South East Queensland

Kayak Fishing

Pine Rivers (including Hayes Inlet)

While Hayes Inlet isn't part of the Pine River their mouths virtually join up as they flow under the Hornibrook Bridge to enter Bramble Bay. This means that conditions here in the lower reaches are very similar and for this reason Hayes Inlet reports are included here with Pine River reports.

Date:10th February 2007
Time:6:00am - 10:00am
Tide:Low at 8:38am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks at sandy ramp in front of the second (closed) bait shop
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:This morning's plan was to to lures around the flats and drop-offs upstream from Dohles Rocks as they became exposed by the falling tide.
 The plan was good in theory, but the fish didn't seem to have been told. There was a Dolphin working the area so that may have shut the fish down.
 We tried "pink grubbin'" (unweighted pink Ecogear grubs worked across the surface) where an occasional prawn was flicking, shallow diving lures over the flats, and deep diving lures along the drop-offs, all to no avail.
 The only fish for the day was a 30cm Pike taken on a 35mm Scorpion as we trolled back to the launch site.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:11th January 2007
Time:6:30am - 9:00am
Tide:Low at 8:17am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks at sandy ramp in front of the second (closed) bait shop
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Bait, soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:My wife and I decided we needed just a short paddle today so we picked a small drain opposite the oaks and anchored up just off it for a couple of hours to fish the run-out tide.
 As usual, she immediately started pulling in Catfish and small Bream on prawns while I tried Soft Plastics. After watching this activity for a while, and when she eventually landed a 26cm Bream, I succumbed and switched to prawns myself.
 After an hour, however, as I'd only caught one Catfish while she had caught another half dozen plus as many small Bream, I switched over to hard-bodied lures and worked them in all directions around the Kayak.
 While I was doing this (still to no avail of course) she pulled in a Mudcrab (on a prawn of all things) which I "skilfully" netted then managed to let loose in the kayak. After a few minutes of mayhem I finally cornered this buck and measured it at 16cm.
 Even though it threatened to rain, we didn't get wet, enjoyed pleasantly calm weather, and took home a nice full Muddy for dinner supplemented by a couple of fish fillets for entree.
Submitted by:Ross C.
Date:23rd December 2006
Time:7:30am
Tide:High at 11:27am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks at sandy ramp in front of the second (closed) bait shop
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:This morning's plan was to work over the support piles of the Houghton Highway bridge to see if there were any Bream starting to hang around the area.
 This is a technique which had yielded quite a bit of success earlier in the year. It's critical to get the kayak positioned perfectly to allow a cast right beside the structure so that the lure almost bumps the piles as it's retrieved. We had a king tide to deal with so once the tide really started flowing and the morning breeze arrived it was going to be a real challenge to get a cast in the right spot.
 My first cast was an absolute shocker but the second was bang on the money. Two cranks of the handle and I was hooked up and convincing a fiesty Bream that it didn't want to get back into its shelter. I soon got it out into clear water and landed a 30cm Bream.
 Meanwhile Ross was trying some of the piles further along before moving back to near where I was fishing. His SX40 soon lead to the downfall of another 30cm Bream.
 I was beginning to have trouble casting the small Yo-Zuri Snapshad and switched to soft plastics. Ross persisted with the SX40 and after catching and releasing a few smaller fish landed a 34cm Bream with the thickest set of shoulders I've ever seen on a Bream.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:10th September 2005
Time:7:00am - 10:00am
Tide:Low at 6:56am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:The tactic today was to work along the exposed low water banks for Flathead as I headed about two kilometres downstream.
 The first hour of flicking a small hard-bodied lure proved fruitless until I saw a few small baitfish frantically evading a predator in the shallows beside a gravely bank. A cast just in front of where I saw them jump immediately yielded a 56cm Flathead.
