Daryl McPhee

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

I only fish spring tides land based for tailor in winter in the bay for no other reason than where I fish does not have enough water over it. I need a night high of at least 2.1 metres to make it worthwhile. In the surf though I prefer neaps as long as the formations are good. 
Whiting I have places that fish on neaps and springs. 

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

Awesome! Thanks for sharing 👍

Quality landbased captures Daryl
👍😎.

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

I only fish spring tides land based for tailor in winter in the bay for no other reason than where I fish does not have enough water over it. I need a night high of at least 2.1 metres to make it worthwhile. In the surf though I prefer neaps as long as the formations are good. 
Whiting I have places that fish on neaps and springs. 

I only fish spring tides land based for tailor in winter in the bay for no other reason than where I fish does not have enough water over it. I need a night high of at least 2.1 metres to make it worthwhile. In the surf though I prefer neaps as long as the formations are good. 
Whiting I have places that fish on neaps and springs. 

I only fish spring tides land based for tailor in winter in the bay for no other reason than where I fish does not have enough water over it. I need a night high of at least 2.1 metres to make it worthwhile. In the surf though I prefer neaps as long as the formations are good. 
Whiting I have places that fish on neaps and springs. 

We have been out catching a few tailor after school on the weekdays around Runaway Bay. No big fish but legal fish for the most part. It's handy to just duck down to get a feed in the afternoon and be back in time for dinner. We just used the usual old school approach of small pillies on gangs, mono and Alvey's. The approach has worked for me for 30+ years and shows no signs of stopping and no need to overcomplicate things. 
 
 

I use cooked Aussie prawns on a size 4 Sucide hook.
Never have a problem.
Cheers.

Put the tinny in at the port of bris to fish the last couple hours of run out tide this arvo. Lucked into couple flatskulls in ambush mode hanging round a little drop off. Zerek fish trap did the damage 👍🏼. Bit of crumbed flatty tails for tea tomorrow night and my old neighbour will appreciate a couple bream fillets for his dinner tomorrow night. Cheers. 
 
 

Well I for one, am very happy that that a woman took a keen interest in fishing. I was absolutely chuffed the day a  fine woman came strolling across the flats with a yabby pump over her shoulder. I was impressed. 
I hope it's just unfortunate wording, but it seems like @mangajack feels like it is inappropriate for fishing to be undertaken by women or fish stocks shared with women. Like I said I hope it's just unfortunate wording on his behalf.

The Brisbane River is tidal (salt) all the way up to Colleges Crossing/Old Mt Crosby Weir, so you're definitely allowed to cast there. I'm not sure where Breakfast Creek becomes freshwater though, but where it's still tidal you can normally catch lots of bait.

This about sums it up for me. I fished so had food to eat. 
How wetting a line changed a life (moretondaily.com.au)

