Townsville - possible southern species - HELP PLEASE

[Mozza]

Caught near Townsville on live yakka.

81cm
~8kg

Never seen one before - tasted pretty good tho'...

Mozza

[wags on the water]

Surely you realised the fish was lost. You could've returned it with directions to the south.

Nice fish.

Cheers.

[Jeremy]

that's a ripper for up North isn't it?

Jeremy

[nuggstar]

crazy stuff. ripper pink one.

[horseboy]

It always amazes me the fish that pop up way out of there araes.
Nice chewing to.

[FNQCairns]

Reverse global warming in action LOL

cheers fnq

[Mozza]

Thanks guys,

Us northern boys have been looking forward to all of the 'southern' responses.

Full report to follow tonight.

Mozza

[Scott nthQld]

Man that's awesome. I've been told several times that snaps are caught right out on the shelf, but never thought one would come in close. Maybe a batch of fry got caught up in some cold, north moving currents a few years a go or something? Or maybe they've always been here, but because they are a spooky fish compared to others they just miss out on our baits? who knows, but a truly spectacuar capture for Townsville, well done

[Mozza]

Scott, you can imagine my surprise... I was yahooing and doing the highland jig. I was so sure it was a golden trevally until it hit the net.

And I can vouch for one thing: fingermark of the same size without any shadow of a doubt pull much harder than a snapper.

Keep the comments coming fellas.

Mozza

[Scott nthQld]

Yeah Ron told me you said that, and don't I know it, I spent a few years chasing big knobbies in NSW before I moved up here, we used to use 20lb, I come up here and am told nothing under 50lb for fingers of the same size!! Biggest knobby I've ever caught was just shy of 10kg cleaned, its a bit hard to judge for me though considering i was 15 when I caught that, but even though I'm much bigger now, the 6kg fingermark I caught early this year pulled much harder. Its a totally different fight between the 2 though. I would compare a snapper fight to being somewhat similar to what a big golden grunter does.

[Mozza]

Yep, I agree Scott,

Earlier on during the day, my deckie got slammed by a (presumed) fingermark while he was nodding off up the front of the boat. Nearly got pulled in and I'm lucky I didn't lose another rod/reel as well. I gave him a hand as it when around the anchor rope and I could tell it was big, powerful and on its way home and there wasn't much we could do about it. Big finger I reckon...

[Scott nthQld]

And thanks for reminding me what the weather was like on the w/e, meanwhile I'm buried in the outboard trying to sort out the thermostat and pulling the floor up to find my fuel leak, which i still haven't managed to find yet! Not that I've looked hard, but thinking about it, I'm pretty certain I know where its coming from.

[trueblue]

was that caught on the 'house pad' mark just off cape cleveland?

[marty+jojo]

That is a nice snapper, well done. Now seeing as though us Brisy guys sent that one up there, how about ya send a few big fingermark down this way....
Marty.

[dogsbody]

Look out the Salmon are next. Very nice Snapp.


Dave