6-7-09
The Gold Coast, perfect one day…… average the next. That would be the best way to sum up our Sunday trek to the breaming Mecca where we were greeted with a beautiful morning of cool crisp air and light westerly breezes.
My partner in crime today was Tommy Slater from Brissy who was virgin to fishing the southern coast but had heard nothing but good things on its fishing habits. We started in the upper reaches of the Nerang with our first port of call being a deep rocky reef system near Sorrento. We decided to start here just before the top of the tide to see if the fish were feeding in the upper reaches during their spawning run. After a few drifts over the reef we found the tide to be slackening so we decided to move further up to Bundall Rd bridge to fish the deep holes there which are notorious for good bream. After some time there and mind you, NO FISH, we were off the idea of a deep water bite and moved to a small canal section of Chevron Island. I peppered the oyster crusted shore with a deep Jackall Chubby in Pink Suji Shrimp while Tom threw a plastic combination of 3” Gulp minnow in new penny on a 1/12 TT jighead and it wasn’t too long for Tom to be onto our first bream (A small one at that but we were just happy to see a fish!!!). Soon after that I got smashed by a great flathead that must have been cruising the shallows for baitfish as it inhaled the chubby at the beginning of my retrieve.
After that stretch we headed to the much talked about TSS deep reef system to try our luck again on the deep bite. Joining two other boats, we held the boat in current fishing in 17-18ft of water using 1/8th and 1/6th TT jigheads rigged with 2” Gulp shrimp in Peppered and Banana Prawn. Within minutes I struck first with a feisty 25cm fork bream that inhaled the shrimp as I dead-sticked it on the bottom. On the second drift, I was on again with a great fighting 29cm fork fish which had a few surging runs before being landed. Now this bream wasn’t just your ordinary yellowfin, it had a massive sore that resembled a piece of raw steak the size of a tennis ball on its side. In hindsight, I should have put it out of its misery and stopped it infecting others in its vicinity. Tom was the next to strike with a nice 27cm fork bream caught on the deadly banana prawn colored 2” Gulp shrimp, worked with small twitches as we started on the top of our drift. This area proved to be fruitful and I think if you were prepared to stick it out you could get some great fish. Fishing deep reefs is certainly an art that I’m still trying to master!!
We then had a run up to some flats up near Crab island as both Tommy and I had ‘shallow water withdrawal’ so we needed to satisfy our curiosity and see if any fish were feeding up there. It started off well with Tom hooking a nice 50cm flatty while slow rolling a Zipbait Khamsin SR in 2ft of water and by the way; $25 lure + 2lb leader = Elevated heart rate!! On our run home we visited Runaway Bay canals for a little look at how they are fishing. With the tide low and it being the middle of the day, we didn’t expect too much and that’s exactly what we got!! Good waste of 45mins though.
All in all it was a great day out on the water. We had a really great look around the Goldy as the day was dedicated to pre-fishing for the up and coming Dash for Cash comp in three weeks. Our minds haven’t been made up yet whether to fish the deep reefs of the Gold Coast or bite the bullet and run up to the bay islands. Either way we may need a cut lunch to pass some time!!!
Happy Adventures, Grayson.
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