That information is for black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) which does not occur in Queensland. Our species is the yellowfin bream (Acanthopagrus australis). 
Here is dome information that I have previously published: 
"The yellowfin bream belongs to the Family Sparidae. There are about 155 species in the Family with a further four species encountered in Queensland being the snapper, fryingpan snapper, tarwhine and the pikey bream of more northern waters.
Most coastal areas of the world have at least one species of sparid fish present. Globally, important recreational species in the family include the white steenbra of southern Africa, the common dentex of the Mediterranean and surrounding waters, and the sheepshead which is found in the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Brazil and is most abundant in Florida.
The yellowfin bream is endemic to the Australian east coast – meaning that is the only coastal region in the world where the species occurs. They are found in a variety of coastal habitats including throughout river systems, along all the coastal foreshores of Moreton Bay, the surf zone and around rocky headlands.
Let’s look at the likely movements of adult yellowfin bream in a given year.
While they can be found anywhere, from October to April they tend to be in the rivers and creeks (or at least adjacent to them) feeding in these diverse and highly productive habitats. The condition of the fish in October tends to be poor and they use to be referred to as “razorbacks” when I was teenager at Sandgate. If there is substantial rain over the summer period they do end up highly dispersed, but they still tend to be more abundant in around the rivers and creeks. The spawning period for yellowfin bream in Moreton Bay is centred around the winter months (with a peak in July to August), with spawning occurring at, or adjacent to, surf bars. As the day length shortens the fish from May onwards are stimulated to commence their migration to their main spawning locations, although they may have already moved downriver for example in the Brisbane River and the Pine River in March/April. They do not leave the rivers and creeks en-masse and not all fish participate in the migration so there are some fish available in the rivers and creeks all year round. It is likely that some fish go back and forth to the principal spawning locations during the winter from adjacent areas. Whether the proportion of adult fish participating in the annual spawning migration varies between years is unknown.
Yellowfin bream do not readily utilise the more open expanses of Moreton Bay and tend to hug the shoreline and this is where they can be targeted. When fishing the shorelines you are fishing along their migratory path. Unlike sea mullet, yellowfin bream feed along the way and their energetic needs are likely to be higher, hence they are hungry and will readily take a bait.  Why do they migrate to the surf bars? By spawning on the flood tide, they maximise the dispersal of larvae throughout the system. It is a good breeding strategy. Most post larvae enter the estuary at night during the full moon on the flood tide, and the transition from planktonic animal to a juvenile fish which occurs from August to November when the fish are 13-14 mm total length. From September onwards, most of the spawning bream are heading back to the river and creeks. 
Much of the early work on the reproductive biology of yellowfin bream in Moreton Bay was undertaken by Dr Barry Pollock who grew up on Redcliffe Peninsula. The reproductive biology of yellowfin bream is complex, involving a form of sequential hermaphroditism called protandrous (male first) sex inversion. This is not uncommon among fish species, and it is an approach which can maximise the reproductive output of a population.
Yellowfin bream possess an ovotestes in which the testis and ovary occur in separate zones within the same individual. Most juveniles become functional males, but a small proportion of juveniles develop directly into functional females (primary females). Protandrous sex inversion commences after the fish mature when male fish change into female fish; however, some fish remain as males (primary males) throughout their life. The upshot of all this is that most small adult fish are males and most large adult fish are females.
Yellowfin bream are thought to become mature as males between 17.5–20.5 cm fork length. The minimum legal size of 25 cm total length allows over 50% of fish to spawn once which is a standard benchmark when setting a minimum legal size.
The age of most species of fish, including yellowfin bream, can be estimated by examining otoliths (ear bones). Yellowfin bream are relatively slow growing, but not as slow growing as their cousin the black bream which is found in southern NSW and Victoria. There is substantial variation in how old a yellowfin bream is for a given size. For example, age estimates by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries identify that a 30 cm yellowfin bream would likely be seven years of age, but it could quite likely be as young as four or as old as twelve. Six year old yellowfin bream comprise the most common age group harvested by recreational fishers. Overall, fish in the four to ten year old age groups account for the majority of the harvest (86%).
It is fair to say that yellowfin bream are highly opportunistic in what they eat and this is well known to anglers who can use a myriad of baits or lures to catch them. Their natural diet though is highly dependent on their habitat at the time. For example, the diet of fish in mangrove and saltmarshes is dominated by shore crabs while terrestrial animals such as insects, spiders and lizards are also consumed."
 

Hi all,
I'm on school holidays now, so I've finally be able to do a bit of fishing. This report will be about my sessions on Saturday and Sunday. I was going to go today as well but I need to pack for a trip to Yeppoon so decided ( it was decided for me 😕) that I would stay home today. 
The first session I woke up decently early and got the train and ferry to the spot. Annoyingly, as I got off the ferry, one of the wheels on my cart busted off, which meant I had to carry it about 800 metres to the spot. I then got to cast netting, but after no luck except one lone herring in my new net I met with Michael. He showed me a few more spots to throw the net, and here we got some mullet and other baitfish - enough to start fishing. It was very quiet at first, but after an hour or so of fishing Michael had a big run on his rod. He set the hook and was onto a decent fish with plenty of headshakes and a couple littles runs. We were pleased to see a solid GT come up, so I netted it and pulled it up. This spot has a lot of structure so it makes sense a trevally was hanging out there. It was about 45cm, and he decided to keep it for lunch. 

