Burrum Heads @ Christmas

[keen_as_mustard]

I am spending a week At Burrum Heads between Xmas and New Year and was hoping for a few tips from anyone who knows the area. I have been there a few years ago and know there is plenty of water to explore. I will be looking to throw plastics, lures, and live bait for flatties, bream, jacks, barra and any pelagics that are near the mouth. My wife likes to bait fish for whiting so any tips there would make me look good! I will also be keen for prawns (if around at that time) and crabs. Will be taking my tinnie up to use so can travle up river, etc.

Any help greatly apppreciated - and if anyone else is going up that time let me know.

Martin

[deb]

Marty, we go up every year at August, don't know summer to well, but if you go upstream to the junction, you will do well for barra (watch the rock bar) go at low tide, find it, then all is well ;), on the calm days, go out to artificial reefs, there is 3 off them close in and easily reachable in our 3.85 quinnie. Generally found the river mouth is a waste of time, too many 'on the moves' towing nets behind their tinnies :(
The local tackle shop sells a simple laminated mud map for $2, best advice you can get. Yabby banks are everywhere, so are the prawns!
Have a great holiday

[keen_as_mustard]

Dreamdays,

Thanks for the tips. Are you able to clarify a couple of things for me though? Is the junction where the Gregory meets the Burrum, or is it where the Isis meets the Burrum, or am I right off track? Also, do you have GPS marks for the artifical reefs and how far out are they? Finally what sort of prawns are you talking about - greasys was my guess?

Thanks again - will post a few pics if I get any good fish

[bay_firey]

Marty

Woodgate arti - opposite the pub pretty much
WGS84
s 25.05.474
e 152.34.423

I should have had some more, but they seem to be missing from my computer
Time to sync with the plotter again I think

[5litrebmx]

If you head up past buxton and around the islands there you will catch some nice flatties as well as bream and jacks.
cheers shane 8)