Hi all,
For the best part of last week I was working on North Stradbroke Island and based at Amity Point. While I did not have the time to venture to the surf, I did manage to find time for a couple of hours each day to do a bit of fishing. My first sojourns were to the rock walls. On the first two days I was there, the small squire were very thick. Most were between 30 and 33 cm but I did manage one legal fish. Bait accounted for most of the fish, although I also got them on soft plastics which also accounted for the lone and legal sized Moses Perch I caught. The surprise catch on bait though was a chinaman fish. I am familiar with this no take species (potentially cigautoxic) from the days I use to fish at Heron Island and the Swains, but this was the first one I have ever seen from Moreton Bay itself.
As I wanted some fish for the BBQ to feed my 22 students, I knew the rock walls weren’t going to cut it, so I moved to the shallow water. I have a few spots around there which produce tarwhine this time of the year, and they were there again. In some very short stints, I pulled out enough to feed the horde a couple of times. My best effort was 8 legal tarwhine in 8 casts. On the least evening a couple of my students also tagged along, and pulled out the only legal bream for the trip. A ripper of a fish just under the 40 cm mark. All in all I caught 16 species of fish, admittedly though a couple of them such as the bar tailed goatfish may not be among the prized angling species
Again, it highlights that in Moreton Bay you don’t need a boat to catch some quality fish.
Daryl
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