queensland Breakfast Creek - Jews and Threadins- 02/05/11

[TheLazyboy]

I dedcided to make the best of the pubic holiday today so Me and doss and another mate hit the creek. we got there at 4 to catch some bait. our lines were in by 6 and by 7 we hooked onto our first thready of the day. From that fish we got hookups for the next 3 hours. At the end of the day, i got 2 Pb's from my 2 fish. 51 cm jew and 58 cm thready.

Thanks for reading.

[Malcolm]

Well done mate the river is alive and well

[TheLazyboy]

And some more photos.

[dan25]

Awesome stuff, never had much luck around there myself, seems like a good spot.

[Reef Master]

hey Mate well done jus so ya know for next time the legal size for threadys are 60 cm

[ryanyoung]

That's a good day out fellas, and well done on the PB's, awesome effort.

Cheers,

Ryan.

[TheLazyboy]

hey Mate well done jus so ya know for next time the legal size for threadys are 60 cm

I didnt keep the king salmon. But i did keep the threadfin blue which only has to be 40cm.

[benobfo]

They both look like threadfin to me, what is the identification for a blue

cheers

[elops]

They are both Polydactylus macrochir.

[ryanyoung]

They are both Polydactylus macrochir.

Hey Steve....Um.....What do us common folk call them ?

[nadders]

king threadfin salmon lol

[Angus]

They are both Polydactylus macrochir.

I was waiting for elops on this one as he knows his fish.

Mate good session, but I think you may have unintentially taken an undersized fish there. Dont make your judgement based on colour as the Threadfin in the river vary greatly from those deep yellow fish to ones that are basically silver.

I think the trick is in the number of "whiskers" or "threads" on the fish. Maybe Elops can confirm this? I believe the Blue Salmon have 4 and the King Threadfin have more..?

To my knowledge there have been no Blue Salmon caught in the Brisbane River at all.

Lets use this thread as a learning experience as the possible mistake was accidental as it was based on a id mistake as opposed to wilful carelessness.

Cheers.

Angus

[TheLazyboy]

#@*#. sorry guys.

[keen_as]

Bugger... but still a great days fishing.

To er is human :blush:

[elops]

King salmon have 4 filaments

Blue salmon have 3 filaments

www.fishbase.org/keys/description.php?keycode=750

[nadders]

blue salmon have much shorter whiskers and aren't in the brissy riv as far as anyone knows gus,

/>http://www.biosearch.in/publicOrganismPage.php?id=130460

dunno about the size ranges they list there but you can see the whiskers in the piccy

[Scope]

Great report mate - don't stress about an id mistake like that - we've all done it.

Looks like a great session was had - Awesome work and keep it up

Jono

[woody1]

At least you found out on here and not from a fisheries inspection! Looks like a pretty full on session! good way to spend the day off. nice work

[Surfingant]

Great way to spend a public holiday mate well done.

[Genesis]

Good effort there boys and nice to see that area still fishing well.

[eg_vtec]

well done on the pbs mate. fish looking very healthy too

[The Mad Hughesy]

Nice job guys

what bait and what size gear were u using?

[TheLazyboy]

Nice job guys

what bait and what size gear were u using?

We caught them all on live prawns and I caught mine on a 2-4 rod and 2500 reel. not sure about the other guys

[The Mad Hughesy]

Nice so you were fishing with light gear.

[The Mad Hughesy]

Nice so you were fishing with light gear.

[madmullet]

great work guys, congrats on the p.b

[spiro22]

hey mate is that the newstead park?

[adambris]

hey mate is that the newstead park?

it is, the mouth of breaky creek,

[spiro22]

what where you using mate?