MUD ISLAND BRISBANE FISHING

[riverrat]

Howdey All,

I am thinking to going out the mouth of the brissy river to mud island on saturday. Anybody got an tips of which side is better.....is it worth taking the crab pots.....whatever...... any advise would be appreciated....thanks ...The Rat

[robersl]

make sure you have all your safty gear as the water police patrol this area quite a bit . depending on the size of your boat pick your days for going out any more than.7 of a metre and you do not want to be out there it gets rather like a washing machine between mud and the shipping channel even on a day with little breeze, you can take out crab pots and there should be a few sweetlip starting to show up there soon as well as your bream and flathead ect

shane

[riverrat]

thanks shane

[jeffrey_h]

It was sure a washing machine on Saturday on the bottom sth west corner.
All we ever get in that whole area are Grinners ;D ;D ;D and small reef fish :P.
They say the East side may be good but we're never done any good,yet.


Jeffrey

[riverrat]

Hi guys, ok what about the end of the port, that part they are currently reclaiming? We were there on saturday till about 2pm. Had some real hits and i did land a nice bream.

This spot had a few boaties...quite a few lumps on the bottom close in to the wall...probably large rocks...i'm thinking the channel between there and mud might be the go...

come back

[charleville]

Mate;

There were some seriously good squire caught around the mouth of the river and the reclaimed area throughout winter, especially as reported by Chief on this site. Have not heard of a lot of reports from there lately but that may be due to the inclement weather keeping everyone at home.

Mud Island is a fertile ground on all sides but beginners will usually do well drifting around on the eastern side. I reiterate though that it is so rich in underwater structure that there are plenty of places worth exploring on all sides, especially as the eastern side can be a bit lumpy at times. Plenty of people do well there in daytime but my best experiences have been after dark when the sounder comes alive with fish arches.


However, it is quite exposed water, especially on the northern and eastern sides and without knowing your boat, I suggest that most anglers would be well cautioned to not go there in anything above a 15knots forecast.

Whilst it is a bit early to be taking the weekend forecast too seriously yet, if it is as currently forecast, I would not go there...

Also the advice previously given about boating and fisheries and police patrols at Mud on a pretty regular basis are very true at all hours of the day. Don't go there with out-of-date flares or other safety infringements.

[riverrat]

Charleville..........you from there? I'm from Roma....do you know Saffy at the Post Office?

[charleville]

Charleville..........you from there? I'm from Roma....do you know Saffy at the Post Office?


Mate, I left there too long ago to know anyone there anymore.

Well - I do remember a few names - my old man used to teach Sugar Ray Robinson how to box at the Salvation Army boys league on Friday nights in the late 1950's so I do remember him and he is still there.

Most of the people that I knew have long moved out as I did many years ago. Charleville went through a huge slump for many years and there were not many opportunities there. Funny how the place has come alive after the flood reconstruction in the nineties though. It has become a very modern little town.

I went to school with names like George Corones ( grandson of Poppa Corrones who owned nearly all of the pubs in the west), the Cominos, and some kids with names like Field, Gilbert etc etc - not sure how but I seemed to build close relationships with all of the Greek immigrant kids. I recall having a very bad speech impediment as a five year old and having to get the Greek kids to translate to the teacher what I was saying. ;D ;D ;D

I like to go out there and walk around the town every three or four years and it is interesting to see the airconditioned schools and modern amenities, nice parks etc. I remember the heat in summer with only boiling hot artesian bore water to drink, the kindness of the guys at the ice works who would break up a slab of ice for the school kids to grab on the way home from school, and conversely the bitterly cold winters :(

However, I have no links there anymore.

[riverrat]

Charlie,

charlie, I remember that Boxer Robinson. He was about 2 years older than me, I boxed for the Railway Institute Roma, my dad was "on the railways". The Charleville blokes called him Sugar and sometime around 1961 or 2 he fought a Roma bloke "Hobo" Harms. amature stuff...I don't remember who won but I do remember the Charleville croud urging "Carn Sugar". (I lost my bought to some huge aboriginal - outweighed by about 10 pounds". I can see them both trying to pick up coins from the canvas, thrown in by the crowd. heh.

Roma is a bit like Charleville although it is a bit larger not much changes. I havne't been back there for a couplee of years biut I would bet I could almost walk around blind folded and not miss a step. The water is not as hot a Charleville's (the worst I found was Quilpie).

Cheers anyway.....Al Rat

[charleville]

charlie, I remember that Boxer Robinson. He was about 2 years older than me, I boxed for the Railway Institute Roma, my dad was "on the railways". The Charleville blokes called him Sugar and sometime around 1961 or 2 he fought a Roma bloke "Hobo" Harms. amature stuff...I don't remember who won but I do remember the Charleville croud urging "Carn Sugar".


Ray Robinson went on to bigger fame as one of the boss cockies in ATSIC of course. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s889159.htm

My old man was a plumber in Charleville but had been a NSW middleweight state boxing champ in his youth so my early life was spent around things boxing and I was taught how to box pretty well but in truth I couldn't fight to save myself. :( ;D ;D ;D Didn't stop me at high school though. I inherited the old man's aggression but not his skill. I was always in school yard dust-ups. (no one was going to get away with pushing me around) :( ;D ;D [BTW, that is a mistake, a pugilistic kid just makes a mark of himself and attracts more trouble than it is worth.]

But there were some benefits - Dad knew all of the showies like Jimmy Sharman so I don't think that we ever had to pay to get into a tent show of any sort. ;)

Mum told me that even on their honeymoon, my old man took her to see some famous boxer's grave at the Toowong cemetary. ;D I wonder if that is taking one's devotion to the sport a bit far. ;D ;D ;D

[yasplayer06]

Take a pack of turtle back pumpkin seed gulp worms and some 1/8ounce jig heads and your set... South side of mud... GOOD LUCK

[Scalem]

Riverrat,

I will be out there on Sat from around lunch time, you will hear me log on as SCALEM on 27Mhz. You are welcome to give me a call if you hear me, I'll let you know how its going. We plan to fish till sunset or just after.

I think Mud can be hot or cold whether you are on the E or Western sides, but I will be probably fishing the NW area, depending on the northern wind predicted. I expect it to be fairly rough, but my 15ft glass boat handles it with ease, but slowly slowly with a bit of trim to keep the nose up.

Cheers!

Scalem

[riverrat]

Hi guys,

Did the Mud Island 9 meter north west channel last saturday. got 35 and kept none. snapper, bream, grassies? and some small reef fish. left just before it blew up about midday.

I gonna try this sat before sunup. anyone had any luck around muddy?

[riverrat]

Me again, I see the "Coffee Pots" mentioned quite a bit and am wondering what they are. I see them marked on the chart anyone enlighten me....cheers

[Blackened]

G'day
the coffee pots are just the identifying name for the set of red and green beacons that lay as markers in the shipping channel. They're the really big ones and mark a good north or south entrance point to the river.
Dave

[riverrat]

thanks dave