AUS-BNE-FISHO

Good work Neil.

Nice work guys. Glad you all got onto a few.

Did anyone see any crocs while you were up there?

Great report Brian. Sorry to hear it wasn’t a successful trip but hopefully next time you’ll get on the fish. Cheers Hamish

Hi Scally, The size of your combo is not an indicator of how big a fish you can target. For instance, I sometimes use the same gear I target bream with to target small bullsharks up to a meter. The cast weight of your rod is a guide to how heavy a bait/lure you should be throwing about, so if the rod has a cast weight between 12-35 grams then a 35 gram slug would be suitable to cast. There is no definitive max fish size you can target with that setup, but 8 kilo mainline is a nice all rounder for smaller fish and larger fish. You will probably find that you need separate lures, baits, and hooks to target different fish, i.e. you probably would not use the same lure to target a freshwater trout as you would a snapper. To find out what lure/bait to use, I would suggest watching some Youtube videos or doing some research into fishing species in your area and how to target them. If you are fishing mono all the way through, you probably don't need a leader, but if you're fishing with braid mainline then learning a knot like an FG knot to tie your braid to a mono or fluorocarbon leader would be recommended. Snap swivels can be helpful to change lures quickly. Cheers Hamish

Hi all, This report will be about my recent trip up to Yeppoon. After driving up, I was pretty exhausted, so slept in on the first Monday morning. It was pretty windy that day though, but with tides ideal to fish off Double Heads my dad and I went for a quick arvo fish there. Unfortunately, with some relatively dirty water, and conditions making it a little difficult to fish, we didn't manage any catches. The next morning, we were back at Double Heads to try our luck again. Lures of choice were 20, 25, and 30 gram red Flashas, but after heaps of casts we were completely unsuccessful in catching anything. Conditions were pretty bad once again, so after about 1.5hrs of fishing off the rocks we decided to relocate to Ross Creek, because the tide was still pretty low. Here, I caught a small flatty on plastics, but the bite was still pretty quiet all around. That arvo, I was at a bit of a loss as to where to go fishing, but my uncle was going over to our boat in the harbor so I had a quick cast there. Being the middle of the day, I struggled to catch bait, but it was still disappointing that I had a big fat donut to finish the day off. The next day was Wednesday, and luckily for us the weather was good. Unfortunately, after a couple weeks of bad weather prior to me arriving, the water was very dirty, meaning most larger fish and baitfish were nowhere to be found. My Dad and I still gave it a good crack though, but I think the only catch was a grinner by my Dad. I fished for about 3 hours that day off the rocks, and was feeling pretty disappointed by the end of it. I can't recall whether or not I went fishing that arvo, but if I did it was probably at the harbor where I caught nothing. On Thursday, we were back at Double Heads, and this time I gave it a longer crack. My Dad headed off a bit early after catching nothing, but I managed to land a wolf herring and a couple grinners for the few hours I was out baking on the rocks. Later that day, after a rest at home, my mate asked me if I wanted to go for a fish at the Causeway Lake, so we tried there for a couple of hours. Despite our best efforts and a pretty long walk though, we didn't manage any fish flicking our lures, but it was still a nice way to spend a couple of hours fishing. That arvo, I went fishing off my uncles boat in the harbour again, and being closer to low tide it was easier to net a few herring. With these, I managed to catch one fish off the back of the boat - a solid 45CM cod, which I kept for dinner. The next day, I'm pretty sure my Dad and I went for a quick flick off Double Heads, the last time for the trip. Like every other session, it was a dud though, but we did find out someone had caught a couple good spanos and other mackerel off there a few weeks prior (when the water was cleaner). We left feeling disappointed - hopefully next time the rocks are fishing a bit better. Later that day, myself and @Coconutdog went for a fish off of Farnborough beach. It was pretty quiet though, and neither of us caught anything using some dead prawns on light line. Hopefully some more fish next time! For my final session of the trip, I caught myself a few livies at the harbor, and went down for a fish off of my uncles boat again. Things were looking a bit better this arvo though, because shortly after getting there I caught a bream that would have been a solid 35CM, probably closer to 40CM though, on an unweighted bony bream. After that, while I was winding in an unweighted live bony to check it, it got smashed on the way up, and, having my drag set too tight, my ten pound leader snapped immediately. Bugger! Hoping for another opportunity, I sent another bony down, and sure enough, it got walloped by something that screamed off under the boat. The fight was only short lived though, because it broke me off after the first run. I am assuming it might have been a jack or fingermark, but we'll never know now . I called it quits after that bustoff, and we drove home on Friday. So far I haven't caught anything good in the river either this holidays so hopefully a big fish soon. Thanks for reading, and sorry no photos, not that there is much to show off anyways. Cheers Hamish

There’s a couple people on Facebook who seem to be cleaning up, good to hear about them!

Fingers crossed!

Glad to hear you got a few Ray.

Sounds like a decent day Ray.

It seems to be an issue for everyone at the moment, hopefully it is fixed soon.

Nice work Rebel, sounds like a productive session.

Good stuff @mangajack

Yep, I can't see them either

Sounds like a fun session, good stuff Rebel.

Agreed.

Likely.

Make sure you tie on a heavier leader like 30/50 pounds for the threadfin and jew, you might struggle releasing a big thready if you fight it for a long time on light line.

Nice work Neil.

Nice job Ray, good to see the cod breeding pipes as well.

Welcome to the forum @LucasV

Great work @FishingCrazy. I'll hopefully be able to get onto some in coming weeks on surface as well.

Hey mate, Buy yourself a dilly crab drop pot from online. You can lower this down and catch the fish in it, then pull the fish and dilly up. This means if it is undersize/undesirable you don’t need to kill it to release it. Cheers Hamish

Sounds like a fun session Ray, good to hear of a nice yella being landed too.