|
REEL-EM-IN
FISHING GEAR AUSTRALIA |
Recreational fishing rules in Queensland - Tidal waters
Fishing KURUMBA by Garry Nichols 19/6/2006
One Queenie on the first day with the above then the weather turned
messy. Next day I woke up to find two rods missing from the boat. The
Pfluger 9000 spin reel coupled to an 8' pelagic that I had not used
although I had lent it to a bloke on board as his gear was crap. Also
lost a HA3000 loaded with braid mounted on my late fathers Shimmano Bull
whip. They new what they were after as they picked up another blokes
combo from a rod holder and placed it back on the boat floor choosing
instead my Reel-Em In gear. It goes to show that even thieves have taste.
 
SOME NICE FISH CAUGHT ON THE COOMERA RIVER USING A 7 ' PELAGIC
ROD
AND HBC 50 REEL WITH BRAID LINE 25/03/2006
 
Fishing North of Bowen by Jamie
Mctagget 20/2/2006
 
Fishing by Adre at Hervey Bay 12/2005
 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fishing at Port Albert by Neville Lowe
29/10/2005
 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Report by Robert Lang Fishing
at twin bridges 5/2005
The Telstra boys while on a canoe
trip down the Brisbane river camped at twin bridges
over night and tried their
luck at fishing here is the winner for the competition .
Mark Hardy with his prize
getter
Try using bait next time and leave the yellow
cans at home.
I HOPE IT WAS A CATCH AND RELEASE AS WE LIKE
THEM A BIT BIGGER
Report by Des Kenyon Fishing trip
out off Stradbroke Island 29/4/2005
The start of the Bush & Beach
family fishing classic.
The weather was forecast for
light winds and that's what we got. The jumping pin bar was dead flat as we
headed for the bait fish grounds. Once here we located the bait fish and
soon had enough for the mornings
fishing. It was then off to the pinnacles
to see if we could catch a prize winning snapper. As it turned out
we never
did get that prize winner but all in all the snapper of a good table size
and we filled the ice box
with a nice feed.
Report by Des Kenyon Fishing trip out of
Bribie Island 24/3/2005
Report by Des Kenyon Fishing trip out of
Harvey Bay 27/11/2004
Weather winds from the south east 15 km
we headed to the top end of Fraser Island our
first stop was at Platypus bay
where we picked up some mackerel. We then headed up
to Rooneys point to
get out of the wind here we caught some squire a large morwong
and
some more Mackerel 13 in total not a bad trip .
The mackerel were caught on the troll
with Prince lures or while bottom fishing
 
 
Report by Barry Parker Fishing trip out of
STRADEBROKE
The boys were into the Snapper again 10/2004 nice
Parrot
 
---------------------------------
Report by Barry Parker Fishing trip out of Bundaberg
The boys were into the reds and the sweetlip again
9/2004
 
Report by Wayne
Lang Hideaway
bay 1/3/2004
Some nice reef fish caught, The Spangled
Emperor weighed in at just under 6 kilos ..(and that was after
it was
gutted ).
W
"thats the biggest fish
I've ever caught "
-----------------------------
Report by Brian Harris 9/2/2004
Hi Barry
Caught these two gummies in western port with 7ft pelagic and pices reel with
20lb monofilament line and 4/0 nickel-beaked hooks, had great battle with a
4-5ft stingray, rod/reel preformed great.
Brian
---------------------------------------
Reflections
from Innisfail
9 Jan. 04
It is now 2004 and I find my self with a
little spare time on my hands. I’m coming to
the end of a couple of weeks
break from “The Job”, the boat motor is suffering from
stress (gearbox), the
board of directors (wife) is away caring for her 93yo Dad, while
the apprentice
director (daughter) is getting some beauty sleep in preparation for
another
party. Of course yours truly is required at midnight or there about, to
chauffeur
said apprentice and mate’s home. To
top it off the first Day-nighter clashes with said
party (well Dad they could
re-schedule the game) so nary a drop of the heavy stuff will
pass my lips due to
the needs of the apprentice.
Two nights ago Stan (mate and father to
apprentice No 2) and I along with a work associate
from Townsville headed out to
the wide grounds off Innisfail in search of Red’s.
Accompanying us in their own rig was Ray (father) and Brett (son), Reel-em-in customers
in search of
their first ever Red Emperor capture. Upon leaving I suggested to apprentices
they may wish to stay up until after midnight and assist with the cleaning of
fish and
equipment when we arrived back home. Now being exceptional apprentices
we received
the standard Board of director’s reply of, don’t disturb us
when you get home, we have
plans for tomorrow (shopping) and we will need all the
rest we can get along with a
substantial injection of funds, just to make the
effort worth while. Now I thought we
males were the hunters and gatherers, you
know the predators; perhaps it has something
to do with thechanging weather
pattern (EL- Ne-fem-dominance) or
the New Year!
We left Mourilyan harbor at 5pm and
headed out directly into a short, sharp, easterly chop.
Not the most comfortable
of seas to traverse in a 16ft side console tinny, so we changed
course for a
spot I had fished previously, offering some protection, 27 miles out from home.
We both dropped pick just on last light at
the same mark only meters apart, the
problem was we didn’t hold, whilst Ray and Brett did.
