Red fish biting off Mission

[disorderly]

The forecast was great this weekend so I decided on a solo trip to the reefs wide of Mission Beach for some long awaited fun and to restock the dwindling supplies in the freezer..
I was planning to leave early yesterday but I messed up the wake up call and didn't get away till later but as I planned to spend the night out it was no big deal.

Anyway the weather was great,very little run with the neap tides though and I had to work hard to get the fish...the red emporers continue to elude me which remains a real source of frustration...http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/sad.gif

I didn't land a fish during the night as I obviously anchored up over "Shark Alley" and I'm not to keen on anchor retrieval in the dark by myself so I got a great nights sleep anyway.

Woke up to another beautiful day, bagged out pretty soon on largemouth nannies and Trout and decided to call it a dayhttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif.

scott

[pilchardjones]

top catch there. good fun.
steve

[FNQCairns]

Remember reading you were heading out, I had to drive to Townsville this morning and I was green as hell thinking of you out there as I passed thru El arish then as I went through Cardwell and saw the water was glass I was positively spewing!

Great catch Scott and well earned considering how long you have been waiting.

Half your luck.

cheers fnq

[disorderly]

It was lovely weather out there,Scott.
Shame you had to see just how nice it really was..lol.

I almost forgot how much I really enjoyed being out on the water....the fish are really just a bonus.

Anyway I hope the weather holds till monday for you..good luck.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif

scott

[3rd degree]

Nice work Scott, got a good feed there!

My mate in Cadwell headed out to Devils today not far from you and got a similar bag.

Cheers

Jim

[Mark-P]

Looked at your photo & it reminded me of a song by Split enz , Welldone !!

Mark

[kitty_cat]

thats a nice trout on the end , well done

[Shanoss]

Nice bag there Scott. Are you sure those Nannygai are Large mouth? We pulled up 27 Small mouth last night and they look exactly the same as yours old boy.

[dfox]

Good to see you managed a trip scott , keep a careful count of those trout mate ...

[disorderly]

Nice bag there Scott. Are you sure those Nannygai are Large mouth? We pulled up 27 Small mouth last night and they look exactly the same as yours old boy.

hmmm....small mouth...large mouth....I usually cant really tell unless I see them side by side.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/undecided.gif . I'll take your word for it then,mate..small mouth's they arehttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif.

Gee,it must have been pretty hectic on your boat with 6 guys hooking into the school of nanny's.Would have been fun and gameshttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif.Good work,Shane.

Scott

[mangomick]

Good to see you managed a trip scott , keep a careful count of those trout mate ...
1,2 3 4 er 7;D ;D ;D

[Shanoss]

hmmm....small mouth...large mouth....I usually cant really tell unless I see them side by side.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/undecided.gif . I'll take your word for it then,mate..small mouth's they arehttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif.

Gee,it must have been pretty hectic on your boat with 6 guys hooking into the school of nanny's.Would have been fun and gameshttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif.Good work,Shane.

Scott

Whaddya mean 6? bag limit is 9 per person. was only the three of us. 27 small mouth and one coral trout.. would rather your haul anyday of the week. Just had fresh trout sandwiches ofr lunch. If i could i would be having them for brekky and dinner as well.

[disorderly]

Whaddya mean 6? bag limit is 9 per person. was only the three of us. 27 small mouth and one coral trout.. would rather your haul anyday of the week. Just had fresh trout sandwiches ofr lunch. If i could i would be having them for brekky and dinner as well.

I having a real bad bag limit day here at the moment,shane.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/undecided.gif
Are you sure it isnt a limit of 5 or combined 9 of large mouth and smallmouth.

yes I agree about the trout just polished of a couple of trout sanga's myself...yummo.

Scott

[Outsider1]

"Crimson seaperch (small mouth nannygai) and saddletail seaperch (large mouth nannygai) 40 min Combined limit of 9 in total for both species"

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/28_3042_ENA_HTML.htm

"All coral trout 38 min Combined limit of 7 in total of all trout species"

[disorderly]

Well sorry Shane...and thanks Outsider1....it looks like I have been doing my bit for nannigai conservation over the past year or so.
I have been throwing them back or moving on after I catch 5......hmmm....a genius I am not.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/lipsrsealed.gif

and outsider I was well aware of the trout limit...unfortunately I'm not only a little dumb but not so hot at counting either.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/embarassed.gif

[Outsider1]

Wasn't having a shot Scott. Someone else mentioned it so thought I would put it up as the same time. Anyway sounds like the evidence is no longer around:-X;D

Nice bag that, drool:P.

