AUS-BNE-FISHO

Plenty of people were fishing. Cobiaaddict, Leosonfire, benno573 - they all tried mate! Just because they caught no fish and you didn't hear about it you can't then expect that they weren't fishing. Cheers Hamish P.S. And GregOug's boat was up for a service...

Rightio. Seemed like a good event and all, but if there's no competitors it can't be a competition Wish I was old enough to compete back then, Lol Cheers Hamish

Apparently they go OK on the table... except they literally eat turd so I may not be to sure about it Do you know anything about them, @Drop Bear... Or anyone, for that matter? I'd think they'd go OK for crab bait though. Cheers Hamish

That's all good, but you might've missed a couple The 84cm one was the best one I've caught, so it's lucky you found that one and not another - I'd feel pretty bad if you'd only read my donut reports because they're pretty boring! Cheers Hamish

Hey Sneaky1 Aw, he's pretty cute! Looks like you wouldn't want to get on his bad side though Cheers Hamish

Looks like everyone is very happy, and loves the comp. We should do more than one AFO competition each year I reckon. I've read some old threads about the BRC (Brisbane River Classic), but haven't seen them on recently. Brian, would you know what happened to them? christophagus, we would love a trophy. I'll send the PM. Cheers Hamish

Hey Wazza Thanks for that, I sure hope so. Hopefully I can tick off a good threadfin salmon this school holidays. That would sure make me happy when I go back to school - then I have something I can brag about to my teachers! Hi Drop Bear Yeah, I think I do OK in school (I don't have the results for my latest English exam back though ). My dad is very patient, it's just damn lucky he likes to paddle while I fish. It's good your grandpa's took you out - you certainly learned from some great anglers as you catch some great fish! I love to write the reports. Hopefully one day I can write for a magazine Hey Junky Thanks for that, it was a very long read that's for sure. I'm hoping another thready will come up soon, though it'll be my forth. I've gotten one 65cm model (in session #21), and one 45cm model (in session #32) -they are no big fish though, so hopefully I can beat my PB soon! Cheers Hamish

Hey Breaming with bro Yep, bigger catties will fight pretty darn hard on the silly string. They are supposed to make a good shark bait too. Nope, it could've have been cattie slime. It was all the line that was in the water and it was mud all up the line. Very annoying as it stains the eyes of the rod. Cheers Hamish

Also, I have seen whiting caught there, seen muddies there, (though I reckon it's been crabbed out like my local park as well as even I used to pull them up on my line but no more now), seen evidence of flatties caught there (some fella had the head of a big model in his crab pot, which he caught there), and of course the humble bream When my dad and I get more familiar/use the sounder more, we'll certainly see if we have that function and use it. I suppose it's another area that I can keep fishing more and try and work a pattern Cheers Hamish

Thanks Steve, that's awesome. I can now see which buoy we were fishing around, and that the main rocks we were around were the Cemetery Rocks. Those drop offs also line up perfectly to what I remember, as around that red float is was as deep as anything but near the pylons quite shallow. I have seen many a Youtube video of a lucky angler pulling in a thready or shark from the jetty, and have also chatted to some of the locals whom have caught some stonkas. Only problem is with them they are the same people who make up the WBB club there and leave the jetty trashed (I reckon if the council is going to aloud fishing there and since it's a recreation hub they should have a hose squirting water around so everyone can clean the jetty). I have literally seen them gut and scale a fish and leave the bad bits on the jetty! Hey Brian Thanks for that, the muddied line was more like very muddy water... It wasn't slimy like it would be if it was catfish slime or something. What were you thinking? Cheers Hamish

Hey all Well after numerous nights spent browsing away on Gumtree, I finally found a good deal - an 8 foot net (Surecatch), for $40 - brand new! It was at Viccy Point, so we drove the approximate 1 hour drive down to get it (it felt like a good hour anyways). After picking up the new net (from someone who didn't want to answer the door and just left it out the front ), we decided to go to a boardwalk. I can't remember the name, but the boardwalk was closed so we went on a small track. The first part was to a nice seat, then to another track. That track lead out to a giant salt pan, which I wish had some water in it! We got back and realised it was only the first 20 metres of the boardwalk closed. Bugger! We could've done it Cheers Hamish P.S. I'll post a video of me throwing the net when I soak it in sugar soap so it pancakes better.

