Fishing Report Moreton Bay

[Shane Boese]

Hi all

Weather conditions have not been great over the past week, but there have still been a few fish caught. The spotties are in close around Green and although they have not been huge, they were prolific mid week and on the surface.


Mud crabs have been fairly consistent in and around estuaries. Deep holes at the mouths of creeks are working well.

You should get the odd school mackerel if you head out to the Redcliffe Jetty good bait is Pillies.

Awesome jacks have been caught on plastics over recent weeks at Newport Waterways as well as estuary cod, trevally and bream have also been well and truly on the chew.

Flathead and whiting in the channels around low tide down at the pin. The pin bar has produced some good school and spotted mackerel in the early morning with good catches on Pillies and chrome slugs.

The shallows up at Cape Moreton are producing well but you have to be up and about early. Sweetlip, squire, pearlies, trevally and rosy job, and the odd gold spot wrasse on the chew as the sun comes up.

Attachments just in wayne with some good squire from Green Island.


Regards
Shane Boese

[BAR UP]

Thanks for the reports Shane.

[2iar]

Hi Shane,

These are great general reports. Please keep them coming - I'm sure all us Ausfishers enjoy and appreciate them. I know I do.

Good luck,
Mike

[uripper]

Shane
Very comprehensive report.
How accurate are the sources please?
MalM

[Shane Boese]

Shane
Very comprehensive report.
How accurate are the sources please?
MalM

Mal
As the owner of a bait and tackle store i can only report what the fisherman tell me. Some of these people i have know for years and dont dought them for a second. I am not out there to push my own wheel borrow this is a service that i wish to do just to help you guys out.

Regards
Shane

[Foxy4]

Thanks Shane. Living on the northside of the Pine River now and Geezzzz I miss the old home ground of Lota Manly area Many thanks for the report and of the air with Nugget.

[mickstar001]

Thanks Shane

[Shane Boese]

No worries guys i will kept them comming as i get the info. More than likey post on fridays.

Regards
Shane

[Ninja]

That's almost as good as Gordon's old report .

21/2/07
Not a lot of reports again this week due to exceptionally poor conditions as a result of the wind and rain squalls (basically the weather has been crap).

A few keen anglers have ventured out early morning and some have been rewarded with a mackerel or two. The Measured Mile has been one spot fairly close to shore where a few have been taken on pillies and other methods. Try jigging the beacons on the way out with chrome slugs.

The estuaries have been fishing reasonably well while the conditions have been lacking offshore. The mud crabs have been fairly consistent for those anglers setting their pots with quality oily baits. A tuna head split up the middle is a great bait that will last a few days in a pot. It exudes plenty of flavour into the water but is hard for the crabs to devour once they get into the pot. Try setting your pots around the deeper holes at the mouths of creeks and along the edges of prominent contour lines.

Anglers fishing live baits around the mouth of the Brisbane River have been rewarded with a few sharks, some of them quality specimens better than six old-fashioned feet. A few have hooked onto unstoppables, which are probably larger sharks or Volkswagen sized stingrays.

A few squire have been taken around Clara’s Rocks of late, mainly on soft plastics drifted with the current. If you are really keen to catch some quality squire then go to the effort to secure some live prawns and drift these close to the bottom with the smallest sinker possible.

Fishing from the Redcliffe Jetty has been worth the effort for those drifting pillies under a float in the early mornings. School mackerel have been the main species caught but an occasional cod, tailor or trevally is also a possibility. One angler caught a quality mangrove jack of 44cm there last week also.

The canals have been the place to be casting plastics with Newport Waterways producing some awesome jacks over recent weeks. Many anglers have been smoked and have the burnt thumbs to prove it. A few estuary cod to 55cm and an occasional trevally and larger bream have also been encountered.

The Jumpinpin area has produced numbers of school flathead and whiting for those fishing quality fresh baits along the edges of the channels around low tide and on top of the flats on the higher stages of the tide. A few school and spotted mackerel have been working down near the bar on the early morning rising tide. Anglers have achieved good results on pillies as well as chrome slugs. A nice 2.3kg tailor was also caught early last week by an angler drifting and jigging plastics aimed at flathead and school jew.

Prawns have been reasonably abundant in the creeks and rivers with most who put in the effort getting a good feed or a great supply of fresh bait.

May your bait be nervous.

Gordon Macdonald
Tackle Warehouse
Ph. 07 33986500

[uripper]

Thanks Shane.

Good info always appreciated. Nice of you to make the effort & relay it.

What changes (if any) in fish /marine activity have you noticed since the recent rain began ??

MalM