As we drifted
over the
mark Stan hooked up on a good head shaker (possible Red) only to have the hook
pull 20 ft off the bottom. The same thing happened to him on the very next drop,
it was
then he checked his hooks only to discover he could have ridden to Bourke
and back on the
point and not broken the skin. Needless to say Brett cracked his
first red of around 12 pounds
and Ray chimed in with a smaller one, they also
put a couple of nice Spangle's Spangled
Emperor) on board and released a big
cod and didn’t they let us know. All we could muster
from some 30 yards off
the mark (where the anchor finally hooked) was three respectable
Spangle’s, caught by yours truly.
A move was called for by Brett as he now
had his first Red Emperor on board and was keen to
top up with some Nannygai, we
weren’t about to argue. So back toward the coast we went
with a couple of
unproductive stops on the way. The spot we were heading for is a small
patch of
rubble in 35m (yeah I can use metric), a once over with the sounder showed the
fish
were here so down went the pick. The first fish, a small mouth nannygai
(50cm) was on board courtesy yours truly within five minutes, a bit unusual for
this spot, usually only takes a minute.
On our boat the action was hotting up
when Brett gave us a call on the 27meg skiting about a
20lb Silver Nanny (Large
Mouth Nannygai) he just caught (turned out to be about 14 lb, still one
prized
fish), don’t you just hate it when an invited guest not only beats you but has
the
temerity to let you know in no uncertain terms. Bret did however say that
the action was
rather quiet. Just the info I required, so half an hour later I
informed him we were showing
our hooks to do a count so as not to exceed our
limit, talk about bite, the swiftness and
ferocity was equal to that of a large
Mackerel, Id have to say it was the best bit that night.
We headed for home at midnight leaving
the fish on the bite, on my boat we wound up
with seven fish each to 60cm while
Ray and Brett out did us in the quality stakes courtesy
of Brett’s two trophy
fish.One couldn’t ask for more on a balmy
tropical night, a fair sea,
good mates and some healthy fishing. Sea ya out there.
  
 
 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Report by Shane Cunningham
3/11/03
WESTERNPORT BAY
The snapper have started to run up the bay and are being taken up to 10kg on
pilchards,
sauris,squid and fresh fish fillets.
King George whiting are starting to show up in large numbers and being taken
on bass
yabbies and pippies
Gummy and school sharks to 6 feet also around
ANDERSONS INLET
A few salmon still around being taken on lures and fly the whiting are
starting to show up
along with the odd gummy shark and snapper.
A few perch and flathead to 2.5kg have been reported
around the snags and around the horse shoe.
If your down this way drop in and have a look at
our range of REEL-EM-IN fishing gear
Shane Cunningham
Report by Des Kenyon Great fishing trip out of Bundaberg
We headed out from the port at about 11am on the 23/11/2003 on
our way back to Brisbane
and stopped for 2 hours to do some reef fishing over a
gravel patch. There was a good show
of fish on the sounder so we did some
drifting and it wasn't long before we started catching
some nice fish Red
Emperor Sweet lip and Parrot
----------------------------
Fraser Island 24/98/2003-31/8/2003
The weather was great and the house we stayed in Orchid
Sands was fantastic
plenty of
room for 14 people in the house, with room for 6 more in a self contained shed
if required.
We started fishing on the 25/8/2003 at the beach just in
front of the old resort under the
palm trees. The fishing was great with a mixed
bag of Tailor Dart and Trevally .We managed
to catch 658 fish for the week not a
bad effort for the amount of effort we put in.
The sharks were in the gutters as usual
giving you the eye ball as they went up and down
the gutter.
 
 
We finished up with mixed bag of 686 fish for the week most of
these were caught on
the following lures
The Prince 6cm & 8cm
Shad all colours $6.50
The silver and gold Minnow lures $5.00
An the Dandy Mackerel lures
and Diver lures FROM $3.75
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fishing report by Andre 3/6/2003
Went
out to the 9 mile last Wednesday with a mate, floating pillies near a couple of
snapper traps. We had
twenty one
hook ups for 17 keepers, the smallest being 35cm.
Biggest snapper caught on the day was a 6.9kg
snapper with a flowery cod
of 13kg also being caught by Paul. Trevally
and sweep were also being caught on light
line.
Used the 8ft pelagic with a 6000 reel.
Went well. Highlight of the
day was watching two whales breaching
and frolicking near the boat.
Suggestion of the week, 9 mile is looking pretty good at the moment as we
are coming
up to snapper season and they are certainly on the run but be weary
of the tweed bar as we had to end up surfing in.
Good fishing tight lines. Andre
---------------------
Fishing report by Des Kenyon from
the21/4/2003 TO THE 27/4/2003
One week at Burubbra Island just
out of Bundaberg
What a fantastic week, fishing, crabbing,
and just relaxing. We caught 38 crabs and 76
Bream between the 5 of
us not a bad score considering the Weather conditions wind ,
wind and morewind
with rain towards the end of the week.
It was funny the female crabs were out
on the prowl by night with the male crabs coming on
during the day. Most of the fish were caught at the beginning
of the week with catches of
24 on Tuesday and 33 on the Wednesday
with the remainder coming in dribs and drabs.
see larger photos
A friendly and competitive
fishing charter was put together by friends and staff of Optical Networks
Queensland
( On Que ) and NDC. Tom Cat Charters out of Raby Bay were on the ball
with Dave Palermo captaining the boat.
