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Have been hearing alot about these threadfin salmon lately and decided to try get one for myself. Ended up with one the other night,with a couple of pointers from afew people. Just wondering if these are a seasonal fish and when the season is? or are they an all year round fish. Also as i may have fluked my first one, i am wondering about timing, whether to fish the incoming or runnout tide, if moon phases have a play in it?

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Chris

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they are all year round but believe it or not they are spawning right now. i have been gutting about 2 out of 5 sharks that i have been catching and the sharks stomach have been full of eggs. the eggs are about 12mm-15mm round and bright orange these are salmon eggs i have been lead to beleave. also have been geting little threadies in the cast net about 30mm-50mm long. They are pretty thick in the narrow reaches of the brisbane river at the moment. just fish for sharks and you will get them as a bicatch. Yeah winter is a good time for em. they seem to release a lot better with more energy i dont know if it has something to do with the cold water keeping there stress levels down or any thing like that.

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mick fillet wrote:

they are all year round but believe it or not they are spawning right now. i have been gutting about 2 out of 5 sharks that i have been catching and the sharks stomach have been full of eggs. the eggs are about 12mm-15mm round and bright orange these are salmon eggs i have been lead to beleave. also have been geting little threadies in the cast net about 30mm-50mm long. They are pretty thick in the narrow reaches of the brisbane river at the moment. just fish for sharks and you will get them as a bicatch. Yeah winter is a good time for em. they seem to release a lot better with more energy i dont know if it has something to do with the cold water keeping there stress levels down or any thing like that.

Mick, I follow these threads with interest. I used to live near the mouth of the Styx River north of Shoalwater Bay where I caught good numbers of both King and Blue threadfin salmon. I noticed that when the water got above 26 degrees about the end of Dec both species would disappear and would not return until the water dropped below 26 towards the end of march. I put this down to the lower oxygen carrying capacity of the warmer water??? dunno.

The fish didn't just "shut down", they disappeared completely as even the netters wouldn't find them.

I assumed they went to sea???

In Broad Sound they are definately more active in the cooler months and the blue threadfin were often "roed up" in the winter. Not sure of the breeding pattern of the King Salmon, but I just assumed it would be similar.

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Cowfish13 wrote:

mick fillet: Those "threadfin" eggs are actually Catfish eggs :side:

thanks cow fish thats what i originaly thought they were but a bloke i know told me other wise i believed him just because he is old and i thooght he knew what he was on about. looks like he owes me a beer now cheers. you dont know what the eggs look like do you. now is oviously the time for spawning considering iam cast neting lots of little ones.

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hairyweasel wrote:

mick fillet wrote:[/b.

Mick, I follow these threads with interest. I used to live near the mouth of the Styx River north of Shoalwater Bay where I caught good numbers of both King and Blue threadfin salmon. I noticed that when the water got above 26 degrees about the end of Dec both species would disappear and would not return until the water dropped below 26 towards the end of march. I put this down to the lower oxygen carrying capacity of the warmer water??? dunno.

The fish didn't just "shut down", they disappeared completely as even the netters wouldn't find them.

I assumed they went to sea???

In Broad Sound they are definately more active in the cooler months and the blue threadfin were often "roed up" in the winter. Not sure of the breeding pattern of the King Salmon, but I just assumed it would be similar.

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The boys at Hervey bay reckon their catches of threadies is seasonal as well, if it is water temp, maybe we are far enough south it doesn't worry them here. Ya cant deny there is the odd threadie caught in the River during the classic in December!

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