Ningi Creek Fishing Report

Attachment 37172Attachment 37173Hi Everyone

Another brief report on fishing I have done in my favourite creek during the last 12 months, will keep throwing a few reports together until I catch you all up with current trips, or you get bored and tell me to stop.

Went out with my young fella Mark for a few hours fishing with live yabbies , fished my favourite gutter for nothing but unders so moved up to fish opposite the bank that comes out around half ebb tide directly across from the boat ramp, still nothing but unders and one freight train express to the mouth, probably a big tarpon or trevor, so ran back down the creek and fished a little drain that runs off a sand bank near the mouth of the creek and the young bloke scored a good whiting and good bream straight up, then all went quite, had a cold beer and pulled the pin.

Attached a couple of pics of the fish caught near the mouth, the drink coaster in the pic showing the fish on the plate is 98mm square so good quality fish.

Hope everyone gets a few this weekend, weather looks ok at this stage.

Buggered if I can get these pics to load in the correct rotation.

MSB

Thanks Ron. Be interesting to see what this rain does now to the fishing.

Thanks Ron. Nice couple of fish.

Nice feed.
Blue sky with Tee shirt and shorts, got to be happy with that to.

Nice report Ron.
I went into Ningi Creek last saturday for a 6 hour session.
Water was the cleanest I have ever seen it in there.
Worked over the rocks upstream for very little result, then headed up and fished some deeper areas another km or so upstream.
Raef got a lovely flatty about 60cm that went into the esky.
Did a recce for new ting banks whilst up there...in summer they will fire but currently they are dead with no feeding signs at all.
Did spot one big whiting about 40cm on one bank but it shied away when it heard the lure land 6 metres beyond it.
Came back downstream looking for new patches of rock....plenty to be had.
Got back to the main section of rock we fish and edged the boat amongst the bommies.
Plenty of fish in there but all were shy, probably due to the clarity.
Spotted one cod about 60cm and several jacks nestled in the rocks or travelling between them.
My tally for the day was 3 under size flatties and about 4 bream up to about a kilo.
Raef scored a few bream on top of the flatty in the esky.

Hopefully this rain will improve the water quality and the fishing might get back to how it usually is.

Come the warmer months I will be doing a lot of work on jacks in there now that I have found a lot more structure.

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Thanks Ron. Be interesting to see what this rain does now to the fishing.

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Morning Pete
Rain should help a bit, the big whiting don't like it too clear, we have to catch up for that fish, best after the school holidays i reckon, Ningi will be like the Bruce Hwy for the next couple of weeks and be more crab pots then BCF have in stock.

Will be in touch

Ron

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Originally Posted by 3Macks

Thanks Ron. Nice couple of fish.

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Thanks 3Macks appreciate your reply, I just noticed your are located in Cairns, I lived in Cairns in the early nineties and used to fish the inlet a bit and also Russel River, I lived at Redlynch Rise up behind the pub, went back there for business reasons a few years back and couldn't believe the development the place has had.

Hope you get on to a few.

Ron

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Nice feed.
Blue sky with Tee shirt and shorts, got to be happy with that to.

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Thanks Blackfish, standard fishing gear all year round in SEQ, ordinary weather just at the moment though
Ron

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Originally Posted by mangajack

Nice report Ron.
I went into Ningi Creek last saturday for a 6 hour session.
Water was the cleanest I have ever seen it in there.
Worked over the rocks upstream for very little result, then headed up and fished some deeper areas another km or so upstream.
Raef got a lovely flatty about 60cm that went into the esky.
Did a recce for new ting banks whilst up there...in summer they will fire but currently they are dead with no feeding signs at all.
Did spot one big whiting about 40cm on one bank but it shied away when it heard the lure land 6 metres beyond it.
Came back downstream looking for new patches of rock....plenty to be had.
Got back to the main section of rock we fish and edged the boat amongst the bommies.
Plenty of fish in there but all were shy, probably due to the clarity.
Spotted one cod about 60cm and several jacks nestled in the rocks or travelling between them.
My tally for the day was 3 under size flatties and about 4 bream up to about a kilo.
Raef scored a few bream on top of the flatty in the esky.

Hopefully this rain will improve the water quality and the fishing might get back to how it usually is.

Come the warmer months I will be doing a lot of work on jacks in there now that I have found a lot more structure.

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Morning Tony

You are right about the clarity of the creek at the moment, this bit of rain may discolour it a bit which will certainly help with the whiting, I am really interested to read about the areas you fish further up the creek than I venture, furtherest up I have been is about 800mtrs past the old fish hatchery site, some decent size rocks in the small channel prevented me from taking the tinny any further, it looks a real fishy place up there, would really need a yak to explore it, which you obviously have.

Thanks for the reply Tony, and good fishing.

Ron

Just wanted to say it's great to have you as a new member Ron, your fitting right in, well done.

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Originally Posted by Didley

Just wanted to say it's great to have you as a new member Ron, your fitting right in, well done.

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I have been made feel welcome, Active Angler is a very good site, everyone appears to respect others and their opinions which is the sign of a good community, so thanks Didley, your post is appreciated.

Ron

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There you go Ron,its a glitch with iPhone apparently.

Paulo

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There you go Ron,its a glitch with iPhone apparently.

Paulo

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Champion Paulo, thank you for that
Ron

That is a stonker Bream. How come everything I catch has to go back :(

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Originally Posted by tackle_buster

That is a stonker Bream. How come everything I catch has to go back :(

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Come on Garry, you are being to modest mate:cool:

Ron, the rocks 800m upstream of the prawn farm is the start of where I fish usually.
Best to drop the lecky in once you reach those rocks and stay on it for the next km.....scattered rocks throughout in some areas.
A very terminal place to donate lots of lures and props for the unwary or new comers.

Some good worm banks up around the corner from the rocks too if you are prepared to dig a few.

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Originally Posted by mangajack

Ron, the rocks 800m upstream of the prawn farm is the start of where I fish usually.
Best to drop the lecky in once you reach those rocks and stay on it for the next km.....scattered rocks throughout in some areas.
A very terminal place to donate lots of lures and props for the unwary or new comers.

Some good worm banks up around the corner from the rocks too if you are prepared to dig a few.

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Thanks Tony, knees won't allow me to dig worms anymore, thanks for the info but, I have started using soft plastics and small hard bodied lures and find that a stack of fun particularly when you hook up,