Boating Mud Island?

[2DKnBJ]

Pin Head
Closest ramp for you is Pinkenba but it is a bit open to the weather.Your next option is to use Whyte Island.Just make sure your ariels are down and you don't have rods in the launchers when you go under the bridge.

Cheers Dazza

[Marlin_Mike]

now the shop has gone from Pinkenba, security would be a problem for me at Pinkenba

Mike

[charleville]

I won't bother asking about where to fish when there..will have to work that one out myself.

Don't say that I don't give you anything....

There are lots of experts on Mud Island on Ausfish who might even PM you with GPS marks and there are certainly some places that fare better than others on average and you will see where they are by the crowds that congregate there on weekends. My experience is that there are spots all around Mud that yield good fish under different circumstances simply because there is just so much structure there mostly thanks to all that dredging for coral way back then.

Jason Comino is one of my favorite fishing gurus who gives outstanding presentations about fishing the Bay at the various boating shows. When I attended his talk on Mud Island at the Brissy Boat show in 2007, I took plentiful notes and copied his "mud" map of Mud Island. Those notes and my sketch of his map as shown on the screen at the Boat show are to be found at the following links...

http://img.skitch.com/20071231-tnwer...5hy3m26666.png

http://img.skitch.com/20071231-bf4yu...3udx3paeb5.png

http://img.skitch.com/20071231-gmjin...psn1mn8824.png

http://img.skitch.com/20071231-cs748...add3ss5bc5.jpg

I hope that this helps you make a start at Mud with that flash new boat of yours. (and all other readers too, of course. )


Many thanks to Jason Comino for his outstanding presentation.


Best wishes for great fishing in 2008.

[PinHead]

thanks Bruce..some helpful info there..might manage to get there one day..not sure I really want to target snapper though..not my favorite eating fish by a long shot...perhaps some nice big bream would do me.

[charleville]

thanks Bruce..some helpful info there..might manage to get there one day..not sure I really want to target snapper though..not my favorite eating fish by a long shot...perhaps some nice big bream would do me.

Greg - it is almost impossible to not catch snapper/squire at Mud no matter what you are trying to catch. eg I have caught a lot of squire on mullet gut there. They love it!

Bream are plentiful also - more so in winter, of course. Close to shore around a new moon at night is pretty good. Stealth fishing as always.

[kevinnugent@westnet.]

With winter coming up, I thought I'd revive this discussion and ask about our boat.

We have just bought a cruiser - a Bayliner 2755 (just shy of 30' LOA). How would it handle, say, from Horizon Shores to Mud and back?

Kevin

[Blackened]

With winter coming up, I thought I'd revive this discussion and ask about our boat.

We have just bought a cruiser - a Bayliner 2755 (just shy of 30' LOA). How would it handle, say, from Horizon Shores to Mud and back?

Kevin

G'day

No worries at all, will cost you a fair bit in fuel, as it's a reasonable distance.

Just stick to the main channels.

Dave

[mookyandlumpy]

ill jump on too im a newbie to the bay, i have a 4.2 mtr quinnie with a 40hp open tinnie

5 - 15 knots of wind and a s/ se on the run out and a n/ne on the run back to port is ok ????
is alright to go out to mud on a n/ne wind ???????
did i read that right ????

[mik01]

ill jump on too im a newbie to the bay, i have a 4.2 mtr quinnie with a 40hp open tinnie

5 - 15 knots of wind and a s/ se on the run out and a n/ne on the run back to port is ok ????
is alright to go out to mud on a n/ne wind ???????
did i read that right ????

where ya heading from?

[mookyandlumpy]

i have never been out up that way ,, where would be best ?????