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fished (2-1-05) the long pocket area while reading "1421". A few bream,with plenty of mud crabs taking flesh baits and heaps of catties. Floater with bonito slab pinged twice, but dropped.
where in long pocket where you fishing?
is that the one near the indooroopilly golf course and CSIRO?
have you tired soft plastics there? what was the tide conditions?
I live near the area and want o flick a few sp around in an afternon session without hooking catfish and eels.....
any help or info is greatly appreciated.
cheers mate,
yep, it's near the QDPI/CSIRO long pocket area, down from the creek+bridge, but it's a tad hard to get too, as there are cliffs. If you come from the esplanade road, go for a walk across the bridge, continue all the way along until it starts to head uphill, +up the steps. Instead turn down a small track towards the river+mangroves, 10 metres further down and your on the river bank behind the mangroves. Continue 25 metres (over a log) and you're on a nice stepped rocky outcrop/platform with a dob of cement. That's it. Very deep and near the mangroves. Plenty of casting room. SP's would only work if you have them scented. The water is very turbid. And it's best to go on a low->high tide.
BTW there was also a guy fishing from the bridge the day I was there, he was catching bream+catties as well.
The pontoon area at the end of the pocket, further down near the indooroopilly golf course also has bream (near the mangroves) and probably other stuff (like jacks?). Make sure you cast in towards the mangroves and not out into the river as I only pulled catfish up. There is also a sandy area, but before the boat ramp. Didn't try it though.
"1421" is about Zhang He, a chinese admiral who sailed and commanded treasure fleets from Nanjing, China in that year. In this book, written by Gavin Menzies, they discuss and show evidence of chinese colonies in the America, map charts of the worlds, carved stone landmarks with Tamil caligraphy on many continents/islands and wrecks of chinese junks made from teak. Surpisingly he also suggest that a 10 meter junk rudder found near tweed heads, and also the Warnnambool wreck were that of junks sailing within Zhang He's fleets. After they returned, China decided in a xenophobic fit to destroy most of the records after, as Gavin Menzies says, they discovered the world. Few, but influential, pieces of evidence exist.
The books somewhat heavy, but makes an interesting and very different perspective.
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