AUS-BNE-FISHO

Nice work @Old Scaley!

Good to hear its going well Matt. Someone else will be able to help with the questions

Nice work Neil, that’s a good feed of sandies. What was bait of choice?

Hi KM, This session was much closer to the mouth, compared to where I usually fish. I haven't had much luck locally recently apart from a few prawns, but going to put in a bit more effort around some closer spots now that school has started again.

Thanks Andrew, I guess it can get pretty crowded in areas the prawn trawlers are fishing so probably a good thing.

Thanks Doughnuts. That makes sense, I don't fish much in August anyways because of school but will keep an eye out for it when I do go out around then and see what difference it makes.

Awesome session Donuts, those are some massive grassies.

Good work Ray, looks like a great day.

Thanks Neil. Cheers Steve. I do like this spot but it can often be very quiet as well. Why do the fish leave the river @mangajack? Is it something to do with the algae?

Thanks Angry, it was a pretty good lunch. Probably not Brian, knowing them.

Hi all This morning I snuck out for a quick fish to one of my spots that I hadn't been to in quite a while. I convinced my Dad to give me a lift, but first stop of the morning was to catch bait. Unfortunately, my bait spot didn't really have anything at it, so after spending fifteen minutes there we headed to the main fishing spot. I was there a bit before six, and the tide was still rising. This was good, because it meant I could catch a couple silver biddies and a Chrissy tree of anchovies. I sent some baits out on sunrise, and kept throwing my net in hope of a few more livies. No success was had, and by 7:00AM when I had only received a few picks I was starting to feel the pressure. I had a few mates coming from school who weren't fishos so was hoping I'd be able to put them on some fish. Sure enough, at 8:00AM, I had some tailor bites which didn't hook up, then the next cast wound in a 48CM or so model that provided some solid aerobatics. Tailor I sent a bait back out, but it went a bit quiet again (released the tailor). Luckily, Michael arrived to the jetty as well, so I had some company. My mates from school like to sleep in, so I wasn't expecting them anytime soon. I guess that's a shame for them, because I pulled in two more tailor over the next hour or so, the best being 53CM (new PB!). Nice We kept both of these with a plan to cook one up on the jetty, and after a rather uneventful bite period Michael got some more tailor hits. Unluckily, it didn't hook up, but we were hopeful of a few more fish. There weren't anymore livies about either, but we persisted with a mix of dead and live bait. Tailor were caught on live biddy/fingered biddy/live herring. My mate Nicu eventually arrived, but it was mid way through a particularly fast run out tide so we weren't expecting many fish. Luckily, it was nearly lunchtime, so after some casting practice, we filleted and cooked up the fish. This coincided with my other two friends arriving, so once everyone was there we all had a feed of some fresh tailor (which was very tasty). The bite remained quiet throughout the day, and even with a mix of live and dead bait we failed to hook anything big. Eventually, around 1:00PM, the boys headed off on a shopping trip to pick up lunch. It had been very slow fishing in this time, with hardly any bites or bait turning up either. Luckily for me, sometime after they had left, I baitchecked one of my rods which had a piece of tailor belly as bait. As I started winding in, I thought to myself, 'This is on', and sure enough as I began to bring the weight up to the surface it took off a few times. Thinking it was a ray, I pulled it in quite roughly, and even though it was running a fair bit I kept winding. I was very pleased to see a rather large flatty surface, nice! After a good netting job from Michael, we had the fish on the jetty. A quick pic and I sent the 75CM model on it's way to get caught when it was even bigger. New PB Flatty After that was sorted out, everyone was a bit more hopeful a bigger fish would cruise through. It was well into the rising tide now, and my mates eventually returned with some pizza for everyone - they should've stayed! We all dug into the feed, and with the last of the livebaits lobbed out were hopeful of a fish. Apart from another guy fishing, John, pulling in a sand crab, it remained quiet for the rest of the arvo, much to the disappointment of my mates. By 3:00PM, we'd all had enough, and after cleaning up the jetty of all litter from the previous night we were out of there. A ferry and train ride home saw the end to a pretty fun day for me - hopefully next weekend I'll be able to put my mates onto their first decent fish from the river if they come out again. Stats of Trip: Tide: 6:15AM, 1.8M, High, 12:30PM, .5M, Low, 7:30PM, 2.5M, High Moon Phase: 84.5%, nearly full moon. Lots of run. Bait Caught and Used: Live anchovies, live herring, live silver biddy. Fish Caught: Tailor x 3, Flathead x 1 Tackle Used: Shimano Baitrunner DC 8000 on Kmart Rod, Okuma Coronado CDX 55 on Silstar Crystal Powertip Rod, Shimano Sedona 6000 on Abu Garcia Nanotech Nexus. 30 pound braid mainlines and 50 pound Black Magic trace. Size 4 star sinker and 6/o circle hooks. Air Pressure: 82% Humidity: 1024 Notes: No prawns or trawlers, potentially suggesting they have left the river/were not there. Not much bait either so would make sense why there were no threadies or jewies chasing the baits. Also a fair few small queenfish around. Overall Success Rates: 70% - fun day Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed. Cheers Hamish

