AUS-BNE-FISHO

Happy birthday for Monday Mick. 

Welcome to the forum Steve. I hope you have some good fishing sessions in your boat. 

Ok. I am in. Will be using my usual strategy of blindly tipping all the QLD teams each week.  Worked well last year until the Dolphins ran out of puff, the Cowboys decided to underperform and the Titans….. well less said about them the better. Good luck guys. 

Happy birthday for Monday Mick. 

Are you getting water from the tell tale ?
If not, pull the bottom of the leg off. Clean out sand from the impeller housing. Replace. See if water now comes from the tell tale. If not, try connecting s hose to the tell tale hose and back wash. Continue until the sand stops coming out. Further, you can remove the thermostat to see if the water is flowing.

Welcome to the forum Steve. I hope you have some good fishing sessions in your boat. 

G'day Steve, welcome aboard.
Quite a few guys here local to you that fish the Brisbane river to the Bribie Passage.
Ningi Creek upstream a few kilometres has quite a lot of good territory suitable for your kayak or boat. Plenty of bream and flathead and a good number of jacks call it home.
Burpengary Creek has a concrete boat ramp well upstream that gives access to about 7km of creek that can produce well at times. The boat ramp is near 75 O'Leary Avenue, Burpengary East.
 
 

Hi guys and girls newly joined and relatively inexperienced at saltwater fishing....used to do a lot of freshwater fishing as a kid in central nsw but havent really fished in last 40 years.  Last couple of years l have done a bit of kyack fishing in mainly pine river or nudge river along the airport.                     Now retired and looking to fill some of my retirement days on the waters here on nth side of brissy but in my boat, l have a 3.8m tinny with 30hp motor but am a bit tentative  to use it by myself
I look foreward to reading your posts and hopefully making some friends and possibly joining some of you guys or yous joining me on my boat
thanks guys
Steve

YGK Pentagram casts fine, as does Sufix 832.  Will try the Sunline Castway this weekend up  at Monduran.
With a few practice casts the Sunline seems to be a bit firmer and may reduce risk of wind knots.
On a spin reel the Varias PE8 casts nicely but I dont believe it is overly abrasion resistant.
Not a fan of Nomad Panterra at all….could be the massive backlash I got flicking a jig with it 🙃 

I am currently tying a cast net knot by knot....I am using an Aliesxpress 9 strand PE braid.
0.17mm dia, 25lb, 1000m and cost me about $30 delivered.
From what I can see it is a damn nice fine braid, tight round weave, nice and limp and seems to be at least the 25lb breaking strain.
Probably twice as nice as the Shimano PowerPro braid and comparable to the current Nomad Panterra braids and nearly the same specs as Tasline.
I will likely be buying this for some of my reels in the future.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006042456707.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.103.298f5f656YUANI&algo_pvid=20b103c0-ee04-4917-bb3e-d43d923b749a&algo_exp_id=20b103c0-ee04-4917-bb3e-d43d923b749a-51&pdp_npi=4%40dis!EUR!19.66!5.70!!!148.86!43.17!%402103247017072714946895667e02f6!12000035456140888!sea!IT!4158163313!&curPageLogUid=DvGMYQZpvrKd&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

I’ve heard Pentagram braid is good for ultra thin casting braid. 

Good stuff Neil, you still got plenty of good fish in those sessions 😃 

Good stuff Neil, you still got plenty of good fish in those sessions 😃 

Are we talking bait caster or spin?
Spin I like superfine like PEX8.
Baitcasters I like thicker braids like Bionic braid...they do not bury when you are fighting hard.

Some good variety there Neil - shame about the jack and the big snapper and shark battles, grrr!!!

Nothing wrong with those feeds.
The sharks are so painful the last few summers. Plague proportions.

