Qld: Pine River 13/5/12

[ben123]

Hit the pine river yesterday afternoon as the wind had gotten up a bit to much for my liking to go out and hit Scarby and chase the snapper. So I took my brother out for only his 2nd time kayak fishing and went targetting flathead.

We went and headed straight to one of my known flathead spots on the pine and with in the first 5 mins picked up my first keeper at just a touch over 40cm. A few casts later in the same spot and picked up the next keeper, right on 50cm. All went quite on the fishing front for the next 45 mins or so and we kept moving on to other areas until I picked up one more, only went 38cm so in he went again to grow a bit more and be caught another day. Unfortunately my brother didn't pick up any fish which he was highly frustrated with again, but that's fishing for you.

Here's a pick of tonights dinner.

[Bretto]

Nice catch.

You did better than me. I was targeting bream on the weekend on South Pine (morning session). Only 3 legal from 15. Would have to be my worst conversion rate in a while. Water was completely still and visibility was about 1.5m.

Broke a record though. 35mm bream on a 38mm lure.

[BIGKEV]

Good to see the flatties coming back into the Pine, their numbers and size should start to steadily increase through to spring now and they will be a great all weather target.

But just for your future reference, although the breeze had increased throughout the day it was all westerly which meant near on perfect conditions at Scarbourough as it is protected from the headlands. I was at a mums day picnic at Pirate Park from 2ish till dusk and it was like a sheet of glass with very little boat traffic. The best bit is it is starting to fish well too! I turned to the dark side Saturday morning and went with 2 mates in a stinker and we caught 5 snappper between 45cm & 50cm from 5.30 - 9am, not too bad for this early part of the season, fingers crossed we might be in for a good year.

Kev

[ben123]

Bummer, if I had known that I would have been out there chasing the snapper!!! Oh well, can't complain still got a nice feed for tonight.

I have friday off work so hopefully the weather suits to go chase some snapper then.

[Josh1989]

What are u using to catch snapper at scarby? I have failed a few times out there

[ben123]

Hey Josh,

I just use soft plastics. My soft plastic of choice is zman just because of how much longer these last compared to other brands of soft plastics. I will also troll a hard body while moving to different spots but mainly catch them on the soft plastics.

Cheers,

Ben

[BIGKEV]

If you can still find the old style atomic jerk shads in 3 & 4 inch in either green or pumpkin seed brown with a max weight of 1/8th jighead then you'll give yourself a good chance. Fish them slowly around any structure that you find on your sounder. Bass assassins work well too, as do the old school Berkley jerk shads but the other brands mentioned are a bit thicker in the body thus resembling hardiheads a bit better, and these are a plentiful bait source along the peninsula. Gulps get chewed by the pickers but can still catch you fish.

Kev