Sunday Morning River Sesh

[Bassmaster1]

G'Day All,

Hit the water early this morning with fellow ausfisher Redclaws in aim of catching a feed of the so far illusive mature river squire. Worked a few wharves early on but it was hard to get a good drift going due to the westerly blowing fairly hard combining with fastening outgoing tide. We tried a few more spots further up stream to no avail then crossed to the north bank where the bream started to come on the bite notwithstanding the absolute absence of thier pink coloured cousins. The few that we landed were quite aggressive, all caught on 4inch minnows.
After landing a few and dropping twice as many (largely due to laziness of not changing down to smaller plastics & jig heads), we decided to work the wall at the river mouth. Got a nice chopper tailor and some more action from the aggressive bream population, with the best bream of the day coming from the newly dredged section of the fishermans island wall which went 29cm to the fork . I have to say, the amount of bait in the river at the moment is astonishing, with what looked like hardyheads, herrring & whitebait congregating in large schools/shoals everywhere we went.
The conditions didn't seem that bad around the front of FI so we decided to take a short trip over to fish the eastern side of Mud but the tide was right on the bottom and the only inquiries we managed were from the ever hungry local seagull population. After a short period we decided to call it a day and start heading back.
On our way through the boat passage we saw some schools of what we thought were Mac Tuna chopping into baitfish so we rigged accordingly and started casting. We chased and waited and chased again for around 20 minutes before managing a simultaneous double hook up which could not have been better as each fish went in completely opposite directions. Afer around 10 minutes on 10lb tackle (great fun), mine managed to somehow through the hook (felt like a solid Mac though and took one really powerful run almost taking 100m of line off me), however we still managed to get one abord going about 75cm FL. Will make some good bait for future journeys no doubt.

All in all a great days fishing and what a magnificent river system the mighty Brisbane really is.


Cheers,

Bruce

[RAT-KING]

Good stuff bassmaster a double hookup on light line would b awesome!! was the maccy in the river system? cheers simon

[Bassmaster1]

Yea mate double hookup took place pretty much on the drop off zone out the front of Boggy Ck.

Cheers,

[Jeremy]

I can also attest to the huge amount of bait in the lower reaches of the river. Mostly whitebait I think. I saw some schools of 'something' busting up along the from of Boggy Ck. I had a 5" soft plastic minnow on and didn't get a touch. Thought they might have been tuna. Good to know for sure.
Good mixed bag of fish too!
Jeremy

[Bassmaster1]

Jeremy, you werent in a new looking 5m white fibreglass centre console??

[Jeremy]

Jeremy, you werent in a new looking 5m white fibreglass centre console??

No. I was fishing Sat arvo and I think you were out Sunday weren't you.
Jeremy

[chief]

Gee the rivers on fire, top effort

[plaztix]

Nice mixed bag. Good to hear the river is getting back to normal so soon after the rain.

The river snaps sure are an elusive bunch of time wasters some times.

The macs are making up for it and fun on light gear. Theres some 1m+ monsters among them too lately.

[nuggstar]

that is a top effort

[Bassmaster1]

Yes i think one of them was defin a 1m+ version guaging by the weight on a loaded rod and the speed and power of its runs. Will be heading out for a session tomorrow afternoon so hopefully they are around.