Well done s.u.a.f.
There are some huge flatty's about this year, great to hear that at least some are being put back
Good report too!
Keep em coming, Regards, Tony
headed up DI sat for a 24hr leave pass. the beach was pretty flat and the water even flatter. you could have launched the Brissy if she wasnt at the bottom already. saw a heap of birds diving in close and though yeah yeah here we go. put on a slug and threw and threw and nothing. no surface action so the only guess is that they were hitting bait only. spent most of the rest of the day soaking up the sun with two rods set in the holders and fine tuning my worming skills (managed to do quite well considering it was only my third time trying to catch these buggers). Nailed a nice whiting just as the tide started to push in. wind was well and truly blowing by then and seemed to have turned more southerly. travelled back down beach to just north of third cutting and it was flat/no wind. Met up with mates and headed down towards the mouth to put the nite in for maybe some good late season tailor. set the rods - got a few nibbles but with the dolphins chasing bait within a rod length from the shore there wasnt much hope. waited till just after dark and spotted some bait splashing just behind the first wave - got two good live mullet and threw them out - but still nothing. tide went down and i headed to the mouth leaving mates behind. pulled up conducted a sitrep of the mouth. how it changes so regularly. found a nice bank where the water was flowing over with a nice drop. thought i would grab a few livies in the cast net as there was plenty to have. walked out along the bank and took my first cast at some bait. boy oh boy did i get a surprise. as i brought the net in - i saw this hugh tail flapping and there she was "LIZARD LADY'" couldnt believe my eyes - had to show the crew. knowing straight away that she was oversize - i place her in my large live bait tub (like a trawler tub). bolted back up to show my mates and their girlies. should of heard the comments but i am sure you can imagine. after measuring 92cm on the stick she was released unharmed although she needed incouragment. couldnt believe it - the biggest i have seen - raced back down to mouth to get more livies and she was a little big for my hooks. saw countless marks from the previous high water ranging from her size to 6inches. makes you feel better about letting these big females go when you see the results of it - so many flathead in a beautiful river. anyways nailed some good livies - about a dozen mullet various sizes. raced back up beach to a gutter i noticed earlier in the day and set up for the change of tide - one big livie and one with bunches of worms for the bream. caught half doz throw back bream and 1 small whiting. my big livie got hammered and pulled in a good size tailor. thought beauty here we go. hooked up another through the tail (tailor factor). sent her out and no sooner had i put the rod back in the holder when the reel started to scream off - picked it up and laid back but nothing - wound in and whatever it was (shark or pelagic my guess) had nailed everything bar the last inch which just happend to be where my hook was set. clean bite straight through - any thoughts?? anyway kept throwing till the eyes started to shut - 2 am went to sleep content knowing that i had seen my biggest flatty ever and had let her go so she can keep enabling us to catch those magneficent fish. all in all a great 24hrs leave pass and taking the other half up next weekend to do it again. its hard i tell ya.
Well done s.u.a.f.
There are some huge flatty's about this year, great to hear that at least some are being put back
Good report too!
Keep em coming, Regards, Tony
Nice report mate. Yeah, know what you mean with livies being bitten off bang at the hook. If I'm in the boat, I hook 'em through the back just behind the head. If I'm casting and want a more streamlined bait I hook 'em through the bottom jaw and out between the nostrils. I seem to get more hook ups that way as predators seem to swallow fish head first so that the spines/fins lay flat going in. Other folk may disagree and have their own way of hooking livies.
A shark tackling a big bait will invariably hit a fish in the middle, run with it, then stop and turn it round head first to swallow. If I'm targetting shark I will wait for it to stop and strike on the 2nd run...........that's if I don't get spooled on the first run
cheers
kev
gday kev
i usually hook them in the head - lead the hook in just between the eye and top of the eye socket and bring it out same place other side - but however the tail thing related to the tailor so that i guess can be one species taken off the list of possiblities. wasnt actually targeting sharks - was hoping for maybe the odd jewie or even a pelagic - but all in all probably just hoping for anything really - you just never know. i have no doubt though that what ever it was would have been some fun on 15lb mono with 80lb leader. had something hit a pilly there a while ago and it just didnt stop. anyways all the best kev - was that you heading up tin can way? if so there used to be a big ledge for memory straight out from the southern end of tin can i think - about 40ft drop down - not quite sure where as it was when i was a kid me old man used to take me there and for memory up around the power lines used to do ok - anyone else?????????
Great report mate, funny what you find in the net sometimes.
Regards Cameron.
Nah, wasn't me mate. Got enough to do just sussing out the bay and offshore Moreton. If I can manage that, then I might start looking Northwards.Originally Posted by shut_up_and_fish
cheers
kev
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