Michael's trev
After that, we were hopeful for some more bites, but apart from a few small nibbles it was really quiet. As the tide continued to run out, we threw our nets around for some more mullet and herring. Unfortunately, both of our aerators weren't working, so some of our livies became dead bait pretty quickly. It was pretty cloudy that day, so it wasn't too hot sitting and waiting for the bites. After another two hours or so of hardly getting a touch, we cooked some lunch up. The trevally was very nice, a bit like a tailor, so it was a good decision to keep that for a meal. Since my cart had also broken, we tried to melt the plastic around the wheel plus some cable ties to seal it back together. Annoyingly, this didn't really work, and after a test with the cast net inside it broke. We continued to fish around midday and into the arvo, but the fish weren't biting. We eventually had a few nibbles on whiting and herring with one small run on my rod, but no more fish were hooked for the day - we decided to go fishing the next day before leaving. 
Stats of Trip:
Tide: 7:00AM High, 1:50PM, .6M, Low
Moon Phase: About 80%, increasing, a fair bit of run
Bait Caught and Used: Live Mullet, herring, bony bream, silver biddies, winter whiting
Fish Caught: One trevally for Michael, none for me
Tackle and Gear Used: I used one rod, a Shimano Aero 6000 Baitrunner with 30 pound J-Braid on a Kmart rod. The rig was about a rods length of leader to a size 4 star sinker, swivel, about 70cm of trace, then a 6/o Owner circle hook. 
Air Pressure: 1006
Humidity: 67%
Overall Success Rate: 30% - cool to see a trevally
The next session wasn't any more productive, and was at a different spot the following morning. I met up with Charlie and we drove there, and got our lines in at about 6:30AM. I started cast netting, and bait was tough to come by - it took about 30 throws before I even got a couple of herring. I threw these out anyways, but apart from some pickers there were no decent fish around. Eventually, Michael got a big Christmas tree, which would last us the whole day fishing. Following this, Charlie had a few bites on his rod before hooking up to a fish. After a few decent headshakes, he had a bream on the jetty of about 29CM. He chucked this back, and got another herring out in hope of another fish. It wasn't long before Michael was on too, and he pulled out a slightly larger 31CM or so bream. He kept this, and we got back to fishing. There were definitely lots of bream about, and the pickers were quite bad. We ran out of our live herring pretty quick, so resorted to using the ones that had died as we were struggling to catch any more at all.
The bite stayed quiet, and it seemed there were no decent fish swimming about. I managed to get a couple more live herring which I chucked out, but they each lasted about 45 minutes before dying/getting pickered, which isn't really a good sign.  I had to head off at about 12:30PM to do something in the arvo, so after having some lunch, and getting no more good bites except a couple of lone runs or picks, we decided to call it a day and head home. I was using a small duffel bag on wheels as my cart and it worked well enough, but next time a normal one would be better.
Here's the stats of the trip. I wish I went fishing today but hopefully they're chewing in the river when I'm back from Yeppoon. 
Tide: 7:40AM, 2.3M, High, 2:20PM, .7M, Low
Moon Phase: 87%, increasing. Once again, a fair bit of run (not heaps though).
Bait Caught and Used: Herring, a few deadbaits from the prior session
Fish Caught: Two bream and a catfish for the others
Tackle and Gear Used: I used my Shimano Aero 6000 on a Kmart Rod with 30 pound jbraid and 30 pound leader, Charlie used my Abu Garcia Ambassadeur on an Ugly Stik with 20 pound braid and 30 pound leader. We both used size 4 star sinkers, swivels, and 6/o circle hooks. 
Humidity: 70%
Air Pressure: 1007
Overall Success Rate: 20% - two sessions and two donuts for me
Anyways, thanks for reading, hopefully I'll catch something next time or at Yeppoon!
Cheers Hamish

Hit up Mud island today with an old banned member. We launched early at 5 and rustled up some livies, then headed on up. Pretty quiet start with only one legal grassie amongst a fair few pickers for the first hour or so. Eventually the rig for a bigger snapper went off, just as we were saying things were quiet. My mate hooked up to it, but 2 minutes in the hook pulled. Disappointed!
We persevered for some time with more unders and both dropped decent fish. After the tide turned, the fish came on the chew again and we managed to increase the tally to 4 grassies and 1 tuskie. Not a bad day, with conditions allowing a WOT for the ride home.
Cuttlefish doing most of the damage.

Thanks Daryl , if that’s the case , I’ll continue using them for a while.
Thanks
Neil
 

Sharks can detect magnetic fields while bony fish cannot. In theory the magnet should have some deterrent effect on sharks but they will never be 100% effective. No deterrent for any purpose is. But if you are picking up 10% more fish then they are worth it. 
Neodymium magnets are the best and the come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. They are only a few bucks each so they are cost effective.

Sharks can detect magnetic fields while bony fish cannot. In theory the magnet should have some deterrent effect on sharks but they will never be 100% effective. No deterrent for any purpose is. But if you are picking up 10% more fish then they are worth it. 
Neodymium magnets are the best and the come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. They are only a few bucks each so they are cost effective.