It made me realise how lucky we are to have the fishing we have in australia,
cheers

Maybe one day you will get a chance to try out WA's great fishing for yourself,
All the best, Colin Hay

Hi Mark,

Welcome to Fishwrecked.  Glad you liked the vids, just having a look through your blog.  Your bull reds look a lot like our Mulloway, a great fish to catch indeed!

 Hope you enjoy your stay,

Cheers,

Adam 

Always good to see captures from overseas. Yep the similarities to our Mulloway are remarkable. Do you eat them or purely catch & release?

One of the greatest differences is the depth of water close to shore. In our area of the Gulf Coast, one may have to go very far into the Gulf to find water 100 meters deep. Most of the fishing I do is along the Galveston Jetty which stretches out over 6 miles into the Gulf - protecting a shipping channel from silted built up. Even at the end of the Jetty, the water is only 15 meters deep.

On the Bull Reds - according to Texas Law, you are allowed to keep 3 Redfish a day between 18-28 inches long. You also have a tag on your fishing liscense that allows you to keep one oversize Bull Red per year. So about 98% of the Bull Reds we catch are relaeased.

Out in the Gulf, there are a greater variety of fish to be had. I have plans in the next few months to venture out a bit further.

I enjoy the videos of the "Samson Fish." Can you tell me more about this fish - and if I remember what I read, you are jigging in 100 meters of water over some wreckage? And if I ever do make it to WA - you can bet I will want to try my luck with those brutes!

Thanks for the warm welcome gentlemen!

Mark

Pics, Videos, Stories from Texas Gulf Coast

www.daparsonfishing.blogspot.com

Hi Mark and welcome!

I was just looking at your site, looks great but my work has blocked the pics. I will look when i get home from work :)

It's always interesting to see people from overseas on this site, gives everybody a new insite in to the different fish and fishing methods to be had in other parts of the world

To all the virgins..............Thanks for nothing!

Good to hear from you guys so far away

Keep in touch

steve

Born to fish forced to work

What types of equipment (the size of the rods and reels) and rigs do you guys use for fishing for bull reds? What is the favoured bait?
All the best, Colin Hay

I agree, your bull reds sure look like our Mullaway. I've visited a few USA fishing forums - from the avatars, there sure is a lot of MIa MIa caught over there!

I'm sure that, should you get over here Mark, one or more of the guys/girls would be more than happy to show you the ropes with regards to Sambo Jigging, something I've yet to do myself (but unlikely as I live mear the southern WA coast).

Do many of your species suffer from baratrauma over there, and if so, do you deploy release weights? 

Colin

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VMR 610 - Albany Sea Rescue - Mariner 421

Welcome mate,

yeah we called Mulloway by the name of Kob or Kobeljou in South Africa, same fish.

As for yourside of the world, it's always nice to hear how the rest of the planet fishes,
http://www.tugelamouth.co.za/images/PhotoTomKob.jpg
keep the info coming..

regards

Tony

Full-time piscotoral-idiot, in The Vines. "It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek poet.
Supporter of Meals on Reels

Colin

Most of the Bull Reds and Black Drum we catch are caught in less than 15 meters of water. Even so, because of the fight, size of fish, etc - we usually vent their air bladders before releasing them. You can see us venting a large black drum on this page of my blog:  http://daparsonfishing.blogspot.com/2006/02/tuesday-february-13th-2006.html

Even though we worked the fish back and forth, without venting them, they would float on the top of the water, belly up - and the Sea Gulls would peck either their eyes or anus - and harm or destroy the fish. We also have had Black Tip and Bull Shark chomp them in half while they were floating on the water. After venting them, it allows the fish to go to the bottom and recover.

Offshore, the Snapper usually suffer from baratrauma - with the minimum size of Red Snapper we can keep at 16" - and only 2 a day right now - most of the undersized ones that are thrown back are usually eaten by Dolphin.

The Leaders and Weights we use are a design that I have arrived at after much trial and error. How we make our leaders is on a video on this page of my blog:  http://daparsonfishing.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

We are going to be out on the water Thursday, February 7th. The water is still a bit cold for the Black Drum Run - but we are going to head out and at least get some salt water on our faces. I will post up tomorrow and let you know what we caught.

Thanks again for making a Texan feel so welcomed!

Mark Redd

Pics, Videos, Stories from Texas Gulf Coast

www.daparsonfishing.blogspot.com

Ok, thanks for that Mark and you're welcome!

So, unless I misunderstood you - there's no mention of actual release (shot) weights? That's an observation, not a critism, there has been a big push for use of release weights over here (have one myself), and without condemning that, some reports tell us that venting has more success.

There's some very experienced guys on here with much more knowledge than me on the subject, so maybe they could comment further. Perhaps (I don't know) we've gone the release way because there is greater risk amongst the broader population that they may vent incorrectly and thus cause more/unnecessary damge to the fish.

Oh, good vids, noticed the use of circles vs Js too. 

Colin

VMR 610 - Albany Sea Rescue - Mariner 421