Hey Do$tylz Thanks for that, and yep, he sure is! I tried to convince him to take his laptop out so he didn't have to go home before that... Am I crazy?! (According to him I am! ) Cheers Hamish

Hi all Well, I've been slack in posting my reports of late so I'm going to do a four in one right now. To save you from reading three boring reports, if you want to read about last night's yak trip, fast forward to the last report. Otherwise, you can just read about my OTHER unsuccessful salmon trips. It's including a lot of different species, such as scat, bream, mullet, catfish, blah, blah, blah! The first session was on the 13th of September. It was another early morning session, targeting the iconic Brisbane River threadfin salmon. We got there a bit before six, mainly to catch livies. Now, it was the wrong tide, about half way up and rising. Normally at this spot you'll be able to get truckloads of baits, especially prawns, on a dead low, but on a high you'll get bugger all except stick-fish. That was happening with us today, so it was lucky we had some frozen prawns (from prior sessions) with us today. I baited up the lines, but we still needed a livie for the salmon line. We really couldn't get one, which was bloody annoying, but after a short time my Dad did hook up to a little catty. It put up an OK fight, and soon enough we landed it and got rid of it - With the temperature fast warming, I can expect to see more of these... I can also expect some bull sharks! After that catty, we still weren't getting any bait. By about 7:00AM, my dad went back home and left me on my own. The tide was still wrong, but at least now it had changed to the run out making it easier to fish. I also baited up the salmon line with a chunk of the Aussie Farm Prawn, as I wanted at least a slim chance of enticing one. I gave my mates a text to see if I could get some company, but I thought that was unlikely as I'm the only one who can be bothered to get out of bed on my holidays! After many picker attacks, and re-positioning of rods, my friend Sam came down. He didn't bring the good-luck with him though, so we mainly just sat around, bait checking the rods, and giving the cast net the odd throw to check if there was any bait about yet. At around 9:00AM (yes, the session was that bad that I've pretty much skipped two hours ), we saw something pretty remarkable. First, we heard what sounded like someone falling in the water... We turned around and saw what looked to be a bully trying to eat a catfish which was feeding off algae on the pylons. I didn't get a good enough look at the 'big' fish, but judging from size, fin shape, etc (or what little of it I saw), I'd call it for one of them. After that, the same catfish (about a forty centimetre fish) kept swimming around on the surface for about five minutes. I got some of it on video, which is pretty cool I reckon... The video is like 4 minutes long though, which makes it a pain to post as it is SO large. Swimming fish! The funny thing was, straight after I'd went to call my dad and tell him about it, a catfish/mullet of similar size floated by, half rotted, but with what looked like a BIG bite mark out of it. Maybe the warming temperatures are causing river sharks to become more active? One really weird thing that happened today as well, that I can't possibly think an explanation up for. Whenever I reeled in my line, the fishing line would come back covered in mud. I had to pinch the line to stop it from going all over the reel. It was like there was a sediment suspended mid water making this happen. Anyone got an idea? We didn't get a rod ready in time for the catty, and shortly after, due to the lack of bites, we left the park. It was a pretty dud session overall, and I did donut, but I guess you'll always get those. Here are the stats of this report - Statistics of Trip - Tide: Low, .6M, 1:30AM, High, 7:10AM, 1.5M, Low, 1:09PM, .4M Moon Phase: Waning Crescent Phase, so not much run Weather: Slightly cloudy and breezey Fish caught: Catfish x 1 Bait used: Prawn Bait caught: Bugger all Tackle Used: Same as always - 12, 14, 30 pound braid mainlines, 20-30lb leaders, 80lb mono trace, size 4/o suicide/circle hooks, large barrel swivel, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and Diawa Shinobi, 6"6 Venomat? rod, 8" Ugly Stik, Size 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, shocker and blood knots. Overall Success Rate: 30% - at least we saw something out of the usual... Alright, here is the next report. This one took place on Saturday, and it was another arvo session. I'd actually gotten a new cast net for the yak and I planned to use that one to give it a test out. Once again, there really wasn't much bait around today, so I stuck to using Aussie Farm Prawns. I had my lines in by about half past two, and I was also giving the net a test. It throws decently, but I'll need to give it a soaking in sugar-soap and water overnight so it goes nice and sift and not springy. When the net is springy, you'll often pancake it before it hits the water then it'll go smaller. It didn't take long before I got the first hit. I completely missed it though, so I re casted and kept cast netting. Not long after, I see the rod buckled over. I pull up the net as fast as I can, and begin to fight the fish. It had some OK weight about it, and while it didn't take any good runs still had some go in it! When I saw it, I realised it was a bream, to my surprise. Normally I pull these ones (especially up at that size) from structure, rarely from the middle of the river! The