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2 minutes ago, ellicat said:

As well as the expected fine etc. the skipper should lose his boat licence.

Can only hope it serves as notice to others they will be caught.

I only hope they confiscate his car & boat and that he likes pineapples.  

Found this in the courier mail, 3 fisherman caught with approx. 52 snapper with a catch weight of 61kg.  fish caught from either Moreton Bay or Offshore Moreton/Straddie.  

https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/fishing-trip-costs-trio-15000-after-huge-snapper-catch/news-story/ee781d2612e929cbf178b206bda2568c

Put me down for Northside

I prefer to fish shallow tempest and the other shallow shoals and reefs in that area by anchoring up current of the structure and float baits back in a burley trail.  Its not everyone's cup of tea tho, don't know many people who enjoy anchor retrieval in 35-40m of water.

Best thing is trial all techniques.

Depending how much freeboard you have @xander mate,  10ft is quite small,  It would be really good in the small creeks north you, going down around River heads etc , it will be testing if the weather turns bad,   

Id be looking at 13ft on average with high sides if you can,  

I am in,  Will rep for the Northside.  

Will let u know @jon when I fish it and what it produces, 

7 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi all

I went out for another session on the river, this Sunday. It was very quiet. I got no fish. There were also a lot of pickers. I'll still do the quick report though, seeing as though it was a session. I left for the park at 2:25PM, and arrived a bit past half past. 

The lines were put in, baited with fresh dead prawn. On the first throw of the cast net, I got none, but on the second throw, up came a couple of live prawns. I wasn't getting very many prawns, which was surprising, as when the tide is dead low it's normally a good time for them. I got a couple more though, so at least I had some OK livies. My Sienna reel wasn't at the spot either. I was using my brother's Shinobi (Diawa) on a graphite stick. I dropped it down into the cod spot, and it almost immediately got pickered. I'm assuming there must be hoards of baby bream, toadfish, and other assorted small fish that hang around the pylons as I can never hook them, even with a tiny whiting hook, and they eat my bait immediately. The cod, bream, flathead, salmon, and whatever else is under there must gouge themselves on the baits! 

I kept getting pickered, and also did some more cast netting. The line out deep had one average looking hit, but I'm assuming it was either a small river perch/picker. I then got some glassies in the net, which I reluctantly pinned onto the salmon line (seeing as though the prawns just kept getting pickered). 

On the hate scale, these are 10/10!!!

I kept fishing through the arvo, for not much of a result. On one of the casts in the net, I got two small silver biddies. One went in the cod spot, whereas the other went on the salmon line. The cod one immedialetly got destroyed, by what I assume were toadfish, while the salmon one remained untouched for the whole session. I was eventually checking the line out in the middle (tide had changed causing it to drift downwards towards the jetty) and I felt some weight on the end of it. I thought I might have a catty on, but as it turned out it was some old line (not mine). I can tell because it had two sinkers - never have I used to sinkers at this spot, LOL. I chucked it in the bucket though, so I can/could bin it. Here it is (I got a photo so it wasn't a pictureless report ). 

BS

After that, I needed to go to the dunny. I really didn't want to, as the ones at the local park are, well, not very good, but I did anyway. Luckily, the one I went in was quite clean. When I came back, my mate only reported one big/good hit on the rod in the channel made by the jetty/boardwalk, which unfortunately didn't hook up. It wasn't looking very good at all,  and I was quite sad that it was another donut session. I don't think this spot fishes very well in Winter, opposed to Summer!  Towards the end, we saw a piece of someone's pontoon/mattress/something floating along, about 20-30M out. I desperately cast for it, hoping to hook it. Each time, I was about 50cm off! (It wasn't the biggest thing). 

There were no more fish for the day, and at 5:25PM I had all the gear away and started to leave. Overall, it wasn't a bad three hours out of the house, but it certainly could've been a bit more fun! I hope you all enjoyed this report, even though nothing really happened. Here are the stats for anyone's reference - 

Statistics of trip - 

Tide: Last of run out, first of incoming - 9:40AM, 1.7M, high, 3:50PM, .2M, Low, 10:20PM, 2.3M, high

Moon Phase: Third Quarter - very close to New Moon

Weather: Sunny, somewhat chilly late afternoon

Wind: Very light winds

Fish caught: -

Bait caught: Prawns, glassies, and silver biddies

Bait used: Prawns, glassies, and silver biddies (both live and dead)

Tackle Used: 10lb, 14lb, and 30lb braid mainlines, 20lb and 30lb fluorocarbon leaders, 80lb mono trace, size 2 and 6 ball sinkers, large barrel swivel, size 4/o suicide and circle hooks, 8" Ugly Stik rod, 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and 2500 Diawa Shinobi, and size 650 Penn reel. 

Cheers Hamish  

Hey Hamish

Just curious,  what sinker size do u find Gets you your most bites/fish?

They are amazing, Well done.  

Quite possibly you would catch Mud crabs @Jaz44,

I found mud crabbing in open water very hard in SE QLD,  Always catch Carpet Sharks and small fish rather than crabs,

Give it a go I reckon,  

Good Luck @ellicat  , Should be a good day for it.

Look forward to the report.  

50 minutes ago, Towknee said:

Record the PB, take a pic & you’ll always know you caught it. 
doesn’t have to be in the esky to be a PB 

No true mate,but id rather not be catching snapper at all during closed season @Towknee,

Alot of my fish are released to fight another day so that doesn't bother me. 

2 hours ago, GregOug said:

No I forgot @ellicatbut that reminds me. We all swore we saw a rock sticking out of the water probably at least a couple of hundred metres out from shore as we drifted past Cowan Cowan artificial. Does anyone have knowledge of a rock there? Very bloody dangerous if it is a rock.

No rocks that I know of at Curtain Artificial, possibly a old crusty mooring bouy floating  around, few weeks back I watched 2 dugongs and a big  turtle cruising the area, quite possibly one of those...

12 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Good luck mate. 

I look forward so seeing some pictures of you holding some thumpers. 

Im just hoping I dont hook a snapper and it be a PB fish.... a PB in closed season would break my heart.

37 minutes ago, GregOug said:

Well I took everyone’s advice and headed out for a fish today. Left from Pinkenba Boat Ramp near the mouth of the Brisbane River. There was probably half a metre of chop most of the way, up to three-quarters of a metre the closer we got to Tangalooma. Had a look at the wrecks then decided to drift from Cowan Cowan Point out towards Bulwer. Ended up drifting all the way to out past Comboyuro. Did a few drifts back and forth past Bulwer for a net result of one huge toad fish. And this was over the same ground I used to catch quite a few decent reef fish. Mind you, that was forty years ago! Anyway, Bulwer has now joined my ever growing list of unproductive grounds. Oh, for one bloody spot where you can actually catch a decent fish. So frustrating! The weather itself and the boat were beautiful though.
 

The boat ate it all up, just as @ellicat said it would. Still a bit choppy on the way back, but still managed to go past the eighty kilometre an hour mark that the speedo goes to. Might have to change to mph or knots for future trips!

Anyway, that’s my report for what it’s worth. Lol.

cheers

Greg

It would had been tough going today mate, plenty of boats on water.

Those big tides make fishing the Bulwer area tough... I fish it a lot for snapper and bite windows are normaly 1/2 hour either side of tide changes. 

Good to hear the boat flies..  80km on water is hooting.  

50 minutes ago, GregOug said:

Thanks @Cobiaaddict. Where do you find the beacon numbers though?

There painted on the sides of the channel markers themselves. 

Or get yourself the Boating HD navionics app. You'll find them on that very easily. 

On 15/07/2020 at 10:47 AM, Hweebe said:

Is the fishing ok when the moon is out?

Depends on what your fishing for mate.

This was doing 60km coming home at 4pm,

Get out there gents

I went for a look this arvo on a glassed bay looking for new spots.

1 hour ago, jon said:

Well I’ve been trying to get away all year to 1770 and beyond and something always gets in the way but it’s looking like this weekend might be a goer fingers crossed. Anyone else heading up??

Good Luck @jon   Hope you fill the eskys mate.