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what about YGK pe1.5 or pe2.0?

I've been getting quite a few requests about how to catch tailor land based in Moreton Bay. I finally got around to filming and editing a video from the weekend. On this occasion we were fishing the flats at Point Halloran at low tide. 
 

What bait were you using?
There are a few things it could be. Stingray and Estuary Cod would be top of my guess list due to no head shakes. But it could have been a type of Trevally or Mangrove Jack or Snub-nose Dart or Bonefish or tarpon or giant herring. 
My advice;
Pick the one you think sounds the best and say it was that one. 
 
 

Just a quick report. 
I have been fishing a bit lately. 
There are heaps of cuttlefish around at the moment. They like to sit on the weed beds around wellington point through to the north of Green Island. 
The tip is to put a sinker on your squid jigs, get it to the bottom and wind up. Make sure you are bouncing off the bottom. There are no snags to worry about. They seem to like 7 - 10 meters of water. 
I had a trip out to the ledge on the southern end of green the other night. We fished for a few hours without loosing a bait. Then, just after the 4 other boats left, they turned on a the turn of the tide. Lots of little snapper/squire. We caught about 10 or so but they were only small. There were a few legal ones in the mix but we didn't keep any. I don't tend to keep them unless they are over 45cm as you don't get much off them at the legal size of 35cm. We used the squid and cuttlefish we had caught earlier but we caught most of the fish on squid from the fish shop at Capalaba. Could have eaten the squid. 
Then this little legend came along.

It went about 115 cm, hard to be accurate with that ruler haha. We hooked onto a larger version soon after but after about 30mins it simply spat the hook. Oh well. 
The theory is that there are more Mulloway out there now that the bag and size limits have been in for a while now? Whadoya reckon? 
Get out there. 

You used to be able to drive out along the southern wall and park your car and fish into or outside the harbour. Not sure you can do that anymore. People have caught good bream and cod there, and the occasional mackerel on the outside of the wall. You can fish Shelly Beach (or pretty much any beach) for whiting if they are around. The rock ledges beside the boat ramp at Gatakers Bay can be fishable at low tide for smallish redefines like parrot and Swéetlip, but fish as light as you can because there are lots of rocky snags.  Eli Creek mouth can be good for whiting and flathead on low tide. Same for the mouth of Bielby Creek at Toogum. Lots of options up there. The local paper usually has a fishing report, so maybe grab a copy when you get there. Good luck.

Took a well earned rest from “bassing “with Ray today .
Hooked up the big boat at 3.30am  ,collected my son at Bribie at 4.15am and proceeded north to the Sunshine Coast along with what seemed every other boat in SE Qld .
Target species were Spanish Mackerel and they didn’t disappoint . We found some bait with Spanish on it well away from the crowd just on sunrise  , quickly deployed 2 troll baits and picked up 2 Spanish  for the ice box ice in a couple of minutes.
This bit of action resulted in  quickly being inundated by other keen fishermen. We voted on a tactical move to let the hoards scare the crap out of that school  and we went looking elsewhere . After moving a km or so we found some more and put another 3 in the esky and headed home . 5 hits - 5 fish no shark issues. Very tidy day with some quality fish 12 to 18 kg each.
Qld Fisheries officer collecting  the carcasses for research at 7am Monday morning .
regards
BeastMaster
 
 

I didn’t get to go.. with half an hour left of work I nicked my thumb.
 
Apologies for a bit of gore - feel free to remove.

Hey guys and gals,
 
I’m Troy, 29, been half heartedly fishing since I was about 10 and am still trying to pin down a hobby that keeps me going, always enjoyed fishing but like the concept of fly fishing so am here in the hopes of finding a teacher (how’s that for being straight forward?).
I’m a bit west of Toowoomba but hey happy to travel pretty darn far for meet ups and what not. Was thinking it would be fun to organise some social tilapia days in some public access areas of Brisbane and sorrounds. Could make a fun little contest out of it etc 😄
 
Anyways, hello!

Brief report from Murray he left Viccy Point yesterday morning and is staying in a cabin at Monduran.
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Four Barra so far. Three fish this morning and pulled the hooks on a monster. Biggest so far is 93cm. They all released ok.
Murray sent Today at 11:52 AM
They are going for the red claw or three shrimp on a big wide gape hook.

Hi all
Well after catching some garfish in the last session, I decided the next morning I'd go and give them a test run for bait. I had in mind it would be the last time I went for a shark fish, so I hoped to get one. I got to the park after waking up early, and deployed the garfish (half). It was chucked out, as well as some other lines with little bits of prawn. Dad gave the net a throw but the tide was too high to get any good livies, and running a bit too hard. 
To be honest, I was doubting we'd get much after a while. The tide wasn't the best, I needed a bigger sinker, and the little lines were having no inquiries. After chatting with Dad for a while though, I saw the rod go right over on the jetty. I ran down hoping to be on a bully. It had big weight and was pulling pretty hard; wasn't running though. I thought I'd end up with a pup but after aching my arms for a little I got the mother of disgust. A giant catfish.

