Super Thread LXXV: Remembering forgotten memories

[Twizzle]

never heard of fresh water jew fish which is why I asked

 

[Bazal]

are you in fresh water, or brackish water ?

Fresh now.

Obvs not for jew. That was in the Hunter years ago. When I had my mojo.

I am also the flathead whisperer. Will deadset catch flatties just about wherever I go in the salt.

Fresh water is way harder to work out

 

[horrie hastings]

Probably in ACT, fresh water

Home of Murray Cod and Golden Perch and also the feral pests of carp and redfin.

 

[horrie hastings]

Haven't fished for a few years now but have one spot in Sydney Harbour i used to frequent a lot [ and will probably do again once my fishing mojo returns] and it nearly always produced a feed. Caught lots of leatherjackets over the years but also flathead, bream, whiting, keeper sized red bream, red morwong, banded morwong, small groper [which were always returned].
One strange one i caught once was a barramundi cod back sometime in the early 80s, totally surprised when i got it to the top of the water but knew what is was straight away, it was a long way from its home range in Queensland.

This is what they look like.





Also often a by catch of fishing for leatherjacket i would catch these beautiful looking goat fish, the first one i ever caught i gut hooked so i thought i would take it home for the cat but decided to grill it and eat for myself, bloody beautiful so now if i ever catch ones big enough to eat i keep them, they are very similar to the red mullet.

 

[Bazal]

Home of Murray Cod and Golden Perch and also the feral pests of carp and redfin.

And lately I can catch none of them

 

[Twizzle]

Some good beach fishing at Kingscliff right now, some good sized whiting being caught by everyone but me

 

[horrie hastings]

And lately I can catch none of them

Are you catch and release with your Murray Cod ? Heard that redfin are great eating which is good considering how much a pest they are.
Have basically only been fresh water fishing once, brother in law has a property at Dungog and is right near the Williams River, went fishing with earthworms for bass, caught one which was as small as the hook I was using one of the in laws caught 5 bass, 2 were keeper sized but all of them were returned to the water.

 

[Bazal]

Are you catch and release with your Murray Cod ? Heard that redfin are great eating which is good considering how much a pest they are.
Have basically only been fresh water fishing once, brother in law has a property at Dungog and is right near the Williams River, went fishing with earthworms for bass, caught one which was as small as the hook I was using one of the in laws caught 5 bass, 2 were keeper sized but all of them were returned to the water.

I release all native freshwater fish. Yellowbelly, bass, cod...

Not that I've had the chance to release a Cod in about five years

 

[horrie hastings]

Would love to learn the art of black fishing, seems such a specialist art just to target one species but prepared properly they are one of the best eating fish around. Have caught a handful over the years on prawns and yabbies but to catch them consistently you have to use weed and floats.

 

[Bazal]

Would love to learn the art of black fishing, seems such a specialist art just to target one species but prepared properly they are one of the best eating fish around. Have caught a handful over the years on prawns and yabbies but to catch them consistently you have to use weed and floats.

I don't eat a lot of the fish I catch, for various reasons bu mostly living in Canberra...if I'm down the coast and I can't eat it the same day, I tend not to bother keeping anything.

Never been a big fan of luderick myself, even fresh. They're not as hard as you might think to catch.

You're right Btw, Redfin are actually really tasty. Very close to whiting.

 

[horrie hastings]

I don't eat a lot of the fish I catch, for various reasons bu mostly living in Canberra...if I'm down the coast and I can't eat it the same day, I tend not to bother keeping anything.

Never been a big fan of luderick myself, even fresh. They're not as hard as you might think to catch.

You're right Btw, Redfin are actually really tasty. Very close to whiting.

When I catch a few leatherjackets I will freeze a few as they will be consumed within the month, always a good back up if you can't get out for a while fishing but there is nothing nicer than eating a whiting or bream you have caught the same day, love fresh whiting. One fish I find I like is Gurnard, it is ( was ) turning up at quite a few fish shops, when I go to Lifeboat on the Hawkesbury at Brooklyn I will order it if on the menu, I reckon it's better eating than flathead and I love flathead.

 

[horrie hastings]

Never been a big fan of luderick myself, even fresh. They're not as hard as you might think to catch.

When I worked at the drive thru at Kensington I had a customer who used to make fish floats, I would keep my sparkling corks for him and in return I had fresh blackfish, mostly filleted but sometimes whole, got some nice kingfish fillets from him once also, miss things like that.

 

[Twizzle]

Would love to learn the art of black fishing, seems such a specialist art just to target one species but prepared properly they are one of the best eating fish around. Have caught a handful over the years on prawns and yabbies but to catch them consistently you have to use weed and floats.

pretty easy around here (Tweed River) as there are plenty of rocks at the river side where the sea lettuce grows and you simply fish from those rocks as they hang around them at feeding times on outgoing tides

you see a lot of the old fellas fishing for them as Luderick seem to be an acquired taste

 

[horrie hastings]

pretty easy around here (Tweed River) as there are plenty of rocks at the river side where the sea lettuce grows and you simply fish from those rocks as they hang around them at feeding times on outgoing tides

you see a lot of the old fellas fishing for them as Luderick seem to be an acquired taste

An old work mate of my father used to ( and I think he still does ) fishes around the Rose Bay wharf area , I have seen him in action before and he usually pulls in a good bag of luderick, you can see people fishing near him getting frustrated because he is getting fish and they are not and they try to work out what he is doing different to them
I have never targeted them specifically but have caught them when fishing for bream or flathead on prawns and yabbies, caught a couple one day when throwing the line between the trawlers coming just before sun rise at Evans Head co op, 4 bream, 2 luderick in about 20 mins then nothing.
I rate luderick highly has a food fish.

 

[Bazal]

How the f**k are we folks? Me likey endone

 

[Twizzle]

lol, careful with that stuff Baz, highly addictive

 

[Bazal]

Pretty bloody easy to see why...

 

[muzby]

Ahh.. Hillbilly heroin..

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Preferable to Fentanyl, that's for sure

 

[horrie hastings]

How the f**k are we folks? Me likey endone

Lol, my father got hooked on those a few years ago.
Had a couple of sebaceous cysts cut out a couple of months ago and the doctor prescribed me tramal for the pain, he told me to take it before any pain set, in i took them and wow, it was like having a party, took them for 3 days and to be honest I had no pain from where the cysts cut out anyway.