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Stanley Yelnuts (Mulletmusketeer)
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 2:51 am: | |
I decided to fish the Pumicestone Passage at Bribie Island so headed up the coast from Brisbane and arrived about 5.00 am. I headed up to Whites Creek on the Island parked up and waded out to the junction of the creek and the passage which was a fairly long walk. I fished around and was bloody cold but after about twenty minutes I hooked up with a 25 cm Dusky Flathead on a 3” GULP Pumpkinseed Minnow Grub. I put him back and continued to wade up and down the edge of the channel casting up into the run out tide and just letting the plastic float down with the occasional jig or jerk. At about 6.00 am I got a better Dusky Flathead – 43 cm and realised I had not brought the keeper bag and so wrapped him in a rag and made the long walk back to the car and the esky.
I was glad of the opportunity to warm up although the sun was up now.
I decided to change spots and drove down to Buckleys Hole where there is a great drop off about 30 metres out and you can fish it from shore at low tide. I wandered out and there were already a couple of blokes there. One was using plastics and one was using live mullet. I cast out over the drop off and instantly hooked up and then dropped a decent Yellowfin Bream using the 2” GULP Shrimp. I then had a great hour or so catching five Bream - all keepers - ranging from 24cm to 31 cm all on either the 3” GULP Shrimp or the 3” GULP Pumpkinseed Minnow Grub. The guy next to me with the live mullet hooked a decent Snapper just off the edge of the drop off ( perhaps 3 or 4 kg) but having battled it for about ten minutes and even got it out of a snag - lost it as he was towing it up the beach. Never seen a Snapper caught of the bank like that so I am really excited now and thinking of going a bit heavier on my gear! |
gerry tidmarsh (Gt4858)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 09, 2006 - 12:33 am: | |
Trying to find best beaches or rivers to catch live poddy mullet for bait |
jj
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2001 - 7:51 am: | |
Subject: fish
There are lots of fish
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2001 - 1:38 am: | |
Subject: South East Queensland Australia - April 2
Big pilot bream have appeared in good numbers throughout Moreton Bay, the Brisbane River and Jumpinpin this week: they are hanging around rock outcrops, pylons and submerged structure feeding at daylight and dusk and the turn of the tide.
Some of the better locations in Moreton Bay are around Mud Island and the break between Goat and Bird Islands and in the southern Bay they are hanging around the Iron Stem, Lamb Rocks and Giant’s Grave.
Live yabbies and mullet or chook gut baits have been the most productive however some anglers are reporting great success using balled up bread and chicken breast meat.
Schools of mac and longtail tuna have been active along the western side of Moreton Island however they spook easily, disappearing at the sound of a close boat.
The best technique has been to stay wide of the schools and put in long casts with a small chrome slug.
A lot of tailor have entered Moreton Bay over the past week: land based anglers are picking them up off Cleveland and Wellington Points and boaties are scoring throughout Jumpinpin, around Goat and Bird Island and rocky points around Coochiemudlo Island.
The most productive technique has been to cast unweighted pilchards and slowly retrieve, especially if you target the period around dusk and dawn.
The Logan River has not recovered from last month’s rain with very few fish being caught: best chance is to try for bream at Marks Rocks around the turn of the tide or whiting from the edge of the islands around Aggeston Sands.
Over the past few weeks the ratio of keepers to vermin has been decidedly in favor of the vermin.
Don’t forget that if you are fishing across the state border either on land or offshore, you now require a NSW fishing license. Once offshore, the state border is a line 40 degrees north of the Tweed Bar ending up almost due east of Jumpinpin, a long way north of the Tweed River so check your charts.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Steve Badman, Master Jig Builder
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 1:25 am: | |
Subject: Demon Tackle Newsletter (March 2001)
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2001 - 1:31 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Rptt - March 26th
Tailor are still the hot topic amongst estuary and Bay anglers this week: catches of choppers have been an every day occurrence around Crusoe Island and the Pin Bar and tailor to three kilo have been caught off the northern tip of South Stradbroke and the southern tip of North Stradbroke at night on bonito fillets.
Tailor have also been caught around Mud Island and off the north eastern and south eastern ends of Coochiemudlo Island.
There have been quite a few bream around Jumpinpin, the mouth of the Logan and the southern Bay islands, however not many reach the minimum legal size.
The better quality has come from rock outcrops around Macleay, Lamb and Russell Islands at night using mullet gut or chook gut for bait.
It's been a similar story with the Bay Squire: lots of small fish around the yellow marker at Goat Island and along the shallow coral fringes of Peel.
The better quality are being caught the hour after sunset or just before daybreak.
There are still some nice bream being caught by land based anglers fishing the Bayside foreshores and off Cleveland and Wellington Points and around the Manly Boat Harbour: dusk and dawn as well as tides changes have been the most productive times.
There has been some nice sand crabs caught from the southern Bay and on the Pelican and Banana Banks: many anglers have been setting dillies then drifting around them catching a feed of diver whiting which are still in good numbers.
Very few banana prawns were caught over the weekend despite quite a big effort: I came home with less than quarter of a bucket from the mouth of the Logan after several hours effort and all those I spoke to reported similar results.
