Central Moreton Bay - Small Ships, Fisherman’s Gutter and the Rous

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This is the fifth video in the series on central Moreton Bay. In this episode I pick up the story at the Small Ships Passage, continue up the Rous channel and take a couple of small detours down to the Maroom Hole and into Fisherman’s Gutter.
This area has it all, well I admit I am a little biased, but it is a very good area offering some excellent fishing and is a reasonable overnight anchorage so long as it isn’t too rough.
There is a very large variety of species to be caught in a relatively small area. Over the years I have caught whiting, flathead, sole, pike, barracuda, stingray, shark, grass sweet-lip, snapper, blue-bone and mackerel, not to mention the countless bait stealers that also share the area. Everything in season, of course.
As usual, after I finished the video and listened to it I thought of things I should have said. In one or two places I spoke about threading your way through the sand banks and following the darker water. Listening to this I remembered a few times where people thought cloud shadow or submerged weed beds (both of which make the water “look” darker) were areas of deeper water. Until you can tell the difference, be very careful.
Another thing I didn’t mention is that the Small Ships Passage and surrounding areas have weed beds that are good areas to catch squid. I can’t help you much with that because I am only just dabbling in jigging for squid myself. Never-the-less if you identify a weed bed in the area and it is squid season you could give it a try, after all, that is how you find new areas to fish.
I hope you enjoy.
The playlist of all my All About Moreton Bay videos can be found here:
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[@leonardgoogle2262]

Good on you mate. I have never commented on a video before but your's is solid gold. I'm trying to learn to fish so I can teach my boy and this helps enormously. Thanks indeed.

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. You are very welcome. I certainly hope they help you catch a few.

[@ivanbuldo7676]

Priceless info! thanks heaps

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. Glad it was helpful!

[@scottfoster1639]

Mate you are a legend sharing you knowledge

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. I hope it helps.

[@josephjones2178]

Great video! Thanks for the info!

[@weFishAU]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@craigbrown1249]

Thanks for that. This is my favourite one of the series so far. I'm pretty new to the bay area, so this is gold for me!

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. Happy to help!

[@drdeankos2356]

@@weFishAU pleasure its hard to get fine work like you produce just great work thank you so much keep them coming tight lines

[@jeffangelie]

Great info, thankyou.

[@weFishAU]

You're welcome.

[@iancrawley3794]

Another informative video. Great stuff. As an avid but inexperienced fisho I love these!!

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. Glad you like them and I hope they help!

[@texasflysuperstar]

I’ll checkout Peel tomorrow as per your video on the western bank. Thanks heaps for the info, still finding my feet in the bay.

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. Glad you are getting something out of them.

[@drdeankos2356]

THANK YOU your guidance and mapping is without the best i ever seen true captan in my world I fish off Wanga wallen Bank if you have any idea of how deep it is that would be fantastic tight lines mate thank you again

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. The depth varies a lot along that stretch of the Rainbow Channel. If you are fishing out from the bank in a boat there could be anywhere from about 3m to almost 20m of water under the boat, depending on your position along the bank and how far out from it you are.

[@jakeorthman1496]

Awesome vid heaps of info

[@weFishAU]

Thank you. Glad you think so!

[@TheDbcdino]

great video .. thank you !

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Thank you. You are welcome!

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