queensland 11/12/07 thready and stingray action

[pinkey]

Went down to the usual spot with duncan (brisbane_boy) and another friend from school. I came down to test out me new baitcaster. Duncan got 1.5kg of large cooked prawns for bait, They are much better and cheaper than the ones from 7/11. First cast and duncan reeled in the usual 55ishcm cattie, threw out again and casted his other rod out, they were both a little bit tangled cos the current is strong, we noticed one of them getting some attention and duncan hooked the fish, he told me to grab the other rod which had a wire trace with a prawn on it, I grabbed it and felt something on the other end, then line started pissing out, and i said \"you might want to reel this one in instead\" we saw it jump and saw it was a nice threadfin, it tried to wrap him around the pilons but duncan just pulled him out on the 25lb line and wire trace, I leant down and pulled it up, it was a nice fish 70cm the best threadfin from that spot. After a few pics it was carefully released. after that he caught an eel and i put a chunk on my shark rod and hooked up to something big it turned out to be a medium sized sting ray wich put up a great fight, we had a good relaxing afternoons fishing. Ill put a couple of pics on

[pinkey]

Duncan holding his nice thready. Goes to show they arnt fussy, it took half a prawn on a wire trace.

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/PB090515_AFO.jpg

[pinkey]

The thready on my tacklebox, it was very clean in colour.

[img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/PB090517_AFO.jpg

[pinkey]

Lol my stingray abit filthy, the first stingray i have ever landed lol, been snapped off there twice, its pretty far for a ray to travell, the spot is abit upstream from the jindalee area. [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/PB090527_AFO.jpg

[Plastic Man]

nice one mate dam there lots around atm cait wait to get one thready that is not stingray

[STU]

Awesome stuff fellas I hope to get a threadie soon

[brisbane_boy]

Yer i was suprized it took the prawn becasue of the wire trace but i new it woudent snap the line LOL

thanks

nice report tim

buddah

[username_taken]

Hey pinkey/brisbane_boy I'd be keen for an introduction to that spot some time... maybe one weekend you could take me down there? Or tell me to bugger and find my own spot if you want, either way

[fishyman]

good one guys.

[Angus]

Nice one guys. Good to see people straight back on the water after the BRC

Angus

[brisbane_boy]

isnt that always the case angus you get ur best fish after the comp finished

lol

[Schultzy]

That's a great looking thready Duncan...

Oh and Karma to you for releasing it to grow into a 1.3m model for next year's BRC. :cheer:

[brisbane_boy]

yer thanks schultzy i didnt want to keep it becuase i was planning on going to mcdonnals for dinner :woohoo: :woohoo:

lol

cheers for the karma

Buddah

[pinkey]

you like your maccas abit to much hey duncan, cant wait till the prawns start running again then i reckon even more threadys will start being caught.

[Feral]

Dropped in to Kooka yesterday in the way home from Goondiwindi to show the bloke with me the spot. There was an old fella there who had just caught about an 80cm thready on a strip of mullet on 3 x 3/0's land based at the boat ramp!

[pinkey]

yeah i reckon there realy hunry at the moment because there is not many prawns around... maybe all the fish are hungry because i caught a stingray on a chunk of eel! lol.

[Cowfish13]

brisbane_boy wrote:

isnt that always the case angus you get ur best fish after the comp finished

lol

Or you catch them the weekend before the comps start

Great work on the Threaddie and well done on releasing it:cheer:

I promote catch & release, but I can't say that I would release a fish of that calibre:dry:. Can't say I've ever caught one either:silly: