LAND BASED - PINKENBA FLATTIES - TUES/WEDS AM

[Mullet_Musketeer]

I went back to a favoured spot on the Brisbane River at Pinkenba, early morning on Tuesday – about 5.00 am. I have consistently got good Flathead here all through the year. But I suppose it is not the prettiest of spots so I do not visit it that often. I usually fish all along the rock wall behind the Cement wharf on soft plastics. I think the lights from the cement wharf attract the bait fish and the wharf itself provides a patch of sheltered water between it and the bank. The bottom is very soft mud close in, so I generally use fairly light jigheads 1/16th or 1/8th at the heaviest - otherwise they bury themselves. I always seem to get the fish very close in to the wall rarely more than 2/3 metres out. On Tuesday I was using the Powerbait Pumpkinseed 3” Minnow and once the sun came up I swapped to the Pumpkinseed 3” Minnow Grub. About 5.15 am dropped a reasonable lizard and then at 5.40 am got this 58cm beauty on the Pumpkinseed 3” Minnow.

Flush with success I decided to go back on Wednesday early am and picked up a nice Flounder, a small cod that I put back, a 45cm Lizard and a nice 55 cm model. There will be plenty of fish to eat in our house for the next few days.

[Mullet_Musketeer]

Here is Wednesdays Fish

[gregdeeth]

great flatties, im looking foward to getting amongst them soon

[White_Steenbras]

Nice flattys mate, where abouts are you fishing, looks like a nice patch of water behind you.

Don't know that spot but have fished a few around Pinkenba and Boggy Creek.

Cheers Barnesy

[R_K_HILL]

Nice catch Mullet

[Mullet_Musketeer]

I find the best spot is right behind me in the second picture - just on the rockwall beside the CCL Cement Wharf. Just keep heading along the bank from the boat ramp at Pinkenba until you reach the CCL Wharf- you can walk under it and keep fishing all the way along. It does not seem to make much difference if there is a ship in or not.

[Matthias]

Nice pis and report MM. Good to see us landbased fisho's gettin some nice fish.

Pete.

[shabss]

that walk must have been long
about 2 kilometeres?

I find the best spot is right behind me in the second picture - just on the rockwall beside the CCL Cement Wharf. Just keep heading along the bank from the boat ramp at Pinkenba until you reach the CCL Wharf- you can walk under it and keep fishing all the way along. It does not seem to make much difference if there is a ship in or not.

[White_Steenbras]

Cheers for that mate, I will check it out sometime.

Happy Fishing MM.

[Smailesy]

great fish guys well done

[slyman]

Nice fish musketeer, caught a few there too. The walk from the boat ramp is maybe 5 - 10 minutes, or if you can get off road then you can drive down, to either side of the cement place.

[4x4frog]

Damm it man...leave some for the rest of us.
Great going once again.....front runner for LBSP of the year I think.

Reading on, I think i used to fish close to there many moons ago. I had a friend with a 4wd and we'd drive down right to the water's edge. I remembered because I tried to get there in my mum's Cortina and got stuck on the way out on some of that ground cover that was all over the place back then, kind of like a succelent and very wet when it is run over hence the need for the RACQ and a very embarresed young lad when mum got back from Singapore to a bill form the towie....i have a 4wd now so I'll be right next time.
We had a nice spot for summer whiting there that always produced

[cdenyer]

Nice Flatties. I fish along there as well, but now that I have a kayak I troll from the boat ramp along the wall until I reach the end of the sunken wall. I have done well with the flatties this year along there... but 2 of them are now wearing SX40 lures after busting me off at boatside.
With SP's I have fared best with the berkley 3" powergrubs in pumpkinseed.

chris

[Poodroo]

I only wish I did that well today. Fished off the rock wall at Southport near the seaway and donated some 3"pumkin seed minnows and jigheads to the rocks. Had one nice fish on but of course it tied a nice noose around some rocks and I lost it. Will try a less snaggy spot next time I think. Win some and you lose some but at least I wasn't at work [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Poodroo

[Hornblower]

Nice work Mullet!