solo net job is still something I need to get better at, especially off the jetty. It took my a few minutes to walk him down and get him in the net, but after that I think it all went smoothly. I took him up to the brag mat (thinking the Suburbs of Origin comp leading bream was still @ellicat's at 31.5cm, not @Daryl McPhee's at 33.5cm... I think anyways), tipped some water on the mat (so he stayed calm), got the hook out with my hands, then took a pic and put him back . He swum off fine, so that just shows that hopefully there'll be an OK population of bigger bream in the river. I'd love to get a trophy bream out of the Brisbane River. My three fingers for SOO and, I think I'm mastering the one handed breambo selfie! After that bream, which got some hope into me, I rebaited, and kept throwing the net. There was still no bait around and to much tide to throw the net, so I had a sit down with the rods. For the next hour and a bit, nothing happened at all, except the fact my mate came down. I briefly summarized the day so far, which wasn't much, and we kept fishing. The salmon line was still baited with some dead prawn, but luckily my dad came down. He did one pancake of the ten footer, and got 7 poddy mullet! I chucked one out (well two actually as one went flying off the hook), and left the livie out. This fella lasted for ages. I gave him about three bait checks and he was still as lively as anything. The rod which had caught my bream also had a live prawn on the end. I think my dad (see, I don't fully remember) got a juvenile bream in the net at one point, which was safely released as well. I think it is great to see that bream are thriving around and in the river. I guess it can be expected as they have just bred though. Small Bream After that one, my dad headed off. It was around five now, and I was still doing some cast netting. In one of my throws, I felt a good tug. I was hoping for a mullet, but the second I saw the bugger I knew what it was. A dirty old scat. You will not get me to change my mind ever. These are one of the most annoying bloody things to get into your net. The barely come out, spiky everywhere... That's a recipe for disaster. I got mine out after about 5 minutes, and after a quick picture put him back into the water. The funny thing was he got sucked straight back down by a whirlpool made by the current. Funny to watch, that is 30cm of Yuk!' After that scat, it was nearly half past five. The salmon line was untouched, and apart from some small hits the other line was too. I was disappointed that I couldn't get a salmon, but at least this session was no donut. Here are the stats of this report - Statistics of report - Tide: 12:11PM, High, 2.15M, 6:30PM, Low, .1M Moon Phase: New Moon, so quite a bit of run! Fish caught: Scat x 1, Bream x 2 Bait caught: Poddy Mullet and prawn Bait used: Dead and live prawn, live poddy mullet Tackle Used: 12, 14, 30 pound braid mainlines, 20-30lb leaders, 80lb mono trace, size 4/o suicide/circle hooks, large barrel swivel, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and Diawa Shinobi, 6"6 Venomat? rod, 8" Ugly Stik, Size 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, shocker and blood knots. Weather: Cloudy, light sprinkles of rain Overall Success Rate: 40% - a good bream Okey-dokey, now to the last session that took place at the local park. This one was in the early morning, mainly because one of my friends wanted to come down. We got to the park a little before six, and he got there a little before seven. My dad and I started cast netting first up... He got a couple good bait prawns in the first cast, but I got nothing. On my dad's second cast though, up came two bream. Both tiny ones, but still an OK start to the morning. The certainly gave a good tug in the net, and they were safely released. Two bream, just about legal (or maybe a tad over) That was a good start, and as well as them my dad and I had manged about 5 poddy mullet soon after. Yippee. That was our cod and salmon bait sorted for the day. Not long before my friend got there, my dad manged to get a solid 33cm mullet which will most likely become crab pot bait. It gave him another good pull too. He was getting all the good ones and what was I stuck with? Glassies!.. My Dad's 33cm Mullet The mullet and bream were a good way to start the day, but it was still not what we can there for - a thready! My dad found out about the scats too, as he got a bigger one as well (I still had to remove it). I hope they don't start becoming common here, but then again if they did they'd become crab bait! Scat number 2 After he was put back, the netting went quiet. The lines hadn't even been touched this whole time, so I was starting to think this might be a donut session for me. It kept this way for another hour or so, until the tide changed. The same thing with the mud on the reels happened (like I said in the above post), and it was most annoying. Seeing as though it only happened on the rising in tide, I'm thinking there may be a lot of dirt stirred up on the tide change causing this to happen? The bite still stayed quiet, and for the rest of the morning I couldn't manage a fish. I tried my best, by re-positioning rods, but it still didn't work. I kept bait checking the lines, and eventually I was onto the cooked prawns I had. These certainly didn't help the bite rate, and it seems the fish completely stay away from them. I've read that they make a great bait in lots of old threads but I haven't been able to prove that true at all. Both the live mullet were still