queensland Shultz Canal Tagging Trip 23/05/2010

[fishguru5]

Hi again

headed to shultz again for a bit of a flick with keechie today. was quite slow today with interesting weather. it didnt know if it was gonna blow, rain, shine? anyway back to fishing. after a few hit and misses ended up snagging a decent fish . it stayed deep and did not want to surface with plenty of weight. hmmm? nic has had a few runs like this and lost the fish where it stays deep and does circle like a tuna ? anyway after a good 5 minutes up comes a scat at 39 cm's. is a first and a pb for me. i do not know how big they get but i have caught plenty of small ones in the net and had no idea they got this big. after a few photos it was released and we whent back to catch some bream after a little bit i managed to hook a bream that went 29 cm and tagged. then a little while later zzzzzzzzzzzzzz this things giving me hell. and up comes a bream at 29cm i was thinking wtf? it fought like a train. it was tagged. i then caught one at 27cm and tagged it. then again zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz this one playd up tried running me into the pilons but i managed to pull it out and it was a 30cm bream not huge but it went really well for its size. then nic dodged a donut just as we were leaving with a 26.5cm bream. (tagged). so thats it for today. could have been better but could have been alot worse.

thanks for reading

pat

[fishguru5]

Scat

[fishguru5]

Scat

[fishguru5]

29cm bream

[fishguru5]

30cm bream conciderably larger and fatter

[Scope]

Nice report mate - some good fish there - never new scats got that big either

[dassa]

I have never caught a scat but to me it looks like an over size happy moment.Nice report and good to see a few good bream showing up

[uglyfish]

That's a good sized butter bream or scat as u called it, they do go hard..they get a fair bit bigger than that, we used to get heaps of big fellas up the calliope river..great fun till they spike ya, then holy $@ it does it hurt..