Third time lucky... Or unlucky. (Warning: Picture Heavy)

[Big_Bass_Fisherman]

This morning i went looking for some mythical sooty fishery, i had heard a lot of rumours about it but every description of the location was different. This was the third time i had gone looking for it and luckily enough i came up trumps. I realised quickly that last time i went looking for it i was only a few metres from spotting it. I wont mention exactly where it is as finding it yourself makes it so much more satisfying, however i will say that it is within 60km of Mount Isa. The river at the moment is a series of rock pools with the biggest around 50 metres long.



I started fishing at around 7 this morning, still having a surface lure on from a few weekends ago i decided to have a few casts. 2nd cast something comes flying from about 5 metres away to grab the lure. I got pretty excited with it looking like a good morning of fishing was ahead. Unfortunately it was a dirty catfish, bit of fun but not what i was targeting. I decided to change my lure and leader as a surface lure on 37lb mono isnt the best way to get a sooty. Changed to 14lb flouro and a bibless hardbody.



Had to walk a few hundred metres to the next hole, not much luck in that one. Next rock pool first cast i got a nice 40cm sooty, now this was a shock as i wasnt expecting to get much let alone a sooty that big. My biggest out of a river previously was 38cm. What shocked me even more was one around 45cm followed it all the way in. I couldnt get anymore out of that hole, but got another couple in the next few holes.













At about 9am i got my 4th sooty for the morning, at about 45cm it was my biggest for the day. After a quick photo on the brag mat i went to take the lure out, im not exactly sure what happened next but i do know there was quite a bit of pain. I had one of the back trebles lodged in my finger with the middle treble still in the fishes mouth. I carefully removed the fish without too much bother, i then sat there wondering what to do next. I started pushing the hook right through until i realised that my pliers dont enjoy cutting owner hooks. So what does one do when the fishing if firing, i ripped it straight out with the pliers. I then grabbed a balloon (in there for livies) out of the backpack and used it to cover the hole in my finger up. I got one more good fish after that which was around 41cm and probably the heaviest of the day. I estimated it to be almost 2kg.

All in all a good day, and apologies to the idiots which read this long winded story.

[Shawn 66]

Good report Bud,
Shawn

[brock13]

Nothing like tapping into new territory. Well done some nice fish there

[Goodoo haven]

Great report bud. Some nice fish caught there.

That treble didnt look good in your finger.

[Matthias]

Nice! Barbless hooks are the go when you're on your own out there- or change from trebles to singles and its way safer as you might be de-hooking alot of fish in those remote areas. Also its better for the fish.

Just recently got back from a work trip in similar lookin country- I ran out of plastics so chucked on an earplug.... fun times.