Yesterday on the Haughton

[kingkev]

Got the boat in at 5:30am. We were not too sure where to go so tried many places some with runs and some with deeper holes. A bit windy and a bit rough in the main channel

Not much biting of legal length. Came home with 55cm Trevor, 36cm Cod and 45cm fl;attie. Caught many undersized cod, grunter and jew fish among a few catfish and a shark. GODS COUNTRY

Good day out

[Silent]

Any pic? no barra for fun as I know its closed season!

[kingkev]

Sorry no pics

Too busy looking for live bait. All fish except Trevally were caught on mullet strips and dead green-backed herring

cheers

[Fisher4life]

Well you faired better then my last attempt down the haughton river, at least you brought home a feed of fish.

We were in a very similar situation when we fished the haughton, we couln't find any live bait either.

Cheers
Josh

[Lutjanus johnii]

Looks like Haughton is a safe bet. Well done kev

[Curmudgeon]

Thanks for the report, Kev.

Sounds like you had a good day.

Brian.

[Rod Fishing]

Sounds like a good catch Kev, it seems strange that noone is getting livies though, where has all the bait gone?

Cheers Rod....

[Mozza]

Kev,

Sorry, I had no tips.

The few times I have been to the Haughton, its been off Doughboy (the beach ramp thru Kungulla) and we've collected livies off the main ramp in Kungulla. There were a bunch of tree stumps on the northern side where you could usually get some good mullet.

Also, if you shot straight across to the southern bank once in the Haughton itself, there was a good spot for livies and yabbies. That was a few years ago now - I really should fish the Haughton again sometime.... We usually concentrated our effort around the island between Dougboy and the Haughton.

Cheers
Mozza

PS. I was talking to an old timer the other day down at Aplins who was saying at one point that the bait tends to move downstream as the water warms up - it seems the water higher up the river becomes too hot - the same could happen at the Haughton??

[kingkev]

We worked the banks hard and eventually caught some mullet but only one at a time
BUGGER !!!

Next time