Battling the wind and rain all day Dave
still put us on to the fish everytime, and between all a mixed bag of over fifty
fish were caught, Squire were the bulk of the
catch with mixed reef fish like
Pearl Perch, Parrot, Wrasse and even
Trevally were taken. We also took home two
good size Amberjack which were caught on the 37 Fathom mark off
Moreton
Island
and the other at Shallow Tempest.
report by Greg Fay
Moreton bay 15/2/2003
SPOTTY MACKEREL PATCHY
19/11/2002
In the morning we headed out to the bird cages but for some
reason only one other boat
was out here.....
( I think everyone else new more
that we did) as we only boated three small spotty Mackerel
and
missed one beauty on the surface. The fishing were feeding on the surface
but as soon as you got near the school
they would disappear.
Don't
forget the new size limits and bag limits Spotty Mackerel 60cm 5 per person
I just hope they can do this when the Ring net guys are
about.
Until Next time keep catching em
Trawler operators ,SPOTTY MACKEREL & Ring netters
25/1/2002
What a great public holiday, of course it's a Monday the
conditions where out of this world.
A slight breeze at the boat ramp
and the water was crystal clear, Barry Parker myself and
his Father Neil
had decided to head over to the four beacons or the wrecks in search of some
more Spotty Mackerel on the inside of Moreton Island. It's No
wonder the fish, crabs and
prawns are being depleted in Moreton Bay, as we
counted 22 trawlers working every inch
of the bay on the way over there.
One of the trawlers, we were following was just sorting
the catch and I
can say that there were no live fish going back, as we all stood there and
watched the Sea gulls picking up the dead by-catch. When are
these so called Professional
fishermen and the Government going to learn that
this type of rape and pillaging has to
stop..... I believe we need to get
behind these fish farmers and make them the best in the
world.
If managed in the proper way Moreton Bay
with the help Government and
Environmental agencies could make this the best thing even
for us
fishermen....Just imagine if they released 5 % of all fish being breed back into
the bay,
wouldn't that be better than the needless killing that the trawler
operators are doing now.
Any way back to fishing we only managed to
land two Spotty Mackerel at the Wrecks for the
morning, so we started heading
home, as we got closer to Mud island we saw some boats tied
together so we
decided to take a closer look. It was Professional fishermen ring netters
this
time pulling in 3 Mackerel with every one meter of net ( no wonder there
numbers
are under threat ). We pulled up closer and started watching them
and I thought I'd take
some photo's of the dead fish in the net. As we watched
them one of the guys pulled out a
telescope and started looking
out to see behind our boat as there was a new outbreak of
fish on the surface.
We started up the motor and when chasing this school and managed
to catch
another two fish. With four fish on board we called it a day and
headed home.
Some how the figures don't add up on who's doing the most
damage in the bay.
Ring netting to cease in MAY 2003 if there are any left
 
RING NETTERS
report by Des Kenyon
----------------------------------------------------------
Somerset Dam Report by Frank Trott
112002
Lyn and Frank Trott had a fun day on the
Somerset dam in November 2002 with the largest fish
caught for the day being a
Golden Perch ( yellow Belly) weighting in at 2.9kg at 53cm Frank
then caught a
nice Australian Bass at 55cm which was released.
large photo
SARATOGA
TRIP 07/01/03-09/01/03
by Steve Brown
After an early morning start we arrived at our destination,
after a 6-hour drive with the last
70 k’s really being quite rough with
nothing but an extremely corrugated dirt road to travel on.
We arrived at the
property right on the Dawson River mid-afternoon quickly set up camp
and got the
boat into the water for a late afternoon fish, our target species for this trip
was
the mighty Saratoga or better known as the Dawson River Barramundi named
this due to its
ability to put on awesome aerial displays and tail walking
antics similar to the Barramundi of
the far North.
The techniques we would be using were Fly, Spinner bait,
Hard bodied lures and Softplastics,
we arrived at the first likely looking area
and cast spinner baits to the snags this area proved
unsuccessful so after about
20 minutes we moved on, we found another likely looking spot at
the mouth of a
small creek I had changed to a big Bite 3” single tail grub a lure I had quite
a
lot of success with on Flathead and Mangrove Jack I cast it to the bank side
cover when the
line stopped and began to race away at a great rate of knots I
struck hard and then the
Saratoga jumped a good fish of about 55cm’s, after a
few anxious moments I had the fish
back to the boat for a quick
photo and then
released him back into the river, we fished till dark and accounted for another
6 fish for the afternoon.
After wakening up early we were back on the water by sun
up, and I decided to attack the
fish on fly so was armed with my Reel-Em-In #6-7
freshwater fly rod with intermediate line
and a Dahlberg Diver fly I like thisset up as the fly soaks up the water it becomes sub-surface
making it irrestible
to the Toga after about 20
minutes I had my first fish to the boat at 58cm’s
it proved quite a handful on this outfit
should have brought the #8.
Once the sun got up a little higher the fish went quite so
I
changed to a spinner bait once again as soon as
the lure hit the water the
action was on we boated another 20 fish by the end of our first
full day of
fishing.
