Threadfin Salmon this far South?

[Chris Ryan]

Hi all,

I was out fishing last weekend and we had a little anchorage session between Jacobs Well and Cabbage Tree Point during the Saturday evening. Few hits and some Moses Perch and Rays then my brother hit onto this silver fish. I wasn't sure what it was (and sorry no pic) but I looked it up and it is the spitting image of a Threadfin Salmon. I didn't think these fish ventured past Hervey Bay on a good day. Has anyone else spotted these fish down around the estuaries?

Cheers,
Puff

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[kingtin]

The search engine is your friend

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sho...ight=threadfin

And the overall picture on threadies

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sea...searchid=65171

kev

[pickers]

It seems that we have a healthy population of threadies in the Brissy river with fish of 10kg not out of the question and have a mate who got a 16kg fish near the gateway bridge.

[sharkbaithoohaha]

Hi mate.You'll get them down in the Tweed riveras well.We get a couple around brissy as far up the river as Karalee.

[blue_mako]

I don't know why but every fish id book I have seen says nothing about them coming any further south then Hervey Bay. A few mates and I have caught stacks over the past 2 years in the Brisbane River from the Lower Reaches right up to the brackish water at Kookooburra Park. I have also heard of them being caught in the Noosa River in the shallow lakes while hunting bait fish on the flats. Maybe it's a change in climate that has caused them to come so far south ?

Troy

[rando]

Ive been getting heaps of juveniles in the cast net for the last couple of years , anywhere around the northside.

[FNQCairns]

25 years ago, used to blat around the lower reaches of the caboolture river around Beachmere in a punt, used to catch quite a few in certain spots never real large but each a feed none the less.

cheers fnq

[Scalem]

Hi Chris,

I return to the water quite alot of the juvenile threadies while cast netting for prawns. They have to grow up somewhere close if I get them in the Logan river.

Scalem

[Chris Ryan]

Thanks guys. Would love to see one 10kgs! Seems the one my brother got was a juvi. Might throw a line in around the corner at Kookaburra - or down the end of the street here in Barelllan Point!

Good fishing all.