Passage PB in the Icy wind - Tues am

[Mullet Musketeer]

On Tuesday morning I woke up about 3.30am thinking about fish and could not get back to sleep so I headed up to Bribie where the cool wind was blowing. I decided to have a quick fish off the bank before wading in. I managed a couple of Pike down by the bridge on the island side and then dropped a Flathead up towards the boat hire place where the tour boat moors.
With the first rays of sun signaling dawn I decided to wade out on the mainland side but with snotty algae all over the bottom I soon gave up on casting plastics around there. Back to the car and down to the old favorite - Buckley’s Hole. I wandered up and down and had a couple of tussles with what I think were Pike but could not hook them. Then, in quick succession I hooked three Bream, the last of which was a real stonker at 36cm, 725g. He got himself under the ledge but fortunately loosening off the drag worked and he swam out, up and over and I dragged him safely back to the beach.
Then I got a few more hits and a couple of undersize Bream and then wallop I was on to what I thought must be a decent chopper. After a couple of very rapid runs and furious splashes I had a monster 44cm 400 gram Pike – never had one that big – what a fish.
Again it was the 2" Gulp Banana Prawn that did most of the damage. A great mornings fishing but the wind chilled me to the bone!

[BAR UP]

Hey there MM, i think i saw you on Tuesday at Buckleys. I had a shot around 6am but the drop off was a bit too far to cast into the wind. While i was checking out the situation i found 2 x 6 inch coolite floats & a plastic burley pot on the beach (bargain). I was sitting in the carpark watching you wadeing around. I went down to the canal that feeds the lock & got 2 small Flattys. Went down the Pine today & got 4 Flattys from 54cm to 57cm & 2 honker Bream pretty happy with that, Peter.

[Thorbsy]

G Day MM

Another Nice catch from Buckleys. I had a quick flic at buckleys on tues arvy for an hour or so and managed 3 nice bream before the tide got too high. So if I can catch them they must be still a few around. Those Bananas sure are the go on the breambos!!

Cheers Brad.

[stessco]

g'day next time . went up the passage today heaps of the slim every where only one bream.

[nuggstar]

hehehe go the pike

[Dirtysanchez]

MM - what do you do with the Pike ?

[Mullet Musketeer]

There are two nice fillets on the bigger ones and contrary to popular belief virtually no bones, pan fried in a fish sandwich last night.