Yuk!
He was thrown back into the drink, and told not to come back. Hopefully I don't make a habit of catching catfish that can be mistaken for sharks 🥴. i redeployed the next half of the garfish after getting the 6/o hook out of his mouth, and kept fishing. At this point there'd still been no action on the little line, which made for a rather boring wait for the bigger line to go off.
I saw it go over but then nothing was on it after reeling it in and the bait was still in perfect shape - so little something I assume. Seems it may have been worth to throw a cube of gar out in hope for something instead of fish with prawns for the entire duration of the session. The water was nice and glassy too, like it is most mornings. It is certainly better like this before the wind picks up then in the arvo.

Glassy - you'd love this on the bay!
After that catfish, we kept fishing. It was really deadly quiet though, with not a nibble to be sensed in site. I kept persisting, and a fair bit past 6:00AM the rod with a bit of prawn got some action. The fight began, and I wound up another catty. At least it meant I wasn't donutting. 

Also - it had this weird red bit on the tail? Any ideas?
After that one was bidded farewell, the lines were deployed again. I was wanting to use most of the prawn I had to avoid wasting any, as well as the garfish. I had the new slab on the salmon line, which was a bit on the small side. After no hits for quite a considerable time, I put on a new half in case it might entice more fish.
It got some more enquires from smalluns, but no considerable hits. The cod line was moved, as the tide had started to go slack and changed. It didn't take long for a little bit of action on that one though, and my Dad predicted the exact moment the fish would bite. I cranked it up, but to my disgust a catfish came up.
 

Catfish + me don't mix!
That was the last of Dad for today, and he set off back home after that one. I kept fishing in hope of something more, so sat down watching the lines in the water. The shark line got yet another hit but no love whatsoever. Bummer! I had seen old mate yakker man go by now, and I thought he must've missed the tide change by a little. He went off though, for his routine paddle.
There were some more canoers that came down now, and they had kayaks, Canadian Canoes, and I think one was a yak like ours. Very interesting looking paddling club! They had theirs all near the jetty, but briefly before they had arrived I got a bigger hit on the shark line...
The rod was buckled, but as soon as the fight started I realised it was not too large. A short fight ensured another catty came up. The bigger ones seem to love the gar, as @natang mentioned!

Bad pic!
I let him go back in front of some folks sitting on the jetty, whom congratulated me (I said, "Thanks' with a slight hint of dismay in my voice 😉). The bite now went rather quiet on this line, and with one of the last pieces of gar I hoped for something OK. The cod line was deployed with more prawn, so I got back to my possy of watching the lines from the chair. I look a bit funny but it gives me a good vantage point.
Old mate yakker man had come in this point. He was very worked up about something though, and was pretty angry about something by the time he left. Hope it went all OK for him.
The cod line was rebaited, but soon it looked like it was getting some action. This fish wasn't running, but it was tugging the line. I picked it up and a hard fight with plenty of headshakes ensured me pulling up a nice eel. He was legal size, so I contemplated keeping him while he was in a bucket of water. I decided (after a phone call to Dad) that the Pike Eel would be fine, so it was this fellas lucky day. He was released to chase more bait under he jetty. Another main reason I released him is because I dehooked him.

Variety
After that, I fished for a while longer, but alas, no success was had. I loaded up the cart, gave the jetty a wash (wasn't that dirty anyways), and set off home to catch some ZZZ's. Here are some stats.
Stats of Trip - 
Tide: 12:25AM, .4M, Low, 7:15AM, 2.1M, High, 1:50PM, .7M, Low.
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent Phase
Bait Caught: -
Bait used: Prawns and Gar
Tackle Used: Diawa Shinobi 2500 Reel, Abu Garcia veritas Rod, 12LB braided mainline, 10LB leader, size 2 bean sinker, 4/o or 3/o suicide hook, Abu Garcia Barra King 650, 20LB braid, Ugly Stik rod, long trace, size 3/o circle hook, 30lb trace, 30lb leader, size 2 bean sinker, large barrel swivel, Penn 650 SSM, 30LB Braid, 80LB Mono trace and leader, 6/o circle hook, size 6 sinker, barrel swivel.
Fish Caught: Catfish x 4, Eel x 1
Time Fished: Around 5:00AM something - about a bit past ten
Overall Success Rate: 50% - better than being at home...
Alright, now to the next trip. This one was a bit more exciting, and after watching many videos of someone who goes by the name of BrisVegas Fishing getting threadies on lures at night in my area, I decided to try. The technique was to flick your lures around light pools, where they 'boof' them off the surface.
I had a prawn imitation lure, cheapy, so I didn't know if it would work, but I've bought two packs of 'Holt Productions' prawn lures in 'White Flash' which are supposed to be the top lures for prawn imitations (online store - Google 'Holt Productions Lures' if you're interested).
https://holtproductions.com.au/
I had all the rods rigged, the sounder ready, and all the gear ready to go. Dad found me lounging on the front lawn - probably trying to get some sleep. We dutifully set off at bit before seven though, after dinner. We got to the park and put the yak in to do the first test of the night - the sounder test. Dad will write a thread on some success we've had but tonight the sounder was not playing the game and had the white screen yet again - 