 As I had disturbed this area in landing the Flatty I continued downstream without any luck but returned to the gravely bank about an hour later. This time I hooked a 40cm Flatty on an unweighted soft plastic retrieved slowly along the edge of the bank.
 Because both Flathead were caught in a clean looking area of the river I persuaded myself to keep the larger one for dinner.
 It must still be too cold for Jet-Skiers as I managed to have three pleasantly undisturbed hours on the river and saw only one person in a powerboat who politely slowed down as he went by.
Submitted by:Ross C.
Date:18th June 2005
Time:3:00pm - 5:00pm
Tide:High at 6:45pm (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks at sandy ramp in front of the second (closed) bait shop
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:As it was a virtually windless afternoon I decided to drift across the shallows between Dohles Rocks and Shelly Beach with the incoming tide as it worked its way over the exposed sandbanks.
 I left one rod trailing a Soft Plastic behind me as I cast ahead using small hard-bodied lures.
 Two hours of doing this resulted in a lot of casting arm exercise and just one small Flathead that was picked up on the "non-active" system on a "Gulp 2 inch Minnow Grub in Pumpkinseed colour".
 As I spent most of the time drifting or paddling over very shallow water I saw 10 or 12 Stingrays of assorted sizes but no Flathead.
Submitted by:Ross C.
Date:2nd May 2005
Time:1:15pm - 3:30pm
Tide:Low at 11:10am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Water temperature:23°
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:I'd initially planned on chucking lures around the shallow reefs off Margate, but with white caps on the bay and 20 to 25 knot winds I decided to seek the shelter of the South Pine River.
 I started casting hard lures around the banks as I worked my way downstream.
 About 1.5km downstream I came across a rock wall I hadn't seen before and has presumably been added in the two years since I was last on this stretch of river. I worked along the length of the wall without a touch, so switched to a 3" Bass Minnow on a TT HWS jighead. The third cast was smashed and after a short fight a feisty Bream of about 25cm was landed.
 A few minutes later the lure was again smashed but the fish failed to find the hook. A few more minutes and a tentative bite was the last action for the day. A light shower of rain and the sun coming out for the first time seemed to shut things down.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:26th September 2004
Time:7:00am - 11:00am
Tide:High at 7:51am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:N/A
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:I set off downstream throwing Soft Plastics at snags and into mangroves along the bank but the only attention shown was from a few toadfish.
 A switch to a Min-Min hard bodied lure yielded a small Moses Perch at the slab wall near Yebri Creek before I continued down to the Yellow Cross without any further hits.
 At this point I changed to a Berkley Gulp 3" Minnow in rainbow colour and started throwing it right up it into small drains as I headed back. At around 10:00am this tactic scored a nice 68cm Dusky Flathead which weighed in at 2kg.
 After photographing the Flattie and the drain it was caught in, I continued home and along the way stopped once to have a few casts at a gravely point where I picked up a small Dusky Flathead on another Gulp Minnow.
 As the Flatties were caught in stretches of river not far from where effluent is released from the Amcor Paper Mill there was no way I was going to eat them so they were both put back.
Submitted by:Ross
Date:5th June 2004
Time:6:15am - 9:30am
Tide:Low at 6:30am (Petrie)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:19°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:Hit the water as the first rays of sunlight made it possible to see what was happening (which wasn't much). I read with anticipation the previous reports from this area but all was quiet... very quiet. Not looking promising but soldiered on.
 Paddled downstream to explore the area, the plan was to find the water treatment outlet pipe as I had heard it holds fish all the time. With snags everywhere and many deep holes and rock walls I liked what I saw. I trolled an "Attack" minnow for the trip downstream. Somewhere, I think about 2km's from Leis Park the rod buckled over, after struggling to get it from the rod holder a short fight ensued and a nice, brightly coloured estuary cod came boat side. Having forgotten my camera I made a quick release boatside and he was away. Estimate it at 25cm long so happy with that.
