first NT Black Jewies ( mulloway)
just a few pics to make you all green with envy,
had an awsome weekend, Just a few shots from my fishing trip on Sunday.
Run out is LONG down the South Alligator river from the ramp, 100km on the river ( most was in the dark in the morning!!!) to ensure we got a high tide to go out on. Then 23km from the river mouth across to the banks off the East Alligator River.
BUT the fishing was worth every cent and hour of the trip.
My tally for the day:
8 x Black Jew Fish ( Mulloway in WA, or Kob in RSA). Biggest was 112cm, average was 108~105, none under a meter! I kept my bag limit and sent the others back to fight another day.
1 x Golden Finger-Mark Snapper, 78cm long and just over 28lbs on the scales.
2 x Grunter Snapper ( nice sized and good eating)
1 x Spotted cod, small one, but great eating fish.
Boat took about 15~16 Black Jewies in and we kept seven for the boat. Enough to feed my bunch, and his family till the next good tides in a months time!
Skippers son, Will got about ten Blue Salmon and had a ball on the Black Jewies ( his biggest was 128cm!!!! lucky bugger)
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
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Colin Hay
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Great pair there Tony
Sounds like a good day out.
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Tony Halliday
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never mind the face!!
never mind the face!! I was holding them up for close to for-ever!!! as the bugga with the camera was fiddling with the settings!! I'm sure Chris was just waiting for me to burst my foofyieeee valve,. hell having 25lbs in each hand is hard work... lol..who needs a gym when you got fish up here!!!
Tony
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Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Pete D
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Sounds like you are having a
Sounds like you are having a cracker of a time when you do get out Tony. There only little blacks too...I'd put them back
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Good hard fun in only 10 foot of water too.
Should be plenty of Barra in the creek on the right(eastern side) at the end of South Al.
Cheers Pete
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Well done Tony
Couple of nice fish mate.
Yeah - love the face
Received ya pic on the mobby too
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Tony Halliday
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Barra sparraaa....
Dem Barra are hiding well of late, but the first good rains this last few days should bring them out.
as for the jewies, you dam right about them going hard in shallow water. we where in about 15feet most of the time and on the run back it was under ten feet while we where still 3miles offshore!!!! Thst run back into the mouth of the South Alligator from the sea is a tricky one and many a new comer has been found well grounded and waiting for the high tide ( I have been told that last big Barra comp early in the year about 15 boats got grounded on sand bars or mud flats because they cut-corners to get out quicker!!!! nothing like sitting high and dry, crying while the others fish...
Well another few weeks I am being told, before we out of here, maybe even to mid December!!! may need to import the wife & son up here for awhile....lol
Tony
Full-time piscatorial-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 & The Wally Weight
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)