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Couldn't find the right place to post this.

Not a barra. Not bluewater. Not freshwater. Fitzroy R estuary Rockhampton.

But it IS worthy of a post 'cos its big. Nose to 151cm to tail tip.

Monster! Never seen one bigger than 110 to the fork- 151 to the tips is a serious thready!!

Unreal fish mate congrats

Monster threadie, great colour on it too, is it the Qld always more yellow, or just my imagination?

Shady camp and the South can have really yellow ones. Darwin/Bynoe/Tiwis mostly silver in my experience

Not one of mine. This is a client on a charter boat.

I have 2 @ 139 (to tip). These guys pull a barra backwards.

When tagging, we measure to fork AND to tail tip.

This guy probably 135cm to fork.

The yellow colour is a mucus on body and I don't know how or why they get it. Would like to know.

A few years ago I tagged a small one near a saltworks pump station in estuary. Yellow in colour.

Next day I caught a silvery/yellow one at same spot with a tag.

On reading tag data, it was the same yellow one that I'd tagged and released the day before.

Just to clear up a common misconception about threadfin/blue salmon.

They are BOTH members of the same family. Threadfin.

The one with 5 whiskers (and grows bigger) is a king threadie.

The one with 4 whiskers is a blue threadie. I've only ever caught 1 big blue salmon at just under 1m. Huge for a blue.

https://www.fish.wa.gov.au/documents/re ... eadfin.pdf.

The scientific name for a bluie gives the game away about which is which.

"Tetradactylum". The first letters (Tetra) means four (4) referring to the 4 whiskers. That's why a bluie is also called a "four - finger salmon".


Have got a photo of a 1.6m king threadie (to tail tip) of 2-3 years ago here in Fitzroy. Guy only had a 1200 standard brag mat.

So instead of having to muck about with adding brag mat part measurements together, he placed it on the gunwhale and marked nose and tail tip on the gunwhale with a crabpot waterproof marking pen and measured THAT length with a 3m tape when he got home.

It would have been between 140 and 145 cm to fork.

I'll dig the photo out.

Does a blue outfight a king threadie? No. Blues are smaller and are very active surface jumpers.

Kings are much bigger and slug it out down deep like a black jew. Never give up.

In the open, 30lb (or even 20lb) braid is OK on a baitcaster but u need more line than a standard baitcaster so you don't get spooled.

At first, I got spooled twice and had to resort to Quantum Smoke b/casters with wider spools (more line).

I've found plenty of threadies that come in like a hessian bag and others on the same day have gone like the clappers