Pine river help please

[rollie]

Hi all going to try out Pine river on sunday could someone plesae help me with some good fishing spots and boat ramp location, i have only ever been fishing south side.
Please help
Thanks Rollie

[baitwaster]

deepwater bend boat ramp is the go. Should be plenty of flathead around. try trollin hardbodies on low tide on the edges of the channel near the hornibrook bridge.

[tunaticer]

Good ramp also at Dohles Rocks too and easy to get to. Take the Dholes Rocks Road exit from the bruce highway (1st exit after crossing the Pine River on the Freeway) and turn right under the bridge and follow your nose to the ramp, it cant be missed.

lots of sandbanks and mud banks thoughout the river that all produce the goods at times.

Upstream from deepwater bend about 400m and opposite side of the river is worth drifting with baits or livies for flathead and whiting.

Around the Bruce highway bridge pilos for cod jacks and bream also.

Jack.

[BrandonH]

Jack and Shane are both on the money Rollie is there a particular species your wanting to target? are you going to use bait or lures?

cheers
Brandon...

[rollie]

thanks jack and Shane, Brandon mate just after a good feed will be using bait but want to try lures as i have had no luck with them in the past.
Thanks Rollie

[BrandonH]

Rollie,
Flathead will probably be your best bet for a feed atm. I think most of them will be around the mouth of the pine and hays inlet. If you can't get a feed drifting on the banks around there try a bait down around the pylons of either bridge, that should get you a bream or to at least

Cheers
Brandon...

[rollie]

Thanks Gentleman

[Freeeedom]

Brandon's right on the money, but the Pine is pretty quiet at the moment. I've been out a few times using live bait in a few favourite locations and only managed the odd lizard and a few undersize bream. This rain may flush the river out a bit in which case the pylons of the Hornibrook and Houghton highways might be your best shot. (The bream are a bit better (bigger and more of them)around the reefs off Woody Point around dawn than they are in the river at the moment).
Cheers Freeeedom

[Lapras]

Rollie,

If you fish around the mouth as Brandon and Freeeedom suggest, the channel opens out on the northern side from just before the first bridge until after the second. Sometimes you find a lot of bait activity in that northern corner. Otherwise just throw in close to the pylons. I've always found the high tide better to fish the mouth, but who really knows.

Good luck.

Dave

[CB77]

The Deepwater bend ramp is far better than the Dohles rocks ramp, it has the pontoons etc and isnt as affected by the wind and tide etc.

[tunaticer]

After this rain I would be hitting the Wells at the Redcliffe end of the hornibrook bridge. On the Bramble Bay side of the bridges there is an assortment of reef patches with holes between them. The fish will be hanging in there feeding hard on all the glassy prawns that will be flushed out.

At high tide there is also two small patches of rocks a few hundred yards offshore from between Eventide and the Sandgate swimming pool. Same deal there, after rain they school there too.

Jack.