Mud Island 41cm Knobby

[mickstar001]

Headed to mud Thursday morning after getting some gps marks of a fellow ausfisher (very nice man), and thought id give it a crack. Bite period was from 5.30-6.30am with only squire coming aboard which i though was wierd (and great). Total of 5 keepers all 40-41cm, still cant seem to catch any bigger than that! Got smoked a couple of times by what felt like a whale taking my plastic, and got bitten off >:( >:( >:(. Guess thats what keeps us going back!! Could not believe the knob on the 41cm squire - this fish was the same size as all the others mind you. Does this mean i have caught a bay snapper ;D ;D ;D, cos it has a knob? All in all a beautiful morning in the bay, little bit lumpy all morning but very workable. PS 3 squiries were released over 35cm for the next person who heads out there ;)

Mick

[mickstar001]

ESKY

[mickstar001]

End result

[mickstar001]

Funky - he's proud of his knobby!

[snapattack]

Thats not a knob. :-? Thats a result of being caught in a net at some stage. ;) But you can call it a nobby. ;D Good to see you got a feed. Weather would have been a bit ordinary out there yesterday eh. Bait of placcies and if placcies which ones did the damage.

U got a good feed. I was out there Tuesday and only caught a couple of legals, but I too only caught squire. No grinners and no pike yet there was heaps of bait showing on the sounder. :P


Look out Sunday here I come again.

Snap

[Fishin_Dan]

It's a negative knob... Means when you do get a good one, you can't count it ;D ;D ;D


I can't wait for the grassies to come on the chew properly... They taste delicous!

[mickstar001]

Im addicted to the squire let me tell ya, this is the first season i have gone after them, dont want them to disappear! When roughly will they start disappearing? Snapattack, all were caught on 4in pumkinseed gulps (worms) and saltwater assassins. ;) The result of being caught in a net hey - interesting very interesting!

Mick

[woppa]

that's a good looking knob on such a small fish!!

[Fishin_Dan]

They'll be around for while ;) Grassies pull hard too though, so even if they do go quiet, you'll be right.

The SaltWater Assassins have done very well for me too. Although I've found that the colour that works for me in the northern bay, doesn't work as well in the southern... Don't fish in the south half too much though, so would be interesting to see if there is a major difference.


You occasionally get a fish that has very similar injuries. You see it on Bream a bit.

[Fisher4life]

very interesting looking 'knobby' :-?

sounds like it was a fun couple of hours this morning, with some good results to show for the time as well.

well done!

[blue-mako]

I'd call him a Nobby! Looks like a deformatey :-? . He was the smartest Squire from the school! His head grew quicker then the rest of him and still managed to catch him!

Troy

[mickstar001]

Was going to post the first pic by itself & let people guess how big it was, had to be honest tho ;D ;D.

[foggy]

Well done mate. Got a good feed there. did u try those placcies. ;)

Foggy

[charleville]

Ya gotta be happy with that catch. ;)

Very well done!! :)

[aquarius]

Looks like a top session you had there mate.
Some nice fillets off that lot. Well done.
Cheers Brent

[StevenM]

Mate

That bloody poor nobby, he thought that he survived the hardship of growing up and all was good.

Then u came along

Hope he tasted god mate

Nice catch

Cheers

Steven

[Scalem]

Nice feed,

I think it's a tough world when you are a little fish. Some bigger fish took a swipe at him but he "Just" got away.... Till he met you :'( :'(

Poor wittle fishy!! ;D ;D

Scalem

[mickstar001]

Did try the placcies foggy and they went well! Lost a couple of them from being bitten off, so put them away for another session, couldnt see myself going through 4 of them in one day!

[Murks]

great report Mickstar, well done