Very average weekend.

[insideout]

Have been fishing out on the bay ( platypus bay) all weekend and the catch was very average to say the least. All effort was employed and not much to show, not just here , but over the topside of fraser out on the shelf as well!! So much for the full moon theory this time around. How did you boys south do?

[Marlin_Mike]

Same down this way. HArd work for not big catches.

The bay up there got crystal clear water likeMoreton Bay?

Mike

[edleigh7]

Thats no good mate!!:( I didn't go out this weekend

I like the sunrise/sunset on your avatar!!;)

Ed

[insideout]

yeh mike ,clear as a bell, ed ,the fish were not biting when i took this one from the arti here in hervey bay.

[tigermullet]

The clear water in Tiger Mullet channel (Jumpinpin area) has not put the bream off the bite yet. My brother phoned this morning and he is leaving the channel for a few days of beach fishing. He had to stop fishing for bream because he filled the freezer section of the gas fridge with bream fillets.

Finally, he is convinced that Tiger Mullet produces bream - he would not try it before this and it took a lot of talking and a demonstration using Tuna Slabs as berley for him to be converted.

We will have to slow up, using Tuna Slabs for berley turns fishing from a sport into a slaughter.

Not to worry both of us haven't got too many seasons left in us.;D

[Chimo]

Do you use bait or plastics with the burley if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks
Chimo

[tigermullet]

Hi Chimo,

Bait - always. I haven't even worked out yet how to use those little stumpy rods, fancy eggbeater or overhead reels let alone plastics.

A friend of mine used that marvellous gear on our last trip out together. It was impressive to see the quality of the rods, reels and huge amount of lures and wriggly bits, which I assume were soft plastics.

The rods were works of art and the reels were engineering marvels with knobs, buttons and levers all over the place. They whirr, click away constantly and look beautiful in the rod holders on the boat but they just don't seem to catch fish.

My beat up old 10ft 6inch rod, sidecast Alvey and yabbies accounted for 29 bream in the same time that it took to catch 5 bream on that lovely gear. But then, he spent enormous amounts of time sorting out tangles, back lashes and working all those levers and knobs. I kept him supplied with coffee and beer whilst I admired the style and action. He needed the drinks - it must be hard work doing all that casting and retrieving.

Good exercise I suppose and, with some stretch of the imagination, might even be called 'fishing'.;D


It is not for me to criticise those whose use such equipment by choice or do not have the time to pump yabbies or gather other bait and it is fascinating to watch.

[Synful]

Yeah, not much luck here further north either, tried creeks and Palm Cove for no results.

Thought Palm Cove would have been the go last night - full moon, 3.0m tide with next to no wind, got nothing even on freshly caught livies :-/