FisherDan80

I smoke my travally and if done right they are very moist and taste delicious. This is the brine recipe I use.

I smoke my travally and if done right they are very moist and taste delicious. This is the brine recipe I use.

I smoke my travally and if done right they are very moist and taste delicious. This is the brine recipe I use.

I smoke my travally and if done right they are very moist and taste delicious. This is the brine recipe I use.

Evening all, 
I had a couple of hours free before work this arvo so I tried my luck at catching dinner land based. I got a tailor early on but it seemed that there wasn't many of those around. I also got a small trev about 35cm which I decided to let go. I was immediately rewarded by the fishing gods next cast when my samaki slash 55 gets pack attacked by some solid GTs across the surface. This kept me interested for the next hour or so trying to find them again. Dozens and dozens of casts went by. I usually only fish this landbased spot for 15 mins before moving on as it seems to be a case of fish either being there or not. However having seen the chunky geets cruising around definitely kept me interested for longer this time.
Eventually my lure got smacked (60g chrome this time) and immediately knew it was one of the proper ones I'd seen before. I tightened up as much as was safe on my 30lb set up but was still going to require a bit of luck and skill to angle the fish away from the rocky bommies that jut out everywhere.
Well, I got lucky and with a bit of rock hopping I steered the fish onto a ledge. Pretty stoked on the light gear to get the job done! Man they are an incredibly powerful fish. 
70cm and a few delicious meals to come. Thanks Mr Trevally! Very grateful. Good feeling after so many donut sessions recently 
yes I have pants on 

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

A late change in commitments left me with a Saturday afternoon and evening as free as it can get at the moment. A late night text on Friday to to Ellicat and some quick plans saw us slipping the good ship Ellicatch into the waters of the ‘pin about 3pm.
 
the moon phase was wrong, the tides weren’t great, it was blowing about 15kn but what the hell, as scomo says - you have to step up and have a go, to get a go.
 
After a short trip from the ramp (high tide short cuts are the bomb), we dropped anchors on the first spot. First bait and @ellicat was on the board with a solid 33cm model. Great start. Unfortunately, we certainly had peaked early at this spot - something Ellicat suggested he has suffered from for some time. A quick move about 400m and we soon added a couple more nice whiting to the box.
 
this theme continued throughout the afternoon - a few fish, a move, a few fish, a move. Only real change was it got dark and we turned the football on. It was never frenetic but fairly consistent action. We ended up with 8 whiting, 7 of them 30+, best going 36cm. Not great quantity but quality for sure.
 
Great news is the wee one is a big fan of fish - whiting seems to be a particular favorite. Ellicat kindly donated his share of the catch to me so we have bubba lunches for days!
 
thanks for the trip out at very short notice mate, appreciate it.
 

 
p.s only 7 pictured, one filleted early and ended up here (note fish mostly gone, veges not so much. Definitely my child. 😂)
 

 
 

Sounds good to me. 
Nice Jack by the way. 
I did a rotation, crop and colour grade for you. 

So, after being a well bellow average fisher, I took breaming with bro’s advice and yesterday brought a arrow 3-8 lb estuary rod and a 1000 nasci reel.
I was using Zman yabbie plastics and a 1/11 jig and so far I have since 2 pm yesterday got
2 bream one 37 cm and one 41  ( no pics as I didn’t have my phone😩😩)
1 small flatty
1 leather jacket
 1 trevally 
That new set up is really fun to use!