On the last day I decided to use soft plastics only and
accounted for 3 out of the final 4 fish
caught this was achieved by using a Big
Bite 3” Shad Carolina rigged and worked slowly
along the bottom of the river.
After the last session of 4 hours we had accounted for 30
Saratoga, 8 Fork
Tailed Catfish and 1 very lonely Yellow Belly, I had a great trip to a great
part of Queensland can’t wait for the next trip.
(photo's)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Report by Des Kenyon 4/1/2003
What a Great trip to start the New Year off for 2003 
We started out late at 8.30am on the 3/1/2003 to go fishing
outside the jumping pin bar,
but after hearing the weather was to get
up to 15-20 we decided to have a look first.
Once we were half way
across the bar we decided to it was going to get too rough outside,
so we
turned around and started asking where else we could go fishing. We had
just started
sounding a nice little hole near Swan bay when Barry Parker came up
to So off we headed
for this 65 km Two and
half hour trip up to the Four Beacons and up to the wrecks on
the inside of
Moreton Island.
The views were fantastic 
as we passed the homes on the
Russell and Macleay Island. It was then up
past Peel Island , North Stradbroke and then out
to the Chain Banks marker and
back over to Moreton Island.
We pulled up at the Four Beacons and tried to fish but the
wind was blowing and the tide
was belting out so we decided to move into calmer
waters and have some lunch. After
lunch we headed back
out to the E3 beacon and waited another 3 hours for the tide to turn
with only
one fish being landed for the afternoon, Things were not looking
good. As we
drove back towards the wrecks, we could see schools of
fish playing in the water and
managed to land 2 Mackerel on lures just before
night fall, bring our score to 3 fish for the
first day. We
anchored up in the wrecks for the night and cooked up one of the Mackerel
for
dinner with Mashed Potato tinned carrots and Peas, a meal fit for a King.
After cleaning
up the mess,we re-baited our lines and fished here for a
few hours before turning in for the
night. We got up early and started
Chasing the schools of fish, casting lures on the surface
and
drifting with pilies on the bottom it was not long before we
had boated another 3
Mackerel. We keep moving to keep up with the
fish and each time
we managed to boat a few more, by 9.30 am we had 14
fish on board so we called it a day
and started heading home on our two and a
half hour trip. (Great trip had by all)
But don't tell mum about the fuel
bill. (More photo's)
Des Kenyon, Barry Parker, Don Haisman, and skipper Ian
Haisman.
Fish
to be shown on Brownies Coast watch 9/1/2003
Report by Steve Brown
Went to the upper reaches of the Brisbane river on Sunday 08/12/02 the weather was magnificent and the
water crystal clear, and the temp
was exceptionally hot. we decided that we would fish about a 1klm stretch
of
river where we had caught good Bass in the past, we were using soft plastics once again and both of us
were armed with 3" single tail grubs in white
we had fished this area before very successfully with white
1/4 oz spinner baits
so thought would change our tact but not the colour due to past experience.
Fished
the area extremely hard but only managed 2 fish for 6 hours
fishing both were caught on the soft
plastics mentioned but we added spinner bait
blades just for the added attraction factor, not a great day fish
wise but to fish in this pristine stretch of the Brissy river was a absolute
pleasure.
Report from Awoonga Dam by John
Eldred Nov 2002
After 3 trips to Awoonga Dam I finally scored a
barra. Not real big at 2.5Kg but a start. Caught 4.40am Thursday
21/11/2002, the morning following the full moon. A shallow bomber 15A did
the trick.
The following morning saw the catch improve
with a nice 3.2Kg caught 4.20am Friday 22/11/2002, also taken
on a shallow
bomber 15A.
The wife (Cheryl) came up to join me for the final
few days of the trip and nailed a nice 6.6Kg barra 3.45am
Saturday 23/11/2002 on a
Reidy's Aqua Rat with a shallow bib. Obviously
she won't be invited again.
There was a retired dairy farmer from Gympie named
Francis camped next to me. He'd been there a week and
never had a hit from
anything except catfish so I asked him out in the boat on the Sunday morning for
a final tilt
at the barra. We launched at 3.30am Sunday 24/11/2002 and
motored out 100m from the ramp and started trolling.
At 3.31am I cast out
an Reidy's Aqua Rat lure and handed him the rod. As soon as I cast my rod
out he got a strike.
15mins later a 17.2Kg / 1020mm Barra was next to the
boat.I gaffed the fish (It wouldn't fit in the net anyway) and went
to shake
hands with him but his hands were shaking already, mind you, so were mine.
What a great fish to end the trip on.
Over breakfast later that morning I had a chat
with the better half and secured a leave pass for the full moon in
Febuary 2003
to have another go at the barra. See you there.
 
Thursday
23/11/2002 FRIDAY
22/11/2002
Nice Barra
Cheryl Nice
way to end a trip
SPOTTY MACKEREL HARD TO FIND JUST
YET 19/11/2002
We were going to go chasing Mackerel on the Wednesday morning
but because of the calm
weather conditions we decided to head out on Tuesday
night to a small reef just in front of
the Bribe Island DPI compound. We
were only there for about 10 minutes when all hell
broke loose, dads 7' Pelagic
rod was bent over to the max with the rod tip touching the water.
