Hweebe
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Hey Ellicat, What are your thoughts on fishing the full moon? Good / no good? Basic boating question - how do you get around the pin at night? Was the full moon sufficient light to navigate around river banks / bars / markers? On a night when the moon is not out would a spotlight be required? Cheers Hweebe
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Sorry to hear no takers - would have taken you up except I was already heading out Sunday. Next time.
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What kind of Shrimp are you breeding. I've been toying with setting up an IBC tank cut-up for breeding shrimp or red claw in a tank.
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With some of my land based bridge / canal fishing one of the mates had access to day old bread (baker) so we used to burley with a bread crumb trail to fire up bait fish like herring and this would then attract the bigger specimens of fish bream/flatties/trevs
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Did you deploy any of the live prawns? Or saved for another day?
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Hey Hamish, Back in the day I used to live in western suburbs and fished Oxley creek, Jindalee area often. We would catch fish you have mentioned but just got tired of hooking catfish. When u say middle reaches where are u referring to? Do you have issues with catfish in the middle reaches?
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Haven’t spent any time trolling for flaties but I know some friends that swear by trolling lures through drain areas and ambush points for flaties with bycatches of bream, trevally. Will have to do some more research and source some trolling lures
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@ellicat I’ve only fished that area once by boat but seemed more suited to a boat with an electric trolling motor and drifting around? That time I was exploring but the current was going hard at times so I constantly needed to adjust the drift line. Thanks for the map!! Do u drift around or anchor up?
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So I started my fishing journey largely all land based many years ago. Pretty simple really, each weekend with a mate and cousin we would scope out canals and bridges (Goldie). Being students we rarely ever purchased bait and fishing for us meant cast netting for bait, if there was no bait we would move to the next spot. Besides rain and tides, wind typically didn't factor into our fishing plans (if we were free we would go fishing) Bream, Flatties, Trevally and Jacks were our common catches. When Iooking at boats and trying to decide open tinnie or bay boat my target was for Northern bay fishing (had enough fun fishing for estuary species) so i went with a bay boat (bar crusher 575c) But where do you go with a bay boat when the Bay is playing up and conditions are rubbish? I did not realise how weather dependent boat fishing was. Wind, rain, tide, moon, swell etc. I live near Brisbane CBD (5km south) where would be some suggested estuary areas that are protected from wind and not too shallow so if when I feel the urge to wet a line i'm not constantly hoping for a forecast change on Seabreeze, met eye, windy each weekend hahahaha. Pumicestone Passage? Broadwater? Southern Bay? Trying to decide where i explore next.
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Good stuff. From the photos you can really see how the water conditions glassed out towards the end of the day.
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Thanks @Old Scaley I'm paranoid about green zones so have plotted tracks for all green zones in and around North/Southern Moreton bay as well as your go-slow areas. Yeah i noticed in the Atlas for SEQ fishing that the diagram of Peel has lots of Rocks sticking out in the shallow sandy areas. Mentions a houseboat wreck on the southern point near a green marker as well.
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Seems like Peel mid week or at night is more the go as I've searched through the forum for "Peel". Might change my plans on location. I go to fish and relax, not hang around boat ramps.
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Thanks for the heads up @Another Wazza they reckon it is one of the busiest ramps in QLD. Hopefully if I aim to be there at 1st light it will be ok, otherwise the trip from Manly isn't too far away. (Not keen on wello with no pontoon in the colder weather)
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Certainly I think you will benefit even more if you do the course in your own boat it will give you confidence when you can say you have done bar crossing in your own boat and know how it will handle. Bill will get you on to some starter GPS tracks for crossing south passage and always extends a life time offer to update the points on request - so that is a real positive in itself. BTW that is a very sweet first boat many of us can only dream of something like that but at that size you should be feeling pretty safe in typical boating conditions. The only thing i would add to your top post is the typical rule of thumb for someone starting out is to avoid crossing at bottom of low tide regardless of other conditions. Not saying it can't be done, it just crossing at other time you have more margin over hitting random sandbars. So in planning if the crossing will coincide with low low, you would just adjust your launch time ahead or after a couple of hours to give you some margin. Cheers, Hweebe
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I don't normally launch from Raby Bay but have heard the ramp can get pretty busy on weekends. Anyone have experience launching from there? Any tips on what i should target in and around Peel. (Is Peel productive given how close / accessible it is to brisbanites? ) I have no spots so I plan to do some charting and google maps to drift/sound ledges until i see something that perks the interest.
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Thanks @Luc53 and @rayke1938 maybe i can convince the better half that i need a second boat
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Shows how much (or how little) I know about dam fishing. For what ever reason I thought some dams in se qld that were previously electric only had changeD to “low emissions” outboards allowed?
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The video commentary is crackers. I reckon @crazywalrus didn’t want you to have bragging rights for landing fish of the day so he was try to put the mockers on you
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Hey @AUS-BNE-FISHO good read, have you tried going lighter on your trace or leader to entice some more bites? With the whiting I wonder if you had pinned through the body near the dorsal fin if you would have hooked up?
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Aah very old profile when I first joined in 2014. All updated now would be great to meet up. I’m 5km from city on the southside but launch from pretty much any ramp depending on where I plan to fish. I’m Monday to Friday so fishing time is limited to weekends which I know is not always ideal.
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Thanks @Luc53 only other thing is if I’ll get laughed off Or not when I launch the bar crusher half cab to fish a Dam
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I think next outing bay Snapper in the shallows will be my target
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