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only fished in AUS a few times now 4 trips QLD and 1 NSW thing is i am trying to read some rhyme and reason into the beach fishing here ........but it is probally way to early for me to do this without getting it wrong, but it seems to me that when i fished the bigger tides the catch rate increassed quite dramatically indeed the full moon and the new moon tides were the ones which produced the most fish and i have done identical trips to the same beach several times with very different results for example bribie surf beach near 4x4 access me and the missus did great here one morning did not fail to get bites every cast!! i admit it was not the sort of things you guys chase but we had a woobygong shark some 15-20 kilo leopard rays and what i have had since identified as a tailor along with loads of missed runs and bite offs!!!! from some fish very close to the shore tide was 7.7 but fished it the next week and crap!!!! nothing one decent run and that was it!!!!tide was 5.2 is there a link in tidal strengh to catch ratio the first trip there was lots of you guys (aussies) down there having a go but the next trip none??
also fished mudjimba 2 days before our decent trip at bribie and that was good also ,plenty of fish ok they were shovelies!!!lol lol but my mates had tailor and dart also, as well as me being bitten off and snapped up on 3 occasions tide 7.8
went back to bribie yesterday and did crap again fished from first light to 10 am nothing other than my daughter getting a juvenile tailor on a lure!!
thing is guys is there a get fish quick scheme i can employ to know when to go???
or is it all coincidence and pot luck????
any thoughts or suggestions on picking the most productive times would be much appreciated
Lots of variables so there is not really a hard fast general way of fishing the beach, you have to fish the tide that best suits the beach formation, wind and swell that is present in most cases. Dawn or dusk and into the evening are usually prime times for most beaches but also depends on what you are targeting.
If they are shallower gutters or mellon holes you are fishing then toward the top of a bigger tide will usually produce better catches. Deep gutters can be fished most any time however some sort of wave wash on the bank will help.
The last few hours of the runout and run in can be just as productive if not more so than as towards the top of the tide when conditions suit.
Usually I travel till I find formation to suit what I am trying to catch, or if I can't do that I change my target species to suit the conditions.
Daytime in calmer areas whiting and flathead are your most likely targets and short casts are usually all that is required. Good wave action will find whiting fishing the calmer drains as the tide falls, bream will sit just behind the shore break and just off banks on the rise and fall. Dart will usually be out on wider banks and can be seen in waves when they are schooled up, casting out to the bank will usually bring results, tide really doesn't matter too much for them so long as there is some white water about. Tailor are best targeted dusk and dawn or into the night, in similar country to dart, eg skinny bank with good white water and depth in the gutter, not too far from an open break in the bank.
Pippies, worms and yabbies will catch whiting bream dart and flathead, pilchards and cut flesh baits for tailor and flathead.
Also the beach can be funny at times, conditions look perfect, can even see the fish just sitting there at times but they won't take a bait. Just one of those fishing things
I didn't have a chance to get in touch with you, but was up at Maroochydore two Mondays back (first time on the sunshine coast for years and as usual it poured rain) and just before a storm hit took a peek at the beach near the surf club on the north shore?. There was a nice lower water gutter just to the south that would be worth checking out. Wednesdays light southerlies might be the go.
I'm starting to come good now, so maybe around mid January(when the crowds thin a little) I will try and get onto the beach with you.
cheers glenn!!!! thanks mate for taking the time to write all that info!!! i am moving on the 30 th of dec to maroochy so any time in jan would be great to meet up mate the north shore is where i fished i think, my first Aussie fishing experiance from the shore and as you say not much during the day but once night came that all changed!!!!got loads of shovelies and smashed and bitten off a few times by something else!!!! not great by sport for you guys but for a pom starved of decent fishing action for years by the awfull state of the uk fish stocks i had died and gone to heaven lol lol i was hooking things that actually fought back and resisted being brought in!!!!!! it was great!!!! so i cant wait to get back up there now on a regular basis and really start to suss it out and if we can do some together that would be great!!!!
i hope your feeling better mate, and i wish you all the best for 2005
have a great new year, best wishes to you and yours.
Whenever i fish the surf, deep gutter=fish. Usually the tides on effect how close/far out the gutter is. As long as u can get into a gutter, you should get fish. Use yabbies and you'll get dart, whiting, flathead and bream in the gold coast. Go down to the beaches at Tugan and Currumbin and in the gutters there you will always get fish.
hi guys
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