fortescue or bullrout?

[jeff f]

caught this prickly little critter in oxley creek this morning [img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1130029_AFO-ce5d7ce7c1ade4edff6cfd4755143596.jpg

[STU]

not sure jeff and we only got heaps of catties and a couple of pike

[jeff f]

its face was a mass of spines pointing in every direction [img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1130028_AFO.jpg

[jeff f]

i wasn't game to touch it [img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1130030_AFO.jpg

[mackmauler]

there really the same thing jeff, though the saltwater version is smaller

gota couple in the throw net this wk and "flathead" got spiked at jindalee

[jeff f]

STU wrote:

not sure jeff and we only got heaps of catties and a couple of pike

when we went back upstream we came across a school of threadies surface feeding near the old coral warfs

couldn't get them tro take a bait but they were boofing prawns all around the boat:(

apart from slimeboms and biteoffs

all we got was a muddy [img size=499]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/P1130027_AFO-7cd664d449edd32b2808306534768bfb.jpg

[pinkey]

Nice muddy, yeah callum got stung by a bullrout the other day and he said it was the most painfull thing hes ever felt... pitty about the threadys, did you try a live prawn?

[jeff f]

yeah they were feeding on real small prawns and keept shying off the bigger ones with hooks in them

[pinkey]

how big did the threadys look?

[STU]

I was talking to a guy the other day who caught 3 threadies up the river on prawns and he said they would'nt take the big prawns he had set up for them and got them in close on small hooks and a small piece of prawn on them cast in the shallows for bream the threadies were in close chasing prawns there too.

[pinkey]

Funny that stu, ive got 2 like that mind you only about 45cm. Did he say how big the threadys were?

[STU]

yeah not much bigger than yours he gave no measurement just the old distance between the the hands so just guessing

[werewolf]

Jeff I got a smaller one during my attempt (and the last for a while!) at sharking in the stinking freshwater lol. I would post the pic but it's about as good a quality as the first pic! (focus is on the background). But yeah mine had the horrible spikes that point forward on the front of their face too, and they seem to be able to fold them in as well. I though it was a little cod until I saw those spikes on the face, then grabbed the pliers to get it out of the cast net when I realised it was a bull rout!

[pinkey]

hah yeah same werewolf ive got a unfocused pic of one to. Callum thought it was some weed or gunk in his net cos ther was heeps and he grabbed it to try and get it out lol.

[Cowfish13]

I'm pretty certain that it is a Barred Fortesque