There has been some pelagic activity in Moreton Bay: schools of longtail tuna have boiled sparingly across the Bay.
It's a case of looking for bird activity along the western side of Moreton Island and around the shipping lanes and getting a boat close enough to get a chrome slug into the school.
Offshore charter operators are reporting good catches from Deep Tempest: snappery squire, pearl perch, amberjack and a few pelagics are being caught in the early morning and late evening.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 1:41 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Rpt - March 19th
Anglers anchoring in the gutter off the northern tip of South Stradbroke and walking over to the surf beaches have reported cricket score catches of tailor from either side of the Pin Bar over the past few days. Similar reports are coming from the southern tip of North Stradbroke Island.
Before the rain they were in big numbers inside the bar off Crusoe Island and it should only be a matter of days before they come back over the bar chasing the baitfish. The tailor are averaging between one and two kilo however there have been a few greenbacks mixed in amongst the schools.
The estuaries are still effected by recent flooding however the fish are slowly returning.
Bream numbers have increased since the rain; most fish throughout the Pin are small, however there are very good quality fish being caught in the Brisbane River and Bayside foreshores.
If you’re looking for a place to take the kids for a fish, Wellington and Cleveland Points, the Manly Boat Harbor walls and most of the Bayside foreshores would be a good choice because of the number of
quality bream being landed: if you’re staying till dusk then remember to take some insect repellent as the mosquitoes are in plague proportions.
The Sunken Wall at Pinkenba is also producing good quality bream at night on live yabbies and if you have a bigger boat and are chasing better quality bream, the shallows of Mud Island has turned up bream to over one kilo on mullet gut at night.
Crab catches have been excellent over the last few weeks with reports of sandies in good numbers throughout the southern Bay and plenty of mud crabs in out-of-the-way backwaters throughout Jumpinpin.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 11:18 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia - March 12th
For the second time in as many months the Logan and surrounding rivers are flowing mud from floodwater run off. This generally flushes the majority of bread and butter species out of the rivers and close to the bar entrances where water has a higher salt content. The fish that are left behind in the dirty fresh water include catfish and eels and not much else.
For this reason, Kalinga Bank and the Southport Seaway have produced the better fish over the weekend.
Fred Preston landed a few flathead to two kilo by drifting the middle banks between Kalinga and Crusoe Island on Saturday and Tim Smith caught a good feed of whiting on the edge of sand banks in the same area.
There were plenty of tailor between the Pin bar and Crusoe Island before the rains, when the water clears they should return in good numbers.
Most anglers also reported plenty of undersize bream since the rain. Offshore has been the star performer this week: for those anglers that managed to dodge the wind the shallow grounds off Cape Moreton turned up
good numbers of squire, small pearl perch, sweetlip, cod and line burning amberjack. There have also been a few schools of mac tuna, good numbers of cobia and the odd wahoo and yellowfin especially around the Flat Rock group off Point Lookout, Flinders and further south at Palm and Mermaid Beach and Reefs, Fido’s and the Tweed Nine Mile.
The better quality reef species and the pelagics are being caught on live yellowtail or slimey mackerel however there are still plenty of pan size table fish being caught on half pillies, mullet flesh or squid
baits.
Trolling high-speed lures around Hutchinson, Flinders and the Trench should give your arms a stretch with reports of small black marlin, kingfish, cobia and the odd sailfish.
There have been good numbers of squire caught throughout Moreton Bay especially the eastern side of Coochiemudlo Island, Potts Point and the shallows off Peel Island in the early morning however the better quality are being caught off Mud and the eastern side of Green Island through the night.
There have been good reports of mud crabs from the Pin: the channel between Eden and Kangaroo Islands and between Tabby and Mosquito Islands has been some of the better spots.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 9:44 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Report - March 5th
School jew have been the talk of the fishing world this week with good catches coming from the mouth of the Logan River on the turn of the tide.
Best bait has been 10cm long mullet or banana prawn drifted over broken ground between Pitt Rocks and Marks Rocks.
There have also been a few better quality jew caught from the southern edge of Goat Island on larger live mullet during the turn of the tide at night.
Still quite a few bream being caught in the Brisbane River at the Sunken Wall and around the Power Station: lightly weighted live yabbies or gut baits fished at night has been the best.
There have also been plenty of reports of mud crabs from the mouth of the Brisbane River: the early morning run out tide has been the best but watch out for the beam trawlers if you’re there mid week.
There have been reports of squire throughout the Bay: the fish being caught at night around Mud Island have been a reasonable size but there have been plenty of small fish from the shallows of Peel and from Wellington and Cleveland Points.
By using live baits or larger slabs of mullet or whole squid and targeting the small tides at night, you should improve the quality of your catch.
Still plenty of diver whiting from most sand banks throughout Moreton Bay: some of the more productive areas are the Naval Reserve bank, Amity Bank and around the Compass Adjustment buoy out from the mouth of the Brisbane River.
Crab catches are not brilliant but there are more being caught than this time last month: Sandies are coming from close to, and between the Bay islands and muddies are still hiding in the creeks and drains around the southern Bay.
Offshore there have been good reports from Cape Moreton: amberjack, small pearl perch and cod are being caught on the bottom and there have been a few kingfish and cobia taking high speed lures and live baits up off the bottom.
There have also been reports of pelagic activity at Flinders with a few wahoo, cobia and dolphin fish caught on lures and there were a few black marlin tagged from the Trench during a tournament over the last week.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2001 - 10:10 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Report - Feb 26
Finally, the jew have arrived: Keen mulloway anglers like myself have been eagerly waiting and expecting a run of mulloway as a result of the recent flood conditions and although it’s taken a while, the jew finally showed up in the Logan River this week.
Average size is half a meter but there have been that many in the Logan over the past week that even the prawn trawlers have been picking them up while working the straight between Aggeston Sands and Pitt Rocks.
Best spots have been Marks Rocks, Pitt Rocks and The Elbow and best bait has been small 10cm long mullet and banana prawns, dead or alive.
Dusk and dawn has definitely been the most productive with most jew being caught within an hour either side of the turn of the tide.
Once the sun goes down there have been very few fish caught. The chopper tailor have returned to the Pin: they went missing after the dirty water flowed out of local rivers but turned up between Crusoe and Swan Bay in consistent numbers this week.
They are being caught on a lightly weighted pillie cast up against the current and let wash around to the back of the boat.
Most anglers fishing for squire and sweetlip around Peel Island have reported lots of small fish this week with the better quality coming at dusk and through the night. Everyone is waiting for news on the much awaited banana prawn run: I cast netted about two kilos in three hours during the week so hopefully it is an early sign that they are about to appear in numbers.
I found the prawns along the edges on the mud banks just out of the Logan not schooled up in the deeper water as expected.
On the freshwater scene, most impoundments are still fishing slow as a result of the resent rise in water levels. In many of the freshwater dams the flooded grass of last week is now dead and floating which is causing havoc for lure anglers: Bait is definitely the way to go at the moment.
Pick of the dams would be Hinze for bass on surface fly’s and lures and yellowbelly on live shrimp.
ENDS
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saltydog
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 11:38 am: | |
Subject: ahoy mates
just a message from corsegold california fellow saltwater fisherman. king salmon, halibuts or the fish of choice, and or in season now, the weather for us small boaters has been lumpy lately so i have been fishing the bays. monterey and san francisco. gearing up for albacore season. would like to take a trip to your area possibly next year. also would like to contact some ole cronies i met in viet nam era 65-66. that were atached to the 173rd airborne. keep your lines tight and may your singles be doubles and your double be triples. |
Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 10:33 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia - October 8, 2001
South east Queensland Australia - October 8 Fishing Report
There has been a good mix of species caught from the Bayside foreshores over the past week including bream, whiting, flathead, squire and tailor.
Some of the better locations for tailor and bream have been the harbour and rock walls at Manly and Cleveland and for the whiting and flathead, the course sand along the Wynnum foreshores as well as Thomson Beach at Victoria Point. The shallow foreshores in the three to five meter range have also produced a good feed for the small boat brigade.
Some of the more productive areas are the rubble bottom off Cleveland Point, the shallow ledges off Wynnum as well as the shallows of Peel, Mud and Green Island.
There were quite a few just legal squire caught off the eastern and north-eastern side of Coochiemudlo Island on the rock bottom in less than five meters of water.
The usual weekend wind made it difficult to explore much further a field however earlier in the week before the wind got up there were some good catches of squire and amberjack offshore at Deep Tempest in 80 – 100mtrs range.
There are still a few schools of chopper tailor on the shallower grounds offshore, at times, making it almost impossible to get a bait past them to the bottom.
There are a few school jew being caught around the southern Bay islands, the mouth of the Logan and Kalinga Bank at the Pin.
Big prawns and live or fresh fillets of mullet have been the best baits and the better quality fish have come from the deeper holes during the turn of the tide.
There are also some good whiting being caught in the Logan River on the edge of sand banks at Aggeston Sands, just upriver from the Carbrook ramp at the Elbow and on the bank at the junction of the Albert and Logan Rivers.
For the sports fisherman, there have been some good size tarpon caught in and around the Seaway north wall on fly over the past few weeks.
Dusk through to early evening has been the peak period, there are also a few chopper tailor, dart, and trevally caught by those chasing them.
The popular Kirkleagh Klassic is on this weekend at Somerset Dam, there is a great range of prizes and entertainment for competitors in this family oriented lucky draw competition.
Further enquiries contact Bunny on 07 3281 2794.
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Dave Downie ><>
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South East Queensland Fishing Report - September 10
The weekend wind arrived like clockwork to curtail most offshore activities but those that persisted in the Bay caught whiting, squire, flathead and tailor.
Diver whiting are in good numbers on most banks but they move around so you might need to drift a few different areas before you find good numbers.
The Amity and Naval Reserve banks have been the most consistent producers.
Flathead are concentrated around the Bay islands down to the mouth of the Logan.
The weed that has been a problem for the past few months has dropped off a fair bit, so trolling is now a good option.
The better quality lizards are taking live herring and whiting but a pillie will sometimes entice them.
