Peel Island - Trout

[coraltrout68]

Early morning fish around Peel Island (27/01) - using soft plastics. Produced: one legal squire, a few undersize squire, a cod and a few that got away.

The big surprise was a 47cm (1.5kg) Coral Trout that was caught on a soft plastic.

Had heard that Coral Trout can be caught in the Bay - but until you get one yourself ?? :) ; :)

Has anyone else caught trout in the Bay??

Shane

[Argle]

You never know what you will pull out of the bay somedays, so did you catch it at the houseboat?? ;D ;D ;D
Very nice fish though well done

Cheers and beers

[scarby]

Yeah, nice catch shane. I bet you eat well tonight ;)

[fourfingers]

Well done Shane..

No Trout here but a couple of undersized red emporer. One at Harries the other at Peel. Argle hit the nail on the head, you never know what the bay can produce.

Tony

[mackmauler]

nice fish, I think more would be landed on heavier gear they go straight for the reef.

[Marty75]

Ive also caught a Trout @ Peal on the western side
although mine only went about 30cm, also on a plastic.

Nice fish mate, bet you were happy ;D

[aquarius]

Very nice catch there Shane, only another 67 and you will have the right name...lol
Mate ive caught small trout at Wello reef and i know several guys who have caught legal size coral trout around Peel.
Thats the great thing about fishing the bay you never know whats comming up next :o
I see my favourite plastic in the photo.....GO THE ZOOMS!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers Brent :)

[coraltrout68]

Sorry a bit slow on the replies.

Argle - No it wasnt at the houseboat, fished shallow reefs, caught in about 4 metres of water.

Aquarius - the SP's are a lot of fun, Duncan at Fishhead (Redland Bay) is the man to see for the right gear (Zoom SP's) and tips.

Shane

[Jiggit]

there must be a little colony of them there i also got one on the western side of peel around the bombies it only went 35cm and went back to grow bigger. good to see there are some decent ones there ..

[rando]

I wonder if the trout in the bay has anything to do with the reefs recovering after mining stopped?
Any Thoughts

[New_fisher]

Yeah I pulled a few up on the 27th as well, not real big though, so back in the drink to pull out next year, hooked a monster turtle though, line wrapped around his flipper, he was as wide as the boat, thank @&^% the line came off by itself, or he would've towed us all over the bloody bay.

Then I got my line tangled around the prop >:(, so there's me with one leg underwater on the rear step, leaning out the back, complete right arm under water, trying to untangle it, when a professional crabber starts pulling up pots next to us, it was only then that I noticed the six foot shark ten yards form the boat start thrashing around towards the pots. Needless to say I cut the line and pulled both halves back in from inside the boat. ;)

[NeilD]

Hey Hurlz

I have seen those sharks around Peel chasing the crabbers. They drop their old bait over the side, scream off to the next pot and the sharks are already there waiting for a feed. Bad luck if your boat sounds like theirs.

Neil

[devocean]

Are the all the trout caught in the area coastal trout or do you get the strawbs and blue spot ones as well?

[outsiderskip]

hi shane
one thing about fishing
u never know what u are going to catch
nice feed

cheers pete