 Continued down to the pipe and there were some prawns flicking around the outlet but water was only a few feet deep. The tide had just started to come in so I worked the up stream side. Scored myself a small bream from there, released of course. Nothing else so I moved on.
 Started working my way back and as before nothing was moving. I worked snags, trolled, worked the deep holes and rock walls for one small moses perch. After loosing some soft plastic lures to poor casting my enthusiasm had waned and I started just paddling back.
 The wind had come up and the debris and garbage floating around really was disappointing. There were many boats on the water chasing prawns and everyone said they'd lucked out, probably why the fish weren't playing the game.
Submitted by:Gavin
Date:24th April 2004
Time:3:15am - 4:15am
6:15am - 11:00am
Tide:Low at 6:26am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:23-25°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastic and hard bodied lures
Report:I was awake so decided I may as well get an early start. When I arrived at the river there was a bit of surface activity so I spent an hour casting from the bank for nil result. Most of the activity was out of casting range and as it was still dark I decided to grab a bit of shut-eye.
 I over slept by half-an-hour, but was quickly on the water and by 6:30am had scored two moses perch from under the road bridge. Unfortunately they were only 12-13cm long but I had not caught one before so can chalk up another species. Both perch were taken on a 1½" glow-in-the-dark Slider.
 I cast around the snags down stream from the bridge but things were quiet so decided to paddle a couple of kilometres downstream. I realised I was silly just paddling so tied on a pink and purple Killalure Pakrat and trolled it along. At 8:00am as I was paddling along a rock-wall the rod went off and after a few minutes fight I landed a 27cm bream.
 I continued trolling along, stopping to cast around any interesting looking structure. Finally the tide changed and I started to work my way back. Since I hadn't had any more success with hard bodied lures I switched back to soft plastics for the return trip. At 9:30am I landed a 15cm tailor on a chartreuse Crappie Spider.
 That was my last fish for the morning. I did get a few bumps under the road bridge but they were only small whatever they were.
 There were a few boats on the river throughout the morning and a couple of guys castnetting for prawns near one of the rock-walls without apparent success.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:2nd February 2004
Time:6:45am - 9:15am
Tide:High at 7:05am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Hard bodied lure
Report:I launched at the top of the tide on a beautifully calm morning and set off downstream with a variety of interesting bird-life chattering in the trees on the riverbank and the water surface completely flat apart from the usual patches of white bubbly foam that I suspect is caused by effluent from the nearby paper mill.
 The routine was to progress along the mangrove banks casting an "Aussie Gold" coloured "Min-Min" lure into likely looking snags or inlets and within twenty minutes I had landed and released one 30cm catfish and a golden trevally of 35 cm (I never keep any fish or crabs caught in the tidal reaches of the North Pine River just in case they are contaminated by wastewater).
 I fished around the rock-walls without luck as I made my way down to the "Yellow Cross" which marks the underwater discharge pipe from the Council Wastewater Treatment plant. This marker is 3 kilometres from the launching ramp at Leis Park and, if I don't stop to fish, I usually reach it after about 30 minutes of comfortable paddling.
 On the return journey I tried trolling along the edges of the river and around shallow sand banks with no result. I therefore stopped at the spot where I caught the trevally on the way down. On the third cast I connected to something that felt much bigger however, after about twenty seconds of what looked like becoming an interesting tussle, I unfortunately lost it.
 I paddled back to the launch site and along the way quickly filled my landing net with discarded empty plastic bottles that I later re-located to their rightful place in a rubbish bin.
 This outing was particularly peaceful as the only other craft I encountered in two and a half hours on the river were two people training on surf-skis and another sweating his way along in a racing kayak.
Submitted by:Ross
Date:19th January 2004
Time:7:00am - 9:30am
Tide:High at 7:29am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Hard bodied lure
Report:With showers and a 30-knot South Easterly forecast, today was never going to be a brilliant day for fishing, and kayaking on any open expanse of water was completely out of the question. I therefore decided to use the higher than normal tide and the runoff from the weekend rain to explore the relatively protected four and a bit kilometres of North Pine River between "Leis Park" and the bridge at "Young's Crossing".
