I arrived at around 4.30 am on Tuesday and it was blowing hard from the south-east. The whole process had taken about 8 minutes from start to finish.īack in Brisbane and time to zip up to Bribie Island for some local land-based fishing. The fish still had plenty of kick in it and there was some serious thrashing as it was pulled through the shallows to the sand. He got it over the ledge and walked slowly backwards towards the beach. On the third attempt we saw a great flash of silver and realised it was a big Jewfish. Kenny stayed calm and got the fish back to the ledge but it was not interested in coming over the top. It had been so slow initially that I had thought it might be a ray or shark but its subsequent runs had convinced me otherwise. Now Kenny was making steady progress but as soon as the fish saw the ledge it put in another blistering run. Then he started to get back some line and slowly, moved further north, where the drop off is smoother and sandier.Īll this had happened in the space of about 4 minutes but it felt much, much longer. Every time he applied pressure the fish did the same and initially it looked like stalemate. He tightened the drag slightly and settled in. This was a big fish but Kenny’s gear was a match for it – good hooks, good knots, a big spool of solid braid and a 50lb leader. Then, as it noticed there was a problem with its latest meal, it powered up and started a serious run. Perhaps the fish had not realised it was hooked. The fish started to pull and he let it have a bit of line, then he struck. Kenny waited patiently for a few moments. There were a couple of slow lunges as the fish mouthed the bait. The Tailor was still kicking then Kenny pointed to his rod tip which was slowly bending over. Every now and then there would be a swirl and thrash, as something attacked from below. A big mullet school was finning around, sometimes just on top of the ledge and sometimes out over the deeper water. I added the first to the keeper bag and released the others. I carried on fishing with the Jerkshad and caught three more Flathead. Hooked through the nose, back and tail, out went the Tailor. We decided the small Tailor would make a good replacement. It had a chunk out of its tail and had been sucked clean of scales, like a lollipop. I cast out another and this time I landed a keeper size Tailor. I swapped to a brighter coloured Satay Chicken Jerkshad and immediately lost the tail to what I think was a small Tailor. I swapped to a bigger GULP Jerkshad in the Cajun Chicken colour and caught three more Flathead about the same size, from the same location. A few minutes later I caught another in the same spot – this one was about 43cm, so it went in the bag. It was just too small to keep – a little under 40 cm, so I let it go. On the third cast the line came up tight on a Flathead. I cast along the top of the ledge, into the run in tide and hopped the lure across the bottom, back towards me. He put it out on three good sized hooks and we swapped a few fishing yarns. I caught a good size Pike and offered it to a fisherman soaking a Pilchard nearby named Kenny. The water was clearer so I decided to swap to a 2” GULP Shrimp in the Banana Prawn color. I was sure there would be Flathead around the drop off here. I caught a few Pike in front of the car park, by the tidal lagoon but things went pretty quiet, as the tide slowed and turned in.īy about 7.00am I had reached the new opening at the southern end of the tidal lagoon. I swapped to a GULP Jerkshad in the Cajun Chicken color on a 1/8th 1/0 jighead and started to move south along the edge. There were several surface bust ups and each time herring or mullet would go flying in all directions. It was a Flathead – it was just about legal size but I threw it back in hope of a bigger one. It was in this shallow water that I got the first fish of the day on the Yurameki lure. At the mouth of the drain this water was very muddy, where the run out from the creek was lifting the sediment. On such a low tide the surface of the ledge was covered by only 30cm of water. I like to retrieve it with a series of hops just above the bottom, with lots of pauses. It weighs about 7 grams which makes it about 1/5th of an ounce and DUO describes it as a ‘sinking pencil’. A small brightly colored hard bodied bibless lure – the Tetraworks Yurameki. I started the day with another of my favorite DUO finesse lures. The water was completely still and the midges were thick. I started at the drain in front of the museum. There was no wind, although it was forecast to pick up from the north, later. The tide would be a very low one again, at about 5.40am. I arrived just before 4.40 am and it was already light enough. The large amount of bait that had been hovering over the flats on Monday and Wednesday had convinced me this was the place to fish. I drove up to Bribie and headed straight for Bongaree and the sand flats in front of Buckley’s Hole.
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