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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Freshwater Newby77 on September 22, 2014, 05:58:19 PM
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Ok,I'm officially useless.:-)
Saturday,we had our fourth outing to colleges crossing.
The first time we went,the mrs,young fella,and I caught a fish each.The last three outings,zippo.
One hr each side of high tide,but it was 11ish.
Tried prawns/shrimp,poppers,minnows,soft plastics....not even a nibble.There were pelicans there,feasting away on barred grunters,but the fish had no interest in anything I threw in.
Is time of day more important than tide?
I tried 20mts to left of boat ramp,all the way around to below the lookout.
Time for another location I think.Going to try Kookaburra Pk.
Any tips for there?
Cheers.Marty.
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In my experience at colleges time of day is more important than tide. Early morning and late arvo are the better bite periods. Mind you, I'm in my yak and have more options for locations and can access the better spots. Also, it is probably still a bit early in the season for much to be on the chew. It is still a little chilly overnight. It's likely things will improve once the nights warm a bit and allow the water temp to rise a few more degrees. These are my theories anyway. Best of luck at kookaburra park.
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Righto mate.Thanks for that.I'll take any advice,as I'm a complete novice at this fishing caper.lol.
I might even try twin bridges again.Although we caught nothing there,arriving at dawn,someone had caught 20 odd catties overnight.I know cos the selfish bastards left them all,scattered over the gravel.
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Yeah. That's the annoying thing about many land based spots. The dead-heads seem to be attracted to these locations and filth the place up with their rubbish - Generally treating the place like cr@p. All they end up doing is spoiling it for everyone and sh@$$&ng in their own nest in the process. Grrrrrrr!
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Yeah,the kids and I picked up 4 empty beer cans,plastic,and the cardboard insert out of a 12 pak at colleges on Saturday.If everyone did just a little bit,the country would be a lot cleaner.
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is this place fresh or saltwater? and yes its probably still cold but i find worms to be best in fresh and saltwater garden worms in fresh and bloodworms or live nippers in the salt. nothing would refuse live nippers or bloodworms
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Brackish water leaning toward fresh I'd say. Still tidal, but has a constant flow of fresh water trickling through from Wivenhoe dam.
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Thanks Yak.
I was scrachin my head on that one.
I know its tidal,and its the upper reaches of Brissie river,but id have to say,you nailed it.lol
Ps.What are nippers?
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Colleges isn't the upper reaches of the Brissie. In fact it is still in the lower Brissie River. Lower - mouth to Mt. Crosby. Mid - Mt Crosby to Wivenhoe. Upper - above Wivenhoe. At least that's what I'm lead to believe. I'm sure some of our learned members will correct me if I'm wrong.
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freshwater newbie they are like a yabby i suppose you could say that live in saltwater they are also known as bass yabbies. they are like a mix between a yabby and a prawn and have one huge claw and one tiny one usually they are pinkish and white in colour only grow to about 2 inches or so and they live on sand flats in burrows or holes. the general way to get them is by using a bait pump. they are great baits and if the sand flat is big enough you can easily find enough bait in a short amount of time
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I might try some in lake next time could catch some differnt fish than what we usally get.
Cheers joseph
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im from nsw and i fish the port hacking system with nippers only because i pump them off the flats there to date i have caught whiting bream flathead trevally snapper blackfish a stingray tailor small mackerels like slimies tarwhine wrasse and some yellow and black stripped thing i dont know the name of on live nippers. best to use a long shanked hook or like a suicide pattern hook. they are to soft for circles iv found. mate of mine has even caught jewfish and estuary perch on them. just remember they are a realy delicate bait dont try to cast them a mile with a full hard cast they will just come off a slow sweeping cast for the longer casts or just flick it out if land based but on a boat or kayak iv found the best way to do it is to actually hold the sinker feed out about 10-15 m of line depending how shallow you fish then drop the sinker with the reel still in free spool until you hit the bottom then engage the reel this lets it waft n drift naturally
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Never heard of them up here by that name hanna,but they sound a lot like the little orange yabbie things they sell for a ridiculous amount.You're probably right yak.Being an ex wynnum boy,down where the mouth is,anywhere out here is upper reaches to me.:-) I was close to mid then ,lol.
I'm not up on the exact locations where it goes from one to another.:-)
Only thing close to nippers I've heard of is little yabbie lookin things.
No sand flats out here that I know of hanna,and being on a pension after failed spinal surgery,I wouldn't be pumping them anyway.Thanks for the input though.:-)
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sorry to hear about your back and yea they kind of are a yabbie in qld you guys might call them yabbies from what iv seen on tv they usually sell them in like take away plastic containers. iv never bought them only because it takes about an hour to get 100-200 of them im sure they are up there as iv seen them on fishing shows that do qld beaches n islands and stuff
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Newby- I'm an ex bayside boy myself so can understand the unfamiliarity with the areas further up the Brissie River.
Hanna - there are plenty of "nippers" here in SEQ estuaries. We call them saltwater tabbies. Soft, pink/orange creatures with one big claw. About the best bait there is. I didn't know you could buy them. I thought that they died pretty quick once pumped. Everyone I've ever known has just pumped them themselves and then used them pretty much straight away.
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That would be saltwater "yabbies". Bloody auto correct
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They sound like the things I paid $14 for at esk servo a while back.I have a pic of them on here on a post titled cost of bait.:-)
Cheers,Marty.