tomrob1
27-04-2011, 12:25 PM
Had a session in the river yesterday, from around 11 - 5.
No troubles finding plenty of herring at luggage point & around boggy creek, with a few gar and big mullet. No decent prawns though, which was suprising.
We anchored up along the sunken wall in about 11ft, not too far from the end. Patience didn't pay off, with nothing caught in a few hours. The wind was pretty fierce, so we moved to the southern side of the river in search of some protection. We drifted along in around 3 foot of water for a while, near the coal terminal, flicking plastics & with a live herring out the back - for no hits. There were plenty of mullet jumping around though.
We had one last try about 50m towards the mouth from the sunken wall, in about 14ft. We've caught a few snapper here in the past few weeks (ranging 20-40cm), but all we managed was a few small shovelnose and a heap of blue swimmers which were chewing everything we threw at them. Ended up keeping 8 crabs, and throwing back about the same.
That was probably the 7th or 8th trip I've had in the brissy now, and I'm slowly learning the river. Have caught a few flatty's & bream, and one keeper squire (all on live prawns), and had plenty of fun exploring. Anyone got any tips on where to try for jew & threadys at the moment?
No troubles finding plenty of herring at luggage point & around boggy creek, with a few gar and big mullet. No decent prawns though, which was suprising.
We anchored up along the sunken wall in about 11ft, not too far from the end. Patience didn't pay off, with nothing caught in a few hours. The wind was pretty fierce, so we moved to the southern side of the river in search of some protection. We drifted along in around 3 foot of water for a while, near the coal terminal, flicking plastics & with a live herring out the back - for no hits. There were plenty of mullet jumping around though.
We had one last try about 50m towards the mouth from the sunken wall, in about 14ft. We've caught a few snapper here in the past few weeks (ranging 20-40cm), but all we managed was a few small shovelnose and a heap of blue swimmers which were chewing everything we threw at them. Ended up keeping 8 crabs, and throwing back about the same.
That was probably the 7th or 8th trip I've had in the brissy now, and I'm slowly learning the river. Have caught a few flatty's & bream, and one keeper squire (all on live prawns), and had plenty of fun exploring. Anyone got any tips on where to try for jew & threadys at the moment?