The Old Redcliffe Bridge

[ismail]

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody could give me some information about the old bridge running from Brighton to Redcliffe. It is the one used by pedestrians these days. I noticed a few people fishing there this afternoon and was wondering what fish speicies they would be targeting as they were pretty much in the middle of the bridge.

Is this location any good?
What bait or SP's work the best?
How far fromeither end of the bridge should i try and fish?

all help is appreciated.

thanks in advance.

[BrandonH]

Hey mate, at hight tide you can get whiting flathead and Bream anywhere from the brighton start of the bridge all the way to the first hump. Most of this area is sand at low tide. The first hump is the pine river channel (from Brighton side ;)). in and around this channel you can catch Bream, flathead, stingrays, taylor, Jew, Trevally.... this list is quite endless actually :-/ but as you probablly have seen the walk out to this channel is quite a distance. this time last year an old friend on mine caught a 40lb Jew fishing for taylor just the other side of the channel :o (Barstard :P). the current flow can be a bit much at times and landing a big fish can be hard (my old friend had a boat help him out ;)). the redcliffe side is more popular due to the distance i think, you can get Bream flathead and similar species here but the channel is from salt water creek and a lot smaller/shallower than the pine channel ;)


Tight Lines
Brandon...

[SURF_SNIPER]

used to be the old hornibrook highway bridge and is a popular spot for landbased fisher folk.

bream, whiting, flathead, sandcrabs, stingrays are the most frequent catches off hear. can get good summer whiting at times especially at night. fish the run up tide on the banks adjacent to the deep channels for bream and whiting.

becarefull where you fish as it is in poor condition and parts of it do collapse into the water :o

[truck_hunter]

go the good the ole hornibrook bridge an oldie but a goodie [smiley=laola.gif]

[rick_k]

If fishing in the channels from the bridge, you may meet a boatie who was not looking for/did not see your line.

A bit of care and courtesy on both sides would help here.

A neighbour of mine seems to think it is his god given right to blat under any bridge at speed and should not have to consider people fishing in the channel. Gets quite irate. Worry is he drives his car the same way.

Me, I always assume someone has a line in the water and just put through. Apart from anything else I don't need my wife and daughter to wear a gang of 4/0s, and I'm ugly enough already.

At the same time, fishers on bridges and pontoons/ramps could show a little consideration as well.

Ran across a bloke up the sunny coast who must have had a bad experience. We were trolling lures along bridge pylons, looking for dangling lines, came clear of the bridge, and got a snag. Tackleback produced a crab pot with no rope and no float, and old mate on the bridge furiously chucking his grapple around the place and in the general direction of the pot attached to my lure attached to the tackleback.

Seemed funny at the time, and we just said hello and dropped his pot back in, but had he hit me, the electric or one of my rods with his scrap metal he might have had it to sit on.

[Kendall249]

As a young bloke on holidays I caught one of my best bream and my only tailor ( as I live in NQ) from that bridge, using white bait. Used a fixed sinker about 30cm in front of the bait and keep it off the bottom, allowing the bait to sway around in the current.

[HiRAEdd]

FYI, the old Hornibrook Bridge is probably going to cease to exist within the next few years. The cost of maintaining it is just too high as it's so old.

On the plus side, a second road bridge is going to be built with a bikeway attached to it. Two sections of the Hornibrook will be preserved over each channel. The Brighton end will be a fishing platform that is linked to the new road bridge/bike way and the Redcliffe end will remain as a Jetty all the way out to the channel.

[seafarer3]

Hey,

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD HIRAEDD...
Ive heard the same thing

Cheers
Scott

[BrandonH]

I have heard that also, but why are they doing excess work repairing the bridge now?? 2 weekends ago i was fishing the flats at hayes and noticed workers working in between the two humps?? maybe they have changed there mind again ::)

Cheers
Brandon...

[dnej]

Used to love those regularly spaced lumps on the bridge,when I was in the back seat of my mates car.
Poor bridge,how old would it be?
David

[HiRAEdd]

I have heard that also, but why are they doing excess work repairing the bridge now?? 2 weekends ago i was fishing the flats at hayes and noticed workers working in between the two humps?? maybe they have changed there mind again ::)

Cheers
Brandon...

The risk of litigation if somebody gets hurt is greater than the cost of repairing it in the interim. The bridge will come down but they can't let it just go to pieces in the meantime. They will keep maintaining it until the second road bridge is completed.

[elpaulos]

Looking for a spot t/row. Wellington point sounds too windy. So for nostalgia sake I might head down there then......................

Paul

[Nico.d.R]

i think they are planning on floating pontoons of the new bridge too . i hope when they reck the old bridge they make a reef with the left overs even if they bring it out to odder rock .

[elpaulos]

Not too much luck on Friday. Too choppy I reckon. Local fella reckons it's been quiet for ages. Underground structure would be fantastic.