Successful fishing around Brisbane

[dogga2]

Anyone had any spectacular, out of the ordinary catches recently? Any advice or tips for fishing around Brisbane? Someone has to be catching something good..

Cheers, dogga2

[bobby777888]

i caught a tarpon in the freshwater section of hilliards creek, i was stoked. the creek is a 2 minute walk from my place, so now i can go down and (hopefully) catch tarpon wenever i want!!!! fun!!!

[jimmybob]

i caught my first silver perch while tryin to rid of some tilapia at bullockys rest at lake kurrongba near north pine dam.....put up a hell of a fight ...weighed approx 1kg

[bobby777888]

caught my first silver perch in my mates dam the other day, 1.5 kg, awesome fight on 2lb

[dogga2]

yeh silver perch are mad to catch. 1.5kg, nice size aswell. how big is your mates dam and how does he keep them? did he stock it?

cheers, dogga2

[bobby777888]

my mates dam is circular and i probably about 50 metres in diameter. his grandfather stocked it years ago and some of the silvers in there a truly massive now. they eat crayfish and gambusia and i guess some of the bigger ones must eat small spangeled perch, as he has tiny ones in there. me and my mates go down there on weekends and go camping and fishin', its a heap of fun...........

bobby

[dogga2]

hey bobby do u know if he stocked the dam with fingerlings or wat size? wat else lives / lived in the dam when he stocked it?

cheers, dogga2

[bobby777888]

As far as i know he only had gambusia in the dam, and spangled perch washed in in the floods. the fingerlings went in at around 2 cms and i think they cost around 11 cents each.

bobby

[dogga2]

oh ok, thanks for the info bobby. sounds like a good hobby.

cheers, dogga2