This has been a good tailor season by all reports with excellent quality coming off the surf beaches and good numbers of choppers in the Bay.
Moreton Island has had the lion’s share of numbers over the past few weeks but there are still plenty to be caught on North Stradbroke towards the southern end.
The Pin bar was alive with tailor and trevally on Saturday morning but the quality was small.
There is still a few school jew being caught in the Logan especially up river past the Albert and Logan River junction.
Todd Everleigh caught two during the mid afternoon tide change on Saturday using live prawns and said the bigger the prawn, the more likely the jew were to take it.
There has been a few whisperings about crabs but I think they would be soft this soon after winter.
Most of the rumours are revolving around sandies in the southern Bay and muddies in the Pine River system.
On the freshwater agenda is the annual Kirkleagh Klassic held over the October 13 weekend at Kirkleagh, Somerset Dam.
This family fishing competition features cash and prizes for both heaviest fish categories and lucky draw prizes.
The major prize is a Clark aluminium boat package making up part of the 30,000 total prize pool.
Also on the fishing agenda only a few weeks away is the Brisbane Boat Show and Fishing Expo.
Bayside local Bill Corten has put together a great Fishing Expo including seminars and workshops by Queenslands best anglers.
Grab a copy of Bush ‘N Beach at your local newsagent to see the timetable of Fishing Expo activities.
ENDS
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Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - August 27
Spring often marks a run of snapper offshore and squire in Moreton Bay and reports over the past week indicate that this year should follow the pattern.
Deep Tempest has been the pick of the offshore snapper catches with live bait on a floater rid up off the bottom producing the results.
In the Bay there have been good catches of squire by anglers anchoring on the western side of the Douglas light just off the red beacon on the coral fringe.
Best baits have been mullet, squid or hardyheads and the technique is to get your bait to the bottom then slowly feed out line bouncing it along the bottom away from the boat.
There have also been squire caught on rubble bottom patches just off the Cleveland and Wellington Point leads.
The first hour after dark seems to be a productive time in this area.
In the Logan River there has been a run of small school jew, they are chasing prawns on the deeper edge of sand banks and the drop onto deeper holes but a small poddy mullet should also entice them.
Small mullet have been plentiful by working any area on the lee side of fallen trees with a cast net.
Spots that have produced schoolies over the last week are the drop into deep water on the downstream side of the Elbow just up-river from Carbrook and the up-stream side of the sand bank at the Albert and Logan River junction as well as the usual Marks Rock but only on the turn of the tide.
Big flathead are still cruising close to bar entrances and river mouths, a live whiting, mullet or herring is the top bait but a pillie will also entice them.
Pick of the spots is the undulating sand off Reeders Point and the edges of the Rous Channel as well as Kalinga Bank, either side of Short Island and the Southport Seaway.
Judging by the catches, the summer whiting season is already in full swing with big catches down the western side of Moreton Island, at Aggeston Sands in the Logan River and the Nerang River especially between Budds Beach and the Council Chambers.
Only three weeks till the Brisbane Boat Show and Fishing Expo on September 19 – 24, this year’s line up looks like it will be bigger and better than ever.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2001 - 12:46 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - July 23
There have been some good squire caught throughout the Bay over the past week, the hour before sunrise or after sunset is definitely the most productive, daylight hours tends to produce undersize fish.
A variety of baits are working including mullet or tailor flesh, squid and even prawns.
Some of the more productive areas are between the end of the Wellington Point leads and the Huybers light, the slopping rubble bottom off the northeastern side of Green Island and Patts Point off the northern tip of Macleay Island.
The tailor have still been making random appearances in the Bay, they prefer headlands or rocky points but it is well worthwhile casting an un-weighted pilchard out while bottom fishing.
To target them specifically try Cleveland Point, Manly wall, Wellington Point at dusk or dawn and cast unweighted pillies out as far as you can and keep it moving by slowly retrieving.
On the offshore scene, there have been some good catches of squire on the 29s, this area fired last month and looks like continuing to produce good fish for a while longer yet.
Paternoster rigs with a piece of fish flesh seems to be the most productive technique but the good old half pillie will still find a feed.
The first hour of light has been best; the catch has also included some good pearl perch, parrot and a few spangled emperor.
There has been quite a few pan size flathead caught on lures around the southern end of Russell Island and in the northern Broadwater.
Pink and black deep diving lures are working best especially if trolled between the channel markers on the edge of the drop into deeper water.
The run out tide has been the most productive in these areas however on the last of the run in tide try drifting and casting lures into the mangrove bank edges.
Further from home the Pumping Jetty is hot to trot for choppers but the crowds are shoulder to shoulder and quite a few tempers have been frazzled as a result.
The beach a few hundred meters to the south is a better proposition.
The Tweed River is having a good luderick season, closer to home there are a few being caught under the Fisherman Island Bridge, off the Point of Short Island and the mud ledge in Tiger Mullet Channel.
ENDS
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 6:25 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - July 15
Bream are still the dominant species for anglers this week, the best spot at the Pin was along the eastern front of Crusoe Island between the yellow special marker on the northern tip right around to the start of Tiger Mullet Channel.
