AUS-BNE-FISHO

Found this interesting post on FB -

Hi
just signed up.
Enjoy both salt and fresh fishing.
latest thing i love is whiting on poppers.
hope to contribute to the forum.
regards
Wild Harvest 
 

Probably not. Not enough brains.

Probably a good time to remind everyone to be extra careful when boating at the moment due to all the floating debris that will no doubt be everywhere

Hi GregOug
Thanks for that, it's some good advice. I was thinking to go to Nudgee for a flick with some SP's this weekend, but we have a Scout Sausage Sizzle on so I've got to do that. I might get out next weekend though, otherwise if I do this weekend, it will be somewhere close. 🙂 
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Sorry Hamish, haven’t been on for a while owing to other commitments on the home front.
rigs - I usually fish a running sinker to a swivel then a trace to hook/s to suit the bait. Usually a single for baits like prawns, mullet fillet, worms, pippies etc, snell or gangs for bigger baits, pillies, gar etc. I always have a 2nd rod with a slug rigged up ready to go - you never know when something is going to show. I usually spend a bit of time throwing a slug around even if you can’t see fish actively feeding. Really erratic retrieves work best, you’ll pick up tailor, trevally, huge dart and the odd kingie, queenie etc. have even caught mulloway on slugs before. You’ll sometimes get mackerel or tuna in close enough to have a crack as well.
id be happy to take you along on a future trip - just might be a little while before I get to head out.
good work on the threadys though - I have been trying to get one land based for ages and haven’t quite cracked it yet. 

Just attaching a link to a short article about the Moreton Bay flush out after all the rain.
https://www.bnbfishing.com.au/forecast-moreton-bay-fishing-in-coming-weeks/?mc_cid=2a60dd8627&mc_eid=47674f88e7
cheers
Greg

My new boat! Then starting to utilise some of the wisdom being shared on here by members  to hopefully catch some decent fish.

I rang to see how you guys went but Lance must be screening his calls these days.😜 
You got some great weather and the small tides may have contributed to the slow bite. You still got some amazing fish to bring home. That's a cracker photo of Tugger in crystal clear water.
I'm chaffing to get up there again.
Got do lots of product testing @Luke Landrunner 😉

Gday Old Scaley
Some of my goals are different to yours (I assume you've already achieved them) but here they are.
1. A metre+ jewie
2. Go out on the bay (Moreton) and hook up to some sort of pelagic on my kayak
3. Same as you guys, 40cm whiting and metre murray (hopefully holidaying somewhere)
4. A big bull shark and line under 100lb
Cheers Hamish

Hi Breaming with Bro
I'm pretty sure reefies don't swim off well and if they did they'd probably get sharked. That's why he stopped when he hit his bag limit, because if he caught any more it would be like suicide... or that's what I think anyway, I'm sure tugger will be able to confirm 🙂 As well as that, they are some of the best tasting fish in the sea lol.
Cheers Hamish

Another great 1770 trip there!!
Me and my mate will get up there one day..... product testing 😜

We saw these young fellas in a 14ft open tinnie at the ramp then go past us and we were 90km offshore and they just heading east and disappeared of over the horizon crazy teens

Hi tugger
That sounds like a lot of fun, and good to hear everyone in your family is going to have a feed of reefies for so long 🙂 
Cheers Hamish

Hi Breaming with Bro
I'm pretty sure reefies don't swim off well and if they did they'd probably get sharked. That's why he stopped when he hit his bag limit, because if he caught any more it would be like suicide... or that's what I think anyway, I'm sure tugger will be able to confirm 🙂 As well as that, they are some of the best tasting fish in the sea lol.
Cheers Hamish

