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My son spent some time fishing over at Amity Point without me. 
He wanted to target pelagics landbased and he certainly produced the goods. He was targeting bonito on small metals next to the boat ramp. He was  doing okay when a ripper of a Spanish mackerel grabbed the small lure. He wasn't fishing with wire and managed to hook it squarely in the mouth. He also didn't have a gaff. There was a big crowd of onlookers watching him land the fish and several boats returning back to the ramp with donuts. It could be a long time before he gets a bigger one landbased. 
 
 

I think his thumb is pointing up. It’s just behind the fish, so you can’t see it. And I’ve triangulated the wharf and pylons in the background against Hamish and the fish and he’s spot on. 60cms!

Hi all,
I was on a holiday down in Victoria for a week (went for one fish for trout but no luck) and got back last Thursday around midnight. Decided to have a rest on Friday but Saturday morning @Cavvy and I tried a spot on our kayak. We launched at about 5am and arrived at the spot by quarter past, just before the sun rose. We spent the next four hours flicking some shallow diving hardbodies around but unfortunately, we did not catch any threadfin. There was plenty of bait jumping but I guess the fish weren't hungry, so we will have to get them next time. 
Stats of Trip:
Tide: 9:30AM, .6M, Low. 
Moon Phase: 25%
Lures Used: Zerek Pyra and Megabass Oneten R
Air Pressure: 1015
Humidity: 83%
Overall Success Rate: 30% - first session on the river this holidays
The next session was today with @Thorbjorn Hale at The Port, on Thorbjorn's tinny. We launched at around 9am from a very crowded POB boat ramp, and after we got away first thing on the agenda was catching some livies. It wasn't long before we had a fair few mullets gathered so we went out to the wharves and started fishing. 
It was awesome weather, and it was quite flat for as far as I could see. On my first cast my live mullet remained untouched for a fair amount of time before line started screaming off of my reel. Thorbjorn picked up my rod while I wound in my soft vibe and the fish took a good run. I started the fight and the fish was taking some decent runs and had some good headshakes. It wasn't long before I had a nice 60cm or so snapper on the deck of the boat, which we were both happy with (and I was regretting not buying some ice for the esky). After a quick photo we released the snapper and got lines back out. 

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Following this, we each caught a decent sized stingray, but after that the bite went very quiet, so we decided to go and chase some livies at the Poo Chute and try again. We were successful with the herring (despite my substandard cast netting), but back at the spot we couldn't lose a bait, apart from Thorbjorn catching a small shovelly. We moved again, and at this spot we each pulled in a catty, which wasn't a great sign. As we were moving though, we noticed a boat was hooked up to a decent fish. We waited until we saw it, and sure enough the gold of a thready emerged, so it was good to see someone was having some success on the soft vibes. 
We chased a bit more live bait which was fun and had a quick rest before anchoring on the edge of the main channel around the Clara Rock area. Unfortunately for us, this didn't equate to any fish, and the only action was a few nibbles and plenty of waves from the Moreton Island boats. At about five, we decided to call it quits and we drove home. Overall, it was a great day with the weather staying flat for basically the entire day, thanks again for taking me out Thorbjorn!
Stats of Trip:
Tide: 8:15AM, .9M, Low, 1:35Pm, 1.6M, High, 7:15PM, .8M, Low. 
Moon Phase: 35%
Bait Used/Caught: Live mullet, herring, whiting, prawn, silver biddy, anchovy
Fish Caught: Snapper, catfish, shovelnose, stingray
Lures Used: Soft vibes 
Air Pressure: 1015-1017
Humidity: 64%-81%
Overall Success Rate: 75% - fun day out with a few bites and a new PB snap for me. 
Anyway, thanks for reading everyone, hope you enjoyed the report. 
Cheers, Hamish. 🙂 

There are plenty of land based opportunities and their can be a wonderful variety of tasty fish there along the rocks. I generally fish with a long rod (10'6" or more) as you need to get away from the small fish that hang in close. For us it produces squire, grassies, legal spangled emperor, estuary cod, mulloway, mangrove jacks, purple spotted tuskfish, black spotted tuskfish and lots of other stuff. I generally use a 2/0 or 3/0 hook of a set of 3/0 gangs and vary my sinker based on the run. 

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. 

Memories

My dear old Dad never used berley strictly speaking, but he always fished for snapper with  cubed pieces of bullocks heart rolled in bran, to get it, it helped that he worked on the kill floor and in the boning room for Darling Downs when they operated at Murrarie, he caught some snodger squire and snapper in the late sixties early seventies, mostly fishing out the front of what was then Cornetts supermarket at Bribie, in an 11 foot aluminium dinghy held together with pop rivets.

