Ross.warwick

Good luck for the final exams. There's plenty of time for fishing.

A nice little specimen upgrade for team south.

I've been back in reception range for a few days now, still catching up with things. Final submission for the month. 29cm bream, caught on unidentified meat from the cooks. 

Good luck for the final exams. There's plenty of time for fishing.

Im all out of work funded fishing trips for the next few months. Back to weekends, maybe, on the pine. Theres still a few days left if you can manage to chuck a sickie....

Im all out of work funded fishing trips for the next few months. Back to weekends, maybe, on the pine. Theres still a few days left if you can manage to chuck a sickie....

Good luck for the final exams. There's plenty of time for fishing.

Im in Yr 12 now, can't be missing days off school....i wish tho. Those few months after November till uni or whatever next starts are going to be some of the best fishing I'll ever get to do. Days after days of fishing with nothing else on my mind!!!! YES! I won't be fishing next till at least this weekend coming...if i get the chance. Perhaps I can start the June comp off strong??

That's the spirit, Peter. Haha   Unlucky @Ross.warwick - so close to the end of the month.
That's a healthy looking specimen.

Damn.... @Ross.Warwick you win....for this month. I don't have any more bream from recent to beat that. However, I will say, that bream has some very beat up fins + yours was on bait!
 
Cheers,
Peter

I've been back in reception range for a few days now, still catching up with things. Final submission for the month. 29cm bream, caught on unidentified meat from the cooks. 

Went for a morning session today, about 2 hours fishing around the neighbours and my families pontoon. I was testing a prawn SP lure which was about 65mm in a grassy green with red flickers made by a fisho on youtube. I managed to land 1 bream and hooked a 2nd however, it ripped out as it splashed on the surface (it was a smaller bream anyway). Ive been really struggling to catch just about anything these past weeks due to the decreasing temps as winter approaches. It was a lure I didn't thing bream would really hit, I was betting on a flathead. 
Anyway, enough rambling. The only bream I caught over my long weekend. Came out at about 27.5cm. Really that is only a bream which is just legal but having seen the leaderboard and the biggest bream being 29cm i thought I'd add it just to ensure the Ross from Team North was kicked off the bream leaderboard and it could increase the points for team South. 

Cheers,
Peter

Landed lunch this morning during a very wet and windy couple of hours at Hayes inlet. 43cm Flatty and 23cm whiting. I was happy to get anything in those conditions. 
 
Are squid out and about long the peninsula yet?

Dug a few worms yesterday and headed down the Pin area in search of a few whiting . Ended up getting 10 for a feed but the size was down with most fish just over the 300 mm mark but had to sort through a lot of small bream for them.
Came across a massive school of juvenile mulloway ,so tossed some soft plastics at them and  got 6 in no time before I spooked them ,pity they were all underside fish  , with a small flathead thrown in as by catch.
Happy enough to come home with 10 whiting , with all other fish released.
photographed these for the southside
Mulloway 630 , 610 and 500mm
Bream 290 and 265mm
Flathead 470mm
Whiting 330 mm , 340mm and 335mm
 
 

Nice work at work. haha

Some nice low 20s while at work.
 
24 for a bream, 22 for the other one and the cod. 
Hopefully something bigger lurking around!

37 model in the mud. There's a few babies around at the moment. Great fun on light gear

Landed lunch this morning during a very wet and windy couple of hours at Hayes inlet. 43cm Flatty and 23cm whiting. I was happy to get anything in those conditions. 
 
Are squid out and about long the peninsula yet?

Some nice low 20s while at work.
 
24 for a bream, 22 for the other one and the cod. 
Hopefully something bigger lurking around!

Some nice low 20s while at work.
 
24 for a bream, 22 for the other one and the cod. 
Hopefully something bigger lurking around!

