Another nice bag from the Pine!

[Freeeedom]

Launched at Clontarf at 5.30 this morning hoping to get a few squire outside the Woody Point green zone. Unfortunately the 'lighter winds inshore early' forecast wasn't light enough for me, so I ran over into the Pine and grabbed a few live baits in the cast net, then settled down to fish the Redcliffe bridges in the hope of finding a few lizards. The bite was steady without ever being spectacular. Took me until 10.30 before I got my fifth, with one going 60cm and a couple more about 50. As well I'd managed 7 reasonable bream and only had to release 2 undersize lizards, 3 undersize bream and one shovel nosed shark - that's a big improvement on what I've been getting there lately.
Amazingly not a single other boat appeared until about 9.30, when two came down, anchored for about 10 minutes and then disappeared up-river again. Ended up quite a nice morning with the shallow banks across the low tide moderating the chop and making it quite comfortable.
Cheers Freeeedom

[Funchy]

Well done mate. Very nice feed indeed. Went out this morning myself for 4 flattys. Only one keeper.

[kingcray]

Another awesome post Freeeedom.
Deano

[bondy99]

Freeeedom,

You defintely like the bream. good catch.

Bondy

[womp]

One of these days im gunna hook up to a lizard and finally land it. Hopefully a massive one decides to chow down on one of my new plastics in the coming weeks.

[Lapras]

Nice catch Freeeedom, did you find any prawns or were they taken on herring?

Work has stopped my fishing for a while, but might see you out there after the Easter madness.

Dave

[clone trooper]

Another great post/ catch Freeeeedom;D you might have to think about writing a "how to on the Pine" for the rest of us who can't catch anywhere near that:'(. again good catch. I'm holidays next week and will be down the pine alot. might see you on it. cheers. Brad.

[Freeeedom]

Freeeedom,

You defintely like the bream. good catch.

Bondy

Just bycatch at this stage Peter. I was targeting lizards specifically using bigger baits than I would normally use for bream. My bream fishing in the Pine tends to tail off from now on as I prefer to chase the winter fish in more exciting locations.

Cheers Freeeedom

[Freeeedom]

Nice catch Freeeedom, did you find any prawns or were they taken on herring?

Work has stopped my fishing for a while, but might see you out there after the Easter madness.

Dave

The best of the live baits were small poddy mullet and winter whiting Dave. I did get some herring but they were very large and nothing would touch them. The bream and some of the flathead took large prawn baits (frozen) but I used up the last packet from the ones we caught in October. I did manage to put the net over a school of prawns at one stage - they were jumping all over the place on the surface, but by the time I brought the net in they had all escaped through the mesh they were so tiny. I ended up with one prawn!
Cheers Freeeedom

[fisho8]

Nice Work Freeeedom nice feed there mate good to see the pine is putting on some good fish well done mate. Thanks for the report.:)

[Richo1]

Well done great catch!