going strong, but I didn't end up getting a fish on either of them. At about 10:00AM, I left the park and called the session. At least I've got some more crab bait now. A couple more and it'll be POB crabbing time! Here are the stats of the trip - Statistics of Trip - Tide: High, 12:25AM, 2.3M, Low, 7:00AM, .1M, High, 1:00PM, 2.2M Moon Phase: New Moon so a bit of run! Weather: Cloudy, cool-ish Fish caught: 2 x Bream, 1 x Scat, 1 x Mullet Bait caught: Poddy Mullet (and a couple prawns) Bait used: Live and dead prawns, poddy mullet Tackle used: 12, 14, 30 pound braid mainlines, 20-30lb leaders, 80lb mono trace, size 4/o suicide/circle hooks, large barrel swivel, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and Diawa Shinobi, 6"6 Venomat? rod, 8" Ugly Stik, Size 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, shocker and blood knots. Overall Success Rate: 30% - crab bait! OK, so here is the spot you want to be if you are only reading the yakking trip, but otherwise, good job in keeping up! This was a night time session at Dutton Park around Green Bridge, which while is heavily fished, still seems to hold fish (or it did the last time I was there). We got there at around 6:30PM to catch livies and set off. After getting numerous herring, poddy mullet, and a couple prawns (as well as glassies and scat), we launched in the kayak. Collecting bait was quite fun, with me getting the odd school of (small) herring, and my dad getting the same. I got most of the good mullet though. Another fella fishing there gave us some bigger herring as he must've heard me say, "These buggers are bloody small!", and gave me a hand. He was trying for early season sharks, which I don't think he was too successful on. We got out, and decided to drift the last of the rise up towards a red marker buoy. I deployed a good live mullet, and my dad chucked on a small winter whiting which I'd caught. I sent the baits down though, and we hoped the first drift could bring some big fish! Deploying a livie (mullet) down to the depth below It was very deep, and since we didn't have time to put on the sounder before we left we simply estimated it to be between 20-25M. My bait was on the bottom first, and it was clearly going crazy. It was bending the rod, and felt like a bloomin' fish! Surely if this went over a salmon's head it would be smashed! We drifted about 150M from the middle of the river to the red buoy, and did the same thing again. It was very serene out on the river being the only thing there, and the only way to make it better (or we thought) would be for a fish. Before the second drift, we checked our livies. Mine was still kicking stronger (than usual, Lol), but it had gotten into the worst tangle I'd ever seen. We almost drifted back to the jetty it took that long to un-tangle it. I guess problems like that are just problems you'll always encounter when live baiting. We started the second drift though, and proceeded along bottom bashing. When we finished that drift, we made the call to fish some of the pylons and hopefully entice something hanging around structure. We sat around and in the eddies made by the pylons, to no avail whatsoever. My dad was disappointed alright, as he though the pylons would be the spot to catch 'em on. We hit the pylon on the UQ size first, then did another drift through the middle of the river. It was nearing 8:00PM now, but I was still going strong (like my livie). Oops. You can see my dad's very ugly feet in this one! We finished that drift, and even though it seemed like there wasn't any ground below us (just mud), I still thought this area would hold fish. I guess I was wrong, that's for sure. It was getting a bit later, and we thought the Dutton Park side pylon would hold something. We fished all around the pylon for about 15 minutes, and apart from getting snagged, it was deadly quiet. For the final half an hour or so before my dad succumbed to the 'not-having-a-chair-to-support-my-back' issue, we fished about 50 metres away from the jetty. It must've been right on tide change here, as we were barely moving at all. Then, we got back to the jetty by 9:00PM - a different group of people had moved in since the last time we were there, but luckily there was space for one of my rods. I kept it out until about 9:30PM, and then reluctantly wound it back in and departed Dutton Park... Boy, was it disappointing to not catch a salmon on the last night of Suburbs of Origin.. Oh well! Here are the stats of the trip. Statistics of Trip - Tide: 6:45PM, .2M, Low, 12:30AM, 2.1M, high Moon Phase: New Moon, lots of run Fish caught: - Sigh Bait caught: Herring, Mullet, Prawns, Winter Whiting, Glassies, Scat Bait used: Herring, Mullet, Winter Whiting Tackle used: 12, 14, 30 pound braid mainlines, 20-30lb leaders, 80lb mono trace, 30lb fluorocarbon trace, size 4/o suicide/circle hooks, large barrel swivel, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and Diawa Shinobi, 6"6 Venomat? rod, 8" Ugly Stik, Size 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, shocker and blood knots. Weather: Windy, cloudy, cool Time fished: Approx. 7:00PM - 9:30PM Location: Dutton Park/Green Bridge Overall Success Rate: 20% - Pretty Dud! Alright, thanks for reading everyone. I hope you all enjoyed this report marathon, that's for sure. Sorry for not getting that thready, Southside! Maybe if I kept my lines in for a minute more I would've . Stay safe Sorry for any spelling errors/errors in this report as well. @GregOug, I'm sure you'll find something wrong with the punctuation . Cheers Hamish

