queensland Shultz Canal Tagging Trip 19/05/2010 Good Session

[fishguru5]

hi all

got on the water early saturday as the weather was looking good all weekend met J-Dog... (joel) at nudgee boat ramp and off we headed up jacksons. after not much atall for about half an hour decided to take a run up shultz.

when we reached the bridge we found an abnormal amount of prawns taking cover under the bridge and after 10 minutes had easily 2kg of bait sized schoolies and 2 sand whiting. after 2 bream at the pilons decided to flick some plastics around. after 20 minutes finally landed a good fat healthy bream on a 2" shrimp. he went around 32 33. after this joel was on with a flathead that went just over legal. he kept bringin in the just legal flathead while i was getting smoked and busted off -.- went a bit quiet so took a run further up the creek and got onto some nice sized hard fighting fish. first cast joel was onto his pb bream with a live prawn went 33 or 34cm i followed by a 29cm bream and so forth (pics of fish below) after a few nice fish joel gets onto a screamer. and after a long fight lands a good flathead of 58cms great fish mate, on the last cast managed an alright sized genie mudcrab. they must still be around?. then we went home to get a good nights sleep for the next days early start for boat rock with joel.

sorry for the short post

thanks

pat

(nice camera travis)

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whiting

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nice looking photo

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measurer

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legal flathead

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good bream on a plastic (pretty fat bream)

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bream with tag in it

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Bream against me

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4ocm flatty

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joels horse bream and pb

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Joels Bream on the lie detector (another fat bream)

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better foto

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42cm flathead (again joels) -.-

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joel again with a beautiful breeder flathead of 58cm

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on the ruler

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and finally my bloody mud crab

all up 14 fish were tagged evenly spread between joel and me but joel had the better quality fish......

ip until boat rock.... :woohoo:

[sunnydays]

Top effort there guys!

Beautiful weather we've been having alright!

how do you get into tagging? what is the purpose?

cheers! :laugh:

[FishoDave]

looks like an awesome session mate

heaps of fun

[hooked_on_trout]

wow you guys are way past the bridge hey, nice going.

cheers

[dan25]

Awesome session guys, Nice stuff

[fishguru5]

yeah thanks guys we were a heap past the bridge haha and about tagging. shoot off an email to shirley@info-fish.net and she will tell you what to do. purpose is for research and the thrill of recatching your own tagged fish would be the pinacle.

pat

[elops]

Yes Pat recatching your own fish would be the pinnacle, yet to do it myself(got one electrofishing but that does not really count)but one day I will get one.

[jon]

they look like some fat bream, must be well fed. good work guys

[wesfish]

cracking tagging sesh guys top effort :woohoo: some real fat bream and nice flatties, oh and the whiting :laugh: should get your self a tag gun and t bar tags for the smaller fish like whiting and the smaller model bream looks a bit weird with a spear tag hanging out or dart tag what ever you call them these days

[fishguru5]

haha yeah it does but i guess it has something to show its whiting mates haha i will be looking into a T gun.

pat

[tugger]

great fishing session guys it sounds like they kept you busy

mark