That’s sounds good. Have you been trying any land based fishing recently?

Looks great. Hope it’s on the water soon!

Nice work Neil. What do you use that boat for mainly?

Awesome work Dino.

Hi all I'm selling a 12 Foot Wilson Top and Bottom Pocket Cast Net. The net has been lightly used over the past couple of years, and is in excellent condition with no holes in the net. Reason for selling is because the net is too large for my Dad and I and we are going to replace it with a ten foot net. RRP $219.99 from BCF. Here's the link to the Marketplace or Gumtree sale. Would be willing to negotiate the price with anyone on here. Marketplace – Wilson Mono 12 Foot Top Pocket Cast Net | Facebook Wilson Mono 12 Foot Top Pocket Cast Net | Fishing | Gumtree Australia Brisbane South West - Sherwood | 1314909788 Cheers Hamish SOLD

Nice work guys, looks like a fun day!

Good work Steve, that's a great feed!

Thanks Damo, hope you can get out fishing soon. Thanks manga, they are the locations of the trip. I'm going to start adding them now so I can remember each spot. Cheers Neil, hopefully I can get some big ones when it's not close season.

Thanks Angry. Hopefully I’ll be able to get them next time when they’re bigger. Thanks Brian. Thanks Brett. I have no issue with the closed season, in fact if it weren’t there I probably wouldn’t have as much success on the squire in the river. It’s just a shame they are a common bycatch of threadfin and Jew fishing during the closure. Cheers Hamish

Nice effort Ray, looks like a great day!

