AUS-BNE-FISHO

Thanks KM, fair enough, they taste good! Cheers Charlie. Saturday 25th of November I think.

Cheers Rebel.

Just a couple Rapala Shadow Rap Shads and a Berkley lure too, which were priced well. Lots and lots of fishing rods as well for decent prices, but I didn't buy any.

Did anyone else go to the Fishing R Us Roadshow thats been on this Friday/weekend? I went and picked up a couple of new lures, would be interested to hear what anyone got if they went? Cheers Hamish

Thanks Brett. Thanks Sylvathorn. Cheers mangajack, definitely glad I got it in. Thanks Ray. Cheers Jono, that's a good question, haha. Thanks Doughnuts. Thanks Neil, it's mostly from all the cast netting I did. Hopefully I'll be able to catch a couple more after this, thanks Steve.

Thanks Brian. Rod should be fine as long as it doesn’t get any more damage.

Photos: https://lensdump.com/i/qGIzqv https://lensdump.com/i/qGISYC

Hi all, I snuck out for a quick flick this morning in the river, hoping for something decent. The morning didn't start off great as I slept in, but I still managed to ride and arrive at the spot of choice by six. With the tide still running out, I was hopeful of a few baitfish, but I could hardly scrape together enough to continuously fish. Eventually I saw something of interest, a flathead lie. Maybe I will try flicking some lures around here the next time I'm fishing at high tide. I also caught a small flathead and flounder in the net, so clearly some more bottom dwelling fish get around here. https://lensdump.com/i/qGI3zP Flathead Lie As I continued to grind away for livebait, I saw someone drive by with a fully decked out lure fishing boat, which would be pretty cool to have. I didn't see him catch anything when he was fishing nearby though. Things just seemed to get worse for me though, as I managed to rip a couple of holes in my net that will need to be stitched to fix up. All my livies also kept seeming to get pickered but I never saw any bites. After about one and a half hours of fishing for absolutely nothing, I was out of bait and energy. I sorted all my gear out and had a drink, before getting back to netting. Here, I was lucky enough to net a nice size bony bream, which I chucked out on a 4/o circle hook pinned through the nose. I got back to the cast netting, and with no other rods out things weren't looking good... But then, I saw my rod get a couple of distinct hits before buckling over. I jogged back and as the fish went for another long run, I tightened my drag and the fight began. It wasn't long before more line was peeling off of my spool, and I was starting to get a bit nervous as the fish was running dangerously close to a very snaggy rocky ledge. Luckily, I managed to turn its head, and it slowly started to come back towards me. A few more cranks and I could see my sinker, then swivel... Sure enough, it was what I wanted! But the fight wasn't over yet, as the thready shot back down into the depths. After about 3 more minutes of fighting with some screaming runs on my 4000 reel, I managed to bend over and grab the fish in the mouth, landing it successfully. Nice. I got a walker to take a couple pics for me, before venting and successfully releasing the fish. The thready came in between 105-110cm, I don't know for sure as I didn't have it perfectly aligned on the brag mat. Although not quite a new PB, still a solid fish, and my first in ages. https://lensdump.com/i/qGIsCZ Thready It was only about 8:15AM when I had that all sorted, so I netted and fished for a bit longer, catching one catfish, before riding home. On the way home, one of my rods fell through the floor of my bike buggy, and some pipes scratched another one of my rods up pretty bad, but at least I caught that thready. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed. I probably won't be able to go fishing for a few weeks now because of school, so it was a good way to finish up. Stats: Tide: 1:50AM, 1.4M, High, 8:00AM, .5M, Low, 3:00PM, 2M, High. Moon Phase: 40% Bait Caught/Used: Live mullet, bony bream, silver biddy. Fish Caught: Threadfin Salmon x 1, Catfish x 1 Total Damage: Cast net ripped, had to do heaps of cast netting, made hole in bottom of bike buggy, chipped rod. Tackle Used: Shimano Symetre on Shimano Sentire Rod, Shimano Stradic on Shimano Raider, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip, Shimano Baitrunner OC on Jarvis Walker Aurora. Air Pressure: 1012 Humidity: 70% Overall Success Rate: 100% - good session Cheers Hamish

What lures have you been using at Hayes? I or my mates normally catch something when we go fishing with small paddletails or grubs.

Try Hays Inlet on low tide with soft plastics for flatties.

Looks great Huxstang, I look forward to hearing about your fishing in it.

Good luck Bob, hope you clean up. Will be excited to see all of your catches.

Thanks @Sylvathorn, I just I wish I could catch a few more fish haha. Cheers Neil, fingers crossed.

Thanks guys, yep, better than not going fishing at all.

