queensland Legal Red in Close Mooloolaba

[Smithy]

Customer got this 56cm red in 42m of water Saturday at the Caloundra 12mile.

Also some other recent fishing.

[Whiskers]

Great fish mate

[fishguru5]

that is a big cod. dam

pat

[straddiebrad]

nice fish there,i would have thrown the red back but it is with in the limit,brad

[dhess]

Pretty amazing catch that red. How far south have you caught or seen them caught at a decent size say 80cm +.

Also are the mahi mahi and yellowfin still around. Seems awefully late!?

[Smithy]

You can still get good reds on the Barwons/Hards so I wouldn't be surprised if there were big ones at Wide Caloundra or the Cape Moreton area.

Water temps are still up. Plenty of spotty and spanish mackerel for those in the know too. The day I got the yellowfin the water temp was 23deg. It has now tumblded to 22deg but there were still mahi mahi in it Friday.

Brad,

you are kidding aren't you? A 45cm red emperor which was the old limit is an impressive catch let alone a 56cm one. No way in the world am I telling a new customer to throw a legal fish back if we are within bag limits and the fish is over DPI legal size, especially a fish of a few kilograms and they are wanting to put a few fillets in the esky. The only people I have ever known to throw legal size red emperor back are people who are allready bagged out on them. I'd be suggesting people throw back snapper first as they are more endangered and highly overated in the catching and eating stakes. Red emperor is the best eating fish bar none.

[cameronh]

nice work again Smithy, can't wait to get into some of that action.

Thanks

Cam

[Beejay]

Some nice fish there, that cod was awesome hope he went back to his bommy in good shape....cheers Beejay

[FishoDave]

some really awesome fish, far out, that will be a great feed

great work :cheer:

[noname]

but at that size they are mostly head

[Kenshin]

some good fish do they go hard for theyre size?

the cod would have gone hard! you run charters?

[Smithy]

The cod was kept as they are near on impossible to release and believe me I have tried with everything from shot releases and syringes etc. It was 1.1m long and under the 1.2m maximum size.

Yes I run charters and yes all the good fish do go hard.

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[Smithy]

Got another one yesterday to take it to 3 legal reds from Sunshine Coast waters this past 4 weeks or so.

Yesterday's at 59cm.

Finally a bit of size in the soft plastics fish, just no numbers.

[dhess]

Awesome work on the reds Smithy.

How would you rate this snapper season so far? I reckon numbers haven't been too bad but the quality has been really lack luster. So you reckon the quality might finally be picking up?

[Travis]

that first red would have to be pushing it... we were east banks last week and got plenty on just undersized reds... spewin

[Smithy]

The first two my customers have caught have been just over at 56cm each. I would never take a 55cm as they do shrink in the esky I reckon. Same for all the fish I keep. They were usually at least 1cm over minimum.

The snapper are hopeless so far. Got those couple of 2.5-3.0kg ones the other morning in pretty close but other than one other good one at 61cm, mid 40cm is the best of any inshore plastics fish I have been getting and they are very scarce. Certainly no trophy fish in close. I think the main body of fish are still out wide and they are running super late.

[Smithy]

Another one at 56cm on the weekend.

[Smithy]

Other recent fishing.

[yoyo]

Bring on the Cobes !! See you monday Smithy! :-)

[daveylad]

yoyo wrote:

Bring on the Cobes !! See you monday Smithy! :-)

didnt know they could catch them on a Yac Yo, where are you leaving from? and where are you heading out too?

[Terry H]

daveylad wrote:

yoyo wrote:

Bring on the Cobes !! See you monday Smithy! :-)

didnt know they could catch them on a Yac Yo, where are you leaving from? and where are you heading out too?

All though fish that were caught can be caught on a kayak.

Looks like I might have to take the new Hobie AI for a sail out wide come end of august.

[Smithy]

Other stuff.

Quick trip off Rainbow Beach.

[daveylad]

Smithy how ofter do you do trips off rainbow?

[Smithy]

Whenever some-one wants to book me in up there and the tides are right for doing the bar.