How far for sooties?

[Angus]

Id love to go to a Dam and specifically target sooties.

Which is the Southern most dam where this is possible?

Cheers in advance.

Angus

[ellicat]

Capalaba :whistle:

[Angus]

Leslie Harrison?

[uglyfish]

Capalaba?where abouts?

[ellicat]

The aquarium shop at Hawkins nursery :laugh:

[uglyfish]

Hahaha cunny funt,good one had me sucked in

[Feral]

Native in

Fairburn

Awoonga

Moura weir

However I have fished all of those andf not seen a sooty there, so I doubt worth a trip to target them.

DEETA says

Sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)

On the east coast, sooty grunter may be stocked in dams in the Barron, Mulgrave, Russell, North Johnstone, Tully, Murray, Herbert, Burdekin, Clarke, Bowen, Belyando and Pioneer river basins.

A Quick look around shows active stocking from Mackay north on the coast, and around Mt Isa., which pretty much tally's with the above. I'd say Eungulla dam west of Mackay would be the closest where they are stocked.

[Yoodles82]

I catch sootys from the bank at my property on the mary river (tiaro)...though have only done this in fast flowing shallow rapids...not in the deep stuff.

They are good little fighters, considering i'm only used to catching catfish there :-)

Nat

[kriso]

ellicat wrote:

The aquarium shop at Hawkins nursery :laugh:

hahah it closed down 2 weeks ago! now i have no where to go at lunch time! (my shop is in hawkins nursery)

[Angus]

Feral wrote:

Native in

Fairburn

Awoonga

Moura weir

However I have fished all of those andf not seen a sooty there, so I doubt worth a trip to target them.

DEETA says

Sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)

On the east coast, sooty grunter may be stocked in dams in the Barron, Mulgrave, Russell, North Johnstone, Tully, Murray, Herbert, Burdekin, Clarke, Bowen, Belyando and Pioneer river basins.

A Quick look around shows active stocking from Mackay north on the coast, and around Mt Isa., which pretty much tally's with the above. I'd say Eungulla dam west of Mackay would be the closest where they are stocked.

Quite far for a little adventure then!

Cheers Feral.

Angus

[tugger]

the weirdest place i've ever caught them was below the dam wall on the burdekin in these rock pools within the george and these holes were no wider than 3m but look very deep some were just a small crack in the rock

[bretto]

Eungulla is home to a few monster sooties and is prob the most productive of all dams for sooties in numbers IMO.

[Angus]

bretto wrote:

Eungulla is home to a few monster sooties and is prob the most productive of all dams for sooties in numbers IMO.

Thanks Bretto. Ill do some more research on that.

Angus

[jackman60]

its a big trip but i might give it a go one day.

the fresh water streams up north are full of wild river sooties and rainforest scenery is amazing

look on the fishing dvd series 15

[happywally]

hey gus,

if you need some company to go hunt soothies,

ill go with ya.

cheers

Wally

[shaggy]

Yoodles82 wrote:

I catch sootys from the bank at my property on the mary river (tiaro)...though have only done this in fast flowing shallow rapids...not in the deep stuff.

They are good little fighters, considering i'm only used to catching catfish there :-)

Nat

Whoa - how did this one slip past.... Sooties in the Mary?? Sure they are not Bass? Do you have any pics like that nice Barra in your profile!!

[jigman72]

hey angus, my friend has some monster sooties in his farm dam at imbil near borumba. if your ever keen to catch a monster i will take you there.. his dam is huge and they still pull ultra hard mate

[Angus]

jigman72 wrote:

hey angus, my friend has some monster sooties in his farm dam at imbil near borumba. if your ever keen to catch a monster i will take you there.. his dam is huge and they still pull ultra hard mate

That sounds fairly irresistable!

Angus

[jigman72]

just spoke to him mate.. can go there in 3 weeks and nail some. pick your 3 keenest anglers and lets make a weekend of it. can camp next to the dam and have some drinkies to boot

[kiwifisho]

jigman72 wrote:

just spoke to him mate.. can go there in 3 weeks and nail some. pick your 3 keenest anglers and lets make a weekend of it. can camp next to the dam and have some drinkies to boot

Dean smiles as he puts his hand up for this session, keen as mate :woohoo:

Dean

[Angus]

3 weeks after this one? So the 26th-27th September?

Angus

[jigman72]

thats the one mate. 26-27 sep. i have some prototype ecogear hardbodies i want to field test on them

[elops]

Angus wrote:

Feral wrote:

Native in

Fairburn

Awoonga

Moura weir

However I have fished all of those andf not seen a sooty there, so I doubt worth a trip to target them.

DEETA says

Sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)

On the east coast, sooty grunter may be stocked in dams in the Barron, Mulgrave, Russell, North Johnstone, Tully, Murray, Herbert, Burdekin, Clarke, Bowen, Belyando and Pioneer river basins.

A Quick look around shows active stocking from Mackay north on the coast, and around Mt Isa., which pretty much tally's with the above. I'd say Eungulla dam west of Mackay would be the closest where they are stocked.

.

Feral is right.

There has been some River stocking carried out in the past, some semi official stuff back in the days and some the work of the ever active MSG, and there are populations in some streams further south the most notable being the Connors River a Fitzroy tributary. There was an attempt to establish them in Monduran but it appears to have failed.

And now without going into a lot of scientific stuff which may well bore you. As well as beeing a very keen fisho some of you may know I am a fairly experienced Aquaculturist and keeper and breeder of various native fish and the minimum thermal tolerance of Hephaestus fuliginosus is 13to14 degrees celcius 12 degrees celcius is terminal.That is they are dead fishies.

[elops]

jigman72 wrote:

thats the one mate. 26-27 sep. i have some prototype ecogear hardbodies i want to field test on them

.

Just wondering how those imbil sootys were on the weekend ???

[tugger]

there's a fishing park near buedesert thats stocks them and they are living in that spot nicely as there is hundreds of them and it certainly gets cold down there

mark

[Angus]

elops wrote:

jigman72 wrote:

thats the one mate. 26-27 sep. i have some prototype ecogear hardbodies i want to field test on them

.

Just wondering how those imbil sootys were on the weekend ???

Never put that trip together mate.

Angus

[Angus]

tugger wrote:

there's a fishing park near buedesert thats stocks them and they are living in that spot nicely as there is hundreds of them and it certainly gets cold down there

mark

Yeah they grow quite big there as well.

Went there with a couple of AFO guys and both Shortie and I got one. Cant remember what season it was prob the end of last summer?

Shortie's was a good looking black fish. Really healthy and thick. Took a live spangled perch

Angus

[tugger]

my son went there last week for his mates 10th birthday and they said each 1 of them caught over 20 sooties . my son hooked the big cod they got there on a live spangeled but it dusted him up after the first run

[Angus]

tugger wrote:

my son went there last week for his mates 10th birthday and they said each 1 of them caught over 20 sooties . my son hooked the big cod they got there on a live spangeled but it dusted him up after the first run

Ah they might have been the Jade Perch? There are very very limited numbers of Sooty Grunter but a large number of Jade Perch/Barcoo Grunter. There has been a lot of confusion about the 2.

Angus

[elops]

Which fishing park is this I am very interested. The broodstock I had from 2006 to 2008 had a lot of problems with the cold through winter in 07 and I had to move them to a heated tank.

Regs Steve.

[Angus]

Its called "Eco World Fishing Park"

It comes up on google.

Cheers.

Angus

[elops]

Thanks Angus.

Regs Steve.

[wesfish]

tugger wrote:

there's a fishing park near buedesert thats stocks them and they are living in that spot nicely as there is hundreds of them and it certainly gets cold down there

mark

is it the eco park one near beaudesert or another fishing park?

[Angus]

wesfish wrote:

tugger wrote:

there's a fishing park near buedesert thats stocks them and they are living in that spot nicely as there is hundreds of them and it certainly gets cold down there

mark

is it the eco park one near beaudesert or another fishing park?

I was referring to the one near Beaudesert. Sorry if I have been talking about the wrong one!

Angus