The Ha 6000
reel loaded with clear 30lb Reel-em-in line was working hard with the drag being
tested all the way. The battle lasted for about 20 minutes before any ground was
made on the
fish what so ever. There were lots of questions flying about
wondering what it might of be but
it was only when the fish surfaced that we
could see it was a
beautiful Flowery Cod. The next morning we headed out to the
bird cages and only saw two Mackerel landed between 4 boats we missed one
strike and only boated a small black tiped
shark. Next time we'll
catch them.
nice cod
report by Des Kenyon
Well due to
work commitments and my sponsorship deal through Big Bite Soft Plastics I had
not been able to fish as much or when I have wanted too of late, so when the
opportunity
arose for me to go on a trip with a mate just for fun I jumped at
the chance. The area we
had chosen to fish was a very small rubbly reef
with in swimming distance of one of the
local beach’s up here at Bribie,
my companion was a dedicated bait fisherman while I was
keen to try and jig some
soft plastics for our target species of Squire.
We arrived at the little reef around 2 hours before the top of the tide
and the plan was to
fish up to a couple of hours after the high. This area only
produces decent fish according to
my mate at night and on this particular tide
due to its relative shallow depth with its
deepest
point only being 2mtr’s. On arrival he began berlying before throwing out his
first
unweighted half pillie within about 5 minutes he had his first Squire to
the boat a healthy
specimen of 48cm’s, he then began to catch a procession of
Squire the biggest being 60cm’s
and 2 Bream one at 38 cm’s and another at 42
cm’s.
Still I stayed down the back jigging the soft plastic up and down, up and
down when I was
walloped by a decent fish I could tell that it was a Squire by
the telltale head shakes and the
solid runs for cover, I had the situation
pretty much under control with the lure attached to
30lb Muscle Braid loaded up
on the Reel-EM- IN 7’ Pelagic
and the HA6000A after a great little fight I had
my first Soft Plastic caught Squire and a fine
specimen I must say at 52cm’s.
FAUST REPORT by THE BOMBER
Hi All,
Well what a week the Big Fella and myself had fishing the third annual Peter
faust dam Barra
comp, we ran fifth out of a field of 36 something we were
extremely happy with as we both
had only fished this dam once before some 2
years ago and finished way down the ladder on
that occassion. The fishing was excellent for the week leading up to the comp with water
temp although not ideal
still had the fish on the chew at around the 24 deg C mark, we
struggled for the
first day or so trying to subdue these monstrous fish with 25KG's not
uncommon
once we worked out the system for landing these HOOERS the fish began to come
thick and fast. Unfortunately on the comp day 20 to 25 knots of wind moved in
and the fish
became extremely shy with Brett and myself only boating 2 Sooties
mine at 465mm and Bretts
a 420mm, we discussed tactics and decided to leave a
patch of small barra alone that we had
found and to use these only if we were
desperate and the wind abated, as the area where
these fish were holding was
impossible to fish in all but
the slightest breeze. Day 2 once again dawned
windy so went to another area where we
knew fish were but 1 missed strike was it
the wind seemed to have dropped a tad so plan
B swung into action we went to the
small barra haven we had found a few days before and
boated 3 fish in 20 minutes
a 600mm, 620mm and a 700 after this you guessed it up came
the stinking wind. Oh
well back to our old haunts casting till our arms felt as if they would
almost
surely fall off with about 1 hour of the comp remaining The Big Fella hooked an
absolute
horse of MAMMOTH proportions but this fish proceeded to straighten the
3x strength trebles
with ease by the size of the hole this fish left in the
water as it escaped this fish was well
and truly over the meter mark, but that
was it for us with Brett struggling through the
pain barrier with a badly
poisoined leg courteousy of a Barra spike 2 days before we called
it quits. We
had success on 4" Big Bite Chateruse Shads as well as a variety of hard
bodied
lures the tally for the week was around the 50 odd fish hooked with only
around 10 boated.
This is one of the premier Barra dams in Australia and my
belief is that it is the best with fish
in excess of 50lb being encountered
regularly I will be back as they say in the classics BIGGER, BETTER and ready to
do battle with the Barra of Faust.
Regards, THE BOMBER 
Nice barra
SQUIRE ON SOFTIES
Well due to
work commitments and my sponsorship deal through Big Bite Soft Plastics I had
not been able to
fish as much or when I have wanted too of late, so when the
opportunity
arose for me to go on a trip with a mate just for fun I jumped at
the chance. The area we
had chosen to fish was a very small rubbly reef with in swimming distance of one of the
local beach’s up here at Bribie,
my companion was a dedicated bait fisherman while I was
keen to try and jig some
soft plastics for our target species of Squire.
We arrived at the little reef around 2 hours before the top of the tide
and the plan was to
fish up to a couple of hours after the high. This area only
produces decent fish according to
my mate at night and on this particular tide
due to its relative shallow depth with its deepest
point only being 2mtr’s. On arrival he began berlying before throwing out his
first
unweighted half pillie within about 5 minutes he had his first Squire to
the boat a healthy
specimen of 48cm’s, he then began to catch a procession of
Squire the biggest being
60cm’s and 2 Bream one at 38 cm’s and another at 42
cm’s.