Hi tugger
That is some great fishing, and some quality reefies too. Nice to see a good feed being pulled up too 🙂 How long does it take to clean all of them 😉 The maximum amount of fish I've cleaned is about 7 and I was only helping, I couldn't imagine doing 40+ lol.
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Hi all
My brother and I decided to go to our local park on the Brisbane River yesterday, targeting sharks. We were successful and had some other surprises. Here's what happened, and the statistics of the trip 🙂 
So, after waking up at 5:30AM, I woke my brother up. Well, it was to early for him, so I got my Dad up and he took me down. After he left, I threw out my shark lines, one with a slab of mullet, the other with a bony bream. The combos were a Rogue Firepoint 6'6" and a Penn 650 with 30lb braid, as well as a lower quality set up.  I was up on the pier area, not on the jetty, but i saw two pecks, (well strikes) and I ran down thinking "Jeez, am I on one already?" Nope! I reeled it in, and nothing was on the hook - *disappointed*. Then, I caught a little catfish which was perfect shark bait size, which i kept (mainly because the line was stuck in it's gills). I pulled up a couple more, threw the cast net and caught a prawn for live bait, then Declan came down with Dad, and after a couple more bait checks we had caught about 5 catties. They each put up a good fight for their size, they really took off when the drag was loose 🙂 Great fun too. The catfish are caught on a 1000 size Shimano Sienna and a 2500 Diawa Shinobi. 
Now it was about 8:00AM, and I did another bait check on the shark lines. I felt a sudden pull, then realised I was hooked up. After about a five minute fight, I realised the little bully was tangled with this line and he was actually hooked on the other 🙂 It was a pretty bad situation, because he had some wire tang;ed around his body, but after he rolled a couple times I could walk him down to the jetty to land him. In about another 10 minutes, he was netted and then released. Here he is-

We didn't get a precise measurement but I'd say he was around 80cm and about 5 kilos. He scoffed a big chunk of mullet down too. After he was dealt with and released, Declan and I pulled up a couple more catfish, and by that time it was warming up a bit (but we were in shade). We only kept one shark line out, i figured it would be easier to handle. We had a crowd watching the bull shark too, a lady who walks there a lot and someone else. 
So, we re-casted all the lighter lines then upped the catfish count to seven or eight. Then, I dropped a line right next to pylon (mainly so it wouldn't get tangled with the other because we were fishing the run out of the end of the pier which is only about five metres wide). I hooked up after about ten minutes, at first thinking it was an ok catty again, but then after feeling the weight and the runs it was doing back to the structore I released it was something better. I got it away from the structure and then was happy/surprised to see a nice estuary cod on the end of my line. I slowly walked it down while Declan was grabbing some gear, like the landing net, brag mat, lip grips and pliers and he scooped it up. I dehooked it and it measured about 40cm on the mat. Here it is - 

He was released to be caught next time 😉 and swum off well, back under the pier/jetty. 🙂 After that, Declan pulled up a few more catties (I let him have them after  set the drag, etc) and he was having fun. After we got the tally to ten, the bite went quiet, as it was about 10:00AM and the tide had slowed a little. Most of the catties would've been under 30cm, but he caught a couple bigger ones. Then, I pulled in one more and my Dad came down and took us home. Here are the statistics of the trip:
Statistics
Tide: 1.7metre high, run out and .8 metre low, at approx. 10:00AM
Moon Phase: First Quarter, so not that much run
Weather: 34c, 55% humidity
Wind: Very glassy, though the breeze picked up later in the morning
Tackle Used: 14lb braid mainlines, 12;b mono leader, size 2 bean sinkers, 4/o suicide hooks, 30lb braid mainline, 80lb wire trace, 100lb mono leader, 6/o circle hook. 
Fish Caught: Shark x 1, Catfish x 9, Estuary Cod x 1
Bait Caught: Prawn x 1
Bait Used: Herring, Mullet, Prawn
Successful Overall: Very Successful Trip
I hope you enjoyed reading the report, I know it was a very fun session 🙂 
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

No they were heading in to open deep water they no doubt slept in the open tinnie most likely near our anchorage

Thanks for another great trip Mark.
The fishing was very tough this trip but we kept working them hard and chipped away at them till we found a patch of fish that were very hungry and managed to finish our bag off in the 2 days.
I really expected to do the 3 days to get our fish this trip but that late arvo bite on the second day was pretty special and got us over the line with a bit of an early mark as well.
 

Hi kmcrosby78
Is that the equivalent of about 12 bottles of Fanta for me? 😉 
Cheers Hamish

Wow, that's crazy as. Is there an island they might've camped at?
Cheers Hamish

Hi kmcrosby78
Is that the equivalent of about 12 bottles of Fanta for me? 😉 
Cheers Hamish

My guess would be about 12 beers .......... 🙂 
Great haul there Lance & Mark, doesn't get much better than that, enjoy those hard earned fillets 🙂  Any crayfish?

Hi Breaming with Bro
I'm pretty sure reefies don't swim off well and if they did they'd probably get sharked. That's why he stopped when he hit his bag limit, because if he caught any more it would be like suicide... or that's what I think anyway, I'm sure tugger will be able to confirm 🙂 As well as that, they are some of the best tasting fish in the sea lol.
Cheers Hamish

Geez it probably would've taken me ten 😉 You must be getting quicker and quicker at cleaning them every time you catch some 🙂 
Cheers Hamish