My dear old Dad never used berley strictly speaking, but he always fished for snapper with  cubed pieces of bullocks heart rolled in bran, to get it, it helped that he worked on the kill floor and in the boning room for Darling Downs when they operated at Murrarie, he caught some snodger squire and snapper in the late sixties early seventies, mostly fishing out the front of what was then Cornetts supermarket at Bribie, in an 11 foot aluminium dinghy held together with pop rivets.

lol. I think you’re too late. If we’re talking about the same bay, it was cleaned out years ago. I’m hoping to actually get outside the bay, on occasions, where I’m led to believe there are still some fish left, on occasions. Of course, the occasions I make it out there will no doubt be different to the occasions that fish are there. 

My dear old Dad never used berley strictly speaking, but he always fished for snapper with  cubed pieces of bullocks heart rolled in bran, to get it, it helped that he worked on the kill floor and in the boning room for Darling Downs when they operated at Murrarie, he caught some snodger squire and snapper in the late sixties early seventies, mostly fishing out the front of what was then Cornetts supermarket at Bribie, in an 11 foot aluminium dinghy held together with pop rivets.

My dear old Dad never used berley strictly speaking, but he always fished for snapper with  cubed pieces of bullocks heart rolled in bran, to get it, it helped that he worked on the kill floor and in the boning room for Darling Downs when they operated at Murrarie, he caught some snodger squire and snapper in the late sixties early seventies, mostly fishing out the front of what was then Cornetts supermarket at Bribie, in an 11 foot aluminium dinghy held together with pop rivets.

My dear old Dad never used berley strictly speaking, but he always fished for snapper with  cubed pieces of bullocks heart rolled in bran, to get it, it helped that he worked on the kill floor and in the boning room for Darling Downs when they operated at Murrarie, he caught some snodger squire and snapper in the late sixties early seventies, mostly fishing out the front of what was then Cornetts supermarket at Bribie, in an 11 foot aluminium dinghy held together with pop rivets.

The weekend come around with some good weather so we hit up the reef out of Turkey beach for a few days. The coral trout were good quality along with big red throat and cod.
We snorkelled around lunch on Saturday in the shallows then we anchored up Saturday night in the same spot and had a glass out on Sunday.
A few sharks got some of our big trout but most fish made the deck. I'm already keen to do another trip up there fingers crossed for good weather.
 

Once you reach your allocated retirement age and have actually retired you can use all your super if you wish. Mind you, you’d then have to depend on catching a lot of fish in order to keep eating!

Normally shallow fried in panko crumbs ,  but of late we have been cooking them in coconut cream with Thai green curry paste and putting the fillets in oven 

Nice tub Greg, looked at buying one myself but I was just on $210,000 short so settled for a 4.2mtr Renegade, also it would be somewhat of a problem getting too far up Ningi Ck, even on high tide, hope you catch plenty 

Great rig, great fish, how do you cook em up

Great rig, great fish, how do you cook em up

Great rig, great fish, how do you cook em up

Nice tub Greg, looked at buying one myself but I was just on $210,000 short so settled for a 4.2mtr Renegade, also it would be somewhat of a problem getting too far up Ningi Ck, even on high tide, hope you catch plenty 

My boys came up for Christmas. They where supposed to fly into cairns the day Jasper hit the coast but they managed to fly in on the Thursday before the airport flooded.  
 
We sat around the house for a week watching the rain and the mould grow and we head out on the first day we could get out. The almanac was telling us it was going to be good and boy we could not go wrong. We hit the known grounds for the first two days landing several Nannies and an awesome dogtooth tuna on a light 20lb outfit. 
 
For the  third day out Declan wanted to chase some Reds. Not having any ground off Cairns, we went prospecting and we found some incredible ground  

Had a very unexpected catch today, I got a big hit while dead sticking a hardbody, big head shake followed by a powerful pull, I was expecting a cod but ended up landing a damn carp.
I've never caught one on a big hard body like that before, I guess things are getting hungry.

 

Few more pics from this Saturday just gone, this one went 9.4kg 

Nice tub Greg, looked at buying one myself but I was just on $210,000 short so settled for a 4.2mtr Renegade, also it would be somewhat of a problem getting too far up Ningi Ck, even on high tide, hope you catch plenty 

Nice tub Greg, looked at buying one myself but I was just on $210,000 short so settled for a 4.2mtr Renegade, also it would be somewhat of a problem getting too far up Ningi Ck, even on high tide, hope you catch plenty