FFF Australian Fishing

Sent in by Buzzdog, a mate of his took this pic of a barramundi cod from Reichardt Creek, never heard of the species from a creek before

Lats wrote:Amazing. Beautiful animal

Yeah they're pretty cool, I really hope that they released it, I used to see them off the wessels spearfishing but they were pretty rare . . They taste great apparently. But they pair up for life I was told. So I never shot one they'd nearly always have a mate with them too. Instead of them 80cm+ jacks were the go aswell as solid red emperors or 80cm coral trout when we'd dive along 20m deep reef shelves or caves in 10-15m but the barra cod were usually in 8m or less around corals.

Another random fact too, for those interested a 50cm mangrove jack is around 20 years old making my mates 98cm one he shot out near a headland in 2010 not far from Dhanya pretty ancient. .. and definitely a lot older than me and him put together

Yeah Till ,
It was my apprentice Jaimus, he goes alright. His mate saw it on the trip before and came up to the surface wide eyed and f#%king spewin he had stuffed it up. He was claiming he'd seen a metre jack. " whatever mate " they told him. Jaimus went back to the same spot and shot it next trip from its cave it measured in at 98cm he then sent him a message with its pic "told ya it wasn't a metre" I personally have seen a few in the 90s myself and smoked one off cape Arnhem only to lose it to a pack of 2m white tips.

I really miss spearing and am keen on a crack at it in a few areas around darwin one day but have been saying that for a few years now..lol. But I will definitely be wearing a sharkshield and 303 powerhead like out there too when I get out there for another crack at it. I run a Rabitech 115 custom carbon fibre rail gun with 7mm shaft and 400lb mono almost as much manoeuvrability as a 110 but same power as my mates 120 with its custom made shorter rubber. originally it was a 130 but too much power was blowing out massive holes in trout and they'd spin off.