26-06-09
Yesterday I had to opportunity to hit my local hunting grounds at Redcliffe after a few weeks of Southern Bay recon work. With Jay hitting the northern end at Scarborough first, I decided to start at the southern end near Woody point. We launched at Clontarf, where a few local fishos had informed us that good snapper were being caught at the southern end of the Scott’s Point Green zone in about 10-15ft of water using squid or pillies. I’m thinking plastics would also be a go in that area with a lot of baiter’s berleying up the waters. With the temptation there, we decided to stick to the game plan and chase some early bream. The water clarity was pretty average around Woody Point as there was heaps of debris that had obviously been flushed out from the Pine from the recent rains making it’s way out to sea. I started the day fishing topwater with my trusty Dog X Jr, with Allanah’s dad Ken slow rolling the old faithful brown suji shrimp shallow Chubby. With my second cast, a few twitches and a lengthy pause, I nailed an aggressive 27cm fork bream which was chasing small bait fish in about a foot of water. The bait school boils were frequent in this area early which we targeted with long casts proving to be a great strategy. Soon after, Ken got smashed by a 28.5cm fork bream in the middle of it’s feeding frenzy and after a tight tussle in a rocky three foot of water we landed him leaving us thankful of our upgraded 6lb leader.
After that we decided to travel north up to Redcliffe Point outside the Surf lifesaving club. Again we took the same approach of one guy using topwater and the other a shallow hardbody to maximize our coverage with the topwater often drawing out the inquisitive fish and the shallow diver being their downfall. We covered this area getting a few hits on the chubby till I noticed I was getting heaps of inquiries on the dog x jr but no hook ups. This could only mean one thing……SQUID!!! Oh yeah!! As I always have a pre rigged squidding rod on board in winter, the jig was in the water faster than Usain Bolt runs 100m!! Then sure enough, dinner was on board in minutes. We stayed in this little cove for a while backtracking over our drift as squid aren’t like bream where they won’t get spooked to easily so you can pull 4-5 out of the same area in no time.
We then worked our way further north casting into the shallows for little reward as the water clarity turned milky. Later we ran into Jay at the reef outside of Shields St where he had an average start to the morning but was please to report squid chasing his plastics up to the boat. No sooner had we heard that, we were back onto the squid with Ken pulling a monster one from just metres off the shore. The next two hours saw us cover a lot of territory for no cheddar with only a few squid and undersize bream being caught. On our way home we dropped into Woody Point again to see if the bite had increased with the tide but to no avail with only 3 undersize bream snared while slow rolling a shallow Chubby in Pink Suji Shrimp. At the end of the day all up we only caught 10 bream (4 legals), 9 squid and a flatty.
This weekend seems out for any fishing as the crap weather is setting in. I’ve got a few minor boat repairs and reel servicing to do so everything is in good shape for the next expedition. Special mention has to go to Ken who took one for the team and got sprayed a beauty from one very angry squid!! I’m still giggling to myself!!
Happy Breaming, Grayson
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