Cheers

Dave

[FNQCairns]

Shame on you Scott! thought for sure you would have done the associate diploma in QLD recreational fishing, it's only $1500, 2 years with a forced refresher every 3 as the regulations and the idiology are abstract so cannot be relied on....next intake possibly?:(

cheers fnq

[disorderly]

lol..Scott.
Yes I think I need to sign up for the first semester immediately.
Though I think I might sign up for the 3 year Degree program as it's said to give a fuller understanding of becoming a successful recreational angler.

Scott

[dfox]

Scott, there all large mouth ...

[Shanoss]

Scott, there all large mouth ...

After a second look, i could go either way. Appears to be a slight concave look to the head on some of them, though its hard to tell from that photo. Either way, they are all red.

[Wahoo]

well done Scott, yes they are small mouth, ( black nanni), at least the weather was a bit kinder down there than it was up this way
Daz

[dfox]

Better take a closer look Daz, no blacks in that lot, there all silvers...

[jtpython]

You are definatly right Foxy
Scott amazing effort :o mate for a solo effort we had marvellous trip to and will wait for pics before i post, and we all make mistakes no all of us are perfect;)
cheers mate
JT

[Wahoo]

dfox, to me the two on the left look like blacks, bit hard to tell at that angle, this is a pic of a black and a silver


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/4xgold0/fishing057.jpg

[dfox]

Yeap, as im sure your very well aware there awfully simular. It's easy to make mistakes identifying them especially from a low res picture. I blew up the image to make sure before commenting...

[disorderly]

just grabbed a stray head.
looks like foxy is the man.

[FNQCairns]

Why do they call them black and silver? Stomach liner??

cheers fnq

[Shanoss]

I stand corrected. Large Mouth it is.. Now all you need to sort is your bag limits eh Scott? To tell the truth, i hade been working on seven nannygai till just recently. Dont know how many fish i had not bought home because of it.

[dfox]

Why do they call them black and silver? Stomach liner??

cheers fnq

Its terms used more so by the north qld commercial sector. But many of the names given are used and refered to by the local rec fishers.
When filling in paper work on catches and filling in the older log books it was easier to refer to many fish by a shorter name thus instead of saying i have 50kg's of large mouth nannygai, buyers and log books refered to them as 50kg's of silvers.
Small mouth- blacks
Red Emperor- reds
Spangled emperor-greys
Red throat emperor-RTE
Etc, etc.
We as fishers are awful for having alot of different names for the same species, look at the Lutjanus malabaricus known as
Silvers
Large mouth nannygai
Large mouth sea perch
saddle tail sea perch
red jew
scarlet sea perch
all are the same fish ...foxy

[FNQCairns]

Great info thanks!!!

cheers fnq

[Fishin_Dan]

Damn nice catch there mate!

We drove back from Port Douglas today, and the water was so flat the whole way. I even remember driving through El Arish... Didn't remember on the way up so much as the beer was flowing quite quickly ;)

[Yolo2007]

Looks like a great feed for you and the family

[Wahoo]

thats a better pic Scott, silver it is 8-)

[Alchemy]

Nice fish with some great looking trout there Scott. I need to put more time in in tracking down a few of those trout for us.

Regards,
Dave.

[disorderly]

Nice fish with some great looking trout there Scott. I need to put more time in in tracking down a few of those trout for us.

Regards,
Dave.

Dave we just finished out last portion of trout last week (had to resort to eating nanny's and spanish) so it was great to get a few kilos of fillets to portion up and freeze...I asked a fishmonger at the markets on sunday her trout fillet price just out of interest ...well when she said it would cost me $38 a KG I just about fell overhttp://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/shocked.gif.

Scott

[disorderly]

Thanks for the replies,guys.
As well as helping to clear up a couple of bag limit and ID issues.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/wink.gif
Thanks also for the great info as always ,Foxy.

I am already hanging out for another trip so lets hope we have a good weather winter with kind tradewinds.http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/../yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/smiley.gif

Scott