Coonar Creek

[Mad Mullet]

G'Day all

It was as windy as anything here on Sunday so my eldest son and I chucked the canoe in Coonar Creek and paddled/dragged it all the way down the the mouth for a bit of exercise. Lots of fun but being such a small and shallow creek there is very little in the way of decent sized fish to be caught.
We finished up with a couple of small bream and a handful of tiny flatties.
Successful lures included: Rio's prawns, Prawnstars, Eyeball Tail Soft plastics, Rebel Teeny Deep Crawdads and Trollcraft Crawdaddys (size 0).

[Nath86]

Nice looking creek you've got there.
Too bad that they are small, but I bet you there were worse things that you could have been doing.

Cheers Nath

[virty]

Those little buggers go after any thing.

[adidaspeteman]

Nice little breambo, i wish we had mangroves in the Swan and Canning rivers.

[ActiveAngler]

Definately a nice little area, would be top early in the morning.

Nothing like a little popper being worked around this area....

[Shortlite]

Nice looking creek there, with cover on the far bank and sand "flat" on the other. Any swamp geckoes?

[Mad Mullet]

Shortlite

No mud geckos here. Bundy is a bit far south. With global warming however, who knows what the future will bring (VBG!)

[Mad Mullet]

ActiveAngler

Tried poppers and had a couple of follows from whiting but no hookups.
Unfortunately the water looks a lot better than it fishes. Generally it is very shallow and most fish are on the small side.
I only fished it because it was too windy to put in anywhere else.
We had originally intended to canoe across the Burnett River and fish a little lagoon between the Burnett and Skyringville but 30 kt winds soon put paid to that.

[ActiveAngler]

I know what you are saying buddy. There are a number of areas in heavily populated creeks around Innisfail that 'should' mean fish but, produces nothing.

Cheers buddy

Ben

[vanurose]

Great thread and lovely creek pics. Arent you worried about crocs right there ?