queensland What lives in the dark places of the Brissy River?

[nadders]

Suspected northern ooglies

Myself, c_para and Kevin went for a night time bash around the river on sat, started out slow with a few cod and picked up when para nailed a nice squire at 55cm:

Kevin was yet to hook up at this stage and was getting anxious, he came through in true style though braining the most rediculous capture i've heard of recently:

By nadders86

Never heard of a brissy river barra before, ever. Who knows where this one came from but it knocked us all for six.

After that excitement, the spot produced a few little jewies and then a location change and some more crankbaiting resulted in another cod and a flatty

cheers

Dan

[Whiskers]

Holy shit :woohoo:

That's an awesome catch!!!!!

The fish looked well feed. will we maybe start seeing them follow the threadfin trend???

[DES]

unfknblvbl :woohoo: This river never ceases to amaze!

[nadders]

i kinda disagree whiskers i think it was a fish tank releasee, from all the information i've found threadies have been here forever but have never heard of a barra capture before. Most likely it was an escapee like wesfish's coomera barra a while back, but still pretty cool haha and it has definately been in there for a while (going by the colour of the fish it has been living in saltwater for a while)

[Rocket75]

We all know threadies have made it this far south so why not their tropical cousin?

Be they released aquarium fish or just trailblazing explorers, I've now seen captures from Coomera, Coochin and now the Bris River so there are obviously a few around

Bring on global warming!

Looks like he was nice and healthy too, you'd think Kev could crack a smile just this once

Nice snappa too.

Go the Brissy River.

Rocket

[DES]

Just out of interest, what did you call it for during the fight?

[nadders]

called it for a metre jew the whole way DES, only because we didn't think a barra woudl bge remotedly likely at all

the hit was huge, the fight was dissapointing being in deep water but the flash of silver just reconfirmed jew until he was boatside

[rastus]

Impressive was itreleased

[Travis]

Awesome effort boys, thats bloody amazing for the river!!!

[Cowfish13]

Blood hell I've heard of one dead one (big one though) in the upper reaches of the river, so there would probably be some more. But to catch one is awesome :woohoo:

[superstryda]

F*** me! :woohoo: :ohmy: :woohoo: Thats unheard of! and a good size one at that. Did you tag her? Bloody awesome work guys!

[dan25]

Amazing Catch guys!! :woohoo:

[burger93]

Great effort mate 1 to remember good work fellas

cheers sean

[Keen-as-fisho]

farken unreal!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully theres a couple of strong breeders in there.

[wesfish]

saaaawwweeeeeeettttt :woohoo: i have heard of a few being caught in the brisbane river , but have never seen photo evidence ! bloody great session guys with a capture of a lifetime!!

[wesfish]

the ones i heard of were from the same vicinity as that one !

[mick fillet]

oooooooyeah thats awsome.well done.

[Feral]

rastus wrote:

Impressive was itreleased

One would assume so, its closed season.

Well done Kev, great fish. Have it on good authority the midnight stocking group put a few in a couple of years ago, might be one of those.

[jakhunta]

Awesome!! I have seen pics of a couple taken in the Logan last summer. Healthy looking fish and a quality river snap ...excellent post!

[brisbane_boy]

Feral wrote:

rastus wrote:

Impressive was itreleased

One would assume so, its closed season.

Well done Kev, great fish. Have it on good authority the midnight stocking group put a few in a couple of years ago, might be one of those.

It was caught the night before closed season.

cheers

[Malcolm]

Awsome catch

So did it swim away or was it dinner?

[brisbane_boy]

Eaten, hope they saved me a piece!

[tugger]

that is a qaulity barra boys well done and we travelled along way north dan and then you get one in the backyard

mark

[Angus]

Amazing catch.

[obone]

That is awesome to see! What a great catch Kev. I'd back that fishes chances in the "Miscellaneous" category of the BRC!!!

Joel

[fishing_hardcore]

Nice catch

the river is absolutely teaming with bait fish so who knows what else is out there tuckin into all the food.

cheers

[wittyfishin]

Awsome catch cant wait to try the Brissy river.

well done

[kriso]

good lookin snappa, what size was the barra? not a common catch at all but with all the tank releases etc only a matter of time i guess before one had its photo taken. do you think they could ever breed in the river?

[aichepee]

thats terrible. why would u wanna catch a huge barra in the brizzy river?

[natang]

That is a real nice Snapper and I am still gob smacked that a Barra was caught in the Brissy River!

[elops]

Feral wrote:

rastus wrote:

Impressive was itreleased

One would assume so, its closed season.

Well done Kev, great fish. Have it on good authority the midnight stocking group put a few in a couple of years ago, might be one of those.

Fisheries will get upset if you call them the MSG Feral

Regs Steve

[superstryda]

aichepee wrote:

thats terrible. why would u wanna catch a huge barra in the brizzy river?

Ummm, why wouldn't you want to???

[brissy fish]

Some great looking fish there boys

Just wondering if a land based fisher would be able to catch some thing like that or those fish only caught in the middle of the river??? any ideas?

[Whiskers]

nadders wrote:

i kinda disagree whiskers i think it was a fish tank releasee, from all the information i've found threadies have been here forever but have never heard of a barra capture before. Most likely it was an escapee like wesfish's coomera barra a while back, but still pretty cool haha and it has definately been in there for a while (going by the colour of the fish it has been living in saltwater for a while)

This is why I want to get into tagging! Imagine the story that fish could tell.

[benno573]

obone wrote:

That is awesome to see! What a great catch Kev. I'd back that fishes chances in the "Miscellaneous" category of the BRC!!!

Joel

such a 'shame' that banned members are ineligible for all AFO comps/events...

[Dano]

wow thats awesome

[aidanwebb]

nice one guys, you must be stoked

[nadders]

brissy fish wrote:

Some great looking fish there boys

Just wondering if a land based fisher would be able to catch some thing like that or those fish only caught in the middle of the river??? any ideas?

the fish is most likely an escapee mate, there are alot of private dams that stock barra in the logan river area and in an overflow event some escape into the logan, i would say this fish is one of them most likely.

the waters too cold down here for barra to breed anyway so i wouldn't hold my breath on many more being around, could be more escapees by all means but you may be waiting a long long time for one to come along lol

and benno, im not sure why you seem to enjoy stirring ex members but if you have to please do it outside my report

[elops]

Temeratures in the Brisbane River are the same as the Mary River

they prefer to overwinter in the salt where its warmer

Its not to cold for them to breed there is just not many

who knows what might happen ?

Regs Steve

ps check your pm

[Do$tylz]

crazy catch.

And very good to see that a picture like that can be posted without a blacked out background. Not saying that you have ever done that Nadders, but previously fish of that calibre caught in the river are reported without unedited pics. Very appreciated to see.