There a few good catches down the Broadwater but the small size of them means your throwing back four out of five.
A second entrance to Swan Bay broke through a few weeks ago, it’s entrance was producing good numbers of pan size flathead on the run out tide.
Slow tides made fishing the usually fast current areas a good option this week.
School jew were caught along the mangrove root foreshores of Kalinga Bank just west of Swan Bay and off the eastern point of Short Island.
Live tiger mullet were definitely the favourite bait but a fresh fillet of mullet or tailor should also entice them.
In the Bay there have been good reports of legal squire in the shallows around Green Island, most other locations have produced undersize fish.
There have been good catches of tailor around Coochiemudlo Island, Mud Island and down the western side of North Stradbroke from Deanbilla Bay down to Prices Anchorage.
A floating pillie has been a great, set and forget bait for the tailor while targeting other species.
For the float fisho, there have been good numbers of luderick in Boat Passage under the Fisherman’s Island Bridge.
There is a small amount of cabbage weed around the wreck out on the banks in front of the old Wynnum tip but best bet is to buy some before you get there as it does get a hammering.
A last minute change in plans has put the Straddie Classic back at the Straddie Hotel.
Business as usual for the 2000 or so angler that enjoy a week of fishing, entertainment and prizes in what has to be a highlight on the agenda of anglers.
Several anglers were booked for fishing inside the restricted zone at the sunken reef off the north-western side of Peel Island during the week.
Check regulation because you can’t judge the boundary by your depth and the tide height, one angler was booking while anchored in almost 20ft of water.
ENDS
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 1:00 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia July 08 Fishing Report
The mountainous seas on the Gold Coast have turned up a few surprises for anglers fishing the Seaway.
Several nice size squire, a few mulloway and even a scarlet sea perch was caught near the tower by land based anglers.
The end of the south wall should produce some big jew as soon as it’s fishable and there should be some big catches of tailor at Narrowneck.
In the estuaries, bream continue to be the stable catch for most anglers from Bribie to the Broadwater.
Little Rocky Point just south of the Logan River has never been a particularly productive bream spot until this season when it has really fired.
The current is a little strong on the bigger tides but the turn and the slower tides have produced big catches on yabbies and gut bait.
Tailor are making their mark in the Bay and Jumpinpin.
Small schools have been found working in Canapia Passage, Potts Point, the eastern side of the Iron Stem and along the Bayside foreshores around headlands and outcrops.
Smaller choppers have been in the Pin Bar, Tiger Mullet Channel and the main Jacobs Well channel.
In the surf it has been a little hit and miss.
A good low water gutter after dark should turn up a feed but reports of bigger greenbacks have been far and few.
Offshore has been hammered by big seas but before conditions deteriorated, big Ernie Richards picked up a nine kilo blue parrot on shallow grounds and there was a snapper over nine kilos caught at Boat Rock.
As is usual after a big swell, the shallow reefs around Point Lookout and the Cape should produce some quality fish when conditions settle.
Peel, Goat and Green have been alive with squire, it’s just that they’re a little short at one end – undersize.
Putting in a little more effort by fishing after dark or the hours before daylight have paid off with a feed of just legal keepers.
Diver whiting are still the star performer, it really is a great year for them.
A worm or squid strip on just about any sand bank is turning up a good feed.
North of Peel has been the most productive, the Amity Banks and the foreshores of Nudgee have turned up big numbers.
South of Peel the Banana Banks and the top end of the Pelican Banks have produced a feed.
ENDS
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 01, 2001 - 10:12 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia July 02 Fishing Report
There were plenty of fish caught on the weekend, or should I say plenty of undersize fish caught - however a few were lucky enough to find some keepers.
Barry Lawson was busted up twice then changed up to heavy gear finally landing a 22 kg line-burning cobia on the shallow bait grounds off the Pin bar on the weekend.
Several other anglers jigging for live bait also reported bigger fish stealing their livies on the way up.
Randall Lewis and Kyle Strachan caught two nice flathead on Sunday morning from the Nerang, the heaviest weighed 2.7kg cleaned.
Mulloway have been a little hard to find: several anglers fished the Seaway Pipeline all weekend in the Beaudesert Rosebowl competition with only one jew around 10 kilo caught.
I was lucky enough to catch the biggest jew for the competition at 10.8kg, which came from right in the Pin Bar on a live mullet during the bottom of the tide on Saturday.
There has been good numbers of bream, squire and sweetlip from the shallows of Peel but there have been a lot of undersize fish mixed in with the keepers there as well.
It’s definitely worthwhile throwing out a floating pillie if you’re fishing that area as there has been some very good size tailor around after dark.
Better quality squire have been caught at the rock wall in the Rouse Channel and on the Harry Atkinson Artificial Reef and there have been good snapper caught at Bulwer and Cowan particularly when there’s a big blow offshore.
Luderick season is in full swing, the usual Gold Coast hot spots of Barney’s Point, Boyd’s Bay Bridge and the Hospital Wall all producing good numbers.
At Jumpinpin they have also been a little hit and miss, the mud ledges and eddy around the entrance to Swan Bay has turned up a few as has the eddy on the northern side of the point of Short Island.