Hi guys and gals, 
I’ve just finished building a PE 6-8 stickbait rod for a mate chasing barrel yellowfin tuna and the odd mackerel using surface lures. I pulled on a few blanks before settling on the Samurai SB8 which is 8’ and 2 piece (butt join). It’s got a softer tip (=faster action) than an equivalent popper rod as it doesn’t need the resistance to generate the popping/splashing out of the lures, and this translates better for the angler fighting tuna who tend to fight dirty under the boat vs gts which you can muscle on the surface (or so I am told!). I went for all Fuji components (rubber gimbal, duralon grips, locking reel seat, pipe extension, stainless steel Fuji SiC guides and bind-on tip) and kept the colour theme classic black with a little bit of bling in YFT colours. I’m pretty happy with the result. My mate will put a Saragosa 25k on it spooled with 60lb exact depth braid and cast 100-200g stickbaits at anything he comes across. I hope I get to see this rod in action!

37 model in the mud. There's a few babies around at the moment. Great fun on light gear

Mid-Upper kedron brook fishing
This is a small guide i've put together about a local waterway I have fished alot with @James ReevesAnd his brother tom, the kedron brook has a bikepath going along almost the whole duration of it so access to most spots is easy. Most of the best spots are downstream of Grange.
(Be careful, there's plenty of karens around)

Fish species
Nile and spotted tilapia
Sea Mullet
Eel tail catfish
Longfin eel
Silver perch
Australian Bass
Bullrout
(Small aquarium fish such as swordtails can also be found)
(Freshwater Prawns)
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Guide:
Weather conditions:
Rain is absolutely horrible, the fish will usually completley shut down if there is even just a shower, best times to fish would be sunrise, 11am-2pm, 5-pm to 8pm. Overcast is good unless targeting mullet

Tilapia
Gear: light spinning rod, 6-12lb leader
Lures: Gulp worms (Cast at trees and let it sink unweighted or on a lightweight jighead), 2.5 inch paddle tails (Slowly hop along bottom)
Bait: Prawns (Sinker), Bread (squish into a ball of dough rig unweighted or under a float, or do not squish bread and let it float), worms (Sinker, unweighted or float)
Distribution: All along the freshwater parts of the brook
Notes: Tilapia are invasive, so make sure to kill them and dispose of them properly


Catfish 
Gear: spinning rod, 6-16lb leader, they have teeth but they wont really fray your line
Lures: Those metal spinners used for trout work weirdly well for some reason (Sightcast at catfish, slow roll on bottom, be persistent)
Bait: White grubs found in garden (Sinker, unweighted, Work super well, by far the most effective bait I have used), prawns (Sinker, unweighted) Bread (Sinker, unweighted)
Distribution: All along the freshwater parts of the brook
Notes: Be careful there are venomous spines at the end of their dorsal and pectoral fins


Mullet:
Gear: light spinning rod, 2-10lb leader
Bait: Bread (Squish into small ball of dough, float, only strike when the mullet has pulled the float fully under and started running)
Distribution: All along the brook



Bass: 
Gear: Light spinning rod, 4-14lb leader
Distribution: Windsor and downstream
I haven't caught one myself but my friend@James Reevesand his brother Tom have caught them on small poppers, if you're curious on how to catch them you'll have to ask @James Reeves



Silver perch: 
gear: Light spinning rod, 2-10lb leader
Bait: Bread (Squish into small ball of dough, float)
Very rare to catch in the brook
Distribution: I have only caught them around alderly

Bullrout: 
Notes: It's fun to get spiked by them, as @crazywalrus would know


I've also spotted some sort of carp, probably a Koi or a big goldfish: 

Hey gang, 
I'm a PhD student looking to see how all of the carp in southeast QLD are related by setting up essentially ancestry.com for carp. 
But to do this I need carp. Lots of carp. well, specifically their fins.
I'll grind them up, suck out the DNA and create a family tree of all the carp to see where they fit in with the rest of the world. 
To date I've had help from a handful of fishers but SEQ is a big place and carp are finicky. 
So I ask if anyone happens to catch a carp anywhere north of the border and east of Toowoomba, and wants to contribute to science, shoot me a message or post on this topic where you have disposed of your fish and I'll swoop in like a vulture and take my sample.
A location and the bin you have thrown the bugger in is all I need and I'll be there as fast as humanly possible.  
I have permission and permits to take samples and transport them around so you don't have to worry about the DPI, fisheries, etc. 
I have little to offer in return but am more than happy to share any of my findings with anyone and everyone and you would of course be named if you so wish in any publications I put out.  
Thank you if you have read this far and happy fishing. 

37 model in the mud. There's a few babies around at the moment. Great fun on light gear