queensland Is this the biggest catfish caught in QLD?

[Mungrel Jack]

was checkin out another fish site and came across this pic .. possibly the biggest catty caught in QLD?

they weighed the fish and it came to a whopping 8kg...

this was caught at the gold coast seaway rockwall recently

Interesting....

[Mungrel Jack]

the question is.....would you eat it? I wouldnt.... i hate catfish.

[nadders]

the stuff of nightmares, imagine the slime lol

[Do$tylz]

wholly jeezus... thats masssssive.

[Leighton]

Spit Boys?

[Mungrel Jack]

Leighton wrote:

Spit Boys?

yep. spot on! great pics... i reckon they used a 1kg rump steak on a shark hook to catch this.

[dassa]

To answer your question I don't think so I have heard of reports of cat fish coming out of monduran that were busting 50pound braid to they went to 80pound not sure if thats a porkie pie but this come from a locial I know up there my stepfather.

I remember seeing some years ago on the cover or moden fishing I think it was there was a lady sitting on the front of a tinny holding a cattie by the gills and it's tail was draging is tail on the ground now thats a cattie worth taking a photo of.I have eaten frsh water cat fish but I thing I wouldn't eat salties better fish in the salt

cheers dassa

P.S If I can find that photo in modern fishing I'll try and put it up

[pinkey]

I'd love to catch that, my biggest is 80cm and probably the hardest fighting fish i've caught.

[Whiskers]

Can't believe they get around the sea wall?

Wouldn't ya be spewing after a crazy fight to see that come up :laugh:

[Enormoss]

what a big dirty beast i got em in the pine around that size the one i holding in my profile pic was around 8 kg and pulled like a tank :laugh: good fun on the light gear

[BrisBassMan]

I remember when I was a kid I saw a eel-tail catty in enoggera creek. I used fish this creek all the time and some time after a flood event I saw this big fish swimming around its nest. It wasn't quite as big as the forkie in the pic but maybe would have gone 6kg. It was a monster. We threw everything we had at it at the time but it just wasn't interested.

However that truly is a ripper of a fish. Even though it is a catty.

cheers

[tugger]

i've caught them in the gulf just outside of weipa that are bigger than that 1 and they tasted great i filleted 1 and fed it to some boys at work up there without telling them it was a catfish and they all loved it . might be a bit of mind over matter

[Beefa]

These are called Salmon Catfish aren't they?

Heath

[rosstralia46]

i reckon there probably is bigger but you could probably use the spikes on it as blow darts :laugh:

anyway top fish would have fought awesome

cheers ross

[efc]

i think there is a lake up north in the gulf where they get 20kg catties

[jeff f]

got meter + ones in hervey bay

[pondo]

Beefa wrote:

These are called Salmon Catfish aren't they?

Heath

i think your right heath on it being a salmon catfish. I caught a few in the gulf. they have a different head little more trianglular shaped. Not sure exactly what species though. There flesh is really white and suprisingly clean. The Murris love em.

Matt

[Dinodadog]

Used to be some whoppers at Corroboree near Darwin

[RyanG45]

stuff that man disgusting sorta fish but still a big fish :laugh:

Cheers Ryan

[yoyo]

that would have gone like a shower of .... imagine how you'd be to be getting hammered by that thing and think you're onto a ripper fish.........and you haul up a cattie!

[mick fillet]

WHOA!! :ohmy: Thats a good size catty. :woohoo:

The bay is full of em and ya catch em often in about 9 mtrs of water on the edge of the shipping chanel. certainly no where near the biggest in Qld have seen way bigger cattys caught in the bay.I too have had a crack at eating a blue catty few years back. fillet n skinned its flesh is buet and I would rate it higher than some reef fish.It does not smell and its a nice firm flesh and BBQ's exelent as mark already said its a mind over mater thing and ya just have to tell the boys on the camping trip to toughen up princess eat it or starve and eat it we did and loveed it too. :laugh:

[tomca]

a tiddler by yank standards, type 'noodling' into youtube and check out the size of those catties and the 'bait' they use :ohmy:

[Leeroy]

Might be the biggest in NSW as that looks like Illuka to me.

[roger]

Agreed it does look like Illuka but the fisherman is a pretty infamous Southport Seaway angler who gets some beauties

[Travis]

Bait 30 pots with that beast!!!

[wesfish]

i am pretty sure that breed of cat fish is called a blue catfish. not the same as the salmon catfish caught in the creeks and rivers and dams, they are a bay ocean sort of catty i think . all ways get them in the bay on big live baits.

[Smiderman]

what length was it?

[Travis]

wesfish wrote:

i am pretty sure that breed of cat fish is called a blue catfish. not the same as the salmon catfish caught in the creeks and rivers and dams, they are a bay ocean sort of catty i think . all ways get them in the bay on big live baits.

Pretty sure your right, they run amuk on us out at nelsons one night

[darbwah]

i have a rival just got to work out how to get photo right size

[darbwah]

[Mungrel Jack]

darbwah wrote:

holly hell!!!! absolute monster! Would have been a good fight that one Darbwah! Whereabouts in QLD or Oz was that one caught? looks pretty clean and slime free??

[Do$tylz]

edited the above posts... removed the double from Darb and then had to re-qoute MJ coz I deleted his qouted post..

but man thats a bit stinker of a cattie. Shotgun not getting spiked by one of those.

[darbwah]

mate that one was from karumba. fought really well. went 104cm. got three that night over a metre. best ive seen from there is 115cm.

[Mungrel Jack]

darbwah wrote:

mate that one was from karumba. fought really well. went 104cm. got three that night over a metre. best ive seen from there is 115cm.

without google-ling, is Karumba in QLD? Man i HATE catfish! :evil: Im not afraid to handle them whatsoever, but it drives me up the wall to catch one... if i caught one that size????.... well, not sure what id do with it.... some of my family members eat the big ones, and they say its nice.... ive tried it and i almost vomited! :X

[wesfish]

now thats a huge salmon catfish! :woohoo: :woohoo:

[mick fillet]

Do$tylz wrote:

but man thats a bit stinker of a cattie. Shotgun not getting spiked by one of those.

[fishingnut]

a forum member holds a ANSA record for forktailed catfish (blue)

[pondo]

Karumba is in the Gulf of Carpentaria MJ. So yes it is in QLD.

[ryanyoung]

That is a big pest! Could possibly have been a good fight though !

Ryan.

[Sulfuras]

Impressive catty! anyone know what species is all over the brisbane river? My biggest catty was from the river and was 63cm. A midget compared to some of these photos. Lets hope some of our rivers and estuaries don't go the way of the Kali river in India which yield man eating goonch catfish haha.