Mission

7 minutes ago, Sneaky1 said:

I'm not 100% but I think it's 7 per person per day so if your partner or child is with you that's 7 each. If I'm wrong maybe ask the fisheries officer if he would like some cash.

 

Thanks Sneaky. So this is a legal situation you reckon, right? thanks

Good evening everybody,

I have a question about the bag limit as below:

Suppose I am preparing a family dinner, say Christmas Eve, and there are 10 peoples will attend the dinner.

So I went crabbing on 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 Dec. If I got 2 legal crabs in each trips, then there were 10 crabs totally in my house. Is that situation legal or not since the bag limits is 7?  and if there is a Fisheries officer visit my house on 24 Dec, how can I explain the situation to him?

The question is that the bag limit is "accumulative limit" or "one trip limit" ?

Thanks for your response in advance.

Cheers

Mission

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Thanks for the tips Mission - Luderick are one of the fish I've never caught but want too desperately... Especially on silly string. They're supposed to be top fighters. I might try Bro's technique with bread if I ever get there.

Cheers Hamish

Wish you a good luck, Hamish. I am eager to hear the good news from you.

Cheers Mission

4 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi Mission

That is sure a Luderick. Commonly called Blackfish. Good job on it as well as it's a mighty fine sized one.

Do you mind if I ask how it was caught?

Cheers Hamish

Sorry Hamish, my mistake. you asked "how" and I answer "where" before.

The fish was caught on a live small prawn, #4 circle hook, 15 lb FC leader line, #0.8 braid line, 7'6" spin rod 3~5kg. I cast the rig very near to the bank.

cheers mission  

9 minutes ago, Breaming with bro said:

Yeah definitely a luderick . Fishbrain isn’t good for identifying Australian fish so don’t use it for that purpose 

Thanks bro.

28 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Merry Christmas @Mission. Since you are based in Queensland, do yourself a favour and get the Qld Fishing 2.0 app. It will help you identify fish immediately which will then help you decide whether to keep them or not. Nice luderick by the way.

Hi Scaley, thanks for your advise. 

I got QLD fishing 2 already since I saw a post recommend it before. However, this app suggest this fish as black jewfish, barramundi, or mulloway.....

At first glance, I thought this is a luderick absolutely. then I noticed that the belly is not silvery, the dorsal back shape is strange, and the mouth shape ( Personally, I think the mouth of Luderick look like a bird beak). So I look for help on web.

Cheers   

Thanks, Hamish.

I got it at Carbrook, Riedel park boat ramp on Logan river last night.

cheers

Mission

Sorry Hamish, my mistake. you asked "how" and I answer "where"...

The fish was caught on a live small prawn, #4 circle hook, 15 lb FC leader line, #0.8 braid line, 7'6" spin rod 3~5kg. I cast the rig very near to the bank.

cheers mission  

To all AFO, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May all of you get good fishes everyday, everytime, everywhere.

Could anybody tell me if this a Luderick or what? thanks. 

Merry Christmas nd happy new year to every one.

5 minutes ago, Breaming with bro said:

I’ve always thought they were the same fish but have different colours due to different environments I may be mistaken . I know when flathead live in the mud or weed they have a brown body and yellowish/white colour on the other side but flathead caught in the sand have a colour much closer to a light brown with a slight yellow tinge and a plain white colour on the other side a lot of people think these are sand flathead but often they are just dusky flathead just different body colour due to environment you can’t tell a flathead speices by colour only by the tail pattern and the shape of the flathead . That is the only way to tell a difference between flathead speices  

Thanks, mate. However, these two javelins have different dorsal fin shapes, especially the second spine, from the DPI pictures and descriptions.

cheers

2 hours ago, Breaming with bro said:

It looks like Davo hasn’t responded yet but it means freshwater fish FW for short bull rout can’t live in saltwater 

Thanks mate. So FW stands for Fresh Water.

Estuary belong to half-half or saltwater? The fish were caught at logan river near river mouth.

Another question.

The Javelin, the 4th fish pictured above, is Barred or  Silver?

The spots arranged in vertical band along flanks look like Barred javelin.

 but the dark blotches on the dorsal fin and the fin shape looks like Silver javelin

Confusing?

found 3 pictures on net similar to the 3rd fish above

http://www.gaiaguide.info/Group.html?groupId=pCmupEed

1 hour ago, davostephens said:

Bullroat are a FW fish. Im just goin by a mate who is a trawler and says dont get spiked by those bullroat bastards.

Lets just call it a rockcod. Scorpion fish family.

Or rubbish fish, throwbach and dont get spiked

 

Hi davostephens,

What the "FW fish" means?

1 hour ago, Breaming with bro said:

The catfish you caught wasn’t the a eel tailed catfish it was a striped eel tailed catfish they are completely different 

I see. Thank you.

Thanks all you guys.

I thought all of these fishes are small species and can not grow too big, now I know I was wrong.

After google "trumpeter", find that they can grow to a big one. So the fish in fig 1 is an infant!

I went fishing 15th Dec night at Riedel park boat ramp. The water was very dirty. When I cast a net for live bait, I got fishes in fig 3, 4, 5 and some little breams in the first cast. Neither prawn nor herring. The second cast, I got 2 mud crabs and little breams.  The 2 crabs were stacked together doing something good for their specie. They are solid but too small, around 15 cm. I had to cut some line and ruin my net to release them. All let go since some are too small and some I do not know what they are. Funny things, fishes and crabs but no bait I got in casting net after all.

After all I had to use chicken meat as bait, get 5 good breams and a truck of .......huge catfishes.

Eel tailed catfish's picture from DPI website is somehow different from the picture 2 above? 

Hi Drop Bear,

Thanks for the info.

Will have a look now.

Many thanks, Davostephens and Hamish.

With these IDs, now I can look into Fish species identification website for their details

Thanks again.

Could anybody help me to identify these fishes, please?  Thanks in advance.