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If you have Navionic mapping this might help.  As Brian said the coffee rock runs up the beach line.  My old man used to love this spot which was just off the outlet pipe from the marine centre at the northern end of Woorim.  Havent been there for 20 years but essentially its just in that coffee rock reef area.
Once you head over towards Moreton you can head through the inner Freeman channel and in @ 10m there is a vast expanse of coffee rock reef.  Never caught anything super large there but usually plenty of bait hanging around.
North of that @ 2km is the North Moreton artificial.   Last trip got donuts but good jew hanging over the structure.   Other times good sizes grassies and cleaned up by unstopables.  Also you can get some schools of yellow tail kings.  Just a matter of seeing if any bait is holding over the structure.  Haven’t tried Wild Banks artificial yet - its not a very old artificial but from what I have heard hold pelagics.
Then north off Cape Moreton is Hutchison Shoals and others structures to the south (Smiths Rocks etc which run down the outside of Moreton Island).  Quite easily reached in your Bayliner on a half decent day the only tricky part if through Freeman Channels although you can go the long way through the marked channel and then west. One section of green zone at southern end of Hutchies which is exposed and breaking and often you see dive boats anchored.  14-35m is the general depth….usual reef species.  Have gotten some nice pearl perch there and some good schools of Kingy’s at times.
Ultimately these days I just go to general areas and then sound around until I see something, otherwise you can just drift through and see what you can get.

I'd drive the length of the Bribie East coast, about a nautical mile or two out. You will likely come across tuna, so have a couple of rods rigged with slugs to throw at them. While you're moving north watch your sounder and you will likely come across sections of coffee rock and/or sharp depth changes with obvious reef on the floor. Try them for a bit of bottom bashing. You may be lucky enough to see some other anchored boats about, that will give you the clue to investigate the bottom nearby.
Eventually you will come to the Blinker at Caloundra. Again, there will likely be other boats testing their luck. There is plenty of ground here to suss out. Some days are better than others here. I've had great days with snapper, grassies, Venus tuskfish, cod, and other reefies. Other days it has been very quiet. Never a guarantee.
The whole trip will take at least an hour each way (@ 20 knots) plus time to chase tuna on your way.
If you take the view that it is an explore day, with a bit of fishing thrown in, it should make future trips better for you.
Late thought - take a Sabiki bait jig with you, as often there are livies hanging around the reef areas. If you find some, drop the jig down, catch some, and then fish there using livies. If you don't find livies, use cuttlefish heads for bait.

Hi all, 
I haven't fished much over the last couple of months as I have been busy with school. Luckily, I'm on holidays next week and I did manage to get out for a couple of casts this weekend. 
The first session was a few weeks ago and I don't actually remember when exactly. I went down to my local park after school and attempted to catch a few livebaits. There were already people fishing there surprisingly, but I figured I had to catch a bit of bait before I bothered putting a line out. Unfortunately, I couldn't manage anything in my net after 45 minutes of casting, which although no surprise (the river was very dirty from all the rain) was still a bit disheartening. I flicked a soft plastic around for the remainder of the session to no avail so headed home before it was even dark. 
The next session was at the local park again. I got down a bit after 4 on Friday arvo, and had a few throws with my net. A lot of small prawns were around, so after catching a few I sent some out on the hook. I spent the next couple of hours catching some more prawns, a bullrout, and a couple of catties, but nothing particularly noteworthy. It was still good to go out and have a couple of bites though. 
Stats of Trip:
Tide: Low tide change
Moon Phase: 93%
Bait Caught/Used: Prawns
Fish Caught: Catties
Air Pressure: 1013
Humidity: 63%
Overall Success Rate: 20%
Then this morning, my Dad and I went for a paddle at a spot where we thought we might have a chance of catching a thready on a lure. We launched at about 5 and arrived at the spot while it was still dark. A couple big fish were smashing bait off the surface, which was a good sign, but I couldn't tempt anything with my Zerek Pyra lure. We continued onwards, and as we went into the spot we spooked another fast fish that seemed a bit too big to be a mullet. A few more casts later for nothing and the sun was up, which also meant the tide had started to trickle in. 
My Dad and I each casted around for another 2 hours or so, hearing a few boofs. We even caught some live bait and drifted around with that, but we didn't manage anything at all, which was a bit disappointing because I saw a photo of a guy who caught one here the Arvo before. Oh well, next time. 
Stats of Trip:
Tide: Low tide change
Moon Phase: 99.5%
Lures: Megabass R Oneten, Zerek Pyra, Live bony bream
Fish Caught: -
Air Pressure: 1013
Humidity: 88%
Overall Success Rate: 40%
Cheers, Hamish. 

