Brissie river lure session 5/2/11

[chief]

Hi , we went for a river session this morning. Started at gentlemans hours and flicked a mixture of R2S d40fs, squirrel and atomics for a few fish. Garrett, myself and Jeremy found enough fish to keep us busy although not a full on session . Jeremy lost a good cod as it hung him up in the wall, we scored a fair few small bream,and a mixed bag overall. You know in all the time I've fished the river I've never caught a catfish on a HB. I've certainly scored them at Mondie in the fresh stuff but today we all got one each and jez's fish came from deep in a snag and came out of the tree branches like a rocket we were stunned to find a big cattie. Both garrett and myself scored nice lizards so it was a fun morning.

[mangrovejacks]

Top session lads.

Nice Tailor for this time of year!!

Top pics, well done.

[chief]

Cheers mate just thought I'd add a roughly 5 of the bream in the river had saddleback deformities. Seemed a high percentage. You can see it in the fish Jez is holding.

[mangrovejacks]

Cheers mate just thought I'd add a roughly 5 of the bream in the river had saddleback deformities. Seemed a high percentage. You can see it in the fish Jez is holding.

Have caught a few Bream like that over the years. I reckon it comes from being caught in nets as juveniles.

[SimonT]

Nice mixed bag there Chief. We got a similar sort of mixed bag as well this morning. Highlight for me was my first jewie on a hard body - undersize though.

Cheers,
Simon

[chief]

Good work Simon, what section of the brissie were you fishing?? You weren't in a black bluefin ??

Mangrovejacks..That was my first thought as well but after reading a little research it seems it is a valid syndrome. Who knows mate?? I'm keeping an open mind until further results are released. You scored some nice fish this morning Cheers

[Jono_SS]

There was a story on it in the courier mail last year

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1225925521435

Jono

[chief]

Thanks for that Jonno SS Cheers

[SimonT]

The black bluefin isn't me. I have a white tiller steer polycraft.

Cheers,
Simon

[wesfish]

great variety session mate!! top effort by all. there was some big tailor busting up in boggy creek yesterday with a school in the high 50s tearing up the bait balls.

[chief]

The river is in recovery mode, Cheers for that Wesfish I think we'll be in for some top fishing. Still concerned about taking any fish for food though. I think it may be best total catch and release for a while. Thanks

[Mossy247]

Well done chief it seems that the river is picking up again. And those squirrel lures should be illegal :-) . Glad that the river is bouncing back well done, top session.

[chief]

Nice work to you mossy on your effort. A nice trev. They go hard on the bream gear. Nice little area where you were fishing, turns up a few nice lizards.. The only trouble with the squirrels is finding the colour you want in stock. The river is bouncing back pretty quickly

[.:::stotty:::.]

What's the water clarity like atm Chief?

[chief]

Stotty... Its not to bad around the walls I'd say around 3 ft around the top of the tide. It still has a bit to get back to how it's been. i Believe the water clarity would be a lot better in the bottom column of water around the wharves with the better water pushing in and the discoloured crap towards the surface.