The VB Straddie Classic is less than six weeks away, this year the “new era” Straddie will be held under a massive 60-meter marquee on the oval at Point Lookout however there will few other changes.
The prize pool will be enormous and include a Mazda four-wheel-drive, Cruise Craft Explorer boat package and a Mazda 121 just for entering, plus an almost endless list of giveaways and fish prizes.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 29, 2001 - 6:03 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Report - June 25
Bream, bream and more bream: unfortunately most are a little short at one end.
Those who are putting in a little more effort to have better bait, fish at night, or dusk and dawn are fairing better.
There were big numbers caught during the SQAFCA competition on the weekend and as predicted, most of them came from the shallows using gut bait.
Spots to try are any rock formation or headland around the southern Bay islands, deep water with adjacent creek mouths or sunken trees or other snaggy structure.
There are quite a few chopper tailor around but they’re small regardless of the bait, fishing location or method.
Big greenbacks have been scarce except for south of the border where there’s been consistent reports of fish over four kilo at Brunswick heads, Ballina and Evans Head.
If you’re looking for a place to take the kids for a fish over the holidays, here are your best options.
If you have small boat then Bramble Bay, along the foreshores of Nudgee Beach is a great spot to catch diver whiting at the moment.
Launch in Kedron Brook and run the 100 odd meters out to Bramble Bay then drift the banks.
For the non boaties, the Pumping Jetty at Southport should produce lots of small whiting along its first quarter then chopper tailor and bream from dusk till after dark towards the end of the jetty.
If you have a bigger boat then it all depends on the weather, offshore last weekend was joggly but a few persevered.
There were a few bust-offs on the bait ground, which were thought to be cobia, as well as mixed bags of pearl perch and squire on most of the shallow reefs.
There are big schools of tailor on the 18’s drifting mid water: great for bait, or if the reef fish catch is poor you can always take them home for the barbeque.
The VB Straddie Classic is getting close, time to start preparing your tactics.
The Straddie Classic will be held from August 12 – 18 and prizes include a Mazda 4x4, a Cruise Craft Explorer boat package and a Mazda 121 – lucky draw prizes just for entering.
For the latest, up-to-the-minute boating weather and fishing news, tune in to my report on the Fishing Show every Saturday morning at 5AM on radio 4BC.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2001 - 1:45 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - June 11
The bream season has arrived: a good feed can be had from the southern Bay, Jumpinpin and Broadwater by fishing at night with either gut bait, mullet flesh or live yabbies.
Big bream have also been a feature of the Moreton Bay and Offshore Challenge held over the long weekend: you needed a fish around 1.8 kilo to get on the leader board and two kilos plus, to be any chance of winning.
A testimony to what we hope is going to be a ripper of a season.
Another feature of the competition has been the quality of the Bay snapper and offshore reef species: a lot of the winners were local legends, names that regularly make their way onto the leader board, however the average size of fish caught by competitors was excellent.
Quality tailor have been a little scarce over the past few weeks: plenty of choppers around the 1.5 kilo mark, which are great on the barbeque, but not many two kilo plus greenbacks.
The choppers are moving in small schools around the Bay and Jumpinpin but they tend to hang off headlands, rock outcrops and where two strong tidal currents meet for longer, which is why these are good spots to target them.
Surprisingly, there are still plenty of flathead being caught: although still too early for the run of big breeding females, there were several fish over 70cm caught and released last week near the Pin bar and there have been quite a few pan size fish coming from the powerlines north of Cabbage Tree, around the southern end of Russell Island and throughout the Broadwater over the past week.
The water has been clear which has been great for targeting them on lures.
Finally we have some quality jew being caught in the estuaries, up until now they have been little more than schoolies.
The better quality are coming from a deep gutter almost in the Pin bar and from another hole in the surf a few hundred meters north as well as several jew holding ledges in Moreton Bay.
Bets bait at the Pin is whole mullet however fresh squid has accounted for fish in the Bay.
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Steve Badman
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Subject: Special Demon Update (May 2001)
G'day around the globe.
Just a brief note to let you know that I am now the new Moderator at the Big Fish tackle Board for Lures & Baits.
Feel free to drop in, have a chat, and/or post Q's about baits, jigs, lures, hooks and a like. Also feel feel free to tell your friends and suggest they drop in to introduce themselves as friend of yours..
Use the link below ok.
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=Lures
Pro Guides and Boat Captain's (from around the globe) are also welcome to post brief reports as well so don't be shy in telling us about what tackle is working, where and why.
I look forward to seeing and speaking with you their. So "pass the word far and wide".
Regards
Steve Badman
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Dave Downie ><>
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Subject: SE Queensland Australia May 21 Fishing Report
Hose the cobwebs off the big boat and service the outboard because the winter offshore action has started: quality snapper and mixed reef species are being caught in good numbers offshore and in Moreton Bay.
Plenty of anglers reported snapper on the 29's, and 36's off Point Lookout and excellent quality pearl perch, parrot and squire taken off the bottom using half pillies and yellowtail baits.