Still I stayed down the back jigging the soft plastic up and down, up and
down when I was
walloped by a decent fish I could tell that it was a Squire by
the telltale head shakes and
the solid runs for cover, I had the situation
pretty much under control with the lure attached
to 30lb Muscle Braid loaded up
on the Reel-EM- IN 7’ Pelagic and the HA6000A after a great
little fight I had
my first Soft Plastic caught Squire and a fine specimen I must say at 52cm’s.
We continued to fish up to the 2 hour after the High tide and caught some
great fish
although the bait did out fish me on this particular evening the
tally: bait 10 fish 8
Squire and 2 Bream, Soft Plastics 6 Squire oh well at
least my hands didn’t stink of bait.
Nice squire on soft plastics
Fishing the the Pinnacles
by Des Kenyon 3-7-02
S2250515 E15056785
Central Queensland
This was a fantastic trip out from Corio bay, the weather
was fine and the only problem was
the smoke haze from the fires. We set our GPS
for the pinnacles and out we headed for the
21.5km trip. As we got near the spot we could
tell that we
would be the only boat on the
reef. So we decided to take a good look around
using our new Lowerance sounder to try '
and
pick up a school of fish, which didn't take long.
We anchored up over a school
of fish and started
fishing. It wasn't long before we had lost
our first
good sized fish (we now know why). I was the next one to hook up and started
to bring my fish to the
surface when dad said that a big fish you've caught. The problem
was that my
fish was a small cod, that was just about to be taken by a 9 foot tiger shark.
So
I lifted the rod and wound it in as fast as I could saving the cod from the shark,
but the '
shark managed to
chase any chance of us catching fish away as it just kept circling the
boat,
so we decided to move.
There are quite few pinnacles in this area so we anchored up again
and it wasn't long before
schools of fish started showing up on the sounder. We
only managed to catch 11 trevally and
one Tuna for the day before another
smaller shark about 6 foot long showed up so we called
it a day and headed
home. I would of liked to of stayed and fished into the night
as this
looked like a great night time spot.
Long island fishing report by Des Kenyon
It's a long............story
It all started at 10.30am when we put the boat in at
Shute Harbor, the wind was blowing at
around 20 knot. So here I was
standing at the boat ramp trying hold the 4.95m Coast ranger
for 20 minutes against
the waves, while Barry parked the car in the secure car parking station
for the
week. When he arrived at the boat we pushed the back out and he
started the motor
all was well, but with a push and a shove off out we went only
to find that the motor would
only idle and we had no acceleration. So back
around to the next boat ramp near the barge
jetty we put the boat up on the
beach to try and fix the motor or see what was wrong, this
was a great
start as the girls had left for the Island on the 11.00am catamaran for
the Island
so we were on our own.
After about 1 hour of playing around we reloaded the boat back
on the trailer and headed up
to the garage to see if we could fix the problem on
dry land. I was soaked to the bone by
this stage. After another hour we
had the throttle cable all bound up with black tape and
sticks, we thought the
problem was solved, so back to the water and off we go. This time
we had
about 10 more rev's above idle so we decided to troll fishing lines from Shute
harbor
to Long Island as this was the best we could do.
We were only 5 minutes into the trip when I started looking
for my rods only to find they
were still attached to the ceiling of the patrol
back at the car park, so around we go again
and beach the boat once more
and another wasted 30 minutes getting my rods for the trip.
At 1.35pm we managed to head for long Island ,the trip over
was rough all the way and the
only thing we managed to catch was the bottom once
with our lures ....no fish at all. It was
about 4.pm when we parked the
boat on the beach and took our first look at long Island.
It's a great
place to stay, the rooms are comfortable and the whole place has a friendly
atmosphere
and the staff bend over backwards to look after all your needs.
Our fishing was limited because of the motor problems
and the wind never stopped blowing
under 20 knots for the whole week. Even
with these problems we still had a great time and
managed to catch some
nice small sweet lip for the week, just close to the resort. One
afternoon we took Brett Thompson the Manager of Long Island and his son
Ben out fishing
hoping to catch some more nice Sweet lip but on this occasion
Ben was the only lucky
person to catch a fish for the afternoon .
As to the fishing we wanted to do, well that's another
story.
we'll have to try again
The last two pictures are at fishing feeding time at the jetty
22/6/2002-30/6/2002
  
GOLD COAST REPORT 8/6/2002 Des Kenyon
We headed out to the 24's straight out from the sea way for a
nights fishing, it was all
ready dark and you could see several lights in he
distance when we got near the other
boats we came across a good show of large
fish on the sounder so we decided to anchor
up and see what happened. Well
we fished well into the night with only 2 trag jew on
board by about 11.30pm so
we decided to move out to green a pastures so off we set.
The problem was that
after 20 minutes of extra traveling we ended up at the other lights
only to find
out they were trawlers working (bugger) so back into the 24 we headed right
back
to the same spot to try again but the tide had slowed and at around 2 pm
the fishing
started and we landes 8 trag jew 4 nice squire and 3 talior all in
all a good trip after a lot of
work.
Des Kenyon & Barry Parker
Bribie Report 26/05/02 Steve Brown
Myself and regular fishing partner Randall, fished one of my
favourite little creeks off the Bribie Passage on Sunday,
what a glorious day very
little wind a high tide around the 9am mark so no early start on a cool
winters morn
AHHHH luxury.
