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Ausfish Bronze Member
fish Id please
Got a heap of these in a dam at work near Gladstone and just wondering if anyone knows what they are. Closest I could find was a grunter.
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: fish Id please
Just looks like spangled perch I think.
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Ausfish Bronze Member
Re: fish Id please
Bingo. Thanks mate. Now to try and catch one on a hook.
Would they go for spinner bait or blades?
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Ausfish Platinum Member
Re: fish Id please
You'd need to use quite small lures as spangles don't often get to any size.
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Ausfish Bronze Member
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: fish Id please
Little blades do the trick usually. Try an ecogear zx30 if you can find one. Failing that they bite pretty hard just on earthworms.
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Ausfish Bronze Member
Re: fish Id please
Thanks I'll see how I go. There in a sand mine so the water is pretty clear but there's heaps of weed. I'm sure I saw one around the 20cm mark in there. There's heaps of water and I see pelicans getting fish all day so I might have a chance
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Ausfish Addict
Re: fish Id please
Grasshoppers are the gun bait for them.
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: fish Id please
Try a bit of meat. Garden worms work real good. Even a bit of bullocks heart will catch them.
As kids in the bush, we used a small branch off a tree for a rod, a bit of cotton for a line and bent pin for a hook.
Burn a small hole 5 mm. in dia. through a beer bottle cork, thread the line through, put a short tapered stick in to jamb the line tight about 400mm. above the hook.
I have caught them up to 300 mm. long on bait and small lures. Good fun on modern light gear and not bad on the plate.
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: fish Id please
Try a bit of meat. Garden worms work real good. Even a bit of bullocks heart will catch them.
As kids in the bush, we used a small branch off a tree for a rod, a bit of cotton for a line and bent pin for a hook.
Burn a small hole 5 mm. in dia. through a beer bottle cork, thread the line through, put a short tapered stick in to jamb the line tight about 400mm. above the hook.
I have caught them up to 300 mm. long on bait and small lures. Good fun on modern light gear and not bad on the plate.
Great bait or a cod in western rivers dropped down beside a log in the river. Natural food for cod and if you can't get "Bobbies" eg. "Spangled Perch" in the river try a local farmers dam.
Have Fun Haji-Baba
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Ausfish Addict
Re: fish Id please
Caught them on every lure I've used for bass in Baroon Pocket Dam, they take lures bigger than themselves
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