Townsville, Bohle river 23/6

[Scott nthQld]

Went out in the Bohle again to fish the coming in tide on Saturday afternoon hopefully to get some grunter on yabbies, also put a few crabpots in using fish frames/heads from a previous trip.

The larger grunter weren't on the bite, but it seemed like i was catching the same fish over and over about 20 grunter all just under legal size, it was starting to give me the shits, so I moved down to the mouth of the river after some winter whiting, again with live yabbies for bait.

I coulden't get my line in fast enough without getting absolutely picked to peices by small bream and grunter, though eventually the whiting got in first and I ended up with a nice feed or 2.

As for the crab pots we got 3 nice, big, ful bucks to chuick in the pot when we got home, though we probably would've had more if some lowlifedidn't cut the bottom out of one of our pots to raid it, I can hardly believe the crap some people get up to in this place.

All in all a reasonably productive fishing trip, and a lot of fun had by all. Hoping to go out again this Saturday really early in the morning to fish the morning high tide.

[kingkev]

It sounds as though the Grunter are about in munbers albeit the kindergarden. I had a similar situation off the rock walls. Lets hope that those released eventually fatten up and the reports reflect that by end of next month.

I love my fishing and love the environment...................what I don't understand is idiots stealing crab pots and fishermen/women leaving rubbish laying around after a fish session. I am sure some of these people have a brain as big as the fish they catch.

Anyway, thanks for your report.

[Taipan]

Better luck next weekend Scott. There is something worse than pot raiders and thats the peopple who do the wrong thing and use about 30 pots. Seen it happen down atBarratta's. 2 blokes had about 30 pots in thier boat. Fisheries were there that day and I hope the mongrels got pinged.

[Mozza]

Phew!

That's a relief - now I don't feel too bad about not going out Sunday night...

I've gotta say Scott, thats the reason I usually don't take the pots when I go creek fishing. It just a pain the bum having to keep a constant lookout on them.

They come when the kids are the boat since I don't set the expectation too high as long as the kids have a good time.

Mozza