I had been itching to have my first serious crack at some bream this year. I had planned to go Friday, but the east coast low resulted in a change in plan. My next available time was Tuesday so I packed the car and went Runaway Bay to fish the run-up from the late afternoon and into the evening. I always have a number of baits with me to chase bream and this time I had mullet, prawns and yabbies. Things started with a few small fish, but then in the fading light one of my rods took off with a tad too much speed for a bream, the fish jumped and revealed itself as a tailor. I coaxed the fish in that was neatly hooked with the small bream hook in the corner of the jaw, and I put the 38cm fish into the esky. For the next ten minutes or so tailor chopped on an off before moving further north, but I only managed a couple of bite offs on the bream gear. A couple of flathead were then caught, one just undersized and one just legal.
As the tide came in, a few bream showed up with plenty in the 25 to 26 cm mark that were let go and enough slightly larger fish to keep my interest up. No big bream though with the best only going 32 cm. Mullet proved to be the more effective bait on this occasion. The catch was rounded out by some whiting on yabbies with the best going 33 cm and a couple of blue swimmer crabs line caught as well.
All in all I caught five species for a few hours work, all on a 20 metre stretch of beach. Again don't think that you need a boat, a 4WD or the latest fishing gadgets to catch a feed of fish in SEQ. Keep it simple and you will catch fish.
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