All you need is a cast net, esky ice optional and a boat. Prawns will show up in different areas in March but the best areas to try are the mouths of the local creeks and rivers. The sand flats near mouth of the Brisbane River and across into Bramble Bay are also good areas to target. Sand and mud crabs will still be around in good numbers near the mouth of the river, Boggy and Bulimba Creeks and towards the Gateway Bridge. Big tides and fresh bait are the keys to consistently catching good feeds of crabs.
Whiting are being caught around the river mouth and any of the sandy banks from the Gateway Bridge to the Boat Passage. Live worms and yabbies are the best baits for whiting. Snapper catches have been patchy lately. You can bag out easily one day and then the next day the fish have disappeared.
Areas like the Hamilton stretch, the shipping terminals at the mouth and the new marina under the Gateway Bridge seem to have the best numbers of legal fish. There are plenty of under-size snapper around the mouth but larger fish have been cagey. Mackerel and the tuna species have been around the bay in good numbers this season thanks to the large bait schools. Small slugs, soft plastics rigged with 10cm of wire to stop bite offs , live baits or dead baits like pilchards have been working well.
Over the next few months I will outline some good land-based areas that hold plenty of fish. The technique is easy to learn and is a fairly inexpensive fun for the whole family. The best type of net to catch banana prawns is a monofiliment top pocket cast net, with 12ft drop and chain bottom. The best time of the year to catch prawns is between January and May.
Prawn catching during the day is safer, with less chances of nasty by-catch, such as stonefish or bullrout. Some areas prove better for prawn catching on the high tide and others during the lower tides. The best time is usually an hour before or after the changing tides, as otherwise the current can be too strong to catch anything.
The depth varies from place to place. It can be as shallow as 6 feet, but it will be hard to make the nets effective. And it can go far down to 60 feet deep. Prawns move into deeper holes on low tide, as there is no water over the banks and over shallow areas at the bottom of each tide.
The best locations to catch banana prawns are from the Jacobs Well boat moorings to the Rudy Maas moorings, then north from the power lines at Rocky Point to the mouth of the Logan River. Hunting for prawns is very popular in these waters. The prawning pack can be as little as one boat, if you are lucky enough to find them on your own, or up to boats all throwing nets.
If you are a learner, the best way to catch prawns is by watching from a distance. Then, observe how the seasoned prawners work the area. Most prawners are easy to get along with, as they are all trying to catch a feed. Top spots over the past few weeks include deep holes on the bends in the Caboolture River, Deep Water Bend in the Pine River and the channels and deeper holes in the Logan River upstream of Ageston Sands.
They usually turn up in the southern bay at this time of year as well, top spots include the southern end of Macleay Island, western side of Russell Island down to the Power Lines south of the Logan River entrance.
Reports in this area to date have been patchy, the best technique is to move around concentrating on the deeper holes and channels using your sounder to find the schools, hopefully before too many others find them. On the fishing front there has been quite a few mangrove jack caught during this heat wave by those trolling canal rock walls or casting at submerged snags.
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