Hi all, Yesterday morning I rode my bike to a local spot to try my luck for some fish. I was there by 5:30AM, and two people were already there fishing. They'd had no luck, and hadn't caught many livies after. Luckily, after I setup a few rods with dead prawn, I managed to get some decent livebaits - enough to start fishing. After pulling in two catties things were looking ultra quiet, with hardly any bites on my livebaits. I kept using some dead prawns too, but these brought me no luck. At about 7:30AM, the others fishing left, so I had the spot all to myself. It was pretty relaxing, and after having some more success with the bait I decided I would stop cast netting for the morning. As the tide continued to rise, I was hoping for a threadfin, but I was only rewarded with two snags in a hole that is out the front from the spot. This was pretty disappointing, but from the way everything was going it didn't look like a fishy morning. I had to be home by 11AM, so once it was about 9:50 I started packing up. It was almost tide change, and I still hadn't gotten any bites on live mullet or bony bream. Overall, it was a quiet morning but nice to get out of the house to go for a flick. Hopefully next weekend I'll be more successful. Stats: Tide: 4:00AM, .2M, Low, 10:10PM, 2M, High. Moon Phase: About 1%, New Moon. Air Pressure: 1012 Humidity: 60% Fish Caught: Couple of catfish. Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic on Shimano Raider, Shimano Symetre on Sentire Rod, Shimano Baitrunner on Kmart Rod, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip Rod. 15, 20 and 30 pound braid mainlines. 50 pound traces, size 3 snapper sinkers, 4/o and 6/o circle hooks, small barrel swivels. Overall Success Rate: 25%, nice to get out of the house. Cheers Hamish

Awesome stuff Neil, looks like an amazing trip. Nice work on all those tailor. Did you catch the crabs at the island?

Another quality session for you Rebel, great work.

Glad to hear you managed to get in alright.

Thanks Charlie

Nice work guys, sounds like a fun session. Good work on the new PB Brian.

I have never tried that, thanks for the tip. I know a couple of spots where this might work to cover more ground. What sort of fish did you catch with this method?

Thanks Brian. Hopefully the fishing improves soon.