Anyway motored to the mouth of the creek and tossed around some
2" Bream grubs in various
colours managed a Flathead each, one at 50cm
another at 41cm, went quite after these 2 fish so moved to a
set of oyster
racks once again the Bream grubs did the trick 5 Bream from 25cm's through to
30cm's.
Decided to follow the tide right up the top of the creek and
work our way out casting at snags and rock bars
managed another 4 Bream the
largest being 33cm's, slowed down after this so motored over to the canals
to
finish the morning off caught 3 trevally smallest being 31cm's largest 50cm's.Another great day at Bribie
only 1 fish kept the 50cm Flattie
and all this in just over 4 hours home for lunch and the footie.
Hinchinbrook
report 29/04/02- 04/05/02
After the 18-hour drive from my home on
Bribie Island it was great to finally arrive at Cardwell in Far
North Qld, on arrival I met the mates I had been
planning this trip with for the past 12 months. Our
accommodation for the next5
days would be aboard a 32ft fully equipped houseboat from Hinchinbrook
Houseboats, so after getting instruction on how to operate the vessel and the
Do’s and don’ts aboard and
what to expect in this beautiful location we set
off. Our plan was to fish the Southern end of the channel
in the vicinity of the
Herbert River and Dungeness Creek, as I had been told this was thebetter option
at
this time of the year.Our
fishing platforms for the week would be my 4.2mtr Clark King Barra a 3.9mtr
Quintrex a 5.5 mtr Quintrex Reefmaster and the 3mtr Dory and 6HP motor supplied
with the houseboat.
As there were 8 of us on this trip thiswould leave 2 to a
boat, which is comfortable where fly-fishing is
also involved.
After
the 2 hour trip down the channel we finally arrived at our anchorage and all
around
us over the vast array of sand flats birds could be seendive bombing
baitfish, we grabbed the sin sticks
and the fly rods and took off in the
direction of this piscatorial smorgasbord.
After
motoring up to a huge
school of fish I cut the motor and used the Minn-Kota to
put us into position then fired a cast ahead of the
school and retrieved the
slug passed the outside edge of the frenzied fishan instant hook-up the fish
took
off and had the HA6000 drag screaming ,after the initial blistering run the
fishslowed down and after a few
more short bursts I had a 3kg Salmon in the
boat for a picture and then released. This went on for another
hour , with all
the boys having a ball on the huge numbers of fish all over these flats, the
fish were Trevally,
Queenfish and Salmon in the 2 to 4kg class as the tide moved
further up the channel the bite slowed so it
was back to the mother ship for a
celebratory drink.
Around
the table after all the excitement hadsubsided
we realized that between the 4
boats on the water we had caught and released in excess of 80 fish,
GEE I LOVE
IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER.
The
next morning everybody was up and rearing to go the plan was to fish different
areas that we had
pin-pointed on the chart, so I headed off to a little creek I
imagined would hold fish, after a 30 minute boat
trip my fishing partner and I arrived at the mouth of the creek mentioned , as the tide was almost at the top
my plan was to head up as far as I could go in my boat and follow the run out
tide, casting at any likely looking
snags.
We
arrived at the end of the creek which looked more like a drain now and as the
tide had started its
move we began slowly working our way out of this great
looking little creek casting at the millions of snags in
the vicinity, after
about2 hours of fruitless cast and retrieve we decided to drop anchor have a
cuppa and a
sanga and re-evaluate our tactics,I decided I was going to change
from my Gold Bomber to a Manns 10+ in
Gold with a Fire Engine red head my
partner decided to go with the Prawnstar lure I had in the top of my
tackle box.
As
there was an overhanging mangrove tree directly opposite I let fly with the
Manns so it just
skipped under the overhangand landed hard up against the bank,
as I began the jerky retrieve that all barra
seem to love I felt a bit of a
nudge through the 30lb braid I was using was it the bottom or a stick when
WHACK
whatever had taken the lure went absolutely ballistic racing up the creek then
back towards the
boat I kept the rod low as I had no idea what I had hooked this
went on for some moments when all of a
sudden a beautiful silver sided saltwater
barra leapt clear of the water, I could tell by the size of this fish
that in
the 6 years I had barra fished this was the best one to date.
After
a few more harrowing moments
when I could feel the Knotted Dog leader I was
using scrapingalong underwater obstructions and wondering
if my knots would
hold, finally the fish came to the side of the boat and was expertly netted by
my fishing
Buddy a quick photo and a trip to the lie detector and the fish was
put back to fight another day, it
weighed
11.5kg my biggest yet.
The
rest of the trip was absolutely awesome with 22 Barra caught in 4 ½ days all
released except for 2 and we lost count of the
Trevally, Mangrove Jack, Salmon,
Grunter Bream and
Queenfish we caught, roll on next year the planning has begun.