...If only it wasn't snapper closure! Hi all, This report will be about my last two sessions this weekend fishing landbased on the Brisbane River. Both were relatively successful. The first session I hit up a spot I had not been to for a while - it takes a long time to get there so I was pleased to catch a bucket full of herring and biddies quickly at the bait spot. From what I've heard, bait has been quite slow in the river recently, so I was pleased to get a few. Once I arrived at the fishing spot and set up, I got some more biddies and herring. With plenty of bait to start fishing, I deployed my baits and began the waiting game. Apart from a rather large buck sandy that dropped off before I could land it, the bite was quiet, and it stayed that way until just before high tide. I had a dead prawn out (I bring a couple each session for deadbaits/starter bait while I catch livies) and it screamed off into the distance. I was pretty certain it was a ray based on the nibbles, and a fun fight around some structure with some fast runs and tight drag ensued. Sure enough, I got a look at it and it was a rather large shovelly. Then, the best outcome occurred. The fish took one more run and the hook pulled (the spot I was fishing is about five meters above the water and the shovel would've been too big for the dilly). Shortly after on a live herring, I hooked up to a fish. A few headshakes later and some unwanted bycatch surfaced, a decent snapper around 45CM. It was gut hooked so I cut the line and sent him on his way. Snap About five minutes later, I had another hookup on live herring, which resulted in me dropping something alright just as I was about to see it. If I had to guess, I'd say flatty, but we'll never know for sure. There was a large concert going on nearby and my Dad was at his work, also nearby, so he offered to pick me up. I finished a little past one happy enough with the day. Stats of Trip: HN Tide: 7:00AM, .7M, Low, 12:30PM, 1.9M, High (high tide was prime bite time) Moon Phase: 17%, and there wasn't lots of tide Humidity: 66% Air Pressure: 1012 Tackle Used: Shimano Sedona 6000 on Abu Garcia Nexus, Shimano Baitrunner DC on Kmart rod, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip. 30 pound braid mainlines, 50 pound trace, size 4 star sinker, barrel swivels, 6/o circle hook. Bait Used and Caught: Live herring, silver biddy, prawns Fish Caught: Squire x 1, shovelnose x 1. Potential flatty hookup. Overall Success Rate: 40% - quiet day The next session was this morning, and was at a brand new spot I'd never fished before. I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to get bait there easily though, and I was right, so it was very lucky my Dad agreed to drive me to a spot that always produces livies (about five minutes away from the fishing spot). The first cast I did, I got a nice school of about 15 herrings, which all went in the bucket. I saw some mullet action in some shallower water a few metres away, and got about 15 mullet in that cast. In amongst them were some silver biddies and ponyfish as well. Nice, that's bait sorted. I was at the spot with lines in the water by 6:30AM. The tide was gushing out, and it was actually looking a little quiet. Luckily, I persisted and by 7:30AM one of my lines with a live herring bait was attacked. Line was peeling off my spool, so I set the hook and started the fight. It felt snappery, and a couple of fast runs and very solid headshakes later I had a 57CM beauty on the riverwalk. If only it wasn't close season! New PB Feeling pretty happy about myself, I sent some more livies out. My bait bucket was a bit overpopulated though, and a couple of herring were dying. After a while, I sent out a dead herring fingered up around the tail, so it swayed in the current. Michael and Andrew arrived, and shortly after this, that dead herring was belted by another fish. Straight away, it felt a lot like a snapper, and after a fun fight with some decent runs and an good dilly job by Andrew, we had a nice 54CM model up on the jetty... If only it wasn't close season! Another After that, we all sent out some baits, and were hopeful a jew or threadfin would move through. Mick and Steve also arrived, but it was a very quiet day, because for the duration of the rising tide no one got anything, except Steve, who caught a small pike eel. Based on that session, I'll be back for a couple more tries at the spot. Next weekend I may try another new spot or go fishing with some mates, but hopefully some fish other than snapper turn up. One negative was that both the snapper were gut hooked, I probably would've kept them normally as I don't like releasing fish with a large circle hook down it's mouth. Stats of Trip: BS Tide: 7:30AM, .7M, Low, 1:15PM, 1.9M, High Moon Phase: 25%, there was a decent amount of tide Bait Caught and Used: Live herring, mullet, silver biddies. Dead prawn. Humidity: 69% Air Pressure: 1013 Fish Caught: Snapper x 2 Tackle Used: Shimano Sedona 6000 on Abu Garcia Nexus, Shimano Baitrunner DC on Kmart rod, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip. 30 pound braid mainlines, 50 pound trace, size 4 star sinker, barrel swivels, 6/o circle hook. Overall Success Rate: 80% - not too often you get 50CM plus river snapper Thanks for reading, Cheers Hamish

Is that photoshopped?

Wish my Dad and I could make it Ray. Good luck!

Thanks Damo. I've fished at Newfarm a lot and caught some alright threadies there. It's also good for prawns when they're on. Good to hear about the jew. Cheers Hamish