Hi all, Over the past few weeks I've been doing a bit of fishing in the river, unfortunately none has been too successful though. The first session was a couple weekends ago. I got to the spot early in the morning at a relatively low tide and started cast netting. Bait was scarce but I had plenty of deadbait, so after getting a few herring I started fishing. It remained quiet for the next couple of hours though, but I did manage to catch about thirty bait sized prawns and a couple more herring (caught some catfish and toadfish on lines). As the tide was getting closer to the high, one of my rods eventually went off. It didn't take long to realize I was on a big stingray though, and after about 15 minutes a 20KG specimen was next to the jetty, which I cut off to annoy someone else. I continued fishing all throughout the day, but didn't catch anything noteworthy, apart from a bream, and more catfish/pike eels/stingray. Stats: Tide: 4:50AM, .5M, Low, 10:40AM, 2.1M, High, 4:50PM, .5M, Low. Moon Phase: New Moon, 1% Bait Caught and Used: Live prawns, herring, deadbaits. Fish Caught: Lots of trash fish, one bream. Tackle Used: Abu Garcia Nexus on Shimano Sedona 6000, Okuma Coronado CDX with Silstar Crystal Powertip, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner OC 8000. 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, 6/o circle hooks, size 4 star sinkers. Air Pressure: 1019 Humidity: 72% Overall Success Rate: 30%, pretty crap fishing I was up at Yeppoon for a week after that, but when I got back I went fishing on Monday at a spot a while away from my home. Upon arriving, I was disappointed to catch no bait whatsoever, so it was lucky I decided to bring some backup dead prawns along. While I was cast netting, one of my rods did go off, and I landed a fat catty, and upon getting back to netting a second rod went off. This time it was clearly a better fish, and I was pleased to see a legal size squire on the end of my line. I decided to keep this, and shortly after, having only caught one scat in the cast net, I relocated spots as I was out of bait. At the next spot, bait was also very minimal, but I did manage to catch a pike eel. No one else caught any bait or fish for the whole day. Stats: Tide: 6:00AM, 1.7M, High, 12:00PM, .6M, Low, 6:40PM, 2.5M, High. Moon Phase: 78% moon. Bait Caught and Used: Dead prawns, scat strip. Fish Caught: Snapper, catfish, pike eel. Tackle Used: Abu Garcia Nexus on Shimano Sedona 6000, Okuma Coronado CDX with Silstar Crystal Powertip, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner OC 8000. 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, 6/o circle hooks, size 4 star sinkers. Air Pressure: 1018 Humidity: 64% Overall Success Rate: 20% - pretty crap session After that, upon hearing a decent report, I decided to try a spot that was a bit more local to me. After getting a lift there, I was there early, but unluckily for me there was not a lot of livebait around making fishing to start with a bit of a struggle. Apart from a small catty, it wasn't looking good. Eventually, another fisho rocked up and showed me a better spot to catch livies. He then proceeded to catch a couple of small soapy jewfish, which were good to see, on mullet and bony bream. My rod remained untouched, but I persisted throughout the day praying something would happen. Eventually around lunchtime I had to call it quits as my grandparents were arriving, so I got the bus home. Apparently someone lost a large thready a while after I left and a couple more soapies were caught. Stats: Tide: 7:30AM, 1.7M, High, 1:30PM, .3M, Low. Moon Phase: 87.5% Bait Caught and Used: Live mullet, bony bream, dead prawns. Fish Caught: Catfish, others caught jewfish and nearly threadfin. Tackle Used: Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner OC 8000. 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, 6/o circle hooks, size 4 star sinkers. Air Pressure: 1016 Humidity: 74% Overall Success Rate: 30% - crap day for me but good to see some solid fish caught. The next day, I was back at it at that same spot hopeful I'd be able to land a fish. I can't remember all of the details that well, but I know I had a couple more rods and was better equipped to go cast netting. This was one element of the day which was successful, as I managed a couple schools of mullet and bony bream early on. Unfortunately for me, the day proved to be quiet yet again, with no substantial catches for me. Oh well, that's fishing. Stats: Tide: 8:30AM, 1.8M, High, 2:40PM, .2M, Low. Moon Phase: 95% Bait Caught and Used: Live mullet and bonies. Fish Caught: Nothing good. Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic and Raider rod, Shimano Symetre and Sentire Rod, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner 8000OC, 15, 20, and 30 pound braid mainlines, 50 pound trace, size 3 snapper sinkers. Air Pressure: 1015 Humidity: 64% Overall Success Rate: 20%, bad fishing. I gave the fishing a miss that Thursday, but on Friday I was back at it at a slightly different spot with my mate. We both got there around 6, and were straight into cast netting. A mix of prawns, mullet, bony bream, and herring were landed, and I also had a bit of deadbait, but the fish didn't seem to be playing the game. This trend continued throughout the rising tide, with only a couple catfish being landed, and a few more small fish biting. Upon the rising tide, a rather large live herring I had sent out had a bit of a bite, but eventually the fish dropped it. I was thinking either pike eel or jewie, based on the way the fish played with the bait before running and dropping it. It seemed like nothing was going to change, and a bit before two I headed home for the day, leaving my mate with the livies (he only got catfish). Stats: Tide: 4:30AM, .1M, Low, 10:15AM, 2.1M, High, 4:30PM, .1M, Low. Moon Phase: 100%, Full Moon. Bait Caught and Used: Live mullet, herring, bony bream, prawns. Fish Caught: Catfish Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic and Raider rod, Shimano Symetre and Sentire Rod, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner 8000OC, 15, 20, and 30 pound braid mainlines, 50 pound trace, size 3 snapper sinkers. Air Pressure: 1008 Humidity: 92% Overall Success Rate: 15%, quiet day. After that, I was back at the spot where the jewies had been landed the previous days. A few other fishos came to join me as well, but I was there first and had managed to catch a few nice livebaits. Things were looking promising, but after everyone had soaked a few livies for a while and nothing had happened hopes went down. After a time, I hooked up to something with a lot of weight. We were hoping it would wake up and prove to be a decent fish, but unfortunately a big rotten pike eel surfaced. This was probably one of the biggest eels I've ever seen, and after that was dealt with we got back to fishing. To sum up a long day, I caught a few catties, perch, and a lot more bait, but no prize fish showed themselves. Around 5 I called it quits, disappointed with the days fishing. Stats: Tide: 5:00AM, .1M, Low, 11:00AM, 2.2M, High, 5:15Pm, .1M, Low Moon Phase: Full Moon Bait Caught and Used: Live mullet and bony bream Fish Caught: Catfish, perch, eels. Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic and Raider rod, Shimano Symetre and Sentire Rod, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner 8000OC, 15, 20, and 30 pound braid mainlines, 50 pound trace, size 3 snapper sinkers. Air Pressure: 1008 Humidity: 92% Overall Success Rate: 10%, crap day. Seeing as though nothing was going my way in the salt, I decided to try for some bass up the river. It was a tight schedule, as my Dad had to be home to take my sister somewhere early in the morning, but a 4AM start saw us at the spot by around half past five. Upon getting into the car, I was greeted by a big old huntsman, which gave me a pretty good fright. Once we arrived at the spot without further issue I was pretty relieved... As we walked down to the river, I was hopeful of a first cast bass, and although this was not the case, it was only a couple of casts before I had a missed hit, same with my Dad. After three missed hits we repositioned slightly, where my Dad caught the first bass of the morning, a nice little model. We continued to wind our way along the bank, and after my Dad caught another fish, I wasn't feeling too hopeful... But then, boof! I was on, and although it was only little it was still fun. After I dehooked it, my Dad caught the best fish of the morning, a solid 35CM model. We continued fishing until about 7:30AM, but then called it quits as we really needed to get home. We ended up catching 7 bass from 10 bust ups, using surface for everything. Stats: Tide: 8:00AM, Low tide, 0.1M Moon Phase: Full Moon Lures Used: Jackall and Duo International Cicadas, I tried an RMG Scorpion 35 for the last part of the session. Fish Caught: 7 * bass Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic 3000 with Shimano Raider, Abu Garcia Veritas 2-4KG with 2500 Diawa Tierra. 15 and 8 pound braid, ten pound fluoro leader. Air Pressure: 1017 Humidity: 71% Overall Success Rate: 90% - not much size but good to do the plan for once. The next day was the last day of school holidays, and @Thorbjorn Hale and I decided to go for an arvo session at a new spot for both of us (Where Thorbjorn saw someone catch a big thready). We got there around midday, and it wasn't long before we got onto a couple of prawns and herring for livebait. This was pretty promising, because not many other spots in the river have had a lot of bait recently. A while later one of my rods was getting some interest. I started winding in, and the fish was swimming towards us. After the initial run, we decided it was a ray, and ten minutes later we were proved right, when a 20KG or so model surfaced. After breaking one dilly, we managed to get it up and release it, happy that we had gotten our first catch. We continued to catch more livebait and fish, but the bite was a bit quiet. The next couple of hours flew by, until we started catching a couple of fish again. I believe Thorbs caught a catfish and eel, and I caught a couple catties. As the sun started to go down, I caught some puttynose perch in the cast net. These were sent out, and Thorbs landed a big stingray on one, which we released. It is also worth noting while I was cast netting about 4 hours after we lost it, I pulled in Thorbs dilly that had broken off from the rope when we were trying to get the first big stingray in. I left at about 5:30PM, and I think Thorbjorn gave it a few more hours that night, but only managed some rays/catties. Anyways, it was still a fun session at what seems like a great spot, just a shame there weren't many fish around! Stats: Tide: 11:50AM, 2.5M, High, 6:15Pm, .5M, Low. Moon Phase: 93% Bait Caught and Used: Live herring, puttynose perch, mullet, prawns, chicken breast. Fish Caught: Catfish, eels, stingrays. Tackle Used: Abu Garcia Nexus on Shimano Sedona 6000, Okuma Coronado CDX with Silstar Crystal Powertip, Kmart Rod and Shimano Baitrunner OC 8000. 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, 6/o circle hooks, size 4 star sinkers. Air Pressure: 1017 Humidity: 68% Overall Success Rate: 60% - productive arvo sussing out a new spot. Anyways, the most recent session was this morning, on the kayak. My Dad and I decided we would have a crack catching a thready/jew on a lure, so at about 12:45AM we launched into the river near a bridge. It wasn't long before we were drifting by some structure, me flicking a Zerek Pyra lure and my dad jigging a vibe. This spot proved to be no good, so a slight change saw us flicking in some light pools. Everything looked fishy, and after flicking my surface lure around the jetty, I saw some bait jumping on the surface. This was the first time this happened for the night, so I casted my lure right in, and a small tailor came and smashed it, dropping off at the side of the kayak. Cool, we thought, but there was no more surface action at this spot so we moved on to the next set of wharfs. This also proved unsuccessful, and after pulling up on a jetty to stretch the legs, we shot off to another ferry terminal. There wasn't much illumination at this one, so twenty minutes later we were at a third terminal, that looked much fishier. We casted here for about 30 minutes, but with no luck we made our way back to the first terminal we fished, casting our lure up onto a shallow mudbank with lots of mullet activity. A few final casts saw us with no fish, so we left, off the water by about 3:15AM and back in bed by four, feeling a bit disappointed with our dud session. Stats: Tide: 12:00AM, .7M, Low, 5:30AM, 1.3M, High. Moon Phase: 47%. Lures Used: Zerek Pyra and soft vibe. Fish Caught: One small tailor. Tackle Used: Shimano Stradic 3000 on Raider and Shimano Symetre 4000 on Sentire Rod, 15 and 20 pound braid mainlines with 30 pound leader. Air Pressure: 1018 Humidity: 66% Overall Success Rate: 50%- good to try something new. Thanks for reading this report. Hope you enjoyed. School is starting to get busy now but I'm hoping my luck will change soon after all those bad sessions. Sorry no photos. Cheers Hamish

Thanks Brian, hopefully. Thanks @mangajack. I've tried once in the city reaches of Rockhampton for no luck, I know it can fish pretty well, so thanks for the tips. Sorry for the late reply. Thanks Charlie.

Nice stuff guys, looks like a productive session.