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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: UBK on April 14, 2011, 08:53:12 PM

Title: New to the forum!
Post by: UBK on April 14, 2011, 08:53:12 PM

Hi all, just thought I would introduce myself! My name is Ben, I live in Ipswich and have not long discovered fishing at Colleges Crossing. I also have not long started in the world of lures and plastics. Basically I joined to learn more about chasing bass around my local area and any other species as I'm new to the fresh water side too. Being land based is a hindrance but in time I will buy a yak :) I also have a tinny I am fixing up that my grandfather gave me.  Anyhow I look forward to learning and hopefully sharing my adventures! :)
Cheers Ben

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: takrat on April 14, 2011, 08:59:47 PM

Good stuff Ben, welcome to the site, and hope you look forward to many years of fishing in the fresh.
Cheers mate,
JD

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: aussiebasser on April 15, 2011, 11:46:40 AM

Welcome aboard Ben. 

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: A Marshall on April 18, 2011, 08:51:35 AM

Welcome to Sweetwater Ben, you have picked a good time to start your sweetwater journey.

Cheers Andrew

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: UBK on April 18, 2011, 12:34:58 PM

Thanks guys.. Yeah it has only been after all this rain that I have begun to look into the fresh side of things :)

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: Sweetwater on April 18, 2011, 08:29:01 PM

G'Day Ben,

Welcome aboard mate. Around Ippy there's plenty of sweetwater fishing to be had. You're already onto Colleges Crossing, at the same spot there you can get bass, tarpon, mullet, gar, powertails (catfish) & bull sharks regularly & in dryer times you often get flathead, bream & even the odd whiting. Plenty of bass getting caught right through the Brisbane River right now (it's just had its biggest restocking in a decade)

Also go check out the Bremer River. You can catch good fish from the tidal water at the Junction right up into the skinny sweetwater sections. Also don't discount the Bremer's feeder creeks, Bundamba Creek, Warrill Creek etc

Have fun & let us know how you go.

Fitzy..

Title: Re: New to the forum!
Post by: UBK on April 19, 2011, 10:17:46 AM

Yeah i would have never given the Bremer or Brisbane river any credit, but from what I have read, I am glad I have them close by! Now I just have to work on catching them :)
Cheers Ben!