queensland Golden Trevally at Maroochy River

[robski]

Went up to the Sunny Coast, Thursday, to visit my Sister, who lives at maroochdore. The river seemed like the easiest place to have a fish from. So after a short walk from the carpark near cotton-tree I found a spot in the river that looked quite deep and promising. I hooked up one of those smaller variety of prawns ( is it a Banana prawn?) and casted out. The prawn was literally in the water for only 8 seconds before a decent sized fish takes the line and starts fighting hard. After a good couple of minutes, and amongst a few keen observers, I've found out I've got my first GT. :cheer:

Totally unexpected - was just trying to catch a few bream. So I was pretty unhappy that I had to leave the spot so quickly and get the fish back to the house and into the freezer. Went back to the same spot the next day but the prawns ( being a day old) were coming off the hook far too easily. Still managed to get a few bream with them, and also had an even harder fight from what must have been an even bigger GT. It busted me off amongst the rocks though. These Gt's could have been schooling in this particular spot, which just seemed to be teeming with fish. Surprisingly, no-one else was fishing it, but alot of people were fishing 40- 50 metres in either direction from the spot. and not catching much from what I could see.

Anyway, got nowhere near as much time there as I would of liked, so I'm going back soonish.

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[robski]

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[MichaelJ]

a gt is a giant trevally not golden

[ellicat]

Nice surprise for you there Robski.

I reckon your sister will be getting a few unexpected visits from you :laugh:

[robski]

oops... Still learning these things.

[Tim a]

On the upside, goldens are better than Giants! good stuff

[roobs]

beautiful fish.

[James W]

yer man..well doneB)

[Plastic Man]

good fish man nice stuff

[Rocket75]

Good work !

That's one species that I am keen to catch more of, not many about land based down here.

Thanks for the report.

Rocket

[pinkey]

what a nice fish man great catch , how did it taste?

[robski]

pinkey wrote:

what a nice fish man great catch , how did it taste?

It was good . I don't normally eat a lot of fish though. Especially ones that I catch. Felt a bit guilty for keeping it because it was so nice looking. But really wanted to bring something back to the house for dinner.

[Dan23]

Tevers taste good but seem to have a lot of tiny bones. Fight like buggery though. Can't wait to spend a week up at sunshine starting next weekend. Might have to hit you up for that spot Robski. PM me if you are willing to share

[Bommie]

well done,:cheer: they are alot of fun on poppers when feeding near the surface

[wokket]

I used to spend a lot of time camping at Maroochy (up to 11 weeks of the year), and have caught a handful of small golden trevs (to maybe half that size), but nothing of that quality, well done mate

Also caught a few small (6\"-8\") Queenfish, which make for a change from the never-ending supply of undersize whiting

[STU]

Nice trev mate

[Dan23]

Thanks for the PM mate, karma

[jeff f]

if you want to catch huge golden trevally go to tin can bay or hervey bay. use 200mm summer whiting for bait and fish over yabby banks that have a meter or more of water over them

[Cowfish13]

Summer or winter whiting?

Have to be 23cm+ to use summer whiting as bait.

But I can agree that huge Goldens are in Hervery Bay. We saw a couple land a massive Golden near Big Woody Island once on plastics. They were fighting it for ages.

[Bommie]

you can see their tails breaking the surface as they feed on the yabbies in the shallows

[MichaelJ]

one of my friend got a 15kg golden at curtain reef they had to chase it or itd spool them

[robski]

jeff f wrote:

if you want to catch huge golden trevally go to tin can bay or hervey bay. use 200mm summer whiting for bait and fish over yabby banks that have a meter or more of water over them

Thanks, Jeff. I can only imagine what it would be like to have one twice the size of mine on a hook. If only I had a boat...