Southern Bay

SOUTHERN BAY

Nick

Whyte The southern bay shallows are firing at the moment. Plenty of pan size snapper, grass sweetlip and big bream are being caught a telltale sign of where the fish are lurking. They are feeding on small bait so try to match the hatch and use small slugs or small plastics. A lot of fish have been caught on trolled spoons or slices behind a paravane. The four beacons should start holding good numbers this month.

Mangrove jack have been firing of late. Plenty of fish have being caught on lures and live bait in the canals at Raby Bay. The smaller creeks like Tingalpa and Eprapah have also been fishing well. Logan River has been fishing well at the moment with some nice jacks and the occasional barra reported on live baits around all the rock bars. There has also been plenty of good cod and Queensland groper as by-catch. Make sure you look after these fish as the Queensland groper are protected and need to be released unharmed.

The Jumpinpin bar has produced some nice fish over the last month. There have been a few mulloway and nice sized flathead coming from the deeper water. Usually fishing the hour each side of the tide change we’ll see the best results. There is also some

good flathead coming from the areas around Tipplers; some of the fish have been up super shallow so don’t be scared to cast up to 100mm of water and use bigger hardbody lures or swimbaits if looking to up the average size.

The threadfin salmon have been caught in numbers throughout the Brisbane River the last month. Lots of fish have been coming from the middle reaches with the better quality coming from around the mouth. Fishing at night around the lights and using shallow diving hardbodies is a great way to target these fish, during the daylight hours you’re more likely to find them closer to the bottom, and using vibes like the 95mm Zerek Fish Trap should see you in with a chance. If thinking about targeting these magnificent sports fish and looking to release them, you should always have a release weight with you. The threadies will suffer from barra trauma when pulled from deep water and if you want to release them in good condition this is a must for anglers.

Summer whiting are in great numbers throughout the Logan River and sand banks close to the Pin bar. Up in the super shallow water you can target these big fish using long skinny poppers. This is an awesome visual technique that really gets the heart pumping and these little guys punch above their weight. It’s great to hop out of the boat and walk the bank and fish that shallow water near the top part of the tide on the last of the run in over the yabby banks.

If you have a great capture from the southern bay you would like to share email them through to nick@techfishing. com.au. Till next month Tech-it-easy.

Dave Chown with a cracker bay mulloway.

around the shallow reef edges. Small plastics or small hardbodies have been doing all the damage. Larger top water lures have been accounting for fish as well.

There are still a few late season tailor around and always a chance of rat kings patrolling the edges. Top water fishing the reef edges is so much fun as you will see a lot of the fish bow wave your lure before hitting it. Early mornings on dawn or late afternoons will see the most action.

There have been quite a few reports of some nice school mackerel up through the Rainbow and Rous channels. Look for the birds working as this is always Brenden Whyte with a nice flatty on a 5” McArthy paddle-tail. Wayne Peeters with a quality flathead on a 95mm Fish Trap.

A nice Brisbane River threadie.

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