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Went for a look at the upper reaches of the Nerang river yesterday afternoon.
pretty well on dead low, we put in at the Nerang ramp, which seems to be a decent ramp, clean, good surface and reasonable depth of water at low.
The skippers boats hadn't been out for a while so we took a run down stream, keeping eyes open, for likely spots.
No shortage of, "interesting" areas and pieces of structure.
We ran down as far as florida gradens, not a great amount of boat trafic, but we had to watch out for some big fast movers and a few pre teenage kids in small dingys that wern't paying attention.
first spot we droped anchor, near the mouth of one of the canals & chucked a few baits in....apart from a few promising bites, not a sausage..so we moved on.
second spot near a small drain near cypres gardens was a bit more promising.
Casting toward a pontoon, skipper pulled out a bit more than leagal bream in short order, followed by a squirming 2 foot long eel that went back over the side after performing its knot tying act.
Very shortly my black queen bent and in came a well undersized bream, ( come back later sonny) back over the side.
seeing as it was getting well into dusk I threw a dead mullet well out into the channel with a gand of three and no lead to have a drift.
I gave the little alvey a crank and in came my first legal bream at just inder 25cm.
Thanks for comming & in the bag.
Then somthing traed to sneak away with the mullet, which by now was a long way upstream, took some real solid cranking but no real fight, got to about 15 metres of the boat and whatever it was let go......Hmmm the mullet was pretty well chewed up around the first 6/0......Hmmm
The bites seem to have dried up here so we moved on.
We anchored up under the Ross St bridge, just in time for it to have a bit of a drizzle, so that was handy...."no active biters here", so after smacking a few things off the underside of the roadway
we moved on
we droped anchor up stream a way about half way to the rail bridge..... nothing seemed to be happening apart from a few pickers, so skipper ordered anchor up.
So I reeled in... low and behold on the end a bit more than legal bream with tyhe bait swallowed all the way down.....how laong had it been there?
we moved not far just upstream on the southern bank near an overhanging tree.
Skipper managed to pull a decent bream out from under the tree.
There seemed to a bit of stuff jumping and popping the surface so I left the bait to its self and tied on a popper to try my luck.....a couple of swipes near it but no bites.
I thaught i'd better have a look at the bait so I reeled in, AH so whats this, it gets a bit closer to the boat and the black queen bends like a banana and in comes a very respectable bream, again with the bait all the way down its throat.
we persisted here for a while but the run of tide was just about done & the anchor rope was limp, so we heded back to the ramp.
we had a couple more drops up near the highway bridge, bit not a squeek.
so we headed home.
all in all a not a bad evening.
certainly will have a more serious go, there seems to be lots of good structure and places that fish should hang about.
Check the picture of my bag, that big fat bream makes the others look like weeds.
the smallest was 24cm.
Top catch mate. That Nerang river can be a good friend at times and it jumps and changes. Where their is structure where you would think some goof fish are, nothing, yet in more exposed places there they sit.
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