Thread: Send her down, hughie!

Originally Posted by bob10

Jewfish are good to catch, but if you don't look after it after landing, not the best to eat, imo.

Some people eat Dart and Morwong too!!!!

No mail this week. I went to pick up the mail - the bridge is about two feet under, looks like it is still rising. I only got 32mm over the weekend, so obviously someone upstream got a lot more.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

No mail this week. I went to pick up the mail - the bridge is about two feet under, looks like it is still rising. I only got 32mm over the weekend, so obviously someone upstream got a lot more.

The late Johnny Cash had something to say about that.

Genius

Yes! A week ago, the river bed, about ten feet under the bridge, was bone dry.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Some people eat Dart and Morwong too!!!!

Don't know about Morwong,but large Dart,over the 42cm mark are not bad if filleted.

At that size,they are heaps of fun to land on a surf beach,using of course the good old wooden 6" Alvey and a 13.5' rod.

And pipies as bait.

Fraser island surf on the Eastern beach used to be full of them.

The smaller ones are sea eagle feed.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

People being rescued after driving into flooded rivers. Will people never learn?

Cops were booking them today,going passed a 'Flooded road closed' sign when there was no water on the road at all.Just a small dip,that probably had water in it yesterday.

I stopped and went and asked the policeman nice and politely, if i could go past the sign as the road was in good condition,with no water on it at all,and he said only if you want a ticket.So i politely had to turn around and go around the world to get where i was supposed to be going.

I suppose that couldn't be called revenue collecting,could it?

Maybe this post should be in the grumpy thread

Originally Posted by scarry

Fraser island surf on the Eastern beach used to be full of them.

It still is and so is the Eastern beach on Moreton. Bribie is not as bad but has a lot less decent fish than the other islands, too.

Our dam is now full but the river is still not flowing. I can't even get my 'yak in for a Bass session plus, the river needs one hell of a flush.

Storms are brewing as I type.

It is so long since it has rained significantly here that I am out of the routine. It was only tonight I remembered to look at the BOM's river gauge on line - the gauge is only about a kilometre upstream from our bridge. It showed the river rose nearly another two metres from when I saw it this morning, but has started to go down now.

Looking at the forecast tonight however, I think I will put my planned trip to town tomorrow off until Wednesday at least. Tomorrow they are promising 90% chance of 20-45mm. Mind you, today there was 85% chance of 10-20mm and we have got less than 5mm since midnight. And it doesn't look like there is any on the way for the next few hours.