Midnight Oil

[aidanwebb]

Went to dinner at Blue Smoke restaurant in New Farm on Saturday night for the best ribs you can eat in Brisbane, not to mention the hand stand in the shower super hot wings. Dinner ended pretty early so went home packed the small esky with some beers, picked up my fishing gear and my dog Bakkies and walked down to the Boat ramp.

Spent an hour trying to get some live bait and eventually picked up a single prawn and two mullet. Not the result I was hoping for but better than nothing.

So setup on the grass and baited up the prawn and cast out into the river on the slow in-coming tide. Let Bakkies off the leash so he could chase the bats and the possums and I drank my beers and waited and watched Bakkies.

Around 1am got a slow tug on the rod (I like holding the rod at all times when I fish) and suddenly my ears were picked up like Bakkies. Waited and 20 seconds later there was another long slow tug. I striked and then my line started to scream, then slowed down. I started reeling in and walking down towards the boat ramp. The fight wasn’t to fierce at this stage, but as soon as I got him close to the boat ramp he started going bezerk and swam off left then right then left again.

Managed to get him onto the boat ramp after a short 1-2 min fight.

Then the real challenge started, trying to get the fish onto the brag mat to measure him, take a picture and keep Bakkies from attacking it.

In the end it all worked out fine. Managed to release him back into the river to fight another day.

Result = Threadfin Salmon - 50cm caught on 20lb line, with a 30lb wire trace, a bit over kill but was out to get the 1m plus thready’s so I’m always prepared.

My first Thready :woohoo:

50cm Thready

Bakkies and I walked home with big smile on our faces.

[tugger]

well done aidan your no longer a threadfin virgin

mark

[Bri The Pom]

Nice fish dude,well done.

Bri.

[mick fillet]

thats a nice size eating fish well done!!!

[brisbane_boy]

mick fillet wrote:

thats a nice size eating fish well done!!!

That is an undersize fish!

[Angus]

Undersized but still cool. Well done! Im sure Brado will be interested in the size and location.

Wire is prob overkill for any threaddie by the way, heavy leader will suffice.

Angus

[ellicat]

brisbane_boy wrote:

mick fillet wrote:

thats a nice size eating fish well done!!!

That is an undersize fish!

No doubt the reason it was released.

Probably is a good eating size though :laugh:

[brisbane_boy]

Cool catch but cant see cool in talking up eating qualities of undersize fish, angus has enough rescues on his hands as it is!

[rayke1938]

A bit of tact wouldnt go astray instead of blunt statement.

I would respectfully remind menbers that legal size of threadies is 60cm and bag limit is 5.

Cheers

Ray

[aidanwebb]

Wire is prob overkill for any threaddie by the way, heavy leader will suffice.

Angus

[tugger]

they have got raspy teeth but 40lb mono will pull them up

mark

[jeff f]

aidanwebb wrote:

Wire is prob overkill for any threaddie by the way, heavy leader will suffice.

Angus

Ya I thought it would be, but I did read up on some websites and they recommended wire trace for threadys. Now that I have caught one I can experiment with 20lb nylon leader etc

[Angus]

brisbane_boy wrote:

angus has enough rescues on his hands as it is!

Hahahahahahaha.

[mick fillet]

whoops!!!!!! Iam a di@#head :blush: sorry if i upset any body.I am aware of size limits and I dont know what I was thinking when I replyied to this topic. I would never keep a under size or a just legel size fish for that matter. sorry once again!!

[Davo_Dinkum]

nice fish

brisbane boy ,calm down a little m8.

just cause some1 say that's a nice eating size .don't mean they do .

maybe under older rules it was a legal size and nice eating.

its just a statement .that's all.

and a bit of tact (as ray said ) wouldn't hurt ,and some politeness .

being so blunt is almost being rude .if i posted it and u replied like that i would consider it rude .

also brunt statements like that is why people stop posting or move on to other sites .

anyways nice going on your first thready aidan.

and the mrs and kid went owwwwww how cute at your dog .

another thing thread fin salmon sizes are only a new listing for 2009.

king 60 cm and 5

blue 40 cm and 10

so the size limit would also depend on that type of thready it is .

[DES]

Well done on your first threadie!

It is a bit of a compromise regarding traces. With wire you probably wont get as many hits from threadies but you will have a better shot at landing the bullies. Depends on what you want to target.

[aidanwebb]

Hey Davo thanks bud.

King Salmon is 5 per bag and 60cm limit

Blue is 40cm and 10 per bag.

(you typed it up wrong )

Does anyone know what it was in 2008 for interest's sake? And when they increase the size limit, is it a permament increase limit or temporary for a few years?

[brisbane_boy]

Davo_Dinkum wrote:

nice fish

brisbane boy ,calm down a little m8.

just cause some1 say that's a nice eating size .don't mean they do .

maybe under older rules it was a legal size and nice eating.

its just a statement .that's all.

and a bit of tact (as ray said ) wouldn't hurt ,and some politeness .

being so blunt is almost being rude .if i posted it and u replied like that i would consider it rude .

also brunt statements like that is why people stop posting or move on to other sites .

anyways nice going on your first thready aidan.

and the mrs and kid went owwwwww how cute at your dog .

another thing thread fin salmon sizes are only a new listing for 2009.

blue 60 cm and 5

king 40 cm and 10

so the size limit would also depend on that type of thready it is .

Might want to check the sizes you posted mate, its 60 for king salmon, 40 for blue.

[Davo_Dinkum]

cheers aidan

i get a bit back to front sometimes

king was 40 cm no bag limit

blue was 40 cm no bag limit

that what is in my 2007 /2008 brief guide for rec fishing.

[DES]

Davo_Dinkum wrote:

cheers m8

i get a bit back to front sometimes

king was 40 cm no bag limit.

Your a sh#t stirer Davo! :laugh:

[rayke1938]

Regulations were changed on 1st march 2009.

Prev bag limit was 10 and was reduced to 5 there was no previous size limit and 60cm was introduced. Dont know how they picked the 60cm size as I thought that one of the critera for size limit was to allow the fish to go through one breeding cycle.

Cheers

Ray

[Feral]

It is, a 60cm threadie will have had at least one season at sexual maturity. Mind you they have ignored that with the increases in Jew and bream size!

[Whiskers]

Great thready mate :woohoo: You have got to be happy with that!

Cam