Where to explore with 6m glass boat

[ozscott]

Hi all,

I would like to take my Vag exploring. I like Moreton but it's patchy for fishing for people who don't get out a lot. Recently I got spoiled by fishing in a Bundy creek and the fishing just left Moreton for dead. I am thinking bay type/river areas in Northen NSW like the tweed and up north say Hervey Bay...any ideas and ramp suggestions ? I am thinking 2 day trips where the waters are quieter and fish a bit thicker in numbers...

Cheers


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[Jeremy]

Top end of Hervey Bay is good. Launch at Urangan and camp at Wathumba creek. Avoid the Westerlies. Anything NE to SE is good. Like anywhere it takes time to find some good spots, but it is a nice area and relatively quiet.

[ozscott]

Excellent. Thanks Jeremy.

Cheers


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[Scalem]

Welcome to our world ( if you live in Brisbane) . I'm not the best person to talk to seeing as I just canned a trip with the other Yalta owners planning a trip to 1770 this weekend, if not for the wind- for exactly the reasons you described. The trouble with bigger trips is the amount of preparation to go further afield than your own back yard. I've spent hundreds on rocket launchers, spare bits and pieces, spotlight, upgrade the 1st aid kit only for the weather to turn sour. Let me quote you "who don't get out a lot" I am convinced that even people who do get out a lot can't guarantee success from one day to the next, especially in the bay at the moment. I can't elaborate too much as peoples reputations are at stake, but if you are trying to get a bag limit of snapper at the moment, my mail is you will need every skill you have, and even then, you have to find the fish which more often than not, just not there. Then there are those who look for LT tuna - you need to specialize in that too, or drive the guys who know what they are doing crazy! Whiting - enough guys on here who know how to get a good feed, planning to try that for myself soon. I think you need to diversify with your methods. I had adopted a plastics only approach, but learned there are conditions that just don't suit plastics and nowadays switch to bait, hard bodies, jigs or plastics until I find something that works. If you are content to keep fishing with the same methods you always have, fine, enjoy your day out but you will have to get used to the expression so many of us have come to accept " It was a great day out but a fish or two would have been a bonus" On the other hand vary your techniques, I think you increase the odds and try to understand what techniques work in different conditions / Scenarios. The fish pic below was caught on a 4" plastic and 12lb leader at the 24s off the seaway, only 45 mins drive from my place so I still call it local. 3 POB where the other two guys persisted with bait ( not having a sling at bait fishos, not so, I used bait for half the day too!) and they caught nothing. I had 3 massive hits prior to this fish - all on plastics. I offered a perfectly good berkley dropshot rod with Penn reel all rigged with jighead and plastic to one of the other guys after I pulled this in ...... not interested! Pride? Breaking the code? I wasn't asking for a cane toad to put on a blues jumper, just offered a try at something different!

I am not saying I know all the answers, you possibly are already using all methods i described, but there is always something else and some I need to try myself for the 1st time.

Hope this is helpful Ozcott


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[Horse]

Hervey Bay is probably your best option and probably fishes a bit better than Moreton Bay at most times. I would persevere with Moreton Bay a bit more as there are a lot of good fish to be found in it

[ozscott]

Thanks gents. I generally fish plastics only although the last two trips I turned to good quality bait for part of the day. I will try trolling again as I haven't done that in a while and will return to Mud too...not persevered there and Peel and Harry is a bit crowded. I might also do a run through the Seaway...again haven't been there is years. Thanks fellas.

Cheers

[mudcrab3]

in that boat id recommend a trip out off 1770 around 70km in that boat is no worries to lamont or Fitzroy

[lbger]

Gota agree with scalem.. Fish local more often will cost less or the same and just really vary everything you do till it works for you... And Target specific fish.
Ive spent 20 days at 1770 to fish the headland landbased for spanish and GT's.. Rented a house and all plus the travel time etc etc etc (over 3 diff trips) the SE wind stuffed it everytime and i have spun one school mackerel up and thats it.. 60 bucks of fuel in the boat off the seaway earlier this year and i still have spanish in the freezer...