whats the coral trout and red emprer you have caught. : Northern Reef & Pelagic Fishing

Timmo

whats the biggest red and coral trout that you have caught ive never caught them myself but would be good to know what sizes zre out there.

mariner_22 · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

Hey mate biggest coral trout I have caught went 8.5kg biggest red emperor I have caught went a touch over 6kg my old man pulled a snodger trout on a live hussar anchored to the bottom he went 10kg, which was released. I have mates who have fished the waters of double island point and pulled red emperor in topping 16-17kg with even bigger ones busting them up and getting bitten in half by tiger sharks. Not sure how the territory fairs as I flew in yesterday but im dyin to find out.

Cheers

Francis

Timmo · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: trout and big reds

thanks francis,

i have seen my mates catch em on my boat but i never hooked any but keen as mustad keen to try one on the dinner plate and cant wait to get out and get a couple of em.

Matt Flynn · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

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I have mates who have fished the waters of double island point and pulled red emperor in topping 16-17kg

We don't seem to get big ones here in the NT, although there may be places on the wide reefs where they exist.

Same with our coral trout - the NT's mostly bar-cheeked trout are little tackers. But there's lots of 'em and they are awful tasty.

doggies66 · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

Have caught stacks on the east coast around the Goldsmith Is, Whitsundays and on the reef but have still to catch them here in the NT - some call them the Mystery Fish. Seriously though fish in the NT don't get to the sizes that you get on the East Coast.

dicko1980 · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject:

Here's a photo of my best trout so far, over 50cm. Its not big by NQ standards but its a pretty good size for a Bar Cheek in the North West where I caught it fishing on the gas pipeline that runs out to the rigs.

Cheers
dicko

seafarer · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject:

we get alot of trout and reds at 1770 but the average trout ia only3-4kgs and reds 5-7kgs but at fraser the reds are huge 16-18kgs infact every thing at fraser is huge try to put some photos on

pagey · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

got this one at Scotts reef. located 200nm NW off broome. thanks to the grey charters :angel:

never caught a red bigger than about 20cms. :twisted:

sorry about the quality (old scanned photo) fish went 20kgs
pagey

Sea Reaper · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

Hey champ,
Fished most of the top end coast and although haven't weighed alot of em haven't caught a bar cheek over 5kg. Seen plenty from Bass, Lorna, and Blaze go 4.5kg.
As for reds biggest i've caught up here is 6kg wide of the Perons. I worked on Hyland C for a while and Mal showed me pics of a 23kg one that got somewhere between Lizard Isle and Cape York.

jabsy · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

These two would be about the biggest I've caught. Didn't weigh the buggers tho.

slug · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

Hey Jabsy - hope u didn't lose any of Big Bill's sinkers?

He gets a bit cranky if you exceed his 1 sinker a day budget :rofl:

manchild · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

i have got trout and emperor to 60-70cm out of dundee when its not blowing[pr..k of a joint] :surf:

Coutta · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:44 am Post subject:

Hey slug its not bill u need to watch out for - hes a pussy cat compared to the real boss :rofl:

mind you jabsy has been known to loose plenty of sinkers but he comes good every now and again with fresh lead supplies :mrgreen:

heres a nice shot of a collection of perins troutas taken on a thunder trip (note the 8 trout were spread between 10 fishos over a couple of days)

cheers

jabsy · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:54 am Post subject:

Haha. I make Bill angry enough by bringing all my own gear, he reckons it weighs the boat down...

Also he can't understand why I wont use his Penn rod/reel combos with wire trace and half a housebrick to get it down there. I reckon he sits behind me just waiting for a bustoff so he can get stuck into me about the merits of wire trace to the hooks.

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