Another nice bag from the Pine!

[Freeeedom]

Launched at Clontarf at 5.30 this morning hoping to get a few squire outside the Woody Point green zone. Unfortunately the 'lighter winds inshore early' forecast wasn't light enough for me, so I ran over into the Pine and grabbed a few live baits in the cast net, then settled down to fish the Redcliffe bridges in the hope of finding a few lizards. The bite was steady without ever being spectacular. Took me until 10.30 before I got my fifth, with one going 60cm and a couple more about 50. As well I'd managed 7 reasonable bream and only had to release 2 undersize lizards, 3 undersize bream and one shovel nosed shark - that's a big improvement on what I've been getting there lately.
Amazingly not a single other boat appeared until about 9.30, when two came down, anchored for about 10 minutes and then disappeared up-river again. Ended up quite a nice morning with the shallow banks across the low tide moderating the chop and making it quite comfortable.
Cheers Freeeedom

[Funchy]

Well done mate. Very nice feed indeed. Went out this morning myself for 4 flattys. Only one keeper.

[kingcray]

Another awesome post Freeeedom.
Deano

[bondy99]

Freeeedom,

You defintely like the bream. good catch.

Bondy

[womp]

One of these days im gunna hook up to a lizard and finally land it. Hopefully a massive one decides to chow down on one of my new plastics in the coming weeks.

[Lapras]

Nice catch Freeeedom, did you find any prawns or were they taken on herring?

Work has stopped my fishing for a while, but might see you out there after the Easter madness.

Dave

[clone trooper]

Another great post/ catch Freeeeedom you might have to think about writing a "how to on the Pine" for the rest of us who can't catch anywhere near that. again good catch. I'm holidays next week and will be down the pine alot. might see you on it. cheers. Brad.

[Freeeedom]

Freeeedom,

You defintely like the bream. good catch.

Bondy

Just bycatch at this stage Peter. I was targeting lizards specifically using bigger baits than I would normally use for bream. My bream fishing in the Pine tends to tail off from now on as I prefer to chase the winter fish in more exciting locations.

Cheers Freeeedom

[Freeeedom]

Nice catch Freeeedom, did you find any prawns or were they taken on herring?

Work has stopped my fishing for a while, but might see you out there after the Easter madness.

Dave

The best of the live baits were small poddy mullet and winter whiting Dave. I did get some herring but they were very large and nothing would touch them. The bream and some of the flathead took large prawn baits (frozen) but I used up the last packet from the ones we caught in October. I did manage to put the net over a school of prawns at one stage - they were jumping all over the place on the surface, but by the time I brought the net in they had all escaped through the mesh they were so tiny. I ended up with one prawn!
Cheers Freeeedom

[fisho8]

Nice Work Freeeedom nice feed there mate good to see the pine is putting on some good fish well done mate. Thanks for the report.

[Richo1]

Well done great catch!