 I paddled with the tide casting at structure along the way but had only one hit in brackish water just past the little creek near "Ron Thomason Park".
 The channel narrows before One-Mile Creek and I had to land and portage the kayak a short distance to avoid a tree across the river. When re-launching at the mouth of One-Mile Creek, the incoming tide was flowing quite fast through this narrow section and it was necessary to paddle hard to avoid going sideways and to duck under a branch (unfortunately I forgot about my rod sticking up and subsequently snagged my favourite lure which broke off and sank).
 With the fresh water being pushed upstream by the high tide, I was hoping there might be a stray bass or golden perch left in this section of river since heaps of them went over the dam wall in the last flood a few years back, however, even though I spooked a few largish fish of unknown variety, I had no hits at all right up to the bridge at Young's Crossing Road.
 Interestingly, at 8:30am (an hour after high tide at Brisbane Bar) the fresh water was still flowing upstream at the bridge but it was too shallow to for me to pass under the bridge without scraping the kayak's bottom on the concrete culvert.
 As showers were starting to move through I headed back downstream and caught up with the outgoing tide that helped me to paddle against the wind on the wider exposed reaches behind the "Petrie On Pine" estate.
 On the way back I plucked a discarded plastic bucket out of the water and filled it up with plastic bottles, beer bottles, pieces of foam, etc., that the selfish few persist in throwing into our waterways. I've made a resolution this year that on every kayak outing I will bring home a small amount of someone else's rubbish as well as my own. It may not make much of a difference by myself but if others see me and do the same, you never know.
 Finally, before landing at "Leis Park" I trolled up into the "Mandin" (a fishing hole used by local Aborigines before Petrie township was established) between "Sweeney Reserve" and "Mathieson Park" but whatever fish used to be there were not around today.
 By the time I had landed it was blowing a gale and raining heavily so it seems I was lucky to at least get a couple of hours on the water before nature intervened.
 Because of several rocky, snaggy, and shallow areas upstream from "Sweeney Reserve" I made a note never to attempt this trip on low water.
Submitted by:Ross
Date:12th January 2004
Time:7:00am - 10:00am
Tide:Low at 6:00am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks at sandy ramp in front of the second (closed) bait shop
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Hard bodied lure
Report:Paddled to the Hornibrook Highway bridge and tried drifting along the edge of the channel as the tide rose casting a deep running MicroMin in "Elton Jack" colour however the Easterly breeze and incoming tide kept pushing me out too deep.
 I then decided to anchor on the edge of the channel with the kayak's stern pointing into the wind and current. In this position I was able to cast in a 180-degree arc quite easily with the wind behind me.
 Within half an hour of working this arc I had landed two dusky flathead with one of 44cm being released and the other of 47cm becoming my lunch a few hours later (grilled, with a few chips, it was most delicious).
 Next I sought out another sandbank where I could get a better drift to cast along a channel edge and somehow managed to properly lip a tiny whiting barely longer than the lure. Shortly after, I hooked a reasonable sized whiting but it threw the hook beside the kayak.
 So then I paddled across to Shelly Beach and well up into a small creek, disturbing a couple of large rays along the way. I cast around the mangroves for a while and landed a small bream that was released and lost another smallish bream near the kayak.
 Headed back to the ramp and on the way picked up an empty Coke bottle and an empty Coke can that a family in a tinny had thoughtlessly thrown over the side.
 I used only the one lure all morning and was quite impressed with the fact that this little lure had attracted three different species of fish.
Submitted by:Ross
Date:15th December 2003
Time:7:00am - 10:30am
Tide:Low at 7:00am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks (sandy access point further along from the boat ramp)
Water temperature:n/a
Lures/baits used:Hard bodied lures and crab bait
Report:Water was dead low and like a mirror when I set off so it was quite easy to bait and drop three crab pots in the shallows between Lobbs Creek and Shelly Beach.
