodie_S · October 21, 2020

I have given it a go. It all depends on the specifics of your application. It is not very abrasion resistant so you need to bear that in mind if fishing around structure.

ellicat · October 7, 2020

Land value was low because it was so remote.

ellicat · October 7, 2020

AUS-BNE-FISHO · October 7, 2020

Cribb Island was reclaimed for the first airport expansion. It use to be an actual suburb with a school, shops, cafes and a post office.

GregOug · October 7, 2020

They would catch more if they didn't have to go to school.

ellicat · October 7, 2020

You definitely need to go fishing!!!!

Drop Bear · October 6, 2020

Happy to help. All good things take time.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · October 4, 2020

Cribb Island worms and mud worms are the same thing. Cribb Island use to be a popular spot to catch them - when Cribb Island existed......

Junky · October 4, 2020

Yes. They are very good eating. They get to about 40 cm.

Drop Bear · October 4, 2020

The wrasse is a male crimson banded wrasse. The other one is a painted grinner.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · October 4, 2020

It's probably a black banded amberjack, but it is difficult to tell conclusively from the photo. You need to be able to see the fin rays clearly and the teeth.

ellicat · September 28, 2020

They are not an usual catch at a couple of spots in the Broadwater and around the western side of Straddie.

kmcrosby78 · September 26, 2020

@ellicat preserved worms are better than nothing for whiting. The link to preserving them looks okay but I personally wouldn't add the tuna oil unless you wanted to use them for bream.

ellicat · September 23, 2020

1 hour ago, ellicat said:

Tasty fishing !

Hoping to get some of the same tomorrow night when we hit the Nerang.

Did I hear right that the whiting are better in the lower reaches on the outgoing ?

I generally prefer the outgoing tide in the lower reaches but I have caught fish on all tides.

Kat · September 23, 2020

2 hours ago, Kat said:

Hi Darryl

Being new to fishing and pretty new to the gold coast I don't really know what you mean by any parks on the Nerang river. I am desperate to find some new spots - can you give me the name of a few parks so I can look them up?

Cheers Kat

Hi Kat. Ellicat is on the money. Just have a look at Google Earth/Google Maps and any of the small parks can produce fish. The second one in the video is Southern Cross Reserves on Cronin Island which is one of the more consistent spots. I have even caught a juvenile cobia there. In the Broadwater - Shearwater Park and Anglers Esplanade along Runaway Bay and anywhere along Marine Pde produce fish. There are also plenty of fish still at Shorncliffe Pier on the northside of Brisbane - this was from last week and we did well there this Monday as well.

Old Scaley · September 23, 2020

We had another good trip landbased to the Nerang River. Yabbies and Cribb Island worms produced a good mixed bag of grunter bream, whiting to 38 cm, tarwhine and bream. All of the parks in the Nerang River and the Broadwater foreshore produce fish if you put in the effort and keep things simple.

Allnighter · September 17, 2020

No upgrades, but more of the same.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · September 15, 2020

I am hoping for further upgrades tomorrow night.

Old Scaley · September 15, 2020

1 minute ago, ellicat said:

Good size. I'm giving them a go tomorrow as well.

You'd better enter the 36 in the comp.

I did indeed enter it!

Brodie_S · September 15, 2020

Yes Hamish. You are pretty much on the money. Worms or yabbies, 6lb monofilament line, a sinker light enough to reach the fish and light slow taper rods.

Junky · September 15, 2020

This is the time of the year that the sand and yellowfin whiting really start to kick into gear. There have been plenty of sand whiting in the Southport Broadwater for the landbased angler of late. There have been quite a few bream mixed in with them as well. These ones were from a couple of hours last night using surf worms for bait with the best fish of 36 cm. You don't need a boat to consistently get a feed of fish.

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