Roadside Fishing Townsville Style
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:52 pm
G'day Forum
Its been a while since Ive hooked anything decent
and its been a while since Ive seen my woman
Just thought I'd share that
Im here on exercise in Townsville with work.
Got lucky enough to work the nights and got the days to explore Townsville from my deadly treadly,
Brought my baitcaster, box of lures and child like optimism.
Started my adventure right here on the RAAF base.
Casting to the swampy looking flood plain thingy at the back of the airfield resulted in Tarpon after Tarpon
With one little ratty, all a stones throw from the airfield.
Some places are out of bounds, which is fair enough but one is the 'barra pond'.
It is in a restricted area, and apparently has some 'decent; sized barra in it.
It was hard not to break that rule but I complied.
So I ventured out into Townsville's Land base spots, that included:
Casino Rock Wall (Which is HUGE!) apparently theres great fish to be had of this... all i caught was a flattie
Bohle River Bridge (Where I caught my jack) it was really fresh water as well
Ross River and Ross Creek (Various bridges and rockbars)
Culverts just outside of the RAAF Base (Louisiana Ck)
Didn't get to fish it but was told the rock pools down 'the strand' were a barra haunt.
My take on Townsville Land base:
The rock bar in the photo at Ross River looked the goods.
It looked like some where you would hook a decent fish.
I flogged it one out going with lures, really hard with another bloke, trying all sorts of strategies.
I was told by locals barra in the 70's were common with metery's been caught and nice sized jacks for lure fishermen
with cod and nice bream on baits.
I came back again and gave live baiting a crack.
Zilch! on lures and live bait, no taps bumps or runs
Gave that spot a real hard crack, no results.
Something I noticed and photo's below is Townsville has heaps of Tilapia.
Every bridge I seemed to ride over had schools of Tilapia within the Lilly pads.
Oh and everywhere seems to be shallow water!
Feels like you can just wade over any river or creek here.
... I could be talking smack but thats my take.
All in all a bit fun between shifts away from home
Cheers
Aaron
Its been a while since Ive hooked anything decent
and its been a while since Ive seen my woman
Just thought I'd share that
Im here on exercise in Townsville with work.
Got lucky enough to work the nights and got the days to explore Townsville from my deadly treadly,
Brought my baitcaster, box of lures and child like optimism.
Started my adventure right here on the RAAF base.
Casting to the swampy looking flood plain thingy at the back of the airfield resulted in Tarpon after Tarpon
With one little ratty, all a stones throw from the airfield.
Some places are out of bounds, which is fair enough but one is the 'barra pond'.
It is in a restricted area, and apparently has some 'decent; sized barra in it.
It was hard not to break that rule but I complied.
So I ventured out into Townsville's Land base spots, that included:
Casino Rock Wall (Which is HUGE!) apparently theres great fish to be had of this... all i caught was a flattie
Bohle River Bridge (Where I caught my jack) it was really fresh water as well
Ross River and Ross Creek (Various bridges and rockbars)
Culverts just outside of the RAAF Base (Louisiana Ck)
Didn't get to fish it but was told the rock pools down 'the strand' were a barra haunt.
My take on Townsville Land base:
The rock bar in the photo at Ross River looked the goods.
It looked like some where you would hook a decent fish.
I flogged it one out going with lures, really hard with another bloke, trying all sorts of strategies.
I was told by locals barra in the 70's were common with metery's been caught and nice sized jacks for lure fishermen
with cod and nice bream on baits.
I came back again and gave live baiting a crack.
Zilch! on lures and live bait, no taps bumps or runs
Gave that spot a real hard crack, no results.
Something I noticed and photo's below is Townsville has heaps of Tilapia.
Every bridge I seemed to ride over had schools of Tilapia within the Lilly pads.
Oh and everywhere seems to be shallow water!
Feels like you can just wade over any river or creek here.
... I could be talking smack but thats my take.
All in all a bit fun between shifts away from home
Cheers
Aaron