 I then headed downstream towards the Hornibrook Highway and paddled around with a pod of dolphins in the main channel for ten minutes trying to get a good photo opportunity but they wouldn't stay still long enough.
 After trolling a hot pink Min-Min around the edges of a few sandbanks without any luck I moved almost to the bridges and started drifting along the edge of the channel as the tide rose and throwing the Min-Min into the shallows so that it could be retrieved back into deeper water.
 Half an hour of doing this yielded one small flathead that was carefully released and a larger one that threw the hooks as I got it close to the kayak.
 As the tide rose I tried casting around the pylons under the bridge and drifting across the sandbanks (using the breeze that had now come up) but was plagued with clumps of weed that were washing in with the tide.
 I therefore gave up on this and went back to pull the three crab pots which by then had three undersized sand crabs and several large jellyfish in them. I moved two pots into shallower water (away from the incoming jellyfish) and put the third into the small creek near Shelly Beach. Whilst I let the pots sit for another hour I drifted up the creek casting at the edges without any takers (not even any of the dozens of catfish that usually hang out there).
 By this time there were some thunder clouds building up in the south-west and a bit of rumbling so (as rods sticking out of kayaks make good lightning conductors) I decided to call it a day and pulled the pots, with two undersized mud crabs caught in the creek and another small sand crab in the other pots.
 Whilst I didn't catch any fish worth photographing or any crabs that could be kept, it was a pleasant morning out even though it ended a bit earlier than I had planned.
Submitted by:Ross
Date:31st August 2003
Time:7:30am - 11:30am
Tide:Low at 6:02am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Clontarf boat ramp
Water temperature:17-19°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics and hard bodied lures
Report:Ross cast around the rock walls at the boat ramp while he was waiting for me to launch, then we trolled across to the Houghton and Hornibrook bridges and cast around the pylons. So far it was a beautiful morning to be out paddling, with hardly a breath of wind.
 There were no takers here so we headed upstream casting soft plastics around the flats and drop-offs. I hooked a flathead but was bitten off fairly quickly.
 Weed was a real problem so I Texas rigged a 3" Slider — no more weed problem. Unfortunately, no more fish either! We continued upstream, trolling along the edges of sand banks and casting aroung mangrove snags. The wind was starting to build up but was opposite to the run of the tide so it was pretty easy to hold bosition.
 Finally, about 2km upstream, I scored a dusky flathead around 40cm on a Texas rigged Atomic Bass Grub in tomato core. These grubs are really good for rigging this way — the hook point can be set into the ribs along the body where it is sufficiently protected to stop fouling on weeds but not too buried to restrict hookup on a fish.
 There were a few stingrays on the flats and Ross saw a small shovelnose but baitfish had taken the day off. Next time I'll go on the ebb tide which should concentrate the fish in the main channel making them easier to find.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:28th August 2003
Time:9:30am - 12:30pm
Tide:High at 9:49am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:19°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics and hard bodied lures
Report:Trolled downstream of the bridges for a couple of kilometres, then drifted back with the wind and tide casting soft plastics around the structure. This is a great looking stretch of water - boulder strewn banks, overhanging mangroves, snags, a few schools of baitfish and the occasional mullet jumping. One cast into a small backwater resulted in a hit that felt like a flathead but failed to hookup. I was using a tail that was probably a bit to long for the jighead, although any self-respecting flathead should have been able to engulf the whole thing.
 Changed tail and continued. Next hit came off a snag, felt like a bream and again failed to hookup. Hit number three came from the flats back near the road bridge and again felt like a flathead.
 Time for a change so sat the rod in the holder and paddled upstream past the bridges for several hundred metres. Began casting around the mangroves. Felt a bump then a hit and failed to hookup for a fourth time. This was getting to frustrating so I called quits.
