Nugget
02-10-2001, 02:32 AM
There have been some monster flathead caught from Kalinga Bank and the Southport Seaway on live herring over the past week, all breeders that most anglers are thankfully releasing.
However, as far as a good feed of fish goes, the surf has been a star performer over the past week with the area between the Causeway and the Pin Bar on North Stradbroke the centre of the action.
Catches have been made up of good tailor through the night and choppers at dawn and dusk as well as big dart, whiting and a few flathead in the close in gutters.
It has been a similar story on Moreton Island with the better quality coming from the area around White Rock and the mouth of Eagers Creek.
On the inside of Moreton there have been good flathead lying in amongst the sunken timbers and good numbers of smallish whiting at Reeders Point through the night.
Moreton Bay turned up a few nice squire leading up to the full moon during the week.
Just about any rubble or rocky bottom was the place to look for a feed.
The eastern side of Green Island, Southwest Rocks off Peel Island and Harry Atkinson all produced legal fish.
There were also a few good catches off the eastern side of King Island and on the Spoil Ground south east of Mud Island.
The few hours before daylight was the most productive and squid, mullet or tailor flesh and hardyeads all produced fish.
A few sand crabs have turned up in the deeper water around Peel and Mud Island but there has been very few reports from the southern Bay as yet.
There were also a few isolated catches of mud crabs in the upper Logan River, mostly above the Albert River junction.
A few nice whiting and flathead were caught from the beaches along the Wynnum and Manly foreshores and along the front of Victoria Point and at Thompson Beach, once again daylight was the best time using bloodworms for the whiting and frog mouth pillies slowly retrieved for the flathead.
Offshore there have been a few wahoo around the Group off Point Lookout, trolling live or dead baits has been the trick to getting hooked up.
There are still good catches of squirey snapper on the 29s and in the kelp off the Cape as well as a few pearl perch and large schools of chopper tailor.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>
However, as far as a good feed of fish goes, the surf has been a star performer over the past week with the area between the Causeway and the Pin Bar on North Stradbroke the centre of the action.
Catches have been made up of good tailor through the night and choppers at dawn and dusk as well as big dart, whiting and a few flathead in the close in gutters.
It has been a similar story on Moreton Island with the better quality coming from the area around White Rock and the mouth of Eagers Creek.
On the inside of Moreton there have been good flathead lying in amongst the sunken timbers and good numbers of smallish whiting at Reeders Point through the night.
Moreton Bay turned up a few nice squire leading up to the full moon during the week.
Just about any rubble or rocky bottom was the place to look for a feed.
The eastern side of Green Island, Southwest Rocks off Peel Island and Harry Atkinson all produced legal fish.
There were also a few good catches off the eastern side of King Island and on the Spoil Ground south east of Mud Island.
The few hours before daylight was the most productive and squid, mullet or tailor flesh and hardyeads all produced fish.
A few sand crabs have turned up in the deeper water around Peel and Mud Island but there has been very few reports from the southern Bay as yet.
There were also a few isolated catches of mud crabs in the upper Logan River, mostly above the Albert River junction.
A few nice whiting and flathead were caught from the beaches along the Wynnum and Manly foreshores and along the front of Victoria Point and at Thompson Beach, once again daylight was the best time using bloodworms for the whiting and frog mouth pillies slowly retrieved for the flathead.
Offshore there have been a few wahoo around the Group off Point Lookout, trolling live or dead baits has been the trick to getting hooked up.
There are still good catches of squirey snapper on the 29s and in the kelp off the Cape as well as a few pearl perch and large schools of chopper tailor.
ENDS
Dave Downie ><>