queensland Ewen maddock - Surface action

[pcsolutionman]

went out to Ewen Sunday afternoon, I met Craig/Breambuctser13 out there with his father, he was borrowing Paul/Nodds hobie revo for the arvo and his father was on there viking.

The plan was to target some Toga with the chance of a bass. we launched and headed left working the edges of the first bay, got close to the marker boys and started hearing splashes :woohoo: :woohoo: what the hell is that i thought, well ill let this vid i took tell this part of the story.

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The most amazing thing I have seen anyone know what they were doing? feeding? or breeding?

We left them alone and continued on our mission to bag a Toga :woohoo: :woohoo: worked our way around to the second point straight out from the ramp, working the spinnerbait sown the face of the weed with a slow roll I got a tap then bang im on this thing hit so hard, but it aint no Toga got it along side the boat and thought I had caught te smallest bass in Ewen when i saw colour but nope a bloody spangled :blush:

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Greedy bugger.

Didnt get anymore action until back in the first bay on dark when I heard a nice surface hit in shallow water up against a bank, I had a 80mm Cultiva surface walker on so fired that in and as it hit the water Bang the biggest splash and im on, Yeeha a nice Toga I thought straight away then no jumps and it came out and went deep and was pulling hard so called it for a nice bass, then I see colour a bloody catfish :dry: :blush: on the surface:S

it was a lot darker than this picture shows I had to lighten it up

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and yep no fluke hooked right in the mouth

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Well thats a first lol.

over the next 20 mins I got 3 more all on the surface. 2 were mouth hooked and I got one in the side of the head. they were going nuts smashing the surface so hard hey, and they fight well too so whos to complain

anybody else ever had anything like this????

Lee

[Angus]

Man thats weird stuff!

I thought it was going to Toga surface action as we saaw about a dozen doing it at Hinze. But catties....

Maybe thats breeding?

Angus

[Terry H]

Is anything at Ewen not on steroids?

[brisfisher]

WOW...thats amasing:blink: id probs say they were breeding,awsome stuff geting it all on camera n they were takin surface lures:huh:

[werewolf]

Sweet jewies on surface lures, thats mad:laugh:

[rayke1938]

Great footage.Shame about no toga.

Thanks

Ray

[werewolf]

Just watched the video. That would be the single worst place in the world to fall out of your yak:blink:

[Plastic Man]

wow thats crazy i have never seen that but i have got a eel-tailed catty on the surface before years ago in the brisse fishing for bass

[STU]

Thats amazing never seen that before:ohmy:

[kevinchen19870316]

they should be breeding.

when catties breed they school and lay eggs on vegetation. so it's quite usual to find big school of them "playing around" on weedbeds.

just my own opinion.

[Plastic Man]

taken from aussie nativefish.com

Reproduction of the eel-tailed catty

Late Spring to mid summer. Prefers gravel river bed to mud. Builds nest 1 to 2 weeks before spawning, If nest exposed by lowered water levels it is abandoned and another built. Elaborate courtship behaviour. One parent, sometimes both, attend nest and aerate and protect eggs until after hatching.

so this suggests they are not breeding so i dont know whats their doing

[pcsolutionman]

thanks plasticman, they must be feeding on something then they were aggressive thats for sure

Lee

[kevinchen19870316]

Plastic Man wrote:

taken from aussie nativefish.com

Reproduction of the eel-tailed catty

Late Spring to mid summer. Prefers gravel river bed to mud. Builds nest 1 to 2 weeks before spawning, If nest exposed by lowered water levels it is abandoned and another built. Elaborate courtship behaviour. One parent, sometimes both, attend nest and aerate and protect eggs until after hatching.

so this suggests they are not breeding so i dont know whats their doing

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TRACKING DOWN AND QUOTING THE HIGHLY VALUED INFORMATION. now i have no idea what they r doing, i doubt they'll be feeding in that manner.

[Plastic Man]

why are you so upset? i just wanted to know what they were doing and i knew that you had no IDEA

also looks to me like their are feeding

[kevinchen19870316]

lee, u should've throw a popper in them and if they hit with no hesitation, they would've been feeding.

anyway, that's a rare and wonderful shot.

[Malcolm]

I know this is a different story but the Fork Tail Catties they feed at lone pine behave just like that. I guess they are feeding on something

[Feral]

Sure you wern't electro fishing Lee?

I've never seen or heard of anything like it, how about sending the footage in to the DPI?

[werewolf]

or the QLD museum?

[Bommie]

Plastic Man wrote:

taken from aussie nativefish.com

Reproduction of the eel-tailed catty

Late Spring to mid summer. Prefers gravel river bed to mud. Builds nest 1 to 2 weeks before spawning, If nest exposed by lowered water levels it is abandoned and another built. Elaborate courtship behaviour. One parent, sometimes both, attend nest and aerate and protect eggs until after hatching.

so this suggests they are not breeding so i dont know whats their doing

before somerset got some water in it again you would see the nests built in the gravel and rocks

great footage there Lee:woohoo:

[Bommie]

it was probably two rival gangs sorting out there problems:silly:

[STU]

Bloods V's Crips of the eel tail catty world good one bommie:laugh:

[Angus]

At least I think its safe to say the catfish population is healthy at Ewen

Angus

[jeff f]

i think they are probably feeding on somesort of a plankton bloom

brilliant bit of footage