Hello, I don't really post much on Ausfish but like to spend my fishing time catching up with mates and showing them why I love fishing so much. I went for a fish up the creek with my mate Heggie who I had converted to plastics on his first trip up the creek and was keen to get out again. I hadn't been up the creek for about a month with work commitments and thought that a trip up the creek was what was needed to quench my thurst for Breaming so last Sunday I hooked up the boat, grabbed the bream gear and off we went in search of a few fish.
Ended up getting out on the water about 10.30 and up the creek we went. Withing 5 minutes I was onto the first fish of the day at 29cm (tail) Bream in the boat after a fun dash amongst the mangroves. A quick removal of the hook and back he went.
A few drifts and I stopped for a bite to eat when I was quickly surprised by the beautiful sound of zzzzzzzzzzzzzz and my mate was onto a fish. I quickly realised this was a big fish in 1.5m of water and it was off at a rate of knots up the creek leaving myself and my mate in a state of shock and excitement. With my mate not having faught too many fish of size I helped him to not rip his lips off (or pop the 6lb leader) and to refrain the temptation to tighten the drag.
With a big chunk of the spool gone (in an estuary that is barely 10m wide) this fish was running up and down the estuary with ease and would have gone for a countless number of runs in 7 - 8 minutes before any colour was seen.
Within the first few minutes I had it picked for a monster flathead but was amazed at the pulling power of the fish.... and was dumbfounded to what it could be. With the first sign of colour being silver I had thought it was a Jewy.... Next sign of colour and a shape .... a bream but could it be..... then up came what looked to be a bream but not a bream and I had no idea what it was.
With a few scary moments with the net the fish just fit in the little bream net and a sigh of releaf came as the fish was boated.
The length went 58cm to the tip and after examining the fish I found he had no visible teeth, brown bars and a flat tail... beats me to what he was.
Got a few piccies and he was back in the water to swim some water back through the gills but he was more interested in kicking to freedom and was back in the water to harrass the bait fish within a few minutes.
Got home and jumped onto google to find he was a Barred Javelin aka Grunter!! the fishing after that saw a few more bream of decent size but was only half an effort due to both of us being excited from the encounter with a species I did not know could be caught in the creeks.
All in all a great day and a hard PB Grunter for my mate to break!! If only I had my lure in the water and the fish on my line!!
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Originally Posted by Obi _ Wan