 
 
SEE ALL PHOTO'S
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BRIBIE ISLAND
21/4/2002 SPOTTY MACKEREL & REEF FISH
Due
no winds on Saturday morning 20/04/02 so we decided to go night fishing on
the small reef just out in
front of the DPI tanks infront of Bribe
island. We landes 4 nice Blackall and one Emperor Not a bad catch
before
the wind decided to blow and not let up, this forced us back into the bay
where we anchoed up for the
night for a few hours sleep before heading out to
the S1 beacon where we caught one nice Mack tuna and two
small spotty
Mackerel. All in all another good trip out from Bribe Island.
Barry
caught the most fish and also scored the biggest Blackall, while mine is still
swimming due to the sharp reef
which saw me lose a nice fish after a short hard
battle. FISH
PHOTO'S
by Des Kenyon
Sunday 14/04/02 SOMERSET
DAM
by Steve Brown
Fished
Somerset Dam near Kilcoy on Sunday 14/04/02, hit the water at 6am and went
straight to the timbers
the weather was quite cool with a lot of fog, tossed
spinnerbaits and hardbodied lures for close to an hour
around fallen timber and
old tree stumps also worked a couple of the points using these methods for
another
30 minutes for nil. Moved up the dam to Pelican Point a spot that had
produced for me in the passed motored
around until I found a fairly good show of fish on the sounder in 32ft used a 1/16oz jig head on a 3 inch single
tail grub
in chartreuse, pulled 5 fish from this school in 20 minutes then all went quite.
Not long after this the wind
came up so decided to call it a day, a little slow
than I would like but hey that’s fishing all fish were released to
fight
another day all around the 35cm mark except for the one in the photo which measured 38cm.
somerset bass
Arrived home after being away for 1 week in Melbourne on business and with the
tide being right
and the wind having dropped decided to call my
fishing partner and go for a night attack using 1 inch Bream
grubs on the lease
Bream in Ningi Ck. Got to the leases around 8:30pm and began the cast and
retrieve method
both of us had become used too Bruce got nailed on the fourth
cast and a feisty little bream of 25cm was brought
to the boat as this was a fun
night we decided that any fish under 30 cm would go back, so back he went to
fight
another day.
After about half an hour things weren’t looking up so moved up the creek to
the next lease first cast
I got smashed by the
fish in the photo
a good Bream of 38cm’s, we managed another 12 Bream off this patch
of lease
but all under the magic 30cm measurement so all were released. All fish were
caught using 1 inch soft
plastic Bream grubs colour on the night didn’t seem
to matter, the tide was on the top and all fish were captured
in this first 2
hours of the run out tide.
ANOTHER GREAT TRIP OUT TO THE S1 BEACON THERE
WERE FISH ALL AROUND US ON THE WAY OUT SO
WE DECIDED TO THROW A BAIT INTO THE SCHOOLS
ON THE WAY OUT AND ON THE SECOND THROW DAD
HOOKED A TUNA ON A PILCHARD. THE
FIGHT LASTED FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES AND I'M NOT SURE WHO WAS
IN THE WORST SHAPE
BUT THE FISH FINALLY DECIDED TO COME ON BOARD. WE THEN HEADED OUT TO
THE S1
BEACON AND LANDED 5 NICE SPOTTY MACKERAL. I WISHED WE WOULD OF TAKEN LURES WITH
US
AS ONE OF THE OTHER BOATS HAD 20 FISH ON BOARD WHILE WE ONLY MANAGED TO CATCH
5 MACKERAL
FOR THE DAY.
TUNA 
MACKERAL
report by Des Kenyon
Due
to the strong winds on Sunday 24/03/02 fished up the back creeks of Bribie
Island for Mangrove Jack
and Bream using soft Plastics and Lures, fished the run
out tide the Flattie in the photo fell to a bream grub
whilst casting to a steep
bank targeting Bream it measured 65cm’s fished for another 30 mins along this
bank
for little success a few small Bream to 28cms all released. Took the fellow
in the photo for his first Jack attack
on a Rock bar in a great spot I know have
pulled 17 Jack off this set of rocks between October 2001 and
March 2002.
Dropped 2 excellent fish using Sunshine Minnows in LO1 caught this one using the
same lure
went 48cms. Trolled out of this particular creek for 3 more smallish
Flathead around the 30 cm mark, cast
Bream grubs to another mangrove bank for 2
fish both Bream 1 at 31cms and the other at 37cms.
JACK 
LEAHS
report by Steve Brown
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weather fine as we headed out for the S1 beacon,
we were going after those spotty Mackerel that are starting
to show up in
Moreton Bay. We landed 8 fish for the morning and lost 3 right beside the
boat not bad for 2 and
half hours work. We were using three 2/0 gangs hooks with
a 60lb trace and small Western Australia pilchards.
GPS LOCATION
E153.15.479 S27.02.319 report by Des Kenyon
MACKEREL
Good size Summer Whiting are being caught up in
the passage we landed 9 nice fish and one Flathead in
2 hours on the run in
tide. We were fishing just out from the entrance to
Glass house creek.
report by Des Kenyon
We had a
great Easter weekend 2001 at the Carp busters competition at Beaudesert
See the photo's of the fish in
the back of the truck ready for the fertilizer plant.
[CARP
BUSTERS]
HOST
YOUR OWN
Fishing
Tackle Party
Free
Rod - Free Reel - Free Tackle - Free Gear
TO
BOOK A FREE TACKLE DEMONSTRATION
RING 38030700
Party
invitation form
| 
Email:
