Bush ‘n Beach Fishing Magazine Location reports & tips for fishing, boating, camping, kayaking, 4WDing in Queensland and Northern NSW
It was sad to hear that this will be the last print edition of Bush ‘n Beach Fishing to go out to the fishing public. boat
The Power Boat Anglers deep sea fishing club has had a long association with BNB and would not have been around for as long if it wasn’t for their continued support.
Ron helped us out big time in the early days with a number of things, including sponsoring and donating the trophy for the Seventeen Seventy club competition.
That backing continued with Ben, who has been a guest speaker at our meetings over the years and always provided prizes and assistance whenever we needed it, particularly the Christmas raffles.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my 20-plus years as a scribe on behalf of the Power Boat Angler club and look forward to participating in the future with BNB’s online presence.
Fishing over the break
While there were no official club competitions over the Christmas break, that didn’t mean everyone sat at home twiddling their thumbs.
Some stayed put locally and went crabbing, while others headed far and wide for a well-earned break, and snuck in a little fishing too.
Brett Shalders went out with Nick on Christmas eve and found a mud crab honey hole that delivered a nice feed.
He followed this up with a fishing trip across the ditch to New Zealand that proved very successful, bagging some nice snapper and kahawai.
Back on this side of the planet, there was quite good weather, which allowed access to the bay before the new year and saw many of our members out on the water chasing an array of species.
Dale McClurgh spent a little time off Wellington Point with his daughter Zoey, who showed her dad how things were done, catching a personal best slatey bream and grass emperor among other species.
Darry Eaves hit the areas around Green Island chasing spotted mackerel and was rewarded with a couple of decent fish.
I may be wrong, but I haven’t heard of spotties in any large numbers as yet.
Though I’m hoping they show up soon and give the grinner population a bit of a spanking – these are simply out of control numbers wise at the moment.
Peter MacPherson took his new boat out for a christening with a crew of Sam and Michael.
They targeted Cape Moreton and came away with a nice feed of snapper and a respectable spanish mackerel for their efforts.
Helaine Wilesmith and John Hooker hit out from Rainbow Beach, spending the day about 40km offshore.
They worked over their usual spots and ended up with a nice Esky full of quality fish, with the best being John’s snapper and grass emperor.
Wayne Evans is a new member and seems to be popping up on various boats targeting all sorts of species.
Robin Love had him on a trip in the bay where they came home with a mixed bag of summer and winter whiting.
He popped up again recently with Arthur Woo after another successful trip, this time chasing snapper.
I’ve got to say Arthur will be one to watch this competition season because he continues to land quality fish on his trips out.
Brendon Tait thought he’d get out of Brisbane and do a few relaxing trips from Seventeen Seventy.
Sounded good… the only problem was the several hundred others who had the same idea.
The line up to the ramp stretched its way along the road, past the market grounds and, once off the trailer, finding a parking spot was an additional nightmare – I’m not sure how the fishing went.
Well, that’s about it for the last print edition.
A big thanks to all the readers of this publication, for supporting our club and the mag for such a long time.
Remember to get on Facebook and follow the Bush ‘n Beach Fishing Magazine page and continue to support them for all your boating and fishing news.
Thanks to Ben and everyone at BNB.
Meetings boat
Any interested parties are invited to come along to our monthly meetings, which occur on the first Wednesday of every month at ‘The Club Manly’ (bowls club), 26 Faine St Manly from 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
The first meeting for the new year will be Wednesday February 5, then on Wednesday March 5.
Safe boating.
