queensland Junior threadie at Colmslie

[ryanyoung]

G'day again,

I had a slow, monotonous day at work today, so decided to head to the local fishing spot at Colmslie pontoon for a hour or so of fishing. I got the tides wrong in my head, and headed down with servo prawns looking for bream. I soon realised my rookie mistake when I got there and saw it coming off high tide! Within fifteen minutes of wetting the line I had a hook up, thinking I might have a bream on the end, I reeled in without much enthusiasm only to find a 28cm threadie hanging on the end! This got me pretty excited, so I changed up hooks (still on prawns) and cast out deeper. I got the odd small hit, with little to show for about forty minutes, during which I was flicking a hb around the pontoon to pass the time. I went back to the rod to check the bait and found it straining with a fair sized weight on it. It felt like I had something pretty substantial on the end as I started to reel in, trying to keep ahead of the drag. Whilst reefing back on the rod to get some more momentum, the line went slack ! Whatever fish I had on the end had spat my hook! Cheeky bugger! Anyway, the last twenty minutes went by slowly with nil bites, with me going home with a picture of a baby threadie and a fisherman's tale!

Hope everyone is having good luck with the fishing, catch ya's later.

Ryan

[uglyfish]

nice little thready mate,might of been a crab on ya line,maybe

[Malcolm]

It's great to see small Threadies as well as the big ones

[ryanyoung]

Ha ha, yeah, I just wish I could catch a big one!

[ryanyoung]

Yeah, a crab makes sense, although it destroys my imagined monster threadie yarn!

[rayke1938]

Ryan sorry to dissapoint you but I think it may be a river perch.Different head and tail to a thready. Did it grunt?

Cheers

Ray

[ryanyoung]

You can't see it on the photo, but it had the distinctive threads coming down from below the gills.

[pinkey]

yeah thats a thready.. nice one

[werewolf]

I agree with Ray, I don't think it is a thready.

[chrissy_fisher]

i too agree with ray and werewolf, the back bottom fin seems to be different to the usual juvenile threadie

[namyau]

+1 for a river perch

[ryanyoung]

Do river perch have threads hanging off their underside near the gills? I'm pretty sure it wasn't river debris! If they do have dangly bits, it could be, but otherwise, having pulled a couple of threadies in before, I am pretty certain of what it is. The photo is pretty low grade as it was taken on my camera phone, and it probably came out small with not much definition.

[rayke1938]

Ryan if you do a forum search in rivers and creeks there is a good photo of a perch under a post called nomad that 2 wheels put up a month and 4 weeks ago. It clearly shows the threads under the perch..I will bump the thread for you .

Cheers

Ray

[ryanyoung]

Ah cheers, have never caught or seen a river perch before. Will be good to get an ID. Awwww......I have so much to learn...........Shucks!

[rayke1938]

They used to be very common in the river.When I was a kid I with mum and dad and my 2 sisters used to walk a mile to the tram at Chardons corner and get the tram into town and buy a pound of greasy prawns at the bait shop that used to be under the old Victoria Bridge , sprinkle a few drops of aniseed in with the prawns and catch a sugar bag full of perch and then get the tram back home.

Big adventure in those days.Used green cord hand lines no such thing as nylon and gut was too expensive.

Cheers

Ray

[ryanyoung]

Big thanks to Ray for showing me the light, now that I know what a river perch looks like, I shouldn't make that mistake again. Sorry all about the false info!

[rayke1938]

No worries it brought back some fond memories see you at Brunswick Heads just look for the cranky old fart.

Cheers

Ray

[ryanyoung]

Ha ha, will do mate.