We had some reading
After that one, we were disappointed. Luckily for us, it was a low tide. You know what that meant! Bait! Or so we thought. Dad did throws all around for diddly squat (I found a prawn and scat in the net today though, who were buried in the garden under the mulch). It wasn't looking good for us, but how bad could it be? BAD
We were about to set off, and still being optimistic, we said, "No livies = more time to fish on lures". Well that lasted for about two seconds.
"Hamish... Where are the paddles?"
🤦‍♂️
So I zoomed off home on foot to get them, while Dad was going to do some more netting. I got home and grabbed them (of course I'd gotten life jackets which were right next to them but not bloomin' paddles) and was quite disappointed to hear Dad had no success throwing on the way back. We set off, not taking the message from the fishing gods that tonight might not have been the night.
We paddled down past some possible spots, and kept going. We had a ten cast or so flick at the first jetty which looked good, with no avail. I also had a large hardbody with a huge wobble tied on. I figured that was all bases covered. We set off more though, and it was quite relaxing to be paddling.

Paddling
We gave the next jetty another go to, because it had lots of light. I wasn't flicking my lure into the light had first, more so, letting it drift on the edges and give it had flicks coming back to me. That way it kept darting around the mid-water column like a disorientated prawn would I suppose.
We gave a couple more jetties some flicks for no avail, and shot down to the last stretch before it was past the bridge. The tide was really ripping against us now, so not too ideal for being on a yak. It certainly didn't help when we needed to drift an opposite directions to the wind and tide!
We got to the final stretch and the wind was dismal here, but we made the slog under and past the bridge. The first series of jetties was a while off, so we also got to them. We drifted in, and I did what I'd been doing all the session. Nothing. I gave the hardbody a flick to, but annoyingly my bait caster decided it would like to do that annoying thing where it just stops half way through a side cast (and it's a bit tricky trying to do overhead casts when the light pole and another rod is all together).
We gave all three jetties a flick and were disappointed. An interesting note is that the whole time we were on the water it was seriously quiet, like not one bit of bait skipping, not one fish jumping, etc. We only saw one person in a ski-boat (Like @GregOug's boat actually) zoom by!
I was still flicking on some jetties, and had changed to a 4 inch Z-man in 'Pearl' colour in hope of a flatty. I didn't get anything, but I did get snagged and loose it all which was disappointing. At least I knew it was on the bottom.
We began the paddle back, and annoyingly the wind had changed direction. We kept going though, and flicked all the jetties we had on the way here. At one point, I decided I may as well troll my hardbody, so I let out 20 or so metres of line and trolled it behind the yak. It would've looked appetising for a biggun! We got back to the jetty and I practically fell asleep on it like last time. I will crack the Thready-On-A-Lure one day! (Replaced my 'Catch a Metre Thready' as it was done). We got everything though, and on the way home heard a metal something fall out. We had a good look but couldn't find anything. Consequently, yesterday after I cleaned the kayak and was helping Dad put it away, one of the pins holding the trolley was missing! Blast! Must've just rolled into the drink...
Thanks for reading those two reports, and I know they weren't the most exciting. Hope you enjoyed and here are the stats!
Statistics of Trip:
Tide: 
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent - not too much run
Bait Caught: - (Well an unidentified prawn and scat until net cleaning, haha)
Bait Used: -
Lures Used: A large green deep diver, 4 inch Z-man soft plastic, some cheapo K-mart prawn lure.
Tackle Used: 2500 Diawa Shinobi on Abu Garcia Veritas 3-5KG, 12LB braided mainline, 30LB Black Magic Fluorocarbon leader, FG Knot, Diawa Magforce Reel, Shimano Cranx Baitcaster Rod 5-8KG, FG Knot, 30LB Black Magic Fluorocarbon Leader, Abu Garcia Barra King 650, 20LB Braid, 30LB Black Magic Fluorocarbon Leader, FG knot, 4/o circle hook (didn't use this)
Fish Caught: - 
Time Fished: A bit past 7:00PM-10:00PM
Overall success Rate: 60% - Fun
Thanks for reading.
Cheers Hamish
 

Don't know if anyone here was aware, but a guy caught an approx 70Kg GT off the top of Morton Island about a week or two ago, 1.7m long, he was fishing in his 15ft Polycraft. It was in the local newspaper so thought I would share. This is one fish he will never forget!
 

