I live on a canal on the Gold Coast. This artificial waterway has concrete walls and is about two kilometres from the main waterway, the Southport Broadwater. It is an interesting waterway and has a healthy population of marine life. This canal system is over 30 years old, and as such has had plenty of time to stabilise its marine plant life and bottom structure. This canal has a lot of floating pontoons, and most houses have boats. These form structure that fish can hide under and hunt their prey from. There are plenty of bream, mangrove jacks, flathead and mullet in this canal. I’ve been pleasantly surprised how good the fishing and crabbing is in this waterway.
This canal sees significant tidal movement, mostly over a metre to 1.5 metres in a single tide. As such I’ve had good opportunity to observe fish behaviour in different parts of the tide cycle.
I feed the fish every day from the back of the house, and now have a resident school of bream most of the time, with in excess of a hundred fish. Some of these are close to a kilo in weight. The only type of scraps that they won’t eat are lemons and
