AUS-BNE-FISHO

Hey gordonh Welcome to the forum. You'll love it on here... And there's plenty of information on Wello Point - just use the search bar in the top right hand corner. Hope you can smash some good fish! Cheers Hamish

Hey Old Scaley and tugger Woohoo! That's a great session there. Shame you lost the fish on 16lb Old Scaley, but there'll always be ones that get away Good job on the tuna, snaps, and moses perch. They are a very interesting fish by the looks and they get a lot bigger offshore than in the rivers Cheers Hamish

Hey Junky What a great session. I'm sure you and Jono had a blast! That snapper (well both of them) are beauties. Maybe it was just a big clump of pink coral? Cheers Hamish

Looks massive KM. I thought I counted 80 but just realised that was 70 Still a massive brute and great fish Cheers Hamish

Bloody Hell! That's a stonka! Great job KM! I think that will be taking the lead in the Suburbs of Origin comp for sure! You'll be eating well for a few nights with all the meat off that. Great fish Cheers Hamish

Just kidding, like you kmcrosby78, I reckon Northsiders will have the advantage after GregOug's big trip! Cheers Hamish

Knowing GregOug, he's probably sitting in front of the fire right now (which he lit by tipping a can of petrol on some logs), enjoying a XXXX beer while seeing how much the biggest tailor at the co-op costs on his phone

Hey ellicat I will be sitting the shiken tomorrow, 4th period. I'm quite nervous but hopefully I can get a good mark. (I will tell you how I actually go tomorrow ). Also, I love that word - shiken. I will have to say to my Japanese teacher tomorrow, "Please give me better marks in this shiken because I know the word shiken" Cheers Hamish

Hey Sneaky1 What a fabulous session. Good job. That 60cm+ lizard is a beauty. Looks like Pummy Passage is fishing well at the moment. For you, anyways! Also, are you a Northsider? (North of Brisbane River). If so, you may want to enter in the Suburbs of Origin comp. The Northside team certainly would appreciate it! Cheers Hamish

Yep, just a smidge under 80 by the looks. Also, nice fish @tugger. That's a good tuna and snap. Cheers Hamish

Hey ellicat Haha, yeah... Barely though! The duck pics, espeically the mid air one, was total luck, as it took off the second I pressed the photo button Hey DropBear Thanks for that, glad you enjoyed. The ducks get fed every now and then with bread in the duck ponds (even though they're not supposed to) but I'd assume the only thing it would be eating from the river would be stuff it catches! Cheers Hamish

Hey all I''m just going to do a quick report from this mornings session. By all means, it was no long one (like I usually would've) as I needed to get home... To study! My dad and I woke up at 5:00AM, but then went back to bed, and ended up leaving the house at 5:40AM. We got down to the park and even though the tides weren't ideal we got straight into fishing. My dad started off straight away getting some good bait sized prawns, which were live baited straight away. One in the structure and the other out deep (though it ended up getting washed back into structure because the tide was ripping though so fast). The lines remained untouched, but my dad was still getting good prawns. I baited up the salmon line with a bigger model and hoped for the best. While my dad was netting, an inquisitive duck came up to our rods and started standing on the railing. Before it flew the heck out of there, I sneaked up on it and got photos. The craziest thing is after it flew off for the first time it came back! Why, Hello there! The tide was rising rapidly, and we were not getting any hits at all. My dad kept getting more and more prawns, but the numbers and size were decreasing. By about 7:00AM, he called it stumps and shortly after left for home. In that brief period, we had a couple of tiny touches but nothing big enough to get hooked on our line. I probably should've given the lures samsteele115 gave me a crack, and I had them in the bucket, but I didn't due to the fact the tide was rushing in so fast! I think they would be most effective (at this spot anyways) when the tide is dead low, because that way it may make more commotion in the water. I kept fishing, and after about 20-30 more minutes I realised the salmon line was snagged. I struggled for a bit, and the old mate yakker man (the fella who always comes down in his yak to paddle every morning) arrived. He offered to hold my line and paddle it out to try and un snag it, as we thought it was caught on the pipe. He did this well, and after a screaming run on my salmon line (which I just imagined to be a fish), the line was un snagged. Bravo. And not only that, but there was also a small perch on the end. Hooray! That was skull dragged in, and then de-hooked (which took me long enough as the bit around it's mouth had the circle hook jammed right in there). The perch required some good swimming, and seemed to have a bit of kick left in it when I let it go so I hope it swum off fine. It's like they are affected from barotrauma, but there aren't any tell tale signs like inflated swim bladder, guts coming out of mouth, etc. Anyways, here is a pic - A River Perch After that, I stayed for about half an hour longer. I had just enough livies to last me the whole session, and despite me praying, the salmon line (or the live prawn on the end at least) could not escape pickering. I began to wash off the jetty, and by 8:00AM my gear was packed up and I left. Here are the stats of that brief morning session. The main reason I left early was also because the tide, which was absolutely gushing in, and making it very hard to fish effectively. Stats of trip - Tide: 3:20AM, .4M, Low, 8:56AM, 1.6M, High Moon Phase: 92.5%, so a far bit of run Air Pressure: 1024.7 Weather: Cloudy, chilly Tackle Used: 12, 14lb, 30lb braid mainlines, 20lb and 30lb mono/fluorocarbon leaders, size 2 and 6 ball sinkers, size 4/o suicide and circle hooks, large-ish barrel swivel, 6"6' Abu Garcia Venomat? rod (or something like that) 8" Ugly Stik, 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod, size 2500 Diawa Shinobi and Shimano Nasci, and that's it! Bait Used: Live prawns Bait caught: Prawns Time fished: 5:50AM-8:00AM Overall Success Rate: 30% - a nice morning out Alright, hope you guys enjoyed the report. I also hope we can all stay safe with COVID-19. There were four cases in Fig Tree Pocket, which is literally over the river from me! Cheers Hamish