Last 3 trips have been a little disappointing, but have managed to scrape up a few feeds of nice eating fillets.
Did a whiting trip and got some quality whiting for the table , dropped a big Mangrove Jack right at the boat as I was trying to net it , surprised no one  has mentioned hearing me let go a naughty swear word as I recon half the boats down the Gold Coast way would have heard me.
Fished Peel Island this morning but had to fight sharks and dolphins , all morning , I  surrendered at 8am after a 3m bull shark got a trophy snapper as it surfaced just behind the boat. I usually take pity on the cod and release them all , but I know this fellow pictured stood little chance of making it back down.
Did a Hinze Dam trip with Ray K last Thursday , it was a slow day , but the company was good. I think it took me a couple of hours before I managed to entice a few bass to bite for me. 
 
Hopefully my mojo returns for the next trip.
Regards
Neil
 

No particular braid brand but if it is a casting rod I'll put the more expensive 8-strand braid.
You can feel It's a lot smoother and runs through the guides better when casting.

I'm currently testing out the new Daiwa Expedition braid.
So far I've only used the 15lb, but find it is super fine, smooth and casts a long way with little effort.
I have some 10lb, 20lb and 40lb to try out yet. Based on the 15lb I'm expecting a positive experience.

I tried heavy gear from a kayak....it is not required. 
Stick with an 8-10kg 7 foot rod and up to 15kg line....up the leader as required..
You can not put lots of hurt on a fish from a kayak....just let them tow you around....as long as you don't get sharked you will land them all.
The kayak get towed very easily and you can get towed much faster than you can paddle on 10lb braid.
Add to that it is nearly impossible to break off 50lb line of any sort in a kayak, and if you swing to the side you can be very easily rolled out of the kayak.
I tried to bust off 15kg line once in the kayak....i did it but risked everything on board trying to do it...it was that close to rolling or being dumped on by the next wave.

Nothing truer than "Matching the hatch" when it comes to slug selection.
However my default is: 
Start small: If I know the mac or tuna are around (a bust up) I'm going with a weight that allows me to cast / reach the bust up before they spook and head underwater.
There is no point going smaller if the metal slug is not heavy enough to reach the fish. On the flipside I don't go larger because I'm a lazy fisherman and larger slugs take more effort 🙂
Upsize: If I find that i'm landing the slug in the strike zone but no hits, I'll change it up and try some different sizes/colours.
Match the hatch: Once you have landed a feeding mac/tuna - They quite often regurgitate what they are eating onto the boat. Then I match my slug with that bait size. This is by far your best bet at landing another fish. Matching the hatch is a game changer.
On days where the water clarity is good and bait is hanging around bust ups, just look over the side with the polarised glasses and scope out what size bait is swimming around and match that.
Other lures: I would also have some other non-metal lure options as well. Stickbaits or plastics (bubblegum colour being my fav) if you are chasing Tuna. For macs i tend to stick to metals as a solid option
 
 
 
 
 

Yuk !   Plenty of bent rods though.

Four of went to zone 3 to see if we could find some bass on live shrimp. Spent a bit of time foraging for lost shrimp pots that had been displaced in the recent rise. Only one one 17cm bass located at the floats with 29 to 30 cm forkies at every location. We found a school of larger ones in between the 2 islands with quadruple hook ups of 50cm forkies making things interesting. I did not keep a tally but a constative estimate of 60 forkies made,

No idea where you are located but can I suggest you go into a proper tackleshop and chat to the staff.  For me I think the guys at Tackle warehouse at Coorparoo are pretty good, they wont upsell you but try and get something you like within your budget.  And if you buy an outfit they will give you a discount.  Feel a few rods and what you like, talk through the options and go from there.   I do buy from other places but when I go in they know me and I always get a discount on stuff.  I think its worthwhile in getting a relationship with a proper tacklestore who you can lean on for advice.  
The TT Rods are pretty good value as are Samaki and others.   I think like all sporting goods  another 10% in quality/feel/satisfaction costs at least a couple of hundred % more and wont catch anymore fish.
 

New PB Threadfin
First Threadfin on a Lure
First Mangrove Jack
1M Brisbane River Jewfish
50cm Brisbane River Bass
1.5M plus Brisbane River shark
 
What about everyone else?