wrasseman Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Hi all, I headed out this evening for a very quick spur-of-the-moment sesh near home as the sun went down. This spot is actually closed for the taking of salmonids atm but you may still fish (for indigenous species (not that there are any???)) if all salmonids are released. Its normally a pretty hot or cold spot but today not really either. I managed one fat little sea-run brown who followed to my feet before hooking up (after missing the hooks on the first hit). Apologies for the pic, phone job. Cheers col. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 nice looking fish mate, wat lure were u using? good feed for dinner!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasseman Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 nice looking fish mate, wat lure were u using? good feed for dinner!! Very silvery fish, obvious sea-runner. It took a little green tango spoon. Had to go back though, closed season. cheers Col. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 sorry wrasseman im not sure what a green tango spoon looks like? not that familar with my lures sorry are they a hard bodied with a green lip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasseman Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 (edited) These are tango spoons, 45mm long. One for scale: Edited June 5, 2006 by wrasseman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Cheers for the photos! thats some funky design on those things. What else have you caught on those things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasseman Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 Cheers for the photos! thats some funky design on those things. What else have you caught on those things? Quite a few species actually. salt: Bluefin trevally big eye trevally giant trevally silver trevally bream (yellowfin only so far) tailor flathead (sand and dusky) leatherjackets 2 species of wrasse sweetlip moses perch spanish flag aust salmon coral trout estuary cod toadfish whiting sweep barracouta snook jack pike squid sea-run brown trout mados. fresh: brown trout rainbow trout atlantic salmon redfin brook trout. I may have left a few out though. Cheers Col. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crystalliser Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 that's a bloody impressive long list of species! i'll take it that u're just using standard retrieves for the spoons? i like the colours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasseman Posted June 6, 2006 Author Share Posted June 6, 2006 that's a bloody impressive long list of species! i'll take it that u're just using standard retrieves for the spoons? i like the colours! I've used these spoons a fair bit over the last two years so am bound to pick up a few diff species over time. All sorts of retrieves work, steady, stop/start, skip on surface, lift and drop, vertical jigging, hi speed or dead slow depending on species and environment. As far as colours go I'm a big fan of plain gold in fresh or plain silver in salt but am not a big believer in lure colours generally. I figure placement, size and then action are the most important attributes of any lure (though some are better than others). Cheers col. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covanova Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Are there many sea-runners in Tasmania? Do these exhibit different characteristics to trouts in landlocked inpoundments or rivers? Are the ever caught out to sea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrasseman Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 (edited) Are there many sea-runners in Tasmania? Do these exhibit different characteristics to trouts in landlocked inpoundments or rivers? Are the ever caught out to sea? There are quite a few sea-runners in Tas., especially in the derwent and huon river estuaries and in many of the west coast estuaries and around "the channel" though they occur to some degree in most estuaries. Some go out to sea while others are resident in the estuaries. True sea-runners tend to be very silvery with smaller scales than freshwater trout (hard to distinguish from atlantic salmon that have escaped from farms), whilst the residents (freshwater fish that have recently moved downstream or upper estuary fish) tend to look more like freshwater brownies (there aren't any sea-running rainbows). Regardless, in saltwater trout grow faster that in fresh (diet and hormonal effects). Although sea-run trout do move out to the deep sea, they are rarely if ever caught there in Tas. and are mainly caught in estuaries either when they come in at the start of their spawn run or when they chase the migrating whitebait as they have their spawn run. At other times they are a more incidental catch though in certain places they are common year round especially estuary resident fish. Locally to me (Launceston) the north and south esk rivers (Launceston is on the junction of these two rivers where they combine to form the (salt) Tamar river) have some sea-runners and the "tail-race" outlet of the trevallyn power station also produces quite alot with others turning up further downstream in the Tamar. Cheers Col. This pretty little fish (one of my fav. photos) is a more typical freshwater fish (very small stream), I' am yet to see a saltwater trout with bright red spots on it. And a lake fish no red spots in this case but a fairly red adipose fin. "True" sea-runner: In contrast this is a typical "resident" estuary fish from the saltwater tidal section of the little forrester river where it was feedind amongst a school of australian salmon. You can see it appears quite different to the silvery fish above that is more likely a "true" sea-runner and has less spots than the salwater fish. Edited June 7, 2006 by wrasseman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covanova Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Thanks! It has always fascinated me, it must be interesting to see them in the estuaries when you do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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