Good game team North, hopefully everyone had a good time competing in the comp! Three massive cheers for organising this great event christophagus. Also, for some reason I thought the comp ended on the 22nd. I guess I got the start/end dates mixed up. Boy, I'm sad I didn't get a salmon. I even did a night time yak session till 9:30PM at Dutton Park to try and get one. @GregOug, well, I guess you should've tried at least once! (joking)

And don't forget everyone, we've still got today/tonight! Go all!

Hey, I just realised, 2K Posts for me!

No, you were never going to win this. (Northisde!)

Hey WAZA Wow, that looks epic! I'd love to eat some fire-cooked venison! Cheers Hamish

Hey Nirvana Bull Sharks are supposed to taste good if bled correctly after capture. This video may help - Cheers Hamish

Hey gooodluck Yep, as stated above that would be a catshark. I've only caught one onboard @ellicat's boat Ellicatch, but ellicat himself is the resident catshark expert on the forum All sharks and rays have a maximun legal limit of 1.5M in QLD waters. I believe the no take species are scalloped hammerhead, white pointer, and grey nurse (You'll find more on the DPI site though). Cheers Hamish

Hey Craig16 Welcome to the forum. I've never fished it, but I'm sure you'd be able to succeed if you gave it some persistance! Cheers Hamish

Hope you have a safe and quick recovery, fishingnut. Cheers Hamish

Crap... Alright, everyone here heard NOTHING!

IN that case, he's even more ancient then you, Mr Smoke Signals From 120 years ago!!!

Hi all This arvo's haul. Report to come later. No winner though Cheers Hamish P.S. I'm mastering the one handed breambo selfie!