Couple of Baito sessions, landbased on the Bris, no pics

[MudRiverDan]

Went out to boggy creek mouth this morning cast up a few herring and half a dozen big mullet on the way, got there about half tide incoming.

Seen some Tailor chasing small fish so threw out a popper while I also threw out a live herring. Big dramatic surface bust up on the popper , but the Tailor clean missed the lure altogether.

Also tried the useless bloody Bassday Wanderlei I paid $14.00 for and gave up as I couldn't see it and didn't know if it was under or had surfaced... very stupid lure.

Live rod went off, catches as follows:

1 chopper Tailor on live herring about 40 cm.
1 69 cm flathead on live herring.
1 good Tailor 55 cm on fresh mullet strip, put up a good fight took a lot of line at first.
1 55 cm flathead on fresh mullet gut.

Fished the top of the tide and it went quiet, fished the outgoing without any bites.

Conditions: No wind, light breeze, early morning.

The other fishing session was near Bulimba yacht club, night time, cast up a hundred anchovies, the water was thick with em, few good prawns in there.
Put the prawns on live, kept the anchovies for the freezer, will make good backup bait.

Large live prawn got smashed in the first 15 minutes (Hight tide on the turn), no head shakes but blistering runs, very fast...Threadfin I suspected, was big, but it spat the hook after I got it to the bank for a third time and gave it too much slack.

Was a big fish over 1 meter, was kind of glad it spat the hook but it did leave me shaking a bit, I was hoping it wasn't a Threadfin, but they are common if you sit in the right spots at night with a livie out.

I don't like catching Threadfin much as they often swallow the hook, they often go belly up when you try to release them, I don't like the taste of them much if I keep one to eat.
Much prefer a 90 cm Mulloway or a nice flathead or Estuary cod.

After that tide started rushing out, weed appeared, picker bream, went home.

[MudRiverDan]

Sorry I will get a camera phone soon, it is always nice to see some pictures.

[Genesis]

Well done on the sessions. I suspect threadie judging by how you described the runs. They pull like a freight train especially when over a metre.

[MudRiverDan]

Cheers mate

yeah they are caught over 1 meter all around that area of the river.
chasing the anchovies and prawns no doubt.

[chaspion01]

Great report mate, well done on a couple of decent sessions.