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Thanks for the info! Odd it took my mullet though

No it was black and white striped, it looks exactly like the striped catfish I have a pic

So we were fishing at crescent head estuary and the saltwater tide was coming in/ almost completely salt water by now. We were fishing with fresh caught mullet and thought we caught a flat head, felt like lifting a dead weight, not a great deal of fight, and we ended catching a striped eel looking thing, so we googled the fishing charts and it wasn’t on anything until we googled the description and found out it was highly venomous and freshwater. Anyone heard of freshies in saltwater?

I have a predicament. My dad and I were fishing in killick creek (just upriver from the estuary) fishing for bream with fresh caught mullet. The night before we caught a 38cm bream before we ran out of bait, so we were pretty excited to see what would be there the next night. We cast our rods and my dad gets one big hit and the fish took off, no head shakes but he bent the rod like it was a moving snag. The fish kept swimming to the side and chewed through the line on the hook. The same happened to me 3 times after that. We have no idea what the hell this fish is because we were unable to reel it in on our rig. This thing was powerful as. Anyone know what type of fish this would be? It would have to have teeth because it chewed through the line every single time. I also don’t think it was bright coloured because I saw a glimpse of it and there were no bright colours. Please help! We are so intrigued as to what it is.