Dave Palermo landed a snapper over 11kg from shallow ground offshore and Mick Laps landed a 9.2 kg fish from in the Bay.
Quite a few pan size squire and sweetlip have also been caught from the shallow fringes of Peel: trick is to cast unweighted hardyheads into the shallows and hang on.
There have been some monster bream caught from the Bay Island shallows: the rubble around Goat and Bird Island and the shallows of Mud Island are two spots that have produced big bream over the past week.
There were also some good bream caught from the Iron Stem, the Saltworks and Giants Grave further south.
Most of the sandbanks throughout the Bay are holding good numbers of diver whiting: the Naval Reserve and Amity banks north of Peel have produced the most fish over the past week.
School jew are being caught right throughout the Logan: the deeper water just before the Albert and Logan River junction has been one of the better spots this week.
They are also being caught in the deeper water between Marks Rocks and Pitt Rocks and at the isolated rock patch at the southern end of the Redland Bay Channel.
Still a few tailor schools coming through the bar, most are well over the chopper size closer to two kilo than one.
They are not as ravenous as previous weeks, a little hard to produce a strike.
Best technique is to cast a small slug at them as they are feeding on small whitebait.
The 10th annual Moreton Bay and Offshore Family Fishing Challenge is only a few weeks away on the Queen's Birthday Weekend of June 8 - 11.
Once again the event will be held at Sel Outridge Park at Redland Bay with over $100,000 in prizes to be won including biggest of species and lucky draws.
Tickets are available through most tackle shops or by ringing 38212444.
ENDS
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2001 - 12:48 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia Fishing Report - May 14
You may have noticed no reports for two weeks - I have been on holidays fishing the Brisbane Classic.
Back from the Classic and glad to say I took out the major species category I was targeting.
Apologize for the missing and late reports over the last week - back on track now.
Dave ><>
It’s worth giving the dillies one more soaking before you pack them away for winter because the sand crabs have been thick throughout the northern Broadwater and Jumpinpin over the past few weeks.
But you’ll have to chase them soon; they will go into hiding for the winter within a matter of weeks.
Fred Wood, on a houseboat holiday around Curriggee, has had no trouble catching a dozen every time he checks his dillies and Peter Hasting from Jacobs Well boat hire says just about every angler with dillies has caught a good feed.
For some unknown reason the school jew invaded the Albert and Logan Junction on Saturday night: four boats I saw fishing landed a total of 22 fish with the biggest just over three kilo.
They were caught on prawns and all but two were released.
There are still a few quality tailor inside the Pin Bar but they are not taking pillies, best technique is a small chrome slug that imitates the whitebait they are feeding on.
It’s a similar story off headlands along the Bayside foreshores with most fish being caught at daylight and dusk.
There are big bream at Mud Island for those anglers prepared to loose a few hooks: the fish are in the snags.
The best bait has been chook gut rigged without a sinker and cast into the shallows.
Anglers that fished offshore over the weekend reported excellent catches.
Most anglers had mixed bags of reef species with quality pearl perch, parrot and squire making up the majority of the catch.
Andrew Buchbach and David Brehmer caught enough fish to feed the neighborhood on Sunday morning fishing the 29’s and 36’s nth east of the Pin Bar. They were using paternoster rigs with yellowtail fillets on the drift.
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2001 - 1:13 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing report - April 30
Good numbers of squire and sweetlip have been caught throughout Moreton Bay over the past week: some of the more productive locations have been Mud Island, the shallow coral edges of Peel Island, the Hanlon and Myora lights and the northeastern side of Coochiemudlo Island. Night or early morning has been the best time and the best bait has been squid, mullet flesh or hardyheads.
It’s been a similar story offshore when the weather has permitted: good quality squire on most reefs in the early morning and late evening.
Cape Moreton is fishing well as is Deep Tempest although the current has picked up over the past week making it difficult to get bait down to them in the deep water.
There have been good numbers of pelagics taken on high speed lures and live baits: the Flatrock group of Islands off Point Lookout and the bait grounds north east of the Seaway have produced mac tuna, cobia, an occasional wahoo, the odd yellowfin and even a few mackerel.
Tailor are still being caught throughout the Bay: any of the headlands or points have been the most productive including Point Halloran, Cleveland, Manly Walls and Wellington Point. There are still plenty of tailor at the Pin although most are being caught right in the Pin Bar itself or off the surf beaches either side of the bar on North and South Stradbroke Island.
The first few luderick of the season have made a show: the walls around Fisherman’s Island is you best chance, they are also being caught further south over the border on most rock walls and breakwaters.
The banana prawns have been a little evasive: quite a few have been caught between Marks Rocks and Pitt Rocks in the Logan River but they have had a lot of pressure in this area. They are also being caught along the Bayside foreshores between Cassim Island and Point Talburpin.
The Logan River is fishing better than it has in a long time: smallish flathead are making up the majority of the catch and there are a few average size bream, quality whiting and school jew.
