Would like some help

[Moby Dick]

Hi just recently bought myself and my 2 girls aged 7 & 9 a little tinny so that we could go out fishing instead of fishing from the shore. I have been putting it in at dohles rocks and fishing around that area each time the girls have caught a couple of bream ranging in size from 25-27cms . The excitment this causes between them is priceless just watching them getting excited and the big grins on their faces the tinny has already paid for itself. Anyway reading through some of these posts there seem to be quite a few decent size catches not only bream taken around this area. I would really appreciate any advice on location,best times, best bait, tackle etc so that they might have a chance of landing a big one. Many thanks Moby

[robersl]

Hi Moby
if you put in at dohles rocks head just upstream a few hundred metre to where the mangroves start on your right just past the gap from the ramp drift that bank using pillies for flathead or anchor up in a metre of water just off the bank and use worms for whiting bit late in the season for them there at the moment but come early september they will show up again

shane

[Moby Dick]

Hi Shane Thanks very much for the tip will definately give it a try where you suggested. Fairly new to the fishing game still got heaps to learn about locations ,baits, rigs etc but this seems to be the site to gain the knowledge from. Once again many thanks for your advice hopefully it won,t be to long before I can post a picture of one of my girls with a big fish

[wags on the water]

Moby,
Welcome to the site and most peoples' favourite pastime. Grab yourself a mug of coffee and do a search for the info first. If you can't find what you're looking for then ask away.
Sorry I can't help you with fishing in the Pine River.

Cheers,

Wags

[yellowbeard]

I've found over the years that in shallow water the quality bream like very light line because they spook very easily. Line should be about 2Kg. Fish in and around oyster leases or just off mangroves (forget the spots where you get continually snagged). There are lots of baits for bream but the easy ones are raw chicken thigh or breast (whichever is cheaper), fresh squid, and cooked venamai prawns (or any cooked prawns). Use a swivel and a light running bean sinker and a 1.0 or 2.0 suicide hook. Use light boat rods and it's important to leave around one metre from the swivel/sinker to the hook; this causes the bait to present naturally in a flowing stream of water. If this makes it too difficult for the girls to throw out you can shorten it a bit, but not by more that half. If you're anchoring --and I'm convinced it's best to anchor for bream -- choose a spot as above but ensure that you have a strong flow of water; if it's not flowing forget about it. Make sure you learn to cast the rods as far away from the boat as possible -- this is not an old wive's tale, bream are spooked by the boat. You only need a few metres of water for bream (but not so you can see the bottom).
A tip on anchoring for bream: I can't emphasize how relaxing and practicle it is to anchor a tinny across the stream when fishing for bream. This means that 3 people can fish with their lines perpendicular (at 90 deg. to the boat), be relaxed, have plenty of room and avoid tangled lines. It's not as difficult as it sounds but you will look like a pro to all the other boaters.
Firstly you need 2 anchors (of course one at the back and one at the front). You can use small sand anchors or even rock pics -- sand anchors are much better.
Once you determine how deep the water is (this is achieved by regularly fishing in the same spot and knowing the depth) you permanantly tie the front anchor at the required depth -- plus about 5 metres. Then you motor out (or even row) across the current at right angles (obviously any direction you like) towards your exact spot, and when you hit it you drop the back anchor and travel on about 10 metres letting the back anchor run out freely. Then ask someone to drop the front anchor and leave it alone (because it's already tied at the correct length). Then you quickly pull back on the back anchor until the front anchor bites in (you'll feel the boat pull slightly). Then tie off the back. Now you should be anchored at right angles to the current and ready for a day's fishing.

[garman1]

I have done this in a small tinnie, but want to see how it goes with a 4 metre tinnie. drop the front anchor and put a length of rope around the main anchor line and then run it to the stern, you can pull the stern rope tighter to form a "bridle" and in effect "turn" the boat to which ever side you want.............. I would not suggest it in open water but in estuaries I think would be ok.......

Also works great if your fishing by yourself and don't want to crawl up to the front of the boat all the time, pull the anchor in at the side using the attached stern rope and when you drop it let the stern rope loose and let the anchor pull up tight where it normally would be. All this depends on conditions and locations of course. As normal don't have the motor in gear when doing all this etc

Remember small boats don't have as much freeboard as larger boats, so rocking from side to side can be a "bad" thing !!!!!!!!

[GES]

Remember also that when you fish for bream, or indeed any fish in relatively shallow water, you have to be quiet.
You can talk of course but banging things around in the boat is a no - no.
I don't know how many times I have been bream fishing and catching a few, when some goose comes on the scene in a tin boat and chucks an anchor SPPPLOOOOSH over the side then lets the anchor chain RAAAATLE out over the gunwale of the boat or bangs around with oars and other bits of equipment inside his boat as he gets himself settled.
Nobody in that area catches fish for ages after that sort of thoughtless stupidity.
Another tip is to catch your own live bait or use freshly caught cut baits.
Frozen bait is second rate at best.
An Alvey bait pump is a good investment and it's fun for the kids to participate in gathering yabbies for bream or whiting bait.
If you need information on how to find yabbies, how to use a yabbie pump or how to catch any sort of bait species, just search on this site.
Mate, there are so many people on here who will help you, you won't die wondering.

GES

[Jurkyjj]

Moby,

Are you able to travel a bit???
As you can see from the amount of posts on here about the way the Brissy River is Fishing....I would strongly suggest going for a cruise up there.
Have a drift along the sunken wall or even throw a couple of soft plastics, if you have started on these, around the rock wall at the mouth of the river.
Very productive catches have been coming in at this time of year and they will still be around for the next month or so.

If you can't travel to the Brissy river, maybe try around the front of Redcliffe.
You will be able to see from the posts that there are more than a feed of bream, squire etc on offer in these areas as well.

Tight Lines.