4.5kg Grunter in the Brissie

[longone]

Took father for a day out in the boat to give him a crack at some plastic fishing. Fished the runout tide in the river starting at the rock wall and working the bottom and edges in the channel. He pulled this massive grunter near the trawler spoil ground on 4" chartreuse. I'm interested to know if many others have encountered grunter that big in the river. What time of year, tide etc. Cheers Nick.

[longone]

another shot

[Benno75]

Where abouts is the trawler spoil ground? Looks like its somewhere out past fishermans island? Nice grunter - I've never seen one of any size in the Brissy. Very nice fish.

[sackrash]

Nice fish well done what plastics?

[longone]

The spoil grounds are 2nd or 3rd red past the end of the rock wall up in the shallows( 20 odd feet - not in channel) Powerbaits Sackrash

[stu68]

Got a 35cm grunter on a SP down the Pin about a 3 weeks ago.
Great fish very well done Love the SP"S
Cheers

[manangatang]

nice photo ,good work buddy.

[bidkev]

Nice fish Nick.

Apparently, there was a whole industry built around "grunter harvesting" in the River during the forties and 50's. Unfortunately the stocks were practically wiped out.

I have a particular spot just outside the river where I pulled this one last year. I've also pulled a few nice cod from the same spot and some more grunter, but this one is the biggest although all the others were still around 2 kilo.

kev

[bidkev]

Forgot the pic

kev

[turkey_beach_boy]

nice fish bro

[Mick]

Kev, what are you doing chasing quality eating fish? Was that by catch while chasing bull sharks?

[bidkev]

Kev, what are you doing chasing quality eating fish? Was that by catch while chasing bull sharks?

Yeah Mick Bloody nuisance them grunters, cod, and mackerel. Whilst I'm unhooking them, I'm losing valuable vermin time

The verminator

[Jiggit]

that really is a good grunter for brissie champ. hey longone sackrash isnt a spin off from backrash then to backash is it?

[NeMo84]

Very nice grunters kev and longone, ive caught a fair few on SP but bream size, those are massive, i remember DR i think it was posted a pic of a similar size grunter as well as a lovely jew from the river a while back, anyway here's a pic of my monster grunter haha Carlos...

[longone]

Not sure Jiggit - I'm a newbie to the forum scene. Not a bad specimen hey?Bloody good chewing aren't they Kev. I would have never guessed there would have been a viable fishery for them. line or net Kev?