Hi Grinner2.
I am a real freshwater newby/failure and take groups of 'at risk' boys from State Schools away on canoeing/camping/fishing trips up the brissy river putting in at Twin Bridges Fernvale and then going down to Kholo Bridge over 3 days. See http://www.su-connect.org.au/
So:
How can we catch some as I have been on 5 trips up there now and never seen a single bass or yellow belly and have used hardbodies, spinner baits, soft plastics (ZMann and TT Lures sponsor us), fished dawn, dusk, around snags, deep, shallow, etc but have always totally failed as I am a total salt water man with barely a clue about fishing the fresh and have actually concluded that there is really no bass up there.
To save the trips I generally use prawns and we end up catching cat fish and eels and the like....yuk!!! Very annoying to get off the line all the time!!!!
Anyone else in the Ausfish community that can help me, it would be most appreciated as I'd love to put these boys onto some fish and we start heading up there for a bunch of camps in the next couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Mal
Ps. I fish light using either 10lb mono or 8-10lb braid with a light fluro leader.
Pps. I have caught bass accidentally at the Pine Rivers bridge whilst fishing for salt water species on occasion and also got one on a spinner bait once up near the YMCA at the Pine River.