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Hey mate,
I have posted heaps of reports from moreton in the past 10+ years and advice on what to how to where to. Have a squizz through some of my previous reports / posts on the topic and you’ll get some pretty good ideas - I’m far too lazy to type it all out again.

All year round to be honest - they aren’t that fussy. People reckon end of winter into spring for a big ones but I don’t try to target them specifically so couldn’t comment. 

anytime man, theyll eat anything as well, use bigger luers though youll get more bigger flathead but also the small ones arent shy if big lures

A very late notice and unexpected child free weekend revealed itself yesterday morning. While I was not happy about the circumstances, @Kat and I wasted little time in seeing the silver lining.  With a coastal wind warning current it would be tucking up a creek somewhere that didn't involve travelling great distances in the boat. Our regular haunt ticked the boxes. 
We organised some blood worms, packed the boat, some sandwiches etc and off we went to brave the wind.
There were plenty of spare parks at paradise point ramp as expected. We could have launched much closer but a better ramp with a pontoon and no cross current is worth a couple of minutes travelling in the boat, even in yesterday's wind. 
We found a spot that was sheltered from the wind and anchored up. It was less than about twenty seconds before my basically free spool drag screamed off. The catfish that appeared shortly after at the boat signalled the start of what would become a monotonously regular annoyance. 
My next bait was out a few minutes before it screamed off in a similar fashion and I think I actually called catfish again but was pleasantly surprised when a reasonable spotted grunter appeared at the boat. It had actually made a bit of a mess of my 10lb leader so I'm glad I opted for the net.
@Kat couldn't seem to get any interest on her side of the boat yet and started making noise about swapping sides. Very soon it didn't matter what side of the boat you were on it was catfish aplenty. This went on for a while before I landed a solid whiting that was frustratingly shy of the magic 40cm mark.
There were a lot of other undersized grunter, a few legal bream and tarwhine which were released, (and of course the mandatory pony fish).  Kat then landed a good legal whiting, but it was back to catfish and undersized spotted grunter straight after that.
Unfortunately it was looking like we were going to have to endure a lot of undesirables to get a feed of whiting.
We chose to move to try and escape the catfish etc but to no avail. It was the same everywhere, a couple of good fish and then we just couldn't get past the vermin. @Kat bettered me on the whiting tally again and contributed two very solid specimens that were almost identical to the first one I got. But neither of us managed to bust the 40cm mark yesterday.
Catfish OMG the catfish. Wow, to think that @kat wanted to rename her boat to "Katfish".

70cm of run tides this weekend....time to hit the deepest water in the rivers I think.

Same way I approach all other tides @Bretto77  Just get out when wind and weather allow and if you brain the fish it is a bonus. 

Wednesday looks doable from mid bay south. Say, from south of St Helena.
Then it's anyone's guess, with different models predicting Monday and Tuesday next week from 5 knots to 20 knots. Makes it hard to plan.
Having said that, most days look okay for Brissy River sessions.
 
 

Yes they are bad down here too. When I was fishing up that way we used to have trouble with them sometimes but it definitely seems to be harder to get fish past them anywhere these days.
While the officially adopted data may say otherwise, the endangered idea is hard to sell to the average fisho.

Bugger about the sharks. Between sharks and Crocs it might soon pay to check the throne really well before you sit down... Glad you managed to get some tucker past it all 👍.

We got out on Monday, which is probably the last chance for Declan this trip north. The weather for the next week is not looking good unless you want to wind surf.  
 
We head out wide off Cairns.  It was lumpy at first and only got better from there. We have been testing the fishing against the almanac. The day was set to be a poor day with one bite period which was average.  We fished the morning bite and we did manage some activity but like the last Wednesday the sharks where insane. 
 
I have never seen sharks this bad.. normally you get taxed after a fight. This trip they where onto our fish a few metres into the fight.  We had several sharks that managed to hook themselves and 45min fights ensued trying to get our braid back, fighting them and driving them off.  I had 2 such fights and Declan had 3.  Has to be said we where spent after. Personally I can not imagine why anyone would choose to target sharks. 
We worked and moved around trying to get away from the sharks and not waste to many fish to them. We managed 1 Red and 9 Robinson’s Sea Bream, 2 trout and  a milf and a spangled.  
 
On a positive note, I really rate the Robos as an eating fish. Right up there with Reds.   Such  lean flesh.  I got my PB with the largest going 67cm.  
 

