Mullet Musketeer
13-08-2008, 01:51 PM
On Tuesday morning I woke up about 3.30am thinking about fish and could not get back to sleep so I headed up to Bribie where the cool wind was blowing. I decided to have a quick fish off the bank before wading in. I managed a couple of Pike down by the bridge on the island side and then dropped a Flathead up towards the boat hire place where the tour boat moors.
With the first rays of sun signaling dawn I decided to wade out on the mainland side but with snotty algae all over the bottom I soon gave up on casting plastics around there. Back to the car and down to the old favorite - Buckley’s Hole. I wandered up and down and had a couple of tussles with what I think were Pike but could not hook them. Then, in quick succession I hooked three Bream, the last of which was a real stonker at 36cm, 725g. He got himself under the ledge but fortunately loosening off the drag worked and he swam out, up and over and I dragged him safely back to the beach.
Then I got a few more hits and a couple of undersize Bream and then wallop I was on to what I thought must be a decent chopper. After a couple of very rapid runs and furious splashes I had a monster 44cm 400 gram Pike – never had one that big – what a fish.
Again it was the 2" Gulp Banana Prawn that did most of the damage. A great mornings fishing but the wind chilled me to the bone!
:D
With the first rays of sun signaling dawn I decided to wade out on the mainland side but with snotty algae all over the bottom I soon gave up on casting plastics around there. Back to the car and down to the old favorite - Buckley’s Hole. I wandered up and down and had a couple of tussles with what I think were Pike but could not hook them. Then, in quick succession I hooked three Bream, the last of which was a real stonker at 36cm, 725g. He got himself under the ledge but fortunately loosening off the drag worked and he swam out, up and over and I dragged him safely back to the beach.
Then I got a few more hits and a couple of undersize Bream and then wallop I was on to what I thought must be a decent chopper. After a couple of very rapid runs and furious splashes I had a monster 44cm 400 gram Pike – never had one that big – what a fish.
Again it was the 2" Gulp Banana Prawn that did most of the damage. A great mornings fishing but the wind chilled me to the bone!
:D