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April 10 - 2014
Fishing Report: All waterways are recovering after some minor flooding over the past few weeks, most are cleaning up nicely, the Albert and Logan are the exception. You’ll struggle to catch anything decent in the upper reaches of all rivers and creeks unless you’re targeting catfish, toads and eels! In the Nerang, I wouldn’t venture much up River of the Council Chambers. In the Logan I’d fish the run in tide but still not venture up River of Carbrook. Similar story in the Brisbane, Pine and Caboolture rivers, the upper reaches in the discoloured water will not fish as well as the cleaner water towards the mouth on the run in tide. Prawns have been pushed into the Bay and north of the Logan River around the southern Bay islands. Best results have come from deeper holes this week. Mud crabs are better than ever - if you like a feed of muddies, get your pots in the water. You will get a lot of undersize crabs and jennies but there are still plenty of bucks being caught. Mulloway are the target species over the next few weeks, especially in the bar entrances and deeper holes close by on this weekend’s small tides. There has been quite a few estuary cod caught this week on deep diving lures trolled around snags in estuaries, a few jacks as well. Whiting catches have been a little slower as you would expect in the discoloured water but improving quickly provided you don’t venture too far up river. There has been a lot of bream flushed out by the rain, some excellent quality as well. Most of the better fish have come from around oyster leases, rocks and canal walls towards the mouth of rivers and creeks as well as just inside bar entrances like the Seaway and Kalinga Bank. Flathead are in the same areas avoiding muddy water. It is well worth trolling for them on the run in tide in cleaner water this weekend. Chopper tailor have been a little scarce in the estuaries although there have been good numbers in the surf provided you move away from dirty water flowing out of bar entrances. Quite a few trevally and queenfish have moved into the Seaway and Broadwater, anglers trolling lures are getting good catches north of the Seaway. Mulloway have been on the move in the Bay. Best results have come from around Goat and Bird islands, eastern side of Mud Island and deeper artificial wrecks. Bream are in good numbers around the Bay island shallows although a lot are small fish. Small snapper have been caught at first light in the same areas. Shark numbers are at an all time high making it almost impossible to get a decent fish up from deep water. There has been some school mackerel around the Four Beacons over the past
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week but their appearance has been very hit and miss. Brisbane River has turned up a lot of bream at Clara Rocks, Sunken Wall and Luggage Point at night. A few mulloway have been caught on the drop into the main channel wide of feeder creeks as well. Offshore there has been lots of pan size snapper caught both in the shallows and on the wider reefs although there has been a bit of current flowing making it hard to float line. There were also plenty of dolphinfish caught around the Wave Rider buoy and FADs last weekend. Anglers trolling lures struggled with just a few Spanish mackerel reported from around Flinders and Flat Rock. Live baiting the bottom turned up some very big kingfish and a few amberjack to 10 kilos. There has also been mulloway landed from the shallows bait grounds off bar entrances. Rivers and creeks will be slow to recover, but given a week or two should be fishing well. Redclaw catches will improve, but not for a few weeks. By the end of April we should see big numbers being caught. Bass are schooled up in deeper water, blind trolling has seen slow results. Find them with your sounder and working small lures through the schools has been the best technique.