Very nice boat.  Looks like you definitely have got it's mojo on track too! Congratulations. One day.... One day I'll be able to get a bigger boat 🤔😕

Got my new boat last year after 20 years owning my last tinnie. So I talked the wife into an upgrade and bought a 651 Mclay hardtop.
I got straight into getting some good mojo for the boat with a few trips offshore brisvegas and a trip out on the bunker group up north.
I very happy with it so far and here is a few pictures now we can load them up again on AFO.

Took my brother for a mackerel trip today.
With a week break on the Spanish Mackerel closure opening up today they were the target species.
With  4 super fresh baits  acquired we  went straight to one of my favourite spots ,drove over it , and there was an extremely large school of Mac’s at home , they were stacked 24 metres deep.
I put two  tuna into the water, they were dead but still bleeding , we both knew it was going to be a sure thing that they’d go off super quick . I’d just finished putting the second bait out and the first one went off. Couple of minutes later he was in the esky . My brother turned the boat around and ran back over the fish , I deployed the second bait , it was bang again,  stupidly I grabbed the rod again ,my brother was pissing him self laughing as he knew I was already stuffed from the first fish . After a few swear words , he gaffed the second fish , then we went and got a couple of Grassies before heading home . 





 

Great finds!

Can never have enough fishing (or fishing related) gear 🙂 

I got a couple of great buys at the markets on Sunday. 
First up I bought a Wilson Live Fibre Texalium Gold RLFTX 16 10 to 15 kg coupled with a Fin Nor Lethal LTC 20 H  over head ,loaded with 50 lb mono   For $30.
Second up - A Primus Vacuum Sealer with a full roll of plastic bags , this model stows the roll inside the machine and cuts the bag to length  $ 8.
Third up  A- I couldn’t walk pass an old collectors item which was probably a fishing comp prize at some stage a -Castlemaine Super Barra Rod with XXXX Our Beer decals on it . $5. 
 
Bargains ! 
 

That’s another hard day at the office! 
It can only get better .
regards
Neil

Went to NPD this morning/ At least we did better than our disastrous donut trip to the Hinze eastern arm on thursday. Took us 6 hours before the only 29cm  bass was boated. 27 forkies kept us entertained prior. Forkies up to 55cm. Quite surprised how clear the water is and very little debris. I fully expected that our shrimp pots would have been swept away but they were all there.

Hey @Neil Stratford, We went to the Rous this morning and the bay was brown. Lost the only decent fish and got menaced by green sea toads. We had a shocker.
Looks like you did alright. Grassies are the favoured table fair from the bay at our place. 20lb and scull dragging them in may be the only option until the sharks go a little quieter in Autumn/Winter.
 
Did you happen to get a photo on a measure of any of your fish ? I've extended the North Vs South comp to be monthly. No secret signal for February.
 
 
Submission thread -
 

Did a quick bay trip this morning , more shark issues , dropped three burners as they ran me through the reef , going to have up grade from 12lb to 20lb  braid to spin the odds more in my favour.

Hi all,
I've been out for two pretty terrible sessions the last two weeks. The first session was at Newfarm on a Friday night. When we arrived the water was very dirty, but my Dad had a go with the cast net to see if there were any prawns around yet (as previous years we have caught good numbers of them around this time). Unfortunately, there were no prawns to be seen, although someone did hook something alright that broke them off. I had a flick with a soft vibe for no bites.
Stats:
Tide: 9:00PM, .8M, Low. 
Moon Phase: 60%
Air Pressure: 998
Humidity: 59%
Overall Success Rate: 10%
The second session was this morning at Mt Crosby. I had a bit of a dilemma about where to go yesterday but Mt Crosby was definitely the wrong choice.
My Dad and I arrived a bit later than usual, but we still had our first casts a bit before 6. The water was chocolate, and despite the .1M low tide it was still higher than usual due to a lot of water overflowing from the weir. This was pretty disappointing, as it meant the fishing was going to be tricky, but we continued to move around between spots. At about 7 though, with no bites and the sun coming up, we decided to call it quits. I probably won't go back to Mt Crosby until it stops raining for a while. I don't know where I will go fishing next weekend, probably somewhere in the river with livies or lures again.
Stats:
Tide: 7:40AM, .1M, Low. 
Moon Phase: New Moon
Air Pressure: 1010
Humidity: 94%
Overall Success Rate: 5%
Anyway, thanks for reading,
Cheers, Hamish.