Missing_FNQ
18-01-2013, 10:50 AM
Took my 11yld and his friend out yesterday for a bit of a look around the Cab River. Got there around 6:30am and thought we would head out the front and down to check out the small shelf along to the mouth of Burpengary Creek. Last time I fished this with my oldest boy (drifting plastics) a large stingray took 20 minutes out of my day on 4kg before I saw what it was.
Water was like glass out to the front beacon and then down with the only resistance the 400 million jellyfish hitting the leg of the motor. Couldnt find the drop-off as it was desribed to me (have to get some clearer info) so turned around and headed back in. Rigged up some plastics and threw, without a touch, to the right sandbar on the way back in.
Started up river past the boats at Beachmere and threw the castnet looking for bait without result and noticed that boats were heading upriver over the shallow area. I had worked out that about .6 metre was needed to get over this and it was about the right time so scooted up there for the first time. Got some ripper mullet livies from an old ramp up there and proceeded to fish a creek mouth on the incoming tide.
Kids got some pickers and crabs on fresh slabs while I had a livey in about a metre on my Abu 6500 (cant beat that rachet) and the biggest mullet out in the middle swimming in 5 metres on my handline. Handline went off in a way that took me back to barra fishing in Weipa. A short fight later, I had the ugly head of a 4 foot barracuda hanging over the side of the boat. As I was about to use the pliers to flip him off, I noticed that he had a set of doubled gang hooks hanging out the side of his jaw and MY hook was in the eye of the end one. A bit of wriggling from the cuda saw him unhook himself while I was reaching for the camera. Lucky I had 2 witnesses there who could back me up.
Nothing else for a few hours saw us heading home with 2 livies so we stopped at a snag hoping for just one edible fish. The 2 kids threw their baits alongside the snag while I just looped mine over the top of it and let the livey sink down in the middle. Thinking jackjackjack postive thoughts, my Abu screamed its little ratchet head off just before I set the hooks and felt the weight of a nice fish. Took all of 30 seconds before the Abu, custom batcaster rod and 10kg mono took its toll and I had a.....fricken CATFISH (prob 2 ft long) lolling about under the tree branch that i had thrown over. Trying to flick it over the branch had the %$#$ releasing itself so I didnt have to dispose of it (thoughts of Weipa and baseball bats coming back)
Cheers
Mick
Water was like glass out to the front beacon and then down with the only resistance the 400 million jellyfish hitting the leg of the motor. Couldnt find the drop-off as it was desribed to me (have to get some clearer info) so turned around and headed back in. Rigged up some plastics and threw, without a touch, to the right sandbar on the way back in.
Started up river past the boats at Beachmere and threw the castnet looking for bait without result and noticed that boats were heading upriver over the shallow area. I had worked out that about .6 metre was needed to get over this and it was about the right time so scooted up there for the first time. Got some ripper mullet livies from an old ramp up there and proceeded to fish a creek mouth on the incoming tide.
Kids got some pickers and crabs on fresh slabs while I had a livey in about a metre on my Abu 6500 (cant beat that rachet) and the biggest mullet out in the middle swimming in 5 metres on my handline. Handline went off in a way that took me back to barra fishing in Weipa. A short fight later, I had the ugly head of a 4 foot barracuda hanging over the side of the boat. As I was about to use the pliers to flip him off, I noticed that he had a set of doubled gang hooks hanging out the side of his jaw and MY hook was in the eye of the end one. A bit of wriggling from the cuda saw him unhook himself while I was reaching for the camera. Lucky I had 2 witnesses there who could back me up.
Nothing else for a few hours saw us heading home with 2 livies so we stopped at a snag hoping for just one edible fish. The 2 kids threw their baits alongside the snag while I just looped mine over the top of it and let the livey sink down in the middle. Thinking jackjackjack postive thoughts, my Abu screamed its little ratchet head off just before I set the hooks and felt the weight of a nice fish. Took all of 30 seconds before the Abu, custom batcaster rod and 10kg mono took its toll and I had a.....fricken CATFISH (prob 2 ft long) lolling about under the tree branch that i had thrown over. Trying to flick it over the branch had the %$#$ releasing itself so I didnt have to dispose of it (thoughts of Weipa and baseball bats coming back)
Cheers
Mick