Hi all
I've been reading the latest BNB and it has some great articles about fishing in our area. May help some people (hopefully!) - 
https://bnbfishing.com.au/beat-the-heat-in-brisbane/ - Around the Rivers/Creeks
https://bnbfishing.com.au/catch-a-fabulous-feed-in-february/?mc_cid=455c7c9ec5&mc_eid=9020033529 - GC-Tweed Area
https://bnbfishing.com.au/moreton-bay-grassie-guide/ - Moreton Bay Grassies
And here is the link to the 'Home' part - 
https://bnbfishing.com.au/
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Well it’s that time of year to dust off the top pockets and have a throw. Went for my first two sessions for the year over the past two weeks and did quite well. Both sessions saw me and a mate get two buckets of prawns per session in under two hours. All of the prawns were of a good size too aswell as a few casts with heavy pockets. This was to be expected due to the decent amount of rain we’ve had compared to the last two seasons. Any way looks like it’ll be a cracker season especially once they start to show up around The southern bay islands and nudgee. By the time they migrate to these locations I reckon they will be pretty solid. So if anyone is keen to get out now is the time as they are definitely on!! 

Hi all
After doing tennis in the morning today, it was my sister's birthday party. I tried catching up on some sleep but Dad got me and before I knew it, it was time to go. He told me the spot we were going to was on the river, so I excitedly packed my telescopic rod, a little bit of gear, some bread and lures, and some water into the bag and we set off. I was thinking the spot I would get to would be tidal, and maybe even a jetty of some description if I was lucky. WRONG! 😉
After the short drive, we arrived in the Kholo Botanic Gardens. We sat around, my sisters and her friends did all the party stuff (and I ate junk food), and sooner or later they had left. I'd had  quick squiz at the river, and it seemed like it might all just be reads down to the river.
Dad and I went down a path, called the 'Brisbane River Trail' and past a pond. It had lots of little fish in it, probably baby Tilapia or Garfish, but one thing that caught mine and Dad's eye was a floating lure. I quickly hopped in and grabbed it, and, "Hey, Bingo!", I had myself a new lure. It needed new hooks, but I was pretty happy with it. Our theory was it had been washed down in some sort of flood, as we didn't think anyone would use a lure this big here.

Free Lure
After that, I pointed out a path to Dad. It was nice and shady, and also going down in the direction of the river. We decided to go down, so after a nice walk we saw water. The first spot I could've tried was sitting on a log at the mouth of a little drain, which probably would've been OK for a bass, but then we found a nice little park area, so we decided to go there.

Down we go

New Spot
After a quick look in the water, we saw garfish swimming around. I knew this was good, and I saw some eating the plant that was growing in the water. I threw out of a bit of bread after putting on my smallest hook, and it came off straight away, which was disheartening. We saw something swim away which was shortly identified as a huge mullet. I'm sure that thinking would've tugged hard if we landed him! I was sure excited, as I've wanted to catch garfish for some time now.
I was going to walk out to get some of the plant for bait, but figured I may as well give the bread a proper try first. I threw a couple little bits in, and moulded some on my hook. Then, the went into a feeding frenzy, snapping them off the surface. Tension was building, and in no time a gar had taken my hook. I brought up my first garfish, and was quite happy to say the least!
This continued, and I wasn't casting my line out one bit. We were thinking I'd need to put on a little sinker to cast but there was no need. I just fed out some line, and I was placing it in. A big 'ball' of gar fish were holding next to the shade, and maybe 2 metres out from the bank. I'd lob my bait in and get nibbles, nibbles, and the bait taken! 
IMG_7927 (1).MOV
I have more vids, but they were to big to send in file size 😞 
They got finickier as the fishing went on, and after a while I only had a 50% success rate. We had to experiment with size of bread and how we were hooking them, so after a little while the technique was letting a fair bit of line out (instead of about 50CM, 2M) and really letting them chew on the bait, and simply pinning the hook through once to keep the bread in tact.
A couple highlights were when I caught one on a bare hook, and when I had to dive on one in an attempt to stop it from getting away. Dad had a crack as well, and he pulled up another couple garfish. They were really fun, and it was great sight casting them. We saw another big mullet swimming out deeper, so it looked like it was minding it's own business and not interested in our offerings.
In the shade, there seemed to be some little fish, maybe baby garfish or mullet. They were vicious though, and you had to be careful not to get your bait in there or it would be off before you know it. We kept fishing, and there seemed to be more gar and less caught. It was fun, but we ended up loosing track off time. Before we knew it, it was later than anticipated so we had to go. Dad got up me at the end for having one last cast, so we legged it. The bait was put in a slurry at home, and I tried butterflying one. Lets just say that looks easier one YouTube. Lol. 

