queensland Trip to Cairns

[Dec]

Decided I would dive to Cairns for a few weeks in January and it turned out pretty good with sessions of 40 or so Jungle perch and sootys in a day or days on the reef when your 2-3kg trout get eaten by other trout and other crazy stuff like that oh and catching milkies in the arvos.

[Dec]

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[Jords]

Geez you have a tough life . Awesome trip mate, some nice fish! That JP/Sooty action looks awesome!

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[jeff f]

ha ha great pics declan

you look a bit stunned in the pic with the huge milk fish, but a milk fish that size would put most people into shock

well done very jelouse

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[Hfisho77]

great stuff mate looks like an amazing trip, that creek jack action looks awesome and some of those JPs are horses! very jealous would love to do that some day

[Runty66]

Wow, very very jealous, awesome pics of just purley amazing fish! Great stuff!

[dansike]

Nice report mate, what did you get the milkie's on? They're great hey!!

[Dec]

Yeah milkies are pretty awesome caught on bread and 15lb gear

[Surfingant]

Awesome

[Manni79]

Some great photos and fish mate, definitely a good trip !!

[dansike]

Yeah milkies are pretty awesome caught on bread and 15lb gear

bread and milk, they go so well together

[Boatleg1]

Well done Dec. I grew up in Cairns before we knew half of those species were around. Probably have to go back now, damn........

[Keen-as-fisho]

Some bloody great fish dec :woohoo: and those milkies look like a sh!t load of fun. nuff said

[Perky]

Nice report mate some of those JP's are pretty big, i bet they fought well. What did you get the milkies on?

[JarrydA]

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What kind of fish is this?

[Dinodadog]

Nice trip Declan but did ya catch any fish ha ha

[Angus]

Nice trip Dec.

Just moved this to the reports section.

Those milkies are insane and love that skinny creek stuff.

Angus

[tiotony]

Are those milkfish in the lake at Holloways beach? I want to get one but I won't be wading in the water like that!

[fishingnut]

EELS!!!!!!

[tiotony]

EELS!!!!!!

I was thinking crocs but yeah them too.

[rosstralia46]

Awesome stuff mate some stonker fish especially those Millkies and the jack fishing looks awesome top stuff

[rosstralia46]

EELS!!!!!!

I was thinking crocs but yeah them too.

Snakes?? Haha

[Do$tylz]

sweet trip Dec. Whats that like first post in a year ??

[Dec]

EELS!!!!!!

Scared of eels aye Beau was that your problem in Cairns?

[fishingnut]

Na eels are fine mat, tony cant sop eels at all

[Dec]

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What kind of fish is this?

Ummm a cod and thats about all I know I have a really weird fish if anyone wants the challenge of trying to ID it

[fishingnut]

What creeks the JPS come out of? pm me if you like

[Damien2Rad]

Skinny creek jacks... I would sell ol' righty (t5he testicle) for action like that.

Well done mate.

Thinkin' of moving up there in anothe year or so.

[Dec]

Try figure this creature out caught in the marlin marina in cairns so full salt on a live mullet the size of him...

[Surfingant]

^^^^ Looks like a stargazer to me

[Dec]

Yeah that was my thought and I looked through them all and couldnt find any that looked like it

[Keen-as-fisho]

Try figure this creature out caught in the marlin marina in cairns so full salt on a live mullet the size of him...

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Bloody ant beat me to it, yes its a stargazer

And the white cod is a potato cod, protected I think

[JarrydA]

I thought it was a potato cod, but it looks the wrong shape. If it is in fact one, it is definately protected cant keep em.

[Dec]

Ok and the brown one is a flowery cod? Was released after a pin to its guts id say it survived just like the rest of the random cod I caught there

[Surfingant]

Yeah mate the brown one is a flowery.

[tiotony]

Try figure this creature out caught in the marlin marina in cairns so full salt on a live mullet the size of him...

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Bloody ant beat me to it, yes its a stargazer

And the white cod is a potato cod, protected I think

I could be mistaken but it looks more like a type of frogfish? Get heaps of frogfish offshore over sand. Have caught stargazers and they were ugly, but not THAT UGLY :sick: , that's why I'm thinking frogfish although the ones I've caught were lighter colour.