Mullet_Musketeer
03-09-2006, 01:14 PM
Friday is all day fishing day so I returned to Bribie to look for a few new land based spots. Water and weather are getting warmer so I expect I will be ditching the waders soon and just wandering around with some sand shoes and shorts. However I could not resist starting off at Buckleys hole which has been so productive for me on an early morning run out tide. I was armed with the usual array of primarily pumpkinseed coloured Gulps [/color]and Powerbaits and the 2 Gulp Shrimp which has also been very good for Bream. I was also trying out the 4 Turtleback Worm which had worked on a few lizards at Pinkenba during the week.
First cast at around 5.45 am was with a Powerbait Realistix 3 Minnow drag was set too tight - the reel almost immediately started zinging and then line (1.8kg Fireline) and leader (4kg Fluoro) parted company - snap. My heart was thumping as I fumbled around trying to tie on a new leader in the dark and the wind but at moments like that you know you are going to have a good day.
Got rigged up again and a couple more casts this time with the 4 Turtleworm and wallop and a big run perhaps 10 metres of line. The drag was set properly this time so I let it run and then gradually clicked it a little tighter. 72 2-4 kg Dropshot rod was bent over nicely but starting to creak a little. Then it just stopped and I thought I must be snagged. Stalemate I pulled left and right but there was no give. Then it started wriggling again and went for another run - I started towing it backwards towards the beach but there were still a few determined surges left and right and then a circle right around me. By now I could see it was a decent cod I dragged him up the beach and put him in the keeper bag. 1kg - 41cm nice fish for starters.
Straight back in this time with the 3 Gulp Pumpkinseed Minnow two or three cast later I thought I was snagged on the drop off as the line just stopped dead in mid retrieve. I loosened the drag and suddenly the reel took off again This one took a while as I wanted to get him up and over the drop off without sawing through the line on the ledge. Took me a good 5 minutes of tugging and running but then I started walking him back up the beach and could see I had a great lizard on. Got him landed with a decent wave and there I had a great 2kg - 68cm Flathead.
The sun was now up and the turtle who lives nearby kept popping his head up to have a look at me. The wind and rising swell was keeping the boat traffic to a minimum. There were grey clouds all around but the rain never landed on me and the morning just got better and better with a 38cm Bream and three more Flathead - a 54 cm and 2 x 45cm keepers. The Pike were also keen on the soft plastics especially the Shrimp and I kept the 3 biggest at around 40cm.
On the way home I dropped the shrimp in at Welsby Bridge just as we were approaching high tide and got two 30cm juvenile Flatheads from two casts the was crystal clear and I could see them turning somersaults underwater as the hook bit. I put them both back and headed off to get my son from school. What a way to start September! :P
First cast at around 5.45 am was with a Powerbait Realistix 3 Minnow drag was set too tight - the reel almost immediately started zinging and then line (1.8kg Fireline) and leader (4kg Fluoro) parted company - snap. My heart was thumping as I fumbled around trying to tie on a new leader in the dark and the wind but at moments like that you know you are going to have a good day.
Got rigged up again and a couple more casts this time with the 4 Turtleworm and wallop and a big run perhaps 10 metres of line. The drag was set properly this time so I let it run and then gradually clicked it a little tighter. 72 2-4 kg Dropshot rod was bent over nicely but starting to creak a little. Then it just stopped and I thought I must be snagged. Stalemate I pulled left and right but there was no give. Then it started wriggling again and went for another run - I started towing it backwards towards the beach but there were still a few determined surges left and right and then a circle right around me. By now I could see it was a decent cod I dragged him up the beach and put him in the keeper bag. 1kg - 41cm nice fish for starters.
Straight back in this time with the 3 Gulp Pumpkinseed Minnow two or three cast later I thought I was snagged on the drop off as the line just stopped dead in mid retrieve. I loosened the drag and suddenly the reel took off again This one took a while as I wanted to get him up and over the drop off without sawing through the line on the ledge. Took me a good 5 minutes of tugging and running but then I started walking him back up the beach and could see I had a great lizard on. Got him landed with a decent wave and there I had a great 2kg - 68cm Flathead.
The sun was now up and the turtle who lives nearby kept popping his head up to have a look at me. The wind and rising swell was keeping the boat traffic to a minimum. There were grey clouds all around but the rain never landed on me and the morning just got better and better with a 38cm Bream and three more Flathead - a 54 cm and 2 x 45cm keepers. The Pike were also keen on the soft plastics especially the Shrimp and I kept the 3 biggest at around 40cm.
On the way home I dropped the shrimp in at Welsby Bridge just as we were approaching high tide and got two 30cm juvenile Flatheads from two casts the was crystal clear and I could see them turning somersaults underwater as the hook bit. I put them both back and headed off to get my son from school. What a way to start September! :P