Bribie Ekka Holiday

[lunatic]

G'day Ausfishers!
After waking up late today (0900) myself the Missus decided to head up to Bribie for a bit of a fish. After launching the boat the first port of call was fishing around the pilons of the bridge, as I thought we might pick up the odd bream. It was tough anchoring up the boat in around 8 metres of water as the tide was really steaming through. It took around three attempts when the anchor finally gripped the bottom. Sweet. After around 15 minutes this twit in a whittley cruiser came thumping through where we were fishing and the wash made our boat's anchor to let go. Once I pulled the anchor in and moved back up where we were and re-anchored the twit decided to anchor up right next to us, and one of the blokes on the twits boat decided to have a leak over the side of his boat in full view of myself and the missus. He was using very light tackle
We decided to give the bridge the flick as there was no action and moved up to in front of Buckley's hole for a bit of a drift. This produced a couple of undersized whiting. As this spot was less than spectacular, we moved further north up the passage to near the old wreck and established a drift over the sand bars near there. I was admiring a Sea Eagle sitting on top of a beacon eating a fish he had just caught when BANG, I'm on!! Winding it in, it felt quite heavy, and I thought it might have been a small ray, but to my delight it was a decent flatty going 45cm. Sweet, that's dinner sorted. got the lines back in, and BANG BANG!!! Double hookup!! The Missus pulls in another flatty at 32cm and I pull in a big filthy toad fish. We let the flatty go, he was legal, but they grow so much bigger, so we thought we would let him get a bit bigger. I let the toad fish go, after administering a little brain surgery (knife in the head).
We had a bit more of a drift around and called it quits around 1500. All in all a great day.
We are so lucky to have such a beautiful bay right on our doorstep. Even if I don't catch anything I just love getting out there.
Cheers,
Lunatic.

[lunatic]

The flatty

[charleville]

A nice feed in that bloke, Mate! Well done!

I am not the biggest fan of cruisers either.

[gregdeeth]

great flatty, perfect eating size