 Final score: Fish 4 defeated Tony 0.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:8th August 2003
Time:5:30am - 10:45am
Tide:High at 5:38am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Deepwater Bend
Water temperature:17°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics and hard bodied lures
Report:When I arrived Gavin was already on the water fishing along the rock wall for no results. There were a few baitfish flicking around the surface so we trolled towards the highway bridge, hoping for some tailor which we'd heard where in the area. We stopped on the way for a cast around some snags and Gavin scored a small bream.
 We worked over the bridge pylons with a variety of soft plastics and again Gavin scored a small bream but that was all so we paddled upstream to the snags between the barge and the junction with the South Pine River. True to form, we caught nothing. Headed back to the bridge for a few casts on our way back and with my final cast caught my only fish for the day — a 24cm bream — on an Ecogear Mini Tank.
 Trolled again on our way back to the ramp and Gavin caught a small whiting on a Halco Combat.
 It was overcast all morning with occasional light shower, but at least there was no wind.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:7th June 2003
Time:9:30am - 11:45am
Tide:Low at 9:02am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Leis Park (North Pine River)
Water temperature:20°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics and hard bodied lures
Report:Started fishing with hard bodies a few hundred metres upstream of the rail bridge, but couldn't raise a scale so switched to a glow-in-the-dark Slider. The Slider only lasted a couple of casts before the toad fish found it and I retrieved it without its tail.
 Switched to an Ecogear Mini Tank and worked my way back downstream casting at the snags, rock walls, pylons. Finally got two undersized flathead (about 20 and 30cm) from a mudflat a hundred or so metres downstream of the Gympie Road bridge.
 This was the first time I had been here so hadn't known what to expect, or how the recent rain would affect the area. It gets pretty shallow around the bridges at low tide, but with all the structure around it looks like this area could fire when there's a bit more water. I'll be back!
Submitted by:Tony
Date:10th May 2003
Time:6:30am - 10:30am
Tide:Low at 10:41am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Water temperature:20°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:Paddled around to the highway bridge and cast soft plastics around the bridge pylons. Scored a 29cm bream on a 2" John Deere BBB triple-tail grub. The tail was pretty well wrecked after this encounter and I didn't have another, so after a search through my tackle bag I settled on a Silver Fox Squidgy Wriggler. Three-quarters of an hour later I scored a 28cm bream.
 Both fish were taken when I had the kayak hard up against a downstream pylon, casting upstream and working the lure back along the pylons with a slow lift and wind.
 Had a few casts in the South Pine on my way back to the car, but only managed a 25cm flathead.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:18th February 2003
Time:9:00am - 12:30pm
Tide:High at 10:40am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks (Pine River)
Water temperature:29°C
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics and hard bodied lures
Report:Launched beside the boat ramp and paddled upstream with the rising tide to "The Rips". The water was quite murky due to recent rains -- visibility only about 50cm. The full moon was yesterday and this morning's high was the highest tide in this cycle. The water was flooded well back into the mangroves and must have taken the fish with it because they certainly weren't anywhere I tried.
 Saw a few good-sized mullet jumping and schools of garfish about 7cm long. Aside from that it was really quiet. There were hardly any birds around either.
 Paddled across the river to the "Oaks" and cast soft plastics around, even tried scenting them, but couldn' raise a scale.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:29th October 2002
Time:6:15am - 10:30am
Tide:Low at 8:18am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks (Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics (craws and shads)
Report:I'd heard that the Pine has been hammered by the pro-fishermen lately, but since I hadn't been to this section for five months I thought I'd go take a look anyway.
 Started by paddled a couple of kilometres up Bald Hills Creek trolling a 3" shad. Not a single touch. Cast a 2" craw around some of the jetties and couldn't even raise a toady. Spooked something near the mouth of the creek that flows out of the Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve - all I saw was the cloud of silt it left in its wake.
