frigate on sydney harbour flats

[klainz]

Went for a session on some harbour flats working the drop off with a wriggler on 5lb braid and 8lb leader. Turned around and saw this cruising in knee deep water a few meters behind me. Sight cast to it and I was on. Great fight in shallow water. The first run reminded me of the the first run of a bonefish (did some recent flyfishing for bonefish in belize - bonefish everywhere there! And they eagerly take pretty much any sort of fly you throw at them, you just gotta get it in front of their faces - I even got one on a squimp pattern I tied myself - and my fly tying is crap at best).

I'm pretty sure it's a frigate but can someone confirm? Whenever I catch one of these I always 2nd guess myself and think I've caught some sort of tuna. Definitely my biggest frigate to date at 45cm. I sometimes use a spin/fly rod on the flats (you can get hybrid spin/fly rods from USA which can convert between spinning and fly - they don't use the best quality blanks but they sort of do the job and it means you carry a single rod for both techniques). I saw some bust ups off the drop off, converted to fly and tried to get a small clouser to them but no luck. Would have been great to get one on fly.

[chriseels2010]

I caught one last week in the harbour too, definitely frigate. But i guess you could say that you caught a Tuna, since they are part of the tuna family.

[abiasin]

Awsome big king baits on the downriggers! Well done mate

[james7]

Great catch on light gear.

This may help you in the future to id what it is.

Mackerel Tuna (Mac tuna) usually have about 2-7 spots under the pectoral fin. Frigates don't have the spots.

Skipjack tuna (striped tuna or stripey) have about 4-6 dark stripes on the lower half of their body.

And for bonito ...

Cheers

Peter