queensland Brisbane River 20/11

[creature100]

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[creature100]

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[creature100]

Hey...picked up these two this morning in the Bris River on the banks near the shipping channel...lost two others beside the boat trying to manage the net by myself..oh well...kept both fish for dinner and all were caught on gulp pumpkinseed 3 inch swimming mullet, 1/6 jighead. Seems to be a few around in the river at the moment.

Cheers

Craig

[Angus]

Nice one mate. Couple of good flatties. They can never seem to be bale to resist pumpkin seed!

Angus

[chubbstar]

Well done Craig, Not a bad feed there mate.

I noticed the split in the tail is that a barbed tail Flathead?

Jayson

[Fisher_90]

A Bar-Tail Flathead, as far as im aware their is no barbed tail flathead.

[kevinchen19870316]

chubbstar ur so humorous

[chubbstar]

:laugh: :laugh: Oops my bad:blush:

oh well I was close:P

While you're at it Fisher, is it a bar-tail Flatty in the pic?

Jayson

[Fisher_90]

Yep I think so. They are mainly found in deeper water.

[Angus]

The spot on the tail clearly indicates its a Dusky Flathead. (They both are).

Cheers Angus

[Fisher_90]

Woopsy, I didnt see the spot just the tail outline.

[ellicat]

I'm pretty sure it's a dusky judging by the spotty tail

[creature100]

Yeah they're dusky's...ive only ever caught 1 bar-tailed flathead, that was at the mouth of the Cabbage tree creek, was a much more bulky fish than any of the dusky's ive caught...not sure if they generally are or if i just caught a fat one.

[creature100]

This is the bar-tailed that i caught awhile ago...i also thought that yellow in the tail meant bar-tailed. [img size=373]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/bar.JPG

[chubbstar]

Thanks for clearing that up guys.:kiss:

Jayson

[Cowfish13]

The split was probably from commercial netting, or from recreational fisho's using bad nets.

Great Flathead

[James W]

Cowfish13 wrote:

The split was probably from commercial netting, or from recreational fisho's using bad nets.

Great Flathead

er:dry: ...a landing net?

[Cowfish13]

Thats what I ment by \"recreational Fisho's using bad nets\". As in they were using the knotted landing nets rather than the enviro-nets:).

I also read an article by Keith Stratford in a recent mag and he was talking about the amount of damaged Flathead that he caught during the Flathead Classic. These injuries were due to commercial netting around the 'pin. So I thought that that was also a possibility;)

[creature100]

Most things returned after being caught in a commercial net are usually dead...it could account for some damage but i reckon alot of this damage could also be a result of spawning activity as well as damage during feeding. Ive kept alot of large aquarium cichlids and fin damage occurs alot during spawning as well as just chasing each other around the tank. They do heal very quickly but. But yeah landing nets would also be a major factor.

[James W]

i have caught lots of bream with chunks(healed) out of the top of the head..im sure this is from being ripped out of a net(cast net/trawlers net)..if ya have ever tried to get bream out of a net im sure ya will agree....but yer the environets do stop fin splitting for sure...i have one but jeez they are hard to move thru the water quick:S

[Cowfish13]

Yeah I know that alot of things returned from commercial nets are dead:(

I was just repeating what I read in the article. Actually it was Keith Stratford's article (pg 28, Bush'n'Beach, November, 2007). He said that alot of the fish that he caught had a lot of net marks on them due to the fact that pros netted the area two weeks before the Flathead Classic.

But enough of this stuff:D. They're still great fish and I hope they tasted great:)

[Cowfish13]

Jimmy: I agree. It is especially hard trying to move them through the water when you want to net a Crab. But atleast the buggers don't get tangled up badly like they used to in the knotted nets.

[MichaelJ]

jimmybob wrote:

i have caught lots of bream with chunks(healed) out of the top of the head..im sure this is from being ripped out of a net(cast net/trawlers net)..if ya have ever tried to get bream out of a net im sure ya will agree....but yer the environets do stop fin splitting for sure...i have one but jeez they are hard to move thru the water quick:S

ive caught a few bream like that before do u mean just before the fin sorta above there gills?

[James W]

yer..like the first few spines will be missing on the dorsal fin also

[MichaelJ]

yeh and its only ever in that spot

[James W]

Cowfish13 wrote:

Jimmy: I agree. It is especially hard trying to move them through the water when you want to net a Crab. But atleast the buggers don't get tangled up badly like they used to in the knotted nets.

and lures! they r great for not messing up ya lures:)

[James W]

whatnow-yer mate..been ripped out a net for sure i reckon..im sure i have pic..il look [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/aaa-1248d4a761f17bd06aacedcf52ca1c08.JPG

[Cowfish13]

I'm sure that was the only picture you could find:P

We get alot with the first couple of dorsal spines ripped off (like that, not that big tho). Makes you wonder how someone can be so careless with the net.

[James W]

:laugh: nah it was the only pic i could find on my cpu...lol...but i reckon during the prawn season thousands of baby bream must get netted by cast netters and just ripped out...