 Back in the Pine I trolled out to the Hornibrook Bridge then cast around the pylons. Found the toadies :-(. Spoke to some guy cast-netting off the bridge and no-one was getting anything. Saw some bait fishos get a bream from under the new bridge.
 Spoke with some other bait fishos about half-way back to Dohles Rocks. They said things were quiet. After I'd passed them one of them landed what looked to be a small whiting.
 I hope I do better next time I decide to paddle 8 or 9km!
Submitted by:Tony
Date:10th October 2002
Time:na
Tide:na
Launch site:Young's Crossing and Grant Street (North Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Flies and spinnerbaits
Report:Put in at Young's Crossing and paddled toward the dam wall (turns out only about 500metres long till you run out of water). Fair bit of surface activity and scored a nice 20cm bass on surface fly (a first for me and caught on a fly made by me). Got fish rising to the fly on a few other occassions.
 I then went to the crossing at Grant Street (just below the dam wall) put in there and paddled to the weir (probably a couple of kms). Flicked the fly around for one rise and then the spinner baits for nothing. This area would definitely be an option for late afternoon / dusk on a hot day.
Submitted by:Gavin
Date:29th September 2002
Time:6:30am - 12:00pm
Tide:Low at 7:36am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:Paddled around to the highway bridge and flicked plastics around the pylons. Only managed to lose tails to toadies. Tried the flats downstream of the bridge for similar results.
 Headed back upstream to the snags near the junction with the South Pine River. Finally managed to score a 20cm tailor, followed a few casts later by a 30cm catfish.
 Had my final cast and scored a 20cm bream in a small bay in the South Pine on my way back to the ramp.
 All three fish were taken on a cotton-candy Atomic Baby Craw. I've found that these seem to resist toadies fairly well. Even the tailor didn't cause significant damage. Whenever I used a T-tail it came back shortened after a few casts. :-(
Submitted by:Tony
Date:30th August 2002
Time:6:00am - 10:00am
Tide:Low at 7:39am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Deepwater Bend (Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics & hard-bodied minnows
Report:Trolled the flats from Deepwater Bend to the highway bridge for no result then flicked plastics around the bridge pylons. Gavin had boated a couple of bream before I finally broke my jinx and got my first bream-on-lure. Final tally: Gavin, 4 bream to 29cm and "bricked" by a few unstoppables; Me, 2 bream to 25cm.
 Trolled back to the launch site and managed to lose a 50cm flathead (and my new pink Scorpion 68) when the knot failed when I grabbed the leader to lift it aboard.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:13th June 2002
Time:10:00am - 1:00pm
Tide:High at 10:53am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:Couldn't make it for an early start, but hoped that the late-morning high tide might help. Fished from the reserve, out into the main river and almost to the junction with the North Pine River. Had several soft hits that failed to hookup. Eventually picked up a small (16-17cm) trevally almost opposite my launch site.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:30th May 2002
Time:6:00am
Tide:Low at 6:43am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:Paddled to the mouth of the river where the South Pine and North Pine Rivers meet. Flicked small grub tail soft plastic around the snags as I made my way back to start. Scored two nice bream 25cm each. They're great fun on light gear.
Submitted by:Gavin
Date:12th May 2002
Time:10:00am - 1:00pm
Tide:High at 9:15am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Dohles Rocks (Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:Fished the shallow area behind islands upstream of Dohles Rocks. Saw a single stick poking out of the water in an otherwise featureless area and figured there was some structure underneath. Cast a black/chartreuse 2" grub in there and got a 42cm flathead.
Submitted by:Tony
Date:10th May 2002
Time:6:00am
Tide:High at 8:06am (Brisbane Bar)
Launch site:Barungwarra Bushland Reserve (South Pine River)
Lures/baits used:Soft plastics
Report:I paddled around the South Pine River for about 3½ hours. Scored myself two bream and a catfish on soft plastics.
Submitted by:Gavin
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