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Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

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Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
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Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

to suit the bait size - 5/0 to 7/0 

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Entirely wind dependent - usually get the NE winds Oct-March, but over the years have seen short NE wind breaks through other months where it fires too.   

Note the sideways rod action is because I'm trying to work out whether I'm under or over my other line....

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Entirely wind dependent - usually get the NE winds Oct-March, but over the years have seen short NE wind breaks through other months where it fires too.   

Note the sideways rod action is because I'm trying to work out whether I'm under or over my other line....

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Note the sideways rod action is because I'm trying to work out whether I'm under or over my other line....

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov

Have caught them in NT and a couple in Cairns, bit like a blue salmon but have no 'threads' under the head.
I vaguely remember reading in a fishing book as a kid, them being called 'moreton bay tailor'?
 

Have caught them in NT and a couple in Cairns, bit like a blue salmon but have no 'threads' under the head.
I vaguely remember reading in a fishing book as a kid, them being called 'moreton bay tailor'?
 

Bream/ flathead carbonara.
Fillet, cut in small pieces and cook in the carbonara sauce with Brazilian spinach. I do it with blue/ king salmon and its amazing.
The portuguese ancestry in me - firm flesh fish like that I also like using for caldeirada (Portuguese fish stew). Its really easy to make - plenty recipes online.

Bream/ flathead carbonara.
Fillet, cut in small pieces and cook in the carbonara sauce with Brazilian spinach. I do it with blue/ king salmon and its amazing.
The portuguese ancestry in me - firm flesh fish like that I also like using for caldeirada (Portuguese fish stew). Its really easy to make - plenty recipes online.

Bit different down there because you get salmon in deep water whereas I'm fishing shallow water. But, up here king salmon (threadies for you) and grunter love  live yabbies. I'm thinking if you can get yabbies, fish them on a long leader and size 2 long shank late at night - opening up big bream, whiting, grunter, salmon, jewies etc. all on the same rig.  
 

Bit different down there because you get salmon in deep water whereas I'm fishing shallow water. But, up here king salmon (threadies for you) and grunter love  live yabbies. I'm thinking if you can get yabbies, fish them on a long leader and size 2 long shank late at night - opening up big bream, whiting, grunter, salmon, jewies etc. all on the same rig.  
 

Bit different down there because you get salmon in deep water whereas I'm fishing shallow water. But, up here king salmon (threadies for you) and grunter love  live yabbies. I'm thinking if you can get yabbies, fish them on a long leader and size 2 long shank late at night - opening up big bream, whiting, grunter, salmon, jewies etc. all on the same rig.  
 

Sunday morning incoming tide on the beach; castnet scored half a dozen big prawns and three legal whiting - all but one whiting were blacktip and hammerhead food in quick time.
Last whiting got snaffled and got a glimpse of what looked like a largish shovelnose; so was not being particularly conscientious fighting it. Finally got it close enough to see - turns out was an estimated 120-130 salmon (lost my tape measure so just a guess). 

Was lip hooked and I don't need something that big, but just stayed belly up trying to swim it - which we seem to get most of the time for the bigger kings on the beach, so home it came. I think they fight themselves to death because at the end of the fight they're basically dead when they hit the beach, whereas the smaller ones just swim off immediately. Big barra just swim off immediately too.

Two other guys fishing; both got a king salmon over a metre straight after so there must be a few around.

Sunday morning incoming tide on the beach; castnet scored half a dozen big prawns and three legal whiting - all but one whiting were blacktip and hammerhead food in quick time.
Last whiting got snaffled and got a glimpse of what looked like a largish shovelnose; so was not being particularly conscientious fighting it. Finally got it close enough to see - turns out was an estimated 120-130 salmon (lost my tape measure so just a guess). 

Was lip hooked and I don't need something that big, but just stayed belly up trying to swim it - which we seem to get most of the time for the bigger kings on the beach, so home it came. I think they fight themselves to death because at the end of the fight they're basically dead when they hit the beach, whereas the smaller ones just swim off immediately. Big barra just swim off immediately too.

Two other guys fishing; both got a king salmon over a metre straight after so there must be a few around.

Sunday morning incoming tide on the beach; castnet scored half a dozen big prawns and three legal whiting - all but one whiting were blacktip and hammerhead food in quick time.
Last whiting got snaffled and got a glimpse of what looked like a largish shovelnose; so was not being particularly conscientious fighting it. Finally got it close enough to see - turns out was an estimated 120-130 salmon (lost my tape measure so just a guess). 

Was lip hooked and I don't need something that big, but just stayed belly up trying to swim it - which we seem to get most of the time for the bigger kings on the beach, so home it came. I think they fight themselves to death because at the end of the fight they're basically dead when they hit the beach, whereas the smaller ones just swim off immediately. Big barra just swim off immediately too.

Two other guys fishing; both got a king salmon over a metre straight after so there must be a few around.

Sunday morning incoming tide on the beach; castnet scored half a dozen big prawns and three legal whiting - all but one whiting were blacktip and hammerhead food in quick time.
Last whiting got snaffled and got a glimpse of what looked like a largish shovelnose; so was not being particularly conscientious fighting it. Finally got it close enough to see - turns out was an estimated 120-130 salmon (lost my tape measure so just a guess). 

Was lip hooked and I don't need something that big, but just stayed belly up trying to swim it - which we seem to get most of the time for the bigger kings on the beach, so home it came. I think they fight themselves to death because at the end of the fight they're basically dead when they hit the beach, whereas the smaller ones just swim off immediately. Big barra just swim off immediately too.

Two other guys fishing; both got a king salmon over a metre straight after so there must be a few around.