Jumpinpin
| Date: | 28th March 2005 |
| Time: | 08:30am - 12:30pm |
| Tide: | High at 11:09am (Jacobs Well) |
| Launch site: | Little Rocky Point |
| Water temperature: | 25°C |
| Lures/baits used: | Soft plastic and hard bodied lures |
| Report: | After launching I trolled northwards to the powerlines, stopping only for a few casts around some channel markers. I then trolled along the south-west corner of Russell Island until I was opposite the northern entrance to Cobby Passage. |
| I headed down Cobby Passage, casting at some of the snags, then continued trolling for another kilometre or two before turning back. | |
| I trolled around the norther end of Mosquito Islands and back to the launch site. | |
| Not a fish was to be seen and very few birds were about -- possibly due to the amount of boat traffic in the area because of the long weekend. Either that or I'm losing my touch! | |
| While I was loading up, some shore-based anglers caught and released a couple of under-sized bream using prawn-tails as bait. | |
| Submitted by: | Tony |
| Date: | 12th February 2005 |
| Time: | 05:30am - 9:00am |
| Tide: | Low at 6:02am (Jacobs Well) |
| Launch site: | Behm's creek |
| Water temperature: | 26°C |
| Lures/baits used: | Soft plastic and hard bodied lures |
| Report: | I had only ever driven over Behm Creek on my way to Jacob's Well, so when Gerard suggested we try it I was interested to see what it was like. |
| As we were preparing to launch we could see baitfish disturbing the water surface. We launched from a rock wall beside the road. The rocks were reasonably slippery so launching (and later retieving) each kayak was a two man job. | |
| This was my first look at this creek, having only driven over it on my way to the 'Well. We were on the water just after 5:30 and it wasn't long before Gerard hooked up, but after a bit of a run around his bow the fish spat the lure. | |
| There isn't a lot of structure at low tide so we cast around the steeper banks and trolled for a bit. About halfway to the mouth there is a small creek with some good yabbie banks near the mouth. We were in this creek when we both cast in the same area, our lures landing about 3m apart in open water. Both lures were immediately hit quite hard. Mine was a bream of about 20cm. Gerard on the other hand was a bit closer to a bank with a substantial undercut and his fish took him straight under there and proceeded to practice its macrame. We're calling this one as a Jack. | |
| We continued down to the mouth then tried this creek again on the way back but that was it for the day. By 9am the wind was getting up. | |
| There are a few spots along the creek that would be worth a try on the top of the tide or the start of the run-out. | |
| Submitted by: | Tony |
| Date: | 10th June 2004 |
| Time: | 06:30am - 11:45am |
| Tide: | Low at 10:24am (Jacobs Well) |
| Launch site: | Cabbage Tree Point |
| Water temperature: | 18°C |
| Lures/baits used: | Soft plastic and hard bodied lures |
| Report: | It had been quite a while since I'd been down this area and I decided to have a look around the back of Tabby Tabby Island. |
| I set off for the northern end of the island, trolling as I went. When I got to the passage between Tabby Tabby and Mosquito Islands I pulled in the troll rod and switched to casting a soft plastic around likely looking areas. Apart from a solitary tailor that was harassing something across the surface of the water I saw nothing, and the water didn't look particularly "fishy" until over halfway down the east side of the island. | |
| After switching soft plastics several times trying to find something that would work I tied on a pink and white Atomic 2" Shad. By this stage I was fishing the sandbanks between Tabby Tabby, Mosquito, and Eden Islands and finally caught my first fish for the day — a 26cm bream. | |
| A few minutes later the same lure fooled a similar sized bream on the north side of Eden Island but after a couple of runs it dropped off. A few more minutes and a 20cm flathead fell to the same lure. That was the end of the action for a while so it was back to changing lures. | |
| Finally, the second cast of a jelly prawn coloured Squidgy Fish at a promising looking snag on the south end of Mosquito Island saw a 24cm bream landed after a dogged attempt to get back to its snag. That was the last fish for the day. I trolled my way around the southern end of Tabby Tabby Island and back to Cabbage Tree Point. | |
| Submitted by: | Tony |
| Date: | 15th October 2002 |
| Time: | 07:00am - 11:30am |
| Tide: | Low at 11:11am |
| Launch site: | Jacobs Well |
| Lures/baits used: | 3" chartreuse and black shad on a 1/4oz size 3/0 jighead |
| Report: | Paddled down to Dinner Island then about three quarters of the way up the creek that links to Pimpama River. Spooked a few fish and stingrays in the shallows but only had one fish "bump" the lure. |
| Tried trolling a Rapala minnow on my way back but had to continually stop to clear it of weeds so switched back to the soft plastic shad and trolled that. Hooked and landed a 55cm flathead near the red marker on the north side of Dinner Island. | |
| Submitted by: | Tony |
| Date: | 4th September 2002 |
| Time: | 07:00am - 11:30am |
| Tide: | High at 7:35am |
| Launch site: | Cabbage Tree Point |
| Lures/baits used: | Atomic 2" Shad in pink and white on a 1/8oz jighead |
| Report: | Paddled against quite a strong northerly on my way up to Cobby Passage. Thought I'd target the flats and dropoffs to see if there were any decent flathead about. The shad got bitten at about 9am and the fish felt like it had some weight to it but was coming to the kayak relatively easily. Then it discovered it had been hooked! The tide had started to run out and, with the wind, I was drifting south at a fair rate. The fish of course decided to go north. After a couple of minutes during which I didn't even look like slowing it the hook pulled. It hadn't felt like a flatty and I thought it may have been a ray although I haven't heard of them taking lures. |
| Since I now had to contend with the tide as well as the wind to get back out of Cobby Passage it was time to leave. At the northern end of the passage it runs east-west and was reasonably sheltered so I decided to pause for a rest before heading back out into the wind. A few casts later I got a solid hook up on a fish that gave some powerful runs before I managed to land my first ever jewie! Not a big one (50cm) but a good workout for my new bream rod. The way it fought makes me think that the earlier fish was probably also a jewie. | |
| Submitted by: | Tony |