queensland Another Day in Paradise

[chrislocke]

Hi everyone!

Managed to sneak out for a fish during this picturesque weekend and even though I completely and utterly out fished, it was still a great day!

We started off fishing some deeper water with prawn style plastics, but we couldn't seem to get a fish! In fact the whole day was pretty much fishless until the late afternoon, when the trevally fired up!

One reason the fishing was so slow was the amount of boat traffic on the river, but being an awesome day you'd expect that.

Cale Cale trevally (or long jaw trevally) was the target species of the day, and in my opinion they are (pound for pound) the hardest fighting fish in ocean!

They are also extremely finicky with numerous casts right in their path not even getting touched. They seem to get fixated on small "fry" about 2cm long, and when they're feeding like this they are pretty well impossible to catch.

This was Kyle's first cale cale and he was stoked to finally catch one!

They seem to have better colours when they're smaller...

The last two were huge and took plenty of line which made landing them difficult due to the busy traffic!

All released, of course.

Right at the end there was the double hookup from hell!

Check out the size of this barracuda looking thingy (any ideas what it is? I'm thinking a pike on steroids...) which went mental on the light gear! Tim's GT was actually a solid fish, but compared to kyle's it didn't look very big!

Thanks for reading,

Chris

[Angus]

That is cool!

That location proves so much that a transient pressure point can be fished regularly as the fish come and go with fresh faces turning up all the time!

Angus

P.S. Yes I am pressure sure that is barracuda.

[Doobsy]

http://youtu.be/4bt_-R5LInU

[sweresy]

true dat Angus...

that point gets a mauling but still produces; my old man with a solid queenie from that exact spot....

[Funfisher]

Nice fish lads, i was on a wedding Noosa river cruise and spotted you guys fishing late saturday arvo

[sweresy]

sorry Chris re the Hijack..... awesome fishing as usual mate. cracking CUDA!!!!! cheers

Sweresy

[kmcrosby78]

Great trevors there mate and an absolutely cracking cuda, especially for the waters it was caught. Any rough idea on how long it was?

[Hfisho77]

great pics, great fish. The 'cuda would have gone insane on bream gear!

[chrislocke]

angus, all good fish were pulled as boats were driving past - "more wobble, more gobble!"

Funfisher, were you on a ferry wearing a suit? was a cracker arvo!

Sweresy, on the right tides + times it can fish very well! And thanks for the feedback!

kmcrosby78, would have been a bit over a meter, and around 6-7kg.

Hfisho77,hell yeah Kyle had his work cut out for a while! Very lucky not to get bitten off too!

[BASSTURD]

hey guys great catches, can I just ask please, what sort of structure are you looking for when targeting these trevally. Im curious of their habitats and where they hang around.

[Funfisher]

Hey Chris i was on roof section of the ferry in a grey suit with glasses and was watching you guys like a hawk hoping you would hookup! later in the night at the wedding reception there were packs of gt around 40-55cm busting up all night.. i was pretty sour i didnt bring a rod :S

[chrislocke]

bassturd, sandy drop offs where currents meet. tricky area!

FunFisher, They're funny like that

[Plastic King]

Wow :woohoo: Nice Cuda blown away is this the Maroochy River? Great Session Guys

[Angus]

Cannot wait to see you next report either after spying something on facebook