Cabbage Tree Creek session - Thursday

[Freeeedom]

Launched at the co-op about 5am - was the only trailer in the whole car park! Went up Nundah Creek looking for some live bait. Had to work for them, but managed just under a kilo of prawns, mostly medium bananas, plus a few herring and silver biddies. Went down to the mouth of Cabbage Tree and anchored up just off the channel to fish the bottom of the tide. It was pretty slow until the turn, by which time I'd released 2 shovellies, 1 ray, I moses perch and an undersize bream. As the tide began to turn I picked up some better quality fish, using the smaller prawns as live bait. Scored a nice lizard (50cm), a solid bream (36cm) and three other legal bream (plus a few undersized) in about an hour. As the tide got a run on the smaller fish returned and I gave it away. Took some pics of the lizard and the big bream just out of the water, but I managed to stuff up somehow and the pics were hopelessly overexposed, so I had to take some more pics on the bench at home. Had enough prawns left over for some sangers for lunch!
Cheers Freeeedom

[noosa_nipper]

nice catch mate!!!

breams a stonker :)

[RayDeR]

nice catch mate!!!

breams a stonker :)


Stonker ? :D


Ray De R

[84mick]

YumO! nice looking lunch.

Cheers, Mick.

[lunatic]

That bream is a bloody ripper!
Well done mate.
Cheers,
Lunatic

[sandbankmagnet]

It takes a lot of strength to turn away from a spot you've just caught a kg of medium bananas... well done.

[Dorado]

Great catch out of the Pine! Well done mate.

Cheers,
Dorado

[Dirtysanchez]

Nice fish, but whats wrong with calling it a stonker ? OK, it's not in the dictionary, but I have heard it before in reference to BIG fish etc ?

[RayDeR]

Nice fish, but whats wrong with calling it a stonker ? OK, it's not in the dictionary, but I have heard it before in reference to BIG fish etc ?


G'day Dirtysanchez!


The word stonker meant nothing to me so I was enquiiring as to irts meaning. Like you said it is not in the dictionary.

Language is supposed to communicate meaning.

Ray De R

[BogusPokus]

Yup that bream is a stonker!
And some of those prawns are sizeable as well. I beleive it will be an awsome prawn season this year. And with the impending green zones closing off this creek and the ground imediatley at the mouth I wonder if it will be the last for me in this area.

[BaitThrower]

Re: Stonker

This was a big marble back in the marble playing days of the 80's. Playing for stonkers was high up in the marble game order :-)

[Little grey men]

Re: Stonker

This was a big marble back in the marble playing days of the 80's. Playing for stonkers was high up in the marble game order :-)

Still got my stonker at home from my marble days at school, it's a big shiny steel bearing about as big as a plum. Good for smashing glass stonkers, and making other kid's cry....yep, I was a lil prick:P

[RayDeR]

G'day!

I remember a "stonker" from marbles back in the 50s. But had never since then seen or heard it used to describe "big".

To me in marbles it implied something more than big. It was something like entering a Hummer in a Mini Moke race. Seemed to have implications of unfair advantage or "give up now".

Ray De R

[Dirtysanchez]

Re: Stonker

This was a big marble back in the marble playing days of the 80's. Playing for stonkers was high up in the marble game order :-)


:D :D Bloody ripper matey, thank you for the memory trigger, I remember them too, and I was lucky, a mate of mine's dad worked in the navy and they got some mighty steel ball bearings that were great marbles, Steelo's we called them and they were kings. Then came yo yo's and the butterfly yo yo

Crikey it makes me feel old, it was a while ago now :-[

[Freeeedom]

Yup that bream is a stonker!
And some of those prawns are sizeable as well. I beleive it will be an awsome prawn season this year. And with the impending green zones closing off this creek and the ground imediatley at the mouth I wonder if it will be the last for me in this area.

Do you know something I don't? I haven't seen this area marked on the maps posted of the proposed green zones. Can you post a map if there is one about?
Cheers Freeeedom

[DICER]

I think I'd be happy with a haul like that - yum

[Dezzer]

Stonker bream, stonker flatty, shame the prawns weren't stonkers but a good feed anyway.

[Dezzer]

Freeeedom

Unless you zoom right in on Nundah Creek you can't tell it's green. Bit sneaky.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/media/parks_and_forests/marine_parks/mbmp/draft_zoning_plan_1.pdf

[RayDeR]

Gday Dezzer

I increased the size to 400% and the creek does not appear green . Just outside to the south was though.

Ray De R

[Dezzer]

Try 1200%. Like I said, bit sneaky.

[Captain Jack Zero]

sounds like a great session.have you tried to bbq the fresh prawns?i think they taste better that way .

[Freeeedom]

Freeeedom

Unless you zoom right in on Nundah Creek you can't tell it's green. Bit sneaky.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/media/parks_and_forests/marine_parks/mbmp/draft_zoning_plan_1.pdf

Thanks Dezzer - I see what you mean. I guess you can understand why the creek which is within the Boondall wetlands would be made into a green zone whereas Cabbage Tree Creek with all of its development and trawler moorings is not. I notice on that map that the reefs off Woody Point are marked as a green zone while the Scarborough Reefs are not. This is the exact opposite of what was shown on the maps first posted by Webby. Anyone know what happened there?
Cheers Freeeedom

[ddobson]

Good day out and a good feed there. Well done.

[RayDeR]

Try 1200%. Like I said, bit sneaky.

G'day Dezzer!

Thanks. Yes, very sneaky!

Ray de R

[Yab Man]

dumb question how did you catch the prawns?

[Freeeedom]

dumb question how did you catch the prawns?

Lots and lots and LOTS of throws of the cast net!
Cheers Freeeedom