Se we left brisbane at 4am Sunday morning picking up a mate on the way and arrived at Urangan Harbour at about 8am.
The boats were very heavy and I was fairly happy to see that mine was still afloat as we pushed them into the calm waters surrounded by the expensive white boats. My boat really struggled to get on the plane but with a bit of repacking and getting some more heavy stuff up the front it worked out ok. 
The wind was ok with about 10 knots from the north that saw a bumpy trip across to moon point and up the first part of the western coast of Fraser. As we got further north the angle was better and we could fly along.
It is such a beautiful coast with white sand and rainbow cliffs. The stingrays and turtles were pretty thick. 
We made it into Wathumba Creek at nearly dead low tide which was good because it gave us a track for the channel. 
The Campsite at Teebing is perfect. open enough but plenty of trees and we spent the rest of the day setting up and putting in a few pots. 
There is a steep bank to pull the boats up to and I caught a swag of pike around the snags that we had for breakfast on Monday. 
Don't knock it till you have tried it. Pike are delicious and very easy to fillet. The trick is to fry them skin side up then turn only once. None of the flip flip business or they fall apart. We had them on white bread sandwiches with butter and tomato sauce. So good. I know most people think they are rubbish or just good for bait but you are wrong. Give it a go.
Monday saw a 5-10 knot Southerly and we chased a school of Mac Tuna around for a bit of fun. They were not interested in 3 different flys 2 different plastics and 3 different micro jigs so we left them be. We saw a school of bait holding on the bottom so dropped some lures down to it and caught 2 small spotties that were released. We probably should not have left here as there were plenty of spotties around but I was super keen to get back to Rooneys. We spent the rest of the day up there and got some beautiful Leaping Bonitos and a mixed bag of other reef species. All were pretty small and went back. 
Tuesday the SE got up and stayed up for the rest of the week. We spent the time mucking around in the creek playing with the tide and pulling the boat off the sandbanks. 
Yabbies are hard to find up there but we persisted and got enough to catch some very nice whiting up to 37cm and a few bream and small flathead. 
The trip back was nice heading down the coast in the lee but it was very messy getting across from Moon Point but I had a change of cloths that made the drive home toasty and dry. 
Its a great spot and I look forward to getting back. Probably in November? to time with the Spotties. 
Who is up for a social camp in November? 

Bundaberg fishing session .
yesterday I went down to Burnett river in Bundaberg for a fish . I found this spot under a bridge that had a walkway under it and i fished off there . I got there rigged up a 2.5 inch baitjunkie in whitebait on a 1/8 jig head size 1 hook and started throwing casts I got a few bites no hooks up just small fish then after a few more cast I hooked a small pike for some reason the pike go crazy for the baitjunkie plastics so if anyone is in need to catch heaps of pike buy some baitjunkie 2.5 minnowz because every time I’ve used them I’ve caught pike the first time I used them I hooked about 7-12 lost count . Anyway on my 8 or 9th cast I hooked something big that was right near me probably 5 metres away I thought I was snagged but then I felt some headshakes and my drag was going nuts anyway the fish surfaced quite quickly before going back down and i seen a massive flathead i also seen it had swallowed my lure right down deep . Luckily it wasn’t far from the shore and my dad got the net and landed the flathead .I measured the flathead and it managed to beat my PB flathead by 2cm 57cm I was going to release it but my dad dropped the fish on the rocks once and it was also bleeding a bit because of the deep hooking so I decided to keep it and humanity kill it i and also because my parents wanted to keep it . I wouldn’t keep a flathead over 56cm but because it was slightly damaged and only 1cm over I thought it wouldn’t hurt . Will probably fillet the flathead later . After that I had a another cast and also hooked something big but pulled the hooks fairly quick on whatever it was and then after that I hooked a baby Moses perch 
conditons 
i didn’t plan the fishing session it was just a quick afternoon flick and I don’t really know what the conditions were . but I think it was around low tide it was sunny and windy from around 3 or 4:00 pm . I will probably look up the conditions later 
gear . reel shimano stradic FL 1000 . Rod atomic arrowz bream surface rod 2pc 3-8lb
mainline 6lb j braid x8 and 6lb sunline FC rock leader 
TT lures headlocks 1/8th in size 1 hook 
daiwa baitjunkie 2.5 inch minnowz in whitebait with a tiny bit of s factor 
oh and the photos 

We hit up Shorncliffe Pier yesterday. The weather was fantastic. We chased yellowfin whiting and bream and while we did not get a heap of fish, we left with a feed. 
Cribb Island worms and yabbies were the baits we used with yabbies being more effective. There were plenty of other legal bream there but we only kept the three. The flood tide up in the shallows did the trick. 

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I moved to the Sunshine Coast two years ago and have been catching a lot of big flathead. So I've been doing some research into the pumicestone passage. I found that metre+ flathead were known captures around October. So yesterday I decided to do some trolling around Caloundra. One 42cm in the first 5mins of trolling lost a big one a little while later. Then it happened I pulled up what I thought to be a clump of weed which turned out to be the biggest flatty I've ever seen, then hell broke lose. 3 maybe 4 times I had it at the boat (I had no net) then the last time my line wrapped around its tail and it was gone. Easily a metre and one very sad but happy fisherman.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture but will hopefully get some this arvo and will get some pics.
Also Unfortunately that lure I lost is very hard to come by these days. My friend tells me he has 5 and will send me a couple. Colour was grey ghost.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

Hey FisherDan80
Mate, that's awesome! You're making me want to go to Pummy Passage for some fishing! 
66cm is still a very respectable fish, good job 🙂 
Cheers Hamish