Blackfish

Storm a couple of days ago approaching from “Up the Street”

I'm no hero, it was spikey but all good.

Sorry to hear about you getting so sick mate and spoiling the trip, cutting it short. At least you got out for a fish and made a good contact. Bloody parking in a major city is such a pain and I had my fair share of it when I lived in Sydney. For work we did a lot in the city and close suburbs. 😤 As for COVID, I had friends and family who tested positive and they were not to bad and I couldn’t catch it. I did finally catch it and was the second worst thing I’ve had in my life. I’m pretty fit and healthy and can see how it can kill people. Take care Neil, hoping you improve quickly.

That’s the ones XD, Three Bar Porcupine fish. Fish inflated while I was holding it and after we let it go floated down the river till slowly deflating then swam away . 😄

I Recon it could be one of those big Porcupine Fish as XD351 mentioned. Pretty common in the estuaries.

As Ryder said, definitely a Flounder. If you caught it in Sydney, then I reckon it’s a Largetooth Flounder. There’s two common ones in Sydney, Largetooth Flounder and Smalltooth Flounder. Pretty hard to tell in that dark colour mode but Largetooth for me. A mate I’d fish with in Sydney for Bluespot Flathead, his wife would think the Flathead were just ok but was really excited when he bought home a flounder.

That’s a great story, well written with some great fish especially the Whiting.👍

@Derny Driver have you measured you Measuring Mat with, say a good tape measure just to confirm was it the measuring mat or shrinkage.

Great point Hood. I suppose it’s a personal point of view to, meat on table, catch and release, scenery, environment, limited human activity giving you that feeling that “ I’m the only one for miles” Also on another note you mentioned SE QLD, lots of Mosquitoes and Sand flies and I mean LOTS in the warmer months but more chances of different fish.

Excellent write up there LW and it certainly sounds like a great outing with both fish and catching up. I count 6 different species for you. Great job.

If you go the gum boot way make sure you have wet weather pants to go over the gum boots otherwise the boots will fill up with water. I found shorts and wetsuit hard soled booties were the go but a good wet weather coat was a must. The wet suit booties you can walk in mud and they won’t slip off as well as finding rocks/oysters/ glass submerged in mud and not damage your feet. NOTE … this is for estuary fishing only and not off ocean rocks.

I’ve also heard of small Soldier crabs but never met anyone that has caught a fish on them or uses them. Maybe someone has, I’d be interested to hear.

You were the head guide Neil so it would be expected that you wouldn’t out fish the guests. Your a kind and thoughtful man, sounds like a great fun family day.

Bloody Toads Grrrrrrrr 😕

That looks fantastic. Bloody yum.