The jew and bream are feeding on the turn of the tide in the deeper holes and the flathead and whiting are being caught on the edges of the channels and sand banks on the last half of the run out tide.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2001 - 4:37 pm: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - April 23
Chopper tailor have been caught everywhere from Fraser Island to the Tweed Border this week and they are being caught on baits and lures or anything else you want to throw at them. A measuring stick is needed for most however there has been some better quality in the surf: Terry Smith landed fish to 2.5 kilo on Friday night
from three excellent deep-water holes that are in line with the Bedrooms on South Stradbroke.
For the land lover, there are good choppers coming on the bite at dusk and dawn at Ormiston, Cleveland and Wellington Points in the Bay and off the Seaway Walls, Pumping Jetty and Gold Coast beaches.
The banana prawn season is in full swing with good numbers being caught along the Bayside foreshores down to the Logan River and at Pitt Rocks in the River.
The prawns are in the deep water at Pitt Rocks however this area is for the experienced as there are a lot of sunken trees and rocks tearing up nets.
The trick is to mark your cast net rope every meter, use your sounder to find the depth then stop the net just short of the bottom.
There are still plenty of reports of school jew being caught throughout the southern Bay, Jumpinpin and Logan River: Bazil Bahr landed two fish to three kilos from Giants Grave on Saturday night and Andrew Buchbach caught two from the tip of Short Island at the Pin. Andrew also landed a two-kilo mangrove jack on a live mullet while targeting jew.
There are plenty of small flathead around, at this time of year they can be caught by drifting a fresh prawn along the bottom.
Quality bream were also landed around the turn of the tide from the Pin and southern Bay islands with after dark definitely the most productive time.
In the Bay, there has been just legal squire caught at daylight from the shallows of Peel Island, off the southern tip of Goat Island and at the Harry Atkinson reef and around the Myora Light.
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Roo
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Subject: crab traps/pots
G'Day felas
could ya send me some plans for crab traps/pots it would be apriceated.
cheers roo
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Dave Downie ><>
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Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - April 16
Banana prawns are the talk of the town again this week with results ranging from no luck, to eskies full, but don’t wait for their numbers to improve.
Dust of the cast net and sew up any holes because the word is, it’s not going to get much better: those in the know say that the banana prawns are as good now, as they are going to get this season.
The most reliable sign of their much-awaited arrival is when the Local River trawlers change their nets to target them, which most have done this week.
Over the past few weeks, experienced locals have been cleaning up in the shallows around Victoria Point and Point Talburpin, easily catching their bucket limit.
I had no trouble catching my limit around the moored boats out from Maas Marina mid week however those working the Logan River and Powerlines had less success.
There has been an army of yellow rain-coated cast netters in the Redland Bay channel, around the pipeline sign on Pannikin Island and between the Karragarra W’s and Browns Bay: a good sign that the prawns are in that area as well.
I chased sand crabs in the channel between Garden and Macleay Island just north of the Garden Island cutting on Saturday, ending up with a feed: 12 sandies, five muddies and a few quality bream and flathead
while waiting to check the pots.
Gavin Reynolds crabbed in the deep water off the southeast side of Mud Island at the same time and ended up with enough sand crabs to feed his family, and all the relatives.
Bottom leaf debris in the Logan is clearing after the floods and as a result fishing has improved this week with good numbers of bream, flathead, whiting and a few school jew caught.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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Dave Downie ><>
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2001 - 1:41 am: | |
Subject: SE Queensland Australia fishing Report - April 9
Banana prawns turned up in better numbers around last week’s full moon although they have been difficult to find: there were good reports from mid-week but they were certainly elusive over the weekend. The most productive areas have been the deeper water at the southern end of the Redland Bay Channel, Browns Bay on the western side of Russell Island and south of Point Talburpin around St Clair Island.
Brian Colette and friends easily caught their limit on Wednesday around the Pannikin Island pipeline but returned on Saturday and caught two kilos in six hours of casting. Under the new regulations, you are permitted one bucket per person in your possession: some cast netters have been caught unloading prawns
then going back out and refilling their bucket however, ‘in your possession’ includes your car and boat.
There are good numbers of school jew chasing the prawns, definitely worth while putting a banana prawn on a hook especially around rocks or in the deeper holes.
The best rig has been a pea sinker right on top of the hook and drift over the prime locations half an hour either side of the bottom of the tide.
The quantity and quality of the tailor at Jumpinpin dropped off this week but there are still good fish being caught off the Foreshores of Moreton Bay and in low water gutters just south of the Dunwich track on
North Stradbroke.
There have also been good numbers of chopper tailor caught of the Southport Pumping Jetty and Seaway south wall at night.
Crabs continue to be worth the effort but you will have to be quick, as their numbers should diminish as the cold weather moves in.
There have been good numbers of sandies on the Banana Banks and down the western side of North Stradbroke around the Eric Early light.
Mud crabs have been a little harder to find: while cast netting during the week I noticed a few pots with crabs in them exposed by the dropping tide between the Karragarra W’s and Rocky Point.
The weather has prevented most boats from getting offshore however those that did reported good mixed bags of reef species.
The shallows off Cape Moreton are still producing a feed and Deep Tempest has turned up a few better class amberjack and snapper on live baits.
There are also quite a few pelagics around Flat Rock off Point Lookout.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
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