Nugget
20-12-2001, 08:14 AM
Good news on the crabbing front this week with Eagleby locals scoring results by setting pots off the bank.
Areas in the Albert River that have produced results are behind the Beenleigh Rum Distillery and behind the sewage works and in the Logan at the western end of Eagleby Road and around the highway bridges.
Fresh mullet and an early morning run out tide will give you the best chance of putting a muddie on the table for Christmas lunch.
Tim Doherty landed four river whaler sharks around the junction of the Albert and Logan while chasing flathead with prawns over the weekend.
If he had been using pillies, mullet flesh or live bait I think he would have caught a lot more.
There are lots of garfish in the Logan at the moment, which is another good bait for them.
A wire trace and berley will give you your best chance of fish on the table, but watch your fingers as they will snap at you when caught.
These little river whaler sharks are great fun to catch and make excellent tasting flake fillets – kids love them cooked up as boneless fish “nuggets”.
There have been good numbers of big mahi mahi offshore over the past week or two.
They are hanging around the Waverider Buoy and any floating marker or object in the water.
Still very few mackerel in the northern bay but the word from up north is that they are coming this way – the Sunshine Coast run is just starting.
Your best chance at the moment is working Raiders and chrome jigs around the Spitfire Beacons off Bribie.
A fireweed warning is still present for the Horseshoe Bay area at Peel Island, take care over the holiday period.
Whiting and flathead are dominating catches on sand banks throughout the Pin and there are still good choppers being caught off the surf on South Stradbroke between the Pin bar and the Bedroom’s track but you have fish overnight for any real success.
Jack numbers are improving – Levi Downie caught and released a personal best jack on Tuesday evening measuring 58cm long on a Downunder Boomerang lure.
Areas in the Albert River that have produced results are behind the Beenleigh Rum Distillery and behind the sewage works and in the Logan at the western end of Eagleby Road and around the highway bridges.
Fresh mullet and an early morning run out tide will give you the best chance of putting a muddie on the table for Christmas lunch.
Tim Doherty landed four river whaler sharks around the junction of the Albert and Logan while chasing flathead with prawns over the weekend.
If he had been using pillies, mullet flesh or live bait I think he would have caught a lot more.
There are lots of garfish in the Logan at the moment, which is another good bait for them.
A wire trace and berley will give you your best chance of fish on the table, but watch your fingers as they will snap at you when caught.
These little river whaler sharks are great fun to catch and make excellent tasting flake fillets – kids love them cooked up as boneless fish “nuggets”.
There have been good numbers of big mahi mahi offshore over the past week or two.
They are hanging around the Waverider Buoy and any floating marker or object in the water.
Still very few mackerel in the northern bay but the word from up north is that they are coming this way – the Sunshine Coast run is just starting.
Your best chance at the moment is working Raiders and chrome jigs around the Spitfire Beacons off Bribie.
A fireweed warning is still present for the Horseshoe Bay area at Peel Island, take care over the holiday period.
Whiting and flathead are dominating catches on sand banks throughout the Pin and there are still good choppers being caught off the surf on South Stradbroke between the Pin bar and the Bedroom’s track but you have fish overnight for any real success.
Jack numbers are improving – Levi Downie caught and released a personal best jack on Tuesday evening measuring 58cm long on a Downunder Boomerang lure.