Hi kmcrosby78 Nice session, even though you didn't get many keepers. Must've still been a bit of fun out on the water with the fam I hate it when you wake up at stupid o' clock and don't catch anything till ages later too. Lol. My knee is dodgy, whenever I run for a bit (especially in basketball) it goes weird and the bone feels out of shape. Then after a quick rest I do the exact same thing again Good job on the mackie, squire, and little bream! Cheers Hamish

Hi Pegleg I don't know much about it, but I have heard that the Cockle Banks and Rous Channel fish OK... you'll have to be careful in your boat though if it gets a bit rough. Here are some old reports to hopefully help you out - Otherwise, I think the best way is too keep looking on reports, and even on Social Media, to see where people are getting them, when, etc. Cheers Hamish

Hey a-frame81 Yeww! That looks great. I sure hope you can smash some big ones on it. Cheers Hamish

Hey rayke1938 Those wide gapes do make it look perfect for a safe release. Good job on the bass even though it was slightly slower than usual. Cheers Hamish

Holy Moly. That one is massive Junky. Great work! I'd assume it put up an excellent fight! Cheers Hamish

Hey ellicat That is a pleasent little sesh, good to you and Benno! Good job on the nice breambo ellicat! Cheers Hamish

G'day Swampa77 Welcome to the forum, mate. You'll love it on here! There's lots of great information. I would love to hear about some of your redfin trips. Do you eat them? Cheers Hamish

I am in Sherwood, and I believe you're in Wynnum (aren't you?), so maybe if we were going to do that we could find a half way point somewhere. Cheers Hamish

Hey Breaming with bro I plan to target some too - just in some of the freshwater ponds at the local park. Someone I know has showed me a few pics of massive ones they've caught, so it's just a matter of time before I decide to go. Lol. Cheers Hamish

Hey Camplazlo I don't unfortunately, but Gumtree has heaps. You literally type in Shimano and there's almost 200 results! There seems to be a fair few older ones in the mix too, so it is certainly worth looking at. Cheers Hamish

I would enter that to the BS category because it's a catfish, but it's an eel tail catfish so a bit of an upgrade from a forky! Cheers Hamish

Hey rayke1938 Nice one. Hopefully you can get some 50cm+'s as an upgrade Cheers Hamish

Hey Drop Bear I'd sure be willing to give them a go. I reckon they'd be nuts for tilapia. Maybe mullet may become a target-able species on the line for me if I start using these... Like Old Scaley said above though, it depends on where I can pick them up. Cheers Hamish