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Awesome mate. How do you rate the fight of the Tarwhine vs Bream? Big Tarwhine hit and fight harder imo, they really seem to punch above their weight.

Ok. Yes the new site sucks but the app is definitely much better. Get it.

Nice work mate. I can't say I ever would've touched a plastic that looked like that haha. Good fun.

Sounds like a top day. That's the first I've heard of the Marble Flatty, nice looking fish. There are more flathead species than what you'd think.

Big baits = big fish, small baits = all fish.

I agree, why fix what ain't broke? It was always my go to site but now I'm exploring other options.

+1 and the jumping fish was most likely a Carp as Bass don't free jump like that.

Solid fish mate. Nice work

Unfortunately we didn't put it on the mat because it came during a hot Barra bite and we were too keen to get back into it. I'm guessing it'd have to be nudging 40cm? Anyhow, I'm pretty sure it beats my son's previous PB of 35cm.

Thanks mate, it's good to know that I can continue to contribute to and learn from Fishraider.

The first time I went there years ago, you could pay a fee for your catch. Things have changed and it is now catch and release only. I have no doubt they'd be great eating though, they're in such good nick.

Yeah I'll definitely miss the Bass and the Breakwall mate. 1m+ Threadfin Salmon in the Brissy river sounds alright though haha. Oh yeah, this place is at Bli Bli on the Sunny Coast.

Nice read mate, well done to you both.

G'day everyone, I recently moved to Brisbane but this site is so awesome that I see no reason to stop posting on here, I hope it's ok to keep posting reports from up here. Between work and a lack of local knowledge, I haven't been doing much fishing. The school holidays began and me and the young fella were stingin' for a cast. He asked me if there are any Barra down this far but I explained to him that we'd have to head north for about 4 hours. Then I remembered about the Suncoast Barra park I went to years ago and upon hearing about that, my young bloke was going with or without me. We got there with every bit of tackle we have plus a bucket full of live herring that I netted from the river beside the park. We were told that they were still a little bit hard to tempt because the water was still a bit cold but I was confident. They give you the same pellets for bait that they use to feed the fish so we had 2 Bream rods out with unweighted pellets and a 4-7kg rod with a livie on it. The Barra were rising everywhere but they are super smart and can tell the difference between the floating pellets with and without hooks. Frustrating to see them smash the burley pellets but not your bait. It's great that you can use any tackle and bait you like. I sent a livie out and the rod buckled after about 10 seconds. Big Fish! These Barra go hard because they're not lazy freshwater ones that only eat one food all day, they pump saltwater in from the Maroochy river and they eat a range of different things. I had it on for about 5 minutes then it leaped to the air and threw the hook. Looked about 85cm. Next livie went out and got hammered again, after a good fight and some awesome acrobatics, I landed a stocky 70cm fish. It went a little quiet until the clouds came over and the wind changed direction. They started taking the pellets off the surface but the trouble was landing them. We dropped the smaller rods back to 6lb leader to get more strikes but it wasn't easy. After 5 bust offs, my young fella has his first Barra going 60cm. He was stoked. More bust offs followed but it was good fun. My boy put a sinker on and let the pellet go to the bottom and got a big Bream. Dunno how it survived in there with the big boys haha. I got another 2 smaller Barra, 65 and 45cm on prawns after that. A couple of cool things I seen were a huge Jewie come to the surface and eat some berley and also a big Milkfish zip past me at speed with its back out of the water. It was a good day, the fish aren't easy to catch but it's fun to try to outsmart them, they've seen every lure and bait known to man. One thing to note if you ever go there is, the Barra just start to fire up as the place is about to close for the day (5pm) and seeing as the Barra get to 1.2m in here, they can take a long time to land on light gear. I'd hate to hook up to one of these with 5 minutes left, I seen a young guy land a thick 90cm fish on 6lb and it almost spooled him and took half an hour to land. Cool place to go if you don't wanna travel hours up north or ya don't like crocs! Cheers, Dave

Done

Done. Although I just moved to QLD. Takes 5 or 10 minutes. Everyone should do it. We all have opinions on fishing so here's your chance to be heard.

They don't get too much bigger than this around here do they? I know they get to phenomenal sizes at Lord Howe but 54cm is as big as I've seen them around here. Well done.

Bimini to GT for heavier line, 5 twist surgeon for lighter line <20lb. Just my opinion and what works for me.

Hahaha, now that's a real mate!

It's always good fun at this wall. You never really know what's gonna turn up. Those big Kings are bloody frustrating though, hard to hook and near unstoppable when you do......not long now.

I use a 5-twist Surgeon knot for anything up to 15lb mainline (easiest knot ever and very strong when tied correctly) and a Bimini Twist to GT knot for anything above 15lb. This knot is so strong that (if tied correctly) the line will snap back down near the reel with a huge "CRACK!"

Hahaha, it's funny you should say that because my young bloke has slept in in on many occasions. The livie tank is removable so he just throws a blanket in it and he's set!

Ah Thanks mate. I hadn't seen these ones before. Pesky buggers.

Jew and EP's on lures. Sounds like a good sesh in anyones books. Nice.

Awesome mate, I'm going back up there at the end of October.