SUNKEN WALL - Brisbane River 28/0706

[Braddles]

My housemate came home from T'vle with a Seajay Escape Sports yesterday... so we decided to head down the river for a poke around and a fish. I had read a lot about "the sunken wall" in past Ausfish posts... so after putting in at Comslie, we headed out towards the mouth and located this wall. We fished the end closest to the mouth.. The drop off was from 7m to 2.8 in about 10m of travel...

First cast - peeled prawn - and I was on... OK - on to a toad fish..

Second cast - bang double hook up - we both reel in toadfish... These were no ordinary toadys though - they were approx 25cm long and a box shape with what looked like unusally large teeth...

Not another bite...

We fished from low tide and 3hrs of the run in until the current was non condusive to fishing.

We tried scented SP's, peeled and normal prawns, weighted and unweighted whole baby squid and live pody mullet we netted at the ramp... - not a touch..

Lots of trailer boats out and about though - anyone else fished the river last night??

[Murks]

Bad luck braddles...
maybe next time hey ;)

[F1SH_BOY]

bad luck

[Braddles]

Was I working the right place? The closest to the River Mouth end of the sunken wall??

I was too nervous to drift / motor parallel along the wall incase of some barely covered reef/ structure.

Thanks for any help / tips.

[rufus_kev]

used to fish there in the 80's in summer for bream. best to cross anchor on it, one sand anchor in the deep and a light reef pick on top of the wall so that the boat sits at right angles to the wall. Adjust the ropes with the tide so that you move up [or down] the wall with the tide. We used to fish with yabbies, with very little weight say 000 or 00 sinker, cast up tide and try to wind in so as to just have a little slack in theline without affecting the natural drift of the bait. Cricket score catches were common. all at night of course!