queensland Weird fish at North Pine

[robski]

Just got back from NP.

The fishing is still pretty good there. I got three decent sized bass, with this one being the largest:

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/img_3064.jpg

I saw another strange fish cruise right past me about two metres out from the bank. Someone might be able to tell me what it might have been..it was about 80cm to a metre long, slender, silver and very slow moving. I threw a lure at it, but was sort of off target and the lure was picked up by a bass:pinch: . Didn't get another shot at it... .

[Plastic Man]

thats sounds like a saratoga to me for sure.

[robski]

Thanks for that.

It would have been a great fish. I don't know what the odds are of a bass finding the lure before I had a chance to drag it in front of it though

[James W]

a mullet maybe?

[Plastic Man]

big mullet for a dam

[robski]

It deffo had to be a Saratoga now that I've seen a good picture of one. I thought that they were all a brownish colour originally.

Looked to be about the same length as this one:

[img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/miketoga.jpg

[Plastic Man]

good fish shame that you didnt get a hookup they will usally take a spinnerbait before they will hit a crankbait maybe next time

[rayke1938]

Be a Toga for certain the stocking assn have stocked a small number there in the hope that they will breed. They have also stocked some large breeders in a small pond near the quarry a couple of years ago. I havent heard how they are going. I did hear of one of the boating permit fishers capturing one a couple of years ago and he kept it to eat. I hope he choked on it.

Ray

[Liquor Box]

until i see a picture there is still achance it was 1.9metre Cobia:P

[Do$tylz]

^^^^ hahahahaha..

hey lil question... (may have already been asked)..are you allowed to cast net in the dams?

[pcsolutionman]

sounds to me like it could have been a lungfish also. they are long and slender silverish and generally move slowly

Lee

[rayke1938]

The lungfish in the pine are brown on top, reddish underneath and are not slender.

Ray

[Plastic Man]

lungfish dont have any silver in them at all they are dark on top and orangeish on the bottom.

[pcsolutionman]

ok the only one I have ever seen was up past baroon in obi obi creek and it was more silver than brown might have been because of the clear water, if they are brown normally it would have definatley been a toga then.

Lee

[Cowfish13]

Do$tylz wrote:

^^^^ hahahahaha..

hey lil question... (may have already been asked)..are you allowed to cast net in the dams?

You can't use a cast net in any freshwater

[mojo]

Re Saratoga..

I'm interested to know which of the two types are in our dams.

from my aquarium days there was two types available.

Saratoga Leichardi, a beautiful fish but more common and half the price of:

Saratoga Jardini, the Jardini type had the beautiful pink spots on their scales.

From memory the Jardini came from further up north.

Does anyone know which type/types are in which dams?

Cheers

[Dazzamcgee]

Mojo you are right as the Jardini if found further north Queensland/Northern territory and Leichardi is found down here in the South east.

Dont quote me on this but I'm sure lake Awoonga and Lenthals have Jardini and I would think NP would be more likely to have Leichardi.