Winter in gladstone part 2

Day1- Dad and I drove down and I got dropped at the hatchery to meet Kurt eagerly waiting with the boat ready. We took it straight to the nearest boat ramp and sped off to the islands to fish for bream on the flats.



bream on asebile crankster in a prawn colouration



 Once again the Sebile Crankster dominated in their actions and colours, the prawn imitation patterns and bluegill pretty much saw a bounty of lovely fighting fish on my light 1-3kg rod and 100 stradic reel.  Because we were flats fishing the drag was minimal so the entertainment and joy of real fishing kicked in.

small queeny

 the first few fish were bream and then we went around the back of a gravel patch and Kurt kept nailing bream while for some reason I took out some travelly and a small queen fish. Kurt captured a nice sized flathead on a cranka then we headed off to another spot. I reeled in a small cod on the bluegill colour and by this time I was thinking there was no fish that could resist this colour.

larger more fun queeny

the cod we werent meant to be catching

 A few more bream were caught and we headed over to yet another sand flat with rocky points and gravel patches, the perfect place for bream, and bream was what we got, one after the other. The day got even better when I nailed some more queenfish with Sebile Koolie minnows, magic swimmers and Acast minnows.

bluegill colour

another to the prawn

The magic swimmer then got terrorised and after a short and hard fight to a large blue salmon the salmon went for a pounding run and snapped the week in comparison 4 pound line, A stick shad was then put on and rapidly jerked through the water and landed some steel back salmon, and by that time it was midday and Kurt needed to get back so we headed back, hitched the boat up and left, I then walked to the marina and caught some trevally and bream then after seeing many people getting their bait taken around the one pylon I vertically jigged a semi hard vibe and landed a small but nice Moses perch. The day was pretty much over and I left to go back to dad’s apartment only to return the next morning for another fish with Kurt.

nice coloured specimen

Day2- I met Kurt at the marina at 5.30 then shortly after we headed out on the low tide to capture some bream trying to get up on the flat, then came some flathead and whiting. After a long wait the flats were finally full and we fished them well, the bream were feeding hard but not following through most times.

bluegill again

When we hooked up on a bream these things sure did go, especially because as Kurt explained they were big and heavy in pre spawn mode. We punted back to the inlet and tied the boat up and I cast around for fish nailing some Moses perch while Kurt was at his meeting, this time gave me a while to practice with my newly braided bait caster.

nice flatty on the bluegill

The casts were smooth and accurate with no backlash of any sort Kurt finally came back and We headed off to capture me a mighty salmon and after many looks from the salmon and dodgy half assed bights we had to call it quits, nothing was getting these fish to bite, even the dopy ones that were right next to the boat and didn’t swim off.

and once again bluegill dominates

Kurt Hutchby I do not know if you read these but It was a pleasure and joy to have you take me out so many times and fish with you where I learnt a lot more than I could just fishing the areas by myself. I look forward to the next holidays and hopefully going out there again for a ‘catch the most species day’…

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