Brissy River Bi Catch

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So I had my first fish on the river today & had a beautiful day. We managed 4 bass from 32-38 but I was surprised by the bi catch on lures. We had one lure taken by a 1m+ lungfish & then later the same lure was swallowed by a 1m+ eel. I managed to dislodge it from the lungfish with the side of the net so he could swim off happily but not so lucky with the eel as he took off with it. I see someone else managed a Saratoga the other day & I am wondering what other species in the river have been known to take a lure.

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G'day mate,

Where abouts did you catch that lungfish in the Brisbane River?

Colleages Crossing, Twin Bridges, Fernvale or up near Wivenhoe Dam?

Cheers, Bondy

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It was a few K's upstream from twin bridges. I saw about 5 of them throughout the day.

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@ Justcasting,

Thanks for that, I only asked about the lungfish as I'm aware there is a researcher from UQ that does surveys at different areas to see if any are still around since the large flood.

How many Klms would you reckon upstream from the Twin Bridges?

Nice effort on the Bass, good to know freshwater eels are around. I've never had an eel caught on a lure before.

Cheers, Bondy

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There's also a 1m+ lungy around the Harpeng to Shines stretch too

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There's also a 1m+ lungy around the Harpeng to Shines stretch too

I'll bet there'd be nearly 100 of them.

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Good chance if it! Also have seen a couple in the Bremer not far from Shapcott park.

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There's thousands of them in the river down from Wivenhoe, possibly 10s of thousands.

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There's thousands of them in the river down from Wivenhoe, possibly 10s of thousands.

Not according to ex-MP Peter Garrett.  If he'd known they were there he would never have allowed the recycled water pipeline to go through.

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I was aware that they were in there but I did not expect to have one take a lure. Is it usual to have that happen.

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I was aware that they were in there but I did not expect to have one take a lure. Is it usual to have that happen.

Not commonly caught on a lure.

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Not unknown though, Pam got a big one at Harpeng Road on a lure, I saw Fitz land a monster at Wivenhoe a long time ago, I got one near Savages on a Spinnerbait.  Have dropped fish and wound in to find a scale the size of a dinner plate on a hook point a few times.

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I see lungies almost every time I'm on the river anywhere in the fresh. Scare the bejesus out of you when they surface and roll around right near the yak! Never caught one on lure though. Species I have caught on lure in the Harpeng to Wivenhoe stretch are bass, yellowbelly, fork-tail catfish, eels, tilapia and my prized saratoga. I have been busted off by an unstoppable something a couple of times. Possibly a Mary River Cod. Got my lure back once after a massive run and found a small greenish scale pinned on a treble. This is what makes me think cod.

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Thanks for your input guys,

i did not realise I opened up a pandoras box on this.

Have any of you used a GPS fix on those locations or just paddled downstream from below the spillway or pulled in at Twin Bridges and paddled upstream against the flow?

Cheers, Bondy

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Yep there's plenty of lungie's around here, it's unfortunate but I think our little bait users at Shines have been knocking a few on the head again, as I see the odd ones dead up and down the river.
Good to see you got a few Bass as it's unusually quiet still, with absolutely no surface action again this morning at all not even from bait fish feeding.
Reports from 5 kayaker's down there was only two rat bass in a couple of hours.
After we get some rain to bring the bugs out again (on or about Tuesday) things will hopefully improve up here, but the water is still to cold and lower than normal which is not helping.
Did you get the bass on natural and/or darker colour lures in the Harpeng to Shines stretch, as the water is fairly clear at the moment and that's normally their preference when it's like that.
Also, roughly what time of the day did you mainly catch them, or when did they first start to hit your lures.
Anyway going to go put the yak in myself and give them a tickle up, as they should be awake and getting hungry by about now (maybe).

Cheers
Russell.

Sorry time to go