The haul

Garfish stomach = YUCK

Alright; so this is the lure I went and retrieved. Anyone know what it is? I had a couple people tell me it was a Kato one of some sort, but I really don't know. It was about 11CM.
I froze up the gar for bait, and I'm going to try them for a bully tomorrow. Hopefully with some success! A couple questions though, does anyone have any opinions on bread or dough? I know dough would've been far more durable, but is bread the best bait? And, what is the most likely species for garfish? I know about tailor, mackerel, and some reefies like them, so is that about it? Thanks for reading the report if you're still here, and I hope you enjoyed. Here are the stats of the trip -
Statistics of Trip:
Location: Kholo - but I'm pretty sure you can get them anywhere on the Upper Brisbane!
Weather: Sunny, hot, slightly cloudy
Tackle Used: 10LB braid mainline, 20LB leader, I know it was way to heavy but was working! Tiny long shank hook too. Shimano 4000 R reel and Telescopic rod combo
Bait Used: Bread - crusty and stale
Fish Caught: Garfish x 15-18
Time Fished: Midday
Air Pressure: 1005.5
Temp: High, 31oC, Low, 21oC
Humidity: 74%
Overall Success Rate: 75% - good day for a spur of the moment fish
Thanks for reading, apologies for any errors. I will add more photos or videos if possible.
Cheers Hamish

Had a smashing time up at Lake Baroon this morning. Started off playing with the spanglies using a kokada black bat then moved down the dam for some trolling on crazydeeps, some bait fishing, some slow blatt fishing and some spinnerbait casting.All up managed 86 bass and heaps of spanglies, even got a double hookup on the one lure.Also managed to get a stumpy.Bass come in 2 sizes around 40cm and 25cm.Missed out on catching one of the few hundred bass I have tagged there, maybe next time.
Dino

Decided to brave the wet and the chop today with @Old Scaley and hit up Spot X at Mud Island. I was keen to tryout my new Daiwa BG 4000 loaded with 24lb WTF Gliss !
Steve kicked off with a breambo and some unders squire. My lead was too light so I changed to a rod with some more weight and joined in on the unders squire. Then it happened again, just like the other day and I got owned big time on a fish that took a long run, hesitated briefly, then ran me into some reef. 20lb. Not good enough. Put some more weight on my Gliss WTF ! rod and had the same happen again although not quite as long a run. Leader busted.
Steve also had a good hit from a suspected cod, but didn't hookup. Then he got owned by something decent as well. He also had a smaller fish get sharked which played him for a few minutes before snipping him.
Landed a couple of grassies that were getting close to legal, but not close enough.
Somewhere amongst all of that a couple of fellas in an open tinnie approached us stating they were lost. So pointed them in the right direction and off they went. Visibility wasn't great especially when the rain got a bit heavy. Didn't see them again so assume they made it back to port ok.
With conditions not really improving we decided to head back in too around 11 am. The run back was better than the run out, now with wind and tide together. Got into the river and it flattened out so we decided to drift around Clara Rock area.
Steve got a good hit and landed a snapper about 48, then another a notch smaller as well as a cod. Me - nothing just some timid bites. Finally the rod buckled and I finally landed the legal snapper that has eluded me for a long time. I was chuffed even though he only went 38. Steve landed another legal and we both got a couple of just unders before the chills from being saturated through all morning got the better of us and we left them biting. Only 2 other trailers at the ramp when we got back.
It was a good day despite the conditions with both of us getting a feed. Thanks Steve for sharing one.
 
Oh yeah, forgot to mention the snapper ate Steve's rod.

 

Hi all
I decided that Sunday would be my fish for the week, so I dutifully got the bike buggy ready, rigged the rods, and put the alarm on for a morning session at the local park. After waking up and arrived at around 5:00AM with Dad (very nice when no one is out at that time of morning), I rigged up the rods with prawn and Dad began cast netting.
He did a few throws at first for one prawn, and then got a couple. Just at that moment though, he heard the rod screaming and yelled at me to get it. I got everything set and the fight was on. It took one run with a loose drag but then the rest of the fight was headshakes and weight. I pulled him up after he went for structure a couple times, and a rotten catfish came up. I got him up and dehooked him, then sent him on his way.

40CM odd
After that one, the line was deployed again. By the time the bait and rod were put back into resting posy, Dad had gotten a good amount of live prawns so we needed the aerator (and they were all sizeable too!). I looked all throughout the buggy, and after a quick search, we concluded that I'd forgotten the aerator! Bugger!
Dad kept throwing, and he probably would've had 15-20 good prawns ready to use for bait. Seeing as though the eel hadn't been touched, I put out the biggest live prawn. This was given a soak for around twenty minutes for no love whatsoever. In this time, the other rod had no luck, and I'd only given the rod with a plastic a few flicks. 
As Dad was heading off, the line with a bit of dead prawn on went off. It wasn't a very good fight (in fact I could hardly tell it was on) but I cranked up a solid BR Perch regardless (actually, a tiny BR Perch!).

Perch
He was dehooked and speared back into the water, and then I kept fishing. The tide was still on the last of the run, so I kept flicking my lures around and about. I mainly focused on the jetty, with casts peppered all over. I then saw a carboard box, which I went down on the jetty to try and get with the line. After a couple failed attempts, the shark line, which had been switched back to eel after loosing the prawn, buckled over.
I ran over, tightened the drag, and the fight was on. The drag was quite loose compared to usual, so he took a bit of a run at first. Then, I got some line on him, and got him a bit closer. The bully made a bit of a splash on the surface, and I got a positive ID on him here. Then, he went for the pylons. I wasn't going to let that happen though, and after some nervous moments and heavy winding he was jetty-side. I went to grab the net and then he took off again. It was a good couple of minutes before he got in the right spot for me to net him, and then I lifted him up. he made a last ditch attempt of escape but I got him back in the net and took him up to deal with him. 
The bully flicked the hook out itself, which was lucky for it. I put him on the brag mat, and he went around the 85CM mark. An alright one, in my books anyways. Dad came down just at the right moment for him to photograph me, and after that I went to release him. I swum him for a little and then he kicked straight off. It was at that moment I realised I'd forgotten the circle - Bugger!

Solid
After that one, the prawns started becoming a bit more lively with the aerator, and Dad went on his way. It didn't take long for another nibble after the rebaiting and rerigging of the shark line, though. Once again, it was on the rod cast out deep, and it seemed to be just getting taps. I started reeling and and realised I was probably on a Perch, and it came in nice and easy after that. I got him up, took a quick photo, and let him back. The Perch seem to swim off OK if they are speared back into the water, but in general they seem to be terrible fighters and not too good for release either. 

Goldy
After that one, the next fish pretty much bit immediately. I heard a little bit of line come off the spool, then I saw jogged over, picked it up, and slowly pulled the hook. I find opposed to the strike with a circle hook, giving the rod a slow pull sets the hook as well as not pulling the hook straight out of the fishes mouth. It was an OK fight, and he was shortly released after. Regardless, I can see how sugar bags of these were filled back in the day when they were thick. 

Goodun
After that fish, I deployed the bait back out. It was a pretty low tide, so I started to give the cast net some throws. I just figured this would ensure I had some live bait for more fishing. I did about 10 throws, and each throw I would get livies which was great. They were deployed on the cod line, and the shark line still had eel on (bait checked).
That Perch had floated for a bit then kicked down luckily, but the next one I pulled up wasn't as quick. It was a good fish and I landed him around 7:15AM, and since he was a bit bigger figured I'd put him in off the jetty. Back he went, and floated in circle for about 5 minutes. I netted him up and speared him again, but luckily he went away. I figure he swum off because I threw the cast net straight after for more prawns and no perch. Haha.

Perch
I did some more throws with the net, but by then there was not too many prawns to be caught! Seems the bigguns were really firing on the last on the run out, but then stopped on the first bit of rise. The tide had changed, and it was sure rushing in! I tried casting the overhead and left it in the normal drag setting, and there was so much tide the line came out like a fish had taken it. Wow!
Everything went a bit quiet now, so I sat down. I tied a plastic on my line, with 10LB leader. I had a 3/8th jighead, which had a 4 inch plastic on it too. This may seem wrong, and I'm no expert, but they go quiet nicely for me and it allowed me to flick in deeper parts anyways. I sat down and flicked towards the mangroves, under the jetty, and everywhere for nothing! Bugger! One day I'll crack the Brisbane River lure code. Lol. The line went off again though, and unluckily for me this was the last time. I began fighting him and pulled up the fifth perch for the session, and then released him back to the river. 

Perch
The sun was coming up now, so I kept persisting, except with gloves, shoes, trousers, shirt, and sun buff all on. It was about 8:30AM now, and I'd still had no hits on the plastics. It was looking dire, so I began packing up. I persisted until around 9:00AM or past that, and then rode home keeping my live baits in tact. I bucketed the jetty down too, and left it in a nice condition.
The next part of the trip was to meet my friend and go to my other spot. We had arranged to meet at the busiest part of town, (stupid of me as the train station is just up the road), and my friend made it. We were riding away to the spot at a bit before 11, and got there sometime soon after. The first stop was to see if we could try and get some more livies, so I just got the net out and began throwing. I didn't get anything in about the first 7 throws, except a Passionfruit Bundaberg soft drink out of the esky. I took a couple sips of that then gave it another throw. I pulled it up and heard some clicking, and to my surprise, a TIGER prawn was in the net! "Woohoo!" I thought. That's only the second one I've ever caught in the river!

Tiger Prawn
After that one, it gave me a bit more motivation to keep going. I gave it about another five throws, and low and behold, up came another one. I got him out, and walked him up the jetty walkway (which had holes going into the water) into my bucket. Lucky for him, he gave me the slip and clicked out of my hands, back into the water. Bugger! I gave it about five more throws here, before decided it was worth moving on.
The short ride to the next jetty along was nice and easy, and to my surprise there were some others fishing there too. They were nice enough, and had some rods and hand reels. I said hello and deployed the first line, with a live prawn. Hopes were high for something big, and we sat back and waited. I had a chat to the lady, who seemed to be mad keen. I recently google mapped the whole river in my area and now I have around twenty spots to try out. She mentioned one, which was around an 8KM ride, which she said has HEAPS of bait always swimming at it. Maybe I'll have to make the trek over! 
I kept fishing, and then, to my surprise, they pulled in a little pike eel. I was quick to intercept them before it was released, and ask if I could keep him for bait. They were A-OK with it, so after some decided I donged him with the pliers and got him into the esky. First, I chopped off a bit for the shark line, which was deployed on the other part of the jetty. 

Their Pike Eel
After that one, I was quite happy, because @Old Scaley's eel (which he gave to me) had run out from the morning's bully. Now, I'll be testing how PIKE eel goes opposed to the Freshwater Eel. I kept fishing, now with two lines out. Since everything was ready, I gave a plastic a flick. I flicked it off the left hand side of the jetty many times for no bites, the best cast I could do under the jetty walkway, and many, many casts in the little eddy made by the jetty walkway and jetty. Unfortunately, no flatties, cod, or anything wanted to eat my bait, so after a bit more casting a switched to a little bream lure. I kept my ten pound leader on as I wasn't sure what I could catch - a cod on anything lighter than ten pound would be interesting!
I persisted with this lure and flicked it everywhere I could. I made a big effort to have it go under the jetty by cutting corners as well. I figured there'd have to be something around there! Obviously not 😉 . The other people pulled up another catch though, but it was a bit more interesting! They actually had hooked a catfish and perch on the same hook in one go! Wow!

Double Trouble!
After that was dehooked by them (and both released), they got another Pike Eel! Man, they were having some fun while me and my friend were getting bugger all!! This one was also donged and released to my esky. Interestingly, they caught it on it's own kind! Cannibal alert!
They departed soon after this, so I said goodbye and then put the rods back down in their spot. I had thrown the cast net a bit before, and apart from some little prawns, I had gotten one big herring which I deployed immediately, as they had proven fruitful last time. I also got one small herring in the net which was there for reserve bait. The aerator was doing a good job keeping most things alive, too. 
Dad called me up and asked me to do some work at the Scout Den (working bee on) and it was decided 2:30PM would be the departure time. We kept soaking the live baits, and both remained untouched for the duration of the session. It was quite disappointing, as I was really hoping for some alright here! We had some showers for the most part of the session, so that was alright as it kept us cool. 

Not what you want to be yakking in
After that, another person came down. He was about 30, and set up on the jetty a bit up from us. I was packing up the gear by now, so I bucketed down the jetty, cleaned up some old line people had discarded there, and then rode off with all the gear. The overall amount of bait was very good, amount a bag full! Silly me, but this is also punishment for wearing crappy K-mart shoes for one hour to long - 

Blisters 

Heaps!
I began the ride home, and stopped by at the Scout Den. Dad saw my blisters and sent me home, so after I said hi to a couple people I headed there. The bait was bagged up, everything was washed and packed away, and then that was the session. Not particularly successful, but better than school (really shouldn't be writing this report, should be sleeping! At least I did my homework!).
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed. It was a nice way to spend the day. Sorry for any typos, and hopefully I've remembered everything!
 Statistics of Trip - 
Tide: 
          First Spot: 12:20AM, 1.9M, High, 6:30AM, .2M, Low, 12:50PM, 2.5M, High.
          Second Spot: 6:00AM, .2M, Low, 12:20PM, 2.5M, High
Moon Phase: Illumination was 91% - Lots of Run!
Bait Used: Live Prawns, Dead Prawns, Eel (Pike and Freshwater), Live Herring
Bait Caught: Herring, Prawns
Fish Caught: Bull Shark x 1, Perch x 5, Catfish x 1
Tackle Used: 10LB, 30LB, 80LB, Fluorocarbon, Mono leaders, 12LB, 20LB, 30LB, Braided Mainlines, 3/o, 6/o, circle hooks, 4/o hook, 3/o suicide hook, large swivels, size 4-6 ball sinkers, Abu Garcia Veritas Rod, 3-5KG, 6"6', Diawa Shinobi 2500 Reel, Ugly Stik Rod, Abu Garcia Barra King 650, Rogue Firepoint Boat Rod 5-8KG 2M, Penn SSM 650.
Air Pressure: 1012.2
Humidity: 75%
Weather: Showers on and off, cloudy, sunny
Temp: 26oC High, 21oC Low
Time Fished:
          First Session: Around 5:00AM-9:00AM
          Second Session: Around Noon - 2:45PM
Overall Success Rate: 50% - good fun

Bike Shot

It was going to be Beau's day out, but he had back problems,so me with a shagged back had to catch all the fish myself🏋️‍♂️😜 Never mind Beau we will get you out next week. As mentioned the weather was a bit crazy, one minute overcast and then the sun would come out red hot.
Anyway on the fishing side, it was crazy as well,72 bass, one yella, one 5kg forkie thet tried to pull me out of the boat and one tandan, majority on shrimp.
Dino

Had the new caravan away down at Tallebudgera caravan Park over Xmas holidays and I was up and down with work but the family staye most of the holidays. I got out a couple of times on the palm beach reef chasing the mackerel and my son hit up the marlin a few times. 
My son Brock had his best day going 4 from 5 on good size black marlin up to 100 kg fish. We had a couple of good days on the mackerel only minutes from where we stay at the park on the palmy reef.


The new van is getting a good work out with plenty of trips since we got it in September last year. Soon setting up roof racks for my roof topper tinnie for trips with the van, bring on more time touring then.

Genetic cross perhaps, mullet/gar?
 

Yeah they probably meant mullet gut never heard of mullygar before I looked it up and it just came up with some religious stuff lmao

Welcome to AFO. Any chance you may have misheard him, and he said mullet gut? That used to be a really popular bait for bream. I haven’t heard of mullygar, but someone else may have.

Hey All, 
Been a while since I have posted about a fishing trip,  Been heaps slack,  not doing much fishing since around late September and with work being very hectic found myself with barely any time to get on the water.  
Left the ramp early around 4am Australia Day morning headed for some ground south of Cape Moreton with intentions of Chasing a Black Marlin & maybe a offshore snapper if they wanted play the game .  Good run across the Northern Bay in the dark although very shallow in a few areas causing some detours around some white water 😞. 
Anchored up around 545am ish in some wonderful conditions ,  1st few baits we had some mac tuna hammering our floating baits  which helped wake us up and get the blood pumping . 
After deploying some burley and the mac tuna thankfully going away - I was up first with a good hook up on what felt like a nice snapper,  only to pull the hooks  - I quickly retied a new hook on and put another bait out and instantly hooked up to what I called a good snapper - this thing went super hard for the structure and had me in the bottom for a few tense moments,
Bit of rod work and up came a nice size Jew.  around the 9kg mark,  which was released to fight another day.   Kept at is for about another 15mins with a few runs and a few bust ups, 
My mate hooked a good fish which ended up being a nice spangle emperor around 6kg mark and despatched quickly to the esky, I was up again this time with a nice snapper around 5kg which went in the ice slurry as well. another 10mins past and I was blown away 2 more times on 40lb O/head gear with not much else I could do , felt like a passenger holding a fishing rod. re-rigged again, wound the drag up on the Talica 16 and sent another bait back in the burley trail but not as far back to the structure as normal and stopped it , let is float there in the current for a bit and the it started screaming off, this fish was no where near the caliber of the of beast from previous hook ups but still good,  bit of a tussle and up popped a nice snapper around 5kg - it went straight to esky also,  Seems I was on I fire with hook up and the deckie not getting a single bite.  I put another bait out and locked the rod in the holder set ready to go again. 
I decided to chuck a bit of sunscreen on as the sun was coming out from behind the clouds and was heating up,  whilst doing this my rod screamed of again. I asked the deckie to grab this one and sort it out ,  this fish fought well and in no time  I slid the next under a nice snapper around 5-6kg . Straight to the esky he went.  
By this stage is was getting to around 8am and we started hearing some radio chatter about Marlin to the North of us around the Caloundra Wide area. So we rigged up out last baits set them back around similar distance and I started cleaning all the boat up and the deckie started getting the trolling rods ready , after about 10mins stuffing around ,  my rod went absolutely nuts.  locked it into gear and I was howling - got to work on pretty quick and went hard trying to turn this around. This thing played stale mate and ran hard along the bottom and literality pulling me to the back corner of the boat - Unsure if this was an even bigger Jew or snapper, once I had him coming up I started playing it safe and let my rod do the work. Deckie was on the net & ready and done a top job getting this bad boy in the boat - PB for me for Spangled Emporer going 8kg on Popey's scales last night.
From there we headed North Trolling for Marlin managing to hook one out off Caloundra around 11.30am. Jumped off pretty quick,  pretty happy to get a bite considering my 1st attempt ever at trolling for marlin.. 
Headed for home around 1pm in nice conditions.  
Few pics below 
Cheers Josh <><
 
 
 
 

Thanks Ray! Haha, we sure needed your help to tick them off our bucket list! 
Thanks for sending the pics in and I’m very glad